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World Listening Day
Listening to the Weave of Time July 18, 2025 World Listening Day is coming soon. It’s an occasion that encourages everyone, everywhere, to tune in to the sounds all...
Global Wellness Day
World Day for Cultural Diversity
May 21st is the day designated as World Day for Cultural Diversitythe state of being diverse or different, variety and/or diversity is more than exhibiting "different" outward appearances; diversity is often much more about cultural differences. What does that mean? It does not mean checking out people to see if they are Black,...
Celebrating National Laundry Day
On April 15, 2019, the Whirlpool Corporation established National Laundry Day to celebrate the 109thanniversary of their washing machine patent. It is observed...
Women’s History Month — A Time to Celebrate All Women
March was officially made Women’s History Month after the National Women’s History Project, now the National Women’s History Alliance, formed in 1980 in Santa Rosa, California,...
A Cultural Tale of Two Cities
Kyiv and Moscow A Tale of Two Cities, one of Charles Dickens’s best-selling novels, was first published in 1859. The two cities in the story were Paris and...
Jews and Cultural Changes
Jewish Cultural ChangesLiberation of Auschwitz80th Anniversary - January 27, 1945 The date of the liberation of encamped inmates at the Nazi concentration camp in...
Indigenous Cultural Practices
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”Ralph Waldo Emerson With wildfires raging near where...
Connecting Ethnography to Genealogy Research
Connecting Ethnographya descriptive compilation of a culture based on fieldwork using ethnographic methods such as interviewing and participant observation; it may include research and description of an individual's culture, an entire cultural group, or a business culture to Genealogythe study of family origins and history; genealogy is a combination of two Greek words meaning family and science; therefore, the science of studying a family's history; More Research The first ethnography writing I completed was in the form of a personal history of my great aunt, Virginia. I did not realize my...
