February has been a good month for remembering & honoring cultures that help make our little college town what it is today.
We started February with the 2nd annual St. Brigid's Day to remember the Irish in a way as diametrically opposite as possible to the unsanctioned Blarney Blowout, and today it was the 3rd annual flag raising combined with a well attended ceremony at Town Hall to remember Black History Month.
Although it was bitter cold and the ceremony was advertised as an outdoor event, about four dozen citizens crowded into Town Hall to hear Jim Wald read the Select Board proclamation and poet Xinef Afriam perform a passionate piece remembering 150 years of black suffering.
The crowd did brave the weather, marching slowing out of Town Hall and assembling on the front steps while singing the black national anthem, "Lift Every Voice & Sing."
Cold also describes the attitude toward Amherst I'm seeing from folk who see this picture.
ReplyDelete114, I do not understand your comment. Can you clarify?
DeleteDon't listen to Ed's silliness. He doesn't even live here.
ReplyDeletewhy the title? This Feb will likely enter the record books as the warmest on record. Two cold days is all.
ReplyDeleteI try to live in the moment.
ReplyDeleteAnd at this moment ...
It's about the same New England Feb. that it always is . 65th Feb. here. Nothing extraordinary about the weather.
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