![]() ![]() ![]() They first travel to local churches and school performance venues but later expand their travel tour to include music halls across the United States and Europe. Jones creates the band in 1939, and the girls enthusiastically make the band a part of their lives. Laurence Clifton Jones founded the Piney Woods Country Life School, a home for African American orphans, in Jackson, MS, in 1909. This informational picture book tells the background and history of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm all-girl interracial swing band of the mid-1940s. Swing Sisters: The Story of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm. More resources are available at the Women’s History Month website, including material from The Library of Congress, National Archives, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and National Endowment for the Humanities.ĭeans, Karen. ![]() International Literacy Association’s Children’s Literature and Reading SIG presents new titles featuring the memorable contributions made by women both historical and contemporary. The contributions of women today and throughout history have had an impact on every corner of society, from family life to politics and so much more. ![]()
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![]() As an artist who is double marginalized, as a comic book artist and as a New Zealander, Horrocks is concerned with the effects globalization and market-pressure have on both local culture and personal creativity. It’s a story about comics: about their unfulfilled promise as an art form and their sad state as an industry. This nesting effect reminds me of one of my favorite movies, The Saragossa Manuscript, in which we are at one point watching a story being told in a story being told in a story told in a story…ĭylan Horrocks’ Hicksville is a comic book about comic books. (Both Watchmen and Maus also used this technique.) At one point, here, we are even reading a comic inside a comic inside a comic. ![]() ![]() ![]() It contains various “pure comic” effects, the most obvious being the way it shifts to being a comic book featured within a comic book, so that in one panel you are reading about a character looking at a comic book and then in the next panel you are reading a panel of the comic he is reading. ![]() Like Watchmen and Maus, this is a “pure comic,” by which I mean that this could only be done in the medium of comic books. ![]() ![]() ![]() By age 12 he was an instructor in the Deseret News Ski School, a program his father helped introduce 63 years ago. Under his father's direction Alan would step into skis at age 2, make his first ski jumps at age 4 and by age 9 would be skiing competitively. He was a world champion ski jumper, as well as a champion in alpine and cross country skiing, and built what came to be recognized as one of the most progressive ski schools in the country. The answer would be very involved.Īlf Engen was recognized by many as the father of modern skiing. Alan became director in 1992 and moved up to director of skiing in 1998.Īs the son of a skiing legend, it was a given that Alan would be involved in skiing. Alf Engen, Alan's father, replaced him as director and built the Alf Engen Ski School in 1948. ![]() Sverre Engen, Alan's uncle, founded the ski school at Alta in 1945. as planned.įor the first time, for the better part of the 72-year history of the resort, an Engen will no longer be involved in the day-to-day activities at the resort. It became official last Sunday with the official closing of Alta for the 2010-11 ski season. But retirement, he knew, was certain and he wanted it to come on his terms.Īnd it has. ![]() Skiing, after all, was as important to Alan Engen as sleep. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In a land famous for its prophets, no one could predict what would happen after the clock struck twelve. The midnight deadline was drawing closer. Not one soul could be seen among the ancient streets and corridors of the Old City.Ī feeling of doom had swept over the city. Mishmar Hagavul, Israel’s Border Police, was vigilant in keeping the hostiles among the Arab population inside under a strict curfew. Many of its residents had already been called up for reserve duty in the Israel Defense Forces, and the remainder were huddling in bomb shelters, awaiting the unknown. The State of Israel was on a level five security alert, meaning imminent war, and Jerusalem had become a ghost town. The ominous night sky almost seemed to reach down and touch the Wailing Wall as the Jews of the City of David trembled in silence. ![]() This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly journal. ![]() |