This Week In History, Nov. 10th – 15th.

“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.”

Georgia O’Keeffe

Recognized as “The mother of American modernism”, artist Georgia O’Keeffe was born this week in 1887.

Find out more about her life and work in The art and life of Georgia O’Keeffe, by Jan Garden Castro, which may be found in the General collection at (ND237.05 C3 1985).

“I was a TV producer at a noncommercial station, and we were producing some good documentaries – on Head Start, on poverty. But I was struck by the children, and the damage that poverty was doing to them. I didn’t think filming them was helping much, so I wondered how we could use TV for them, to teach them.”

Joan Ganz Cooney

Cited as an “An American Institution“, Sesame Street premiered this week in 1969.

Discover more about Seasame Street and it’s educational mission by reading Sesame Street and the reform of children’s television which can be found at (PN1992.77.S43 M67 2006)

“Let’s lay it right on the line. Bigotry and racism are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today. But, unlike a team of costumed super-villains, they can’t be halted with a punch in the snoot, or a zap from a ray gun. The only way to destroy them is to expose them—to reveal them for the insidious evils they really are.”
― Stan Lee

Comic Book writer and producer Stan Lee passed away this week in 2018 at the age of 95.

Read, Stan Lee and the rise and fall of the American comic book which may be checked out online through the Clark Library.

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³Photo by Kon Karampelas from Pexels