Kimberly S. Fairbanks Theatre By Retta Blaney Can you name three African-American women who lived before 1865? Valerie M. Joyce asks this question to people young and old and rarely finds anyone who can meet the challenge. “That’s 250 years of women in this country,” she said. “Why can’t we name more of them?” Joyce, an associate professor in … [Read more...] about Name Three
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Upgrade for St. Alban’s Site
By John Martin The Venerable Bede, renowned as the father of English history, loved to embellish his tales of the miraculous. He told, for example, that when Roman executioners beheaded Alban, England’s first martyr in 303, their eyes fell out. The Cathedral and Abbey Church of St. Alban marks the site where Alban died. The execution of Alban is re-enacted every year in … [Read more...] about Upgrade for St. Alban’s Site