Nothing from nothing leaves nothing.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Restoring the Palimpsest until March 26, 2009
We share some bad habits of medieval monks. We decide a record isn't sll thst importsnt, scrub the parchment clean, then write our current, comforting interpretation on the page we insist is not just blank now, but has always been a tabula rasa.
Luckily, there are means of examination that reveal the original record and scholars like Dr. John Hope Franklin who patiently uncover the real past and set us on the path to our true destiny.
Dr. Franklin taught us to look and the looking expanded the scope of history to people who were written out and abandoned to the margins even when they were major players. He enabled us to see how far we've actually come and how far we yet must go.
He will be missed, because he cannot be replaced.
Alfred C. Ingram
Conceptual Design & Imaging
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