The day began with my reading a New York Times news service report about a 4.4-million-year-old hominid skeleton found in Ethiopia by an international team of scientists. Ardi, short for Ardipithecus ramidus, stood 4 feet tall with a brain about the size of a modern chimp. The report noted that her hands and arms were [...]
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Click here for part one of this post. In my last blog, I described my discovering a 1970s project about the Creek Indians in our 1980 “catalog of projects.” In those days, AHF was called the Alabama Committee on Humanities and Public Policy. Almost all the projects we supported focused on the relationship of history, [...]
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Occasionally, we get a call or e-mail from someone, or we read something in the newspaper, which leads us out of the office to explore a community, visit a humanities-related organization, or meet an Alabamian who shares our interest in the humanities. But sometimes we are contacted about a project that leads us to explore [...]
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I am extremely fortunate to be related to two incredibly talented individuals, Carl Stewart and Barbara Evans. As my half-siblings, they share the same father with me—the late Carl Stewart, Sr.—who was born and raised in Munford, Alabama. All three of us, as well as my brother, Wheeler, were born there, too.
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Don’t stop reading this blog because you saw the word “acorn” in the title! I’m not writing about that ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). You know: the one that was in the press so much during last year’s presidential campaign.
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Over the 4th of July weekend, the Birmingham News published two articles and a guest editorial that caught my eye. Like so many news or feature items that appear in the local, state or even national press, humanities ideas often have something to say about them.
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On June 25, 2009, AHF joined several other organizations in the second-annual Cultural Leadership Summit. This one took place at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University, and it featured Alabama Power CEO Charles McCrary as the keynote speaker, as well as a panel discussion of several cultural leaders from across [...]
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About the middle of each month, Patricia Williams, AHF Financial Officer, puts four thick file folders in my mailbox. They contain bank reconciliations for three separate checking accounts, financial statements for our federal and non-federal accounts, and back-up information regarding how she arrives at the figures in the statements. She also prepares subsidiary ledgers detailing [...]
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The president has nominated Jame Leach as the National Endowment for the Humanities chairman. Some observers may be surprised by the choice (Leach is a Republican)–but I doubt party lines mean much for our small national agency. What we’re most interested in is a chairman who will see the value of our work with the [...]
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Are you feeling worn out from all the surges, stimuluses and tweets the last few months? Does it seem there’s just a little too much energy around us every day? I’m not talking about economic activity—we’re still in a serious slowdown as far as that goes.
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