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Susan Crossett Arbor Day — today here though already celebrated last Sunday in Australia and New Zealand — seems like the perfect time to talk about trees. That’s one thing we can probably always enjoy in common. When I lived in Warren I had a normal-sized house on a normal-sized lot (except the lot dipped way down in back). Though being as intrigued with trees back then, I tried to count all those in my backyard (I don’t remember there being any out front). I confess I always gave up – simply too many (when one started with the tiniest ones). It’s truly amazing how many trees can...

Introduce Your Kids to These 8 Powerful Women No One Learns About in History Class SheKnows 3/9/2021 © AP. History contains so many stories, and so many people who alter the course of the world. But so many of those world-altering acts don’t make it into history books at all, especially when the people behind them are not male and not white. Sometimes that’s on purpose, but sometimes, parents and educators just need a bit of help to ensure that our history is more well-rounded. This Women’s History Month, we wanted to introduce you to a few more women that your kids might not have b...

The Cathedral of Art (1942–1944, unfinished). Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. When Florine Stettheimer died in 1944, at the age of 72, the New York artist, poet, and salonnière, was still putting the final touches on The Cathedrals of Art, the last in a series of four monumental paintings devoted to New York’s cultural, social, and economic temples. Identical in scale, each painting measures five feet tall by just over four feet wide.  The series, which includes  The Cathedrals of Fifth Avenue (1931) ,  and  The Cathedrals of Wall Street (1939), was a winkingly aware homage to p...

LaToya Ruby Frazier, American Witness https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/t-magazine/latoya-ruby-frazier-photography.html LaToya Ruby Frazier, American Witness A marriage of art and activism, the artist’s searing photographs reveal the human toll of economic injustice. LaToya Ruby Frazier in her Chicago studio, photographed on Dec. 28, 2020.Credit...Naima Green By Zoë Lescaze Published March 1, 2021Updated March 4, 2021 WHEN GENERAL MOTORS announced plans to slash its domestic work force in 2018, company stock soared 5 percent. LaToya Ruby Frazier, a Chicago-based artist whose photographs a...

I have always liked to write about Molly. She has fans who only contact me when a column about her appears. Besides that, it’s she who fills my days with jo