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A history professor in our town has a tradition of making elaborate, thought-provoking Halloween displays. This year, he -- and his friends and family, media reports share -- tackled both #BLM and COVID-19, as well as the death of RBG. My family and I went for a walk over the weekend to check it out. It's impossible to capture the full display in a single photo, but I've tried to snap a few. Media reports -- local and national -- capture a bit more. For example: A Connecticut man's Halloween display features real-life horrors: The coronavirus and Black lives lost https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/01/us/connecticut-man-halloween-covid-blm-trnd/index.html West Hartford family's annual Halloween display tackles BLM, COVID-19 https://www.wfsb.com/news/west-hartford-familys-annual-halloween-display-tackles-blm-covid-19/article_b22f79a0-0724-11eb-97fd-5f5558807e19.html This panel shows Black people killed by police. It's part of a series of four panels that starts with excerpts from announcements of runaway slaves that appeared in local Connecticut newspapers in the 1770s and 1780s, followed by a second panel showing quotations from Frederick Douglass, WEB Dubois, and MLK, then this panel showing people murdered by police. A horrible continuity.
October 8, 2020
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This week I saw my oncologist and was able to do some planning as to where we go from here. Having finished chemotherapy, I am able to finish the chemo cycle and look forward to scheduling an appointment for a Covid vaccination. This will give me some reassurance abut gradually dropping some of the restrictions I have been following for the past year. However, for me, as for others - perhaps more in my age range - that 'return' will probably be gradual. I see large crowds of people - mostly much younger than I - out at the restaurants downtown, and think that I don't have any desire to be in the middle of that. In truth, though, even before the pandemic, that's not a scene that I would often join. But because of the season, being outside is appealing, and I think that sort of restaurant setting would be acceptable. I am encouraged to see the number of vaccinated people increasing, and also the desire by so many more to be vaccinated. It's a good trend and seems to signify a real turning the corner in attitude and aspiration.
March 27, 2021