LINES OF THE DAY

". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But nothing is inherently over there or here. In that sense, the past has no content. The past -- or more accurately, pastness -- is a position. Thus, in no way can we identify the past as past." p. 15

". . . But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands." p. 153

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995) by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Thursday, January 5, 2023

Gwendolyn Midlo Hall Memorial, Whitney Plantation - January 10th, 2023

     . . . From the Great Scholar and historian, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall's son: 

Hello everyone,

Thank you for agreeing to deliver a memorial address at Gwendolyn Midlo Hall's service this coming Tuesday.

I am contacting you to give you some logistical information in advance of the event.

The memorial will be held at Whitney Plantation, located at 5099 Highway 18, Wallace LA, 70049. You may park in our main parking lot and enter through the Visitor Center. The service will be held in the Antioch Baptist Church on our site, which is the first building that you see when you exit the Visitor Center.

The schedule is as follows:

11:00 - Music - Dr. Michael White

11:15 - Opening Remarks - Haywood Hall

11:25 - 12:25 - Memorial Addresses

      1. Ibrahima Seck

      2. Eileen Julian

      3. Kathe Hambrick

      4. Percy Pierre

      5. Steve Miles

      6. Ned Sublette

12:25 - Closing Remarks - Haywood Hall

12:35 - Music & Procession - Luther Gray

12:45 - Ashes Scattering 

         1:00 - Adjourn

Her ashes will be scattered particularly here, in the Allées Gwendolyn Midlo Hall.




Flying down tomorrow.  Hope the weather cooperates.  So many are still cleaning up -- looking for a new place to live, after the latest tornados.  OTOH, tomorrow is Three Kings, which opens the Mardi Gras season.




So much going on in New Orleans tomorrow, starting with the official opening of the season of the the Phunny Phorty Phellows riding the full length of the trolley route, music and champagne, etc. for the fortunate other riders! 

We're bringing French King Cake with us for our friends, so they'll see how much superior France's Mardi Gras Cake is.  Ha!  They are very different desserts.  The French version isn't actually cake at all, but pastry, made with the mille feuilles puff pastry, filled with almond paste.  It isn't in the colors of green, purple and yellow icing and sparkles either.

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December was one mad-packed month.  It's going to keep going like this, pretty much until after February's New Orleans Postmambo "For The Funk of It", March's prospecting trip to Spain, and June's "Postmambo Gotham" is finished.


 

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