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...been five years since Tipper first urged her husband to dust off his slide show. The couple was still climbing from the wreckage of 2000, and she was convinced that his survival depended on reconnecting with his core beliefs. He assembled the earliest slide show in 1989, while writing Earth in the Balance-carrying an easel to a dinner party at David Brinkley's house, standing on a chair to show CO2 emissions heading off the charts. She wanted him to find that passion again. They were living in Virginia, and the Kodak slides were gathering dust in the basement...
...indebtedness to theater is just one of the revelations in a new career-spanning volume, Koudelka, in which the itinerant Czech master presents more than 150 of his most celebrated images-from his earliest shots, never before seen, to the bold, semiabstract panoramas that comprise his work today. It also includes the photographs first published in his best-known books, Gypsies (1975) and Exiles (1988), now costly collector's items...
...electorate, was deeply committed to large-scale slavery and the strong conviction that there was no inconsistency between liberty and slavery. For black Americans the consequences were tragic and lasting. Jamestown's creation instilled in the broader culture the belief that African Americans, even though they were among the earliest arrivals, did not belong to the body politic and were to be permanently excluded from all basic rights of citizenship...
Kelso's team has also uncovered a modest cemetery within the fort. The plot, which dates to the colony's earliest years, holds at least 23 individuals: 19 single burials and two double burials (most likely people who died on the same day). One of the single graves contained the remains of a boy with a stone arrowhead in his leg, a broken collarbone and a jawbone that had been partially excised due to an abscess. The position of the bones, the lack of coffin nails and the abundance of straight pins scattered in the graves opened so far indicate...
...from Kelso's digs is on display in a $4.9 million facility known as the Archaearium that opened at Historic Jamestowne last May. His team is now excavating beneath the Civil War--era earthen fort that rises in the middle of James Fort in search of the colony's earliest church--just in time for Jamestown's 400th-birthday celebration...