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Featuring textiles from the Kentucky Museum and Kentucky Historical Society,  Whitework: Women Stitching Identity explores the significance of early white embellished textiles that have been largely ignored, undervalued, and misinterpreted. Whitework holds a “special place” within the cultural geography of textile making, connecting regional textile making with broader narratives of American women’s lives, political participation, and self-expression during the formative years of the Early Republic.   What is Whitework? Disregarded for years as an exaggeration of American colonial s...

Mayoral committee member for spatial planning and environment Marian Nieuwoudt said her department was “concerned and appalled” at the incident. The city’s baboon population has grown from 350 in 2009 to 430 this year. The baboons have no natural predators in the Cape Peninsula, where leopards or lions no longer roam. In April, the city euthanised a male baboon which had started leading a splinter group of baboons from the Smitswinkel Bay troop to raids on homes in Murdoch Valley near Simon's Town. This was after the city said all other methods of deterring the male had failed and that ...

Lampson Brook Farm in Belchertown protected from development Updated May 14, 2021; Posted May 14, 2021 State Sen. Eric Lesser, D-Longmeadow, discusses the permanent protection of 436 acres of Belchertown land from non-agriculture development on Thursday, May 13, 2021. (Jim Russell photo) Facebook Share BELCHERTOWN – Permanent protection against non-agriculture development of 436 acres of meadows and forest is now in progress at the Lampson Brook Farm property. This milestone was celebrated on the property Thursday at an event organized by state Sen. Eric Lesser, D-Longmeadow. It is just ...

Getty Images A male juvenile baboon was killed last Thursday. The City of Cape Town believes baboons are at risk if rangers can't use paintball markers to keep them out of urban areas. The National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) has withdrawn its support for the use of paintball guns to shoot primates, after a juvenile baboon was killed in Simon's Town. The City of Cape Town maintains the use of paintball markers assists in keeping baboons out of harm's way by diverting them from urban areas. However, the NSPCA has rejected the method after a juvenile ma...

City says paintball markers needed to keep baboons 'safe' after baboon shot dead 13 May 2021 9:47 AM Share This: The City of Cape Town says baboons are at a greater risk of death and injury if rangers can't use paintball markers to keep them out of urban areas. This comes after a juvenile male baboon was reportedly killed with a pellet gun in Simon’s Town last week Thursday. The City says the killing of the juvenile male baboon from the Waterfall Troop demonstrates why keeping baboons out of urban areas is crucial. In a statement, the City maintains that the use of paintball markers help...