Kingston Greenways Earth Day Cleanup

Celebrate Earth Day by tidying up our shared roadsides, neighborhoods and public lands. Join Kingston Greenways Association for their Earth Day Cleanup on Saturday, April 21, 2018. The morning session is from 9 to 11 am. This year KGA will clean up Laurel Avenue and the vicinity of Rockingham Historic Site, from just above the village of Kingston up to Route 518. Meet at the Rockingham parking lot, 84 Laurel Avenue. The afternoon session is from 2 to 4 pm. Cleanup includes trash collection in the Mapleton Preserve, Cook Natural Area, and in areas adjacent to Mapleton Road, Division Street, Heathcote Road, Ridge Road, Greenwood Avenue and Railroad Avenue. Parking for the event is along Railroad Avenue off Ridge Road.

Grabbers, gloves, orange vests and garbage bags will be provided. Wear sturdy boots and clothing. For more information, visit the KGA website or call 609-750-1821.

Barbara Bush

Barbara Pierce Bush

1925 – 2018

"I want to be known as a wife, a mother, a grandmother. That's what I am. And I'd like to be known as someone who really cared about people and worked very, very hard to make America more literate."

Photo: David Valdez

MLK50: Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

To honor the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s death, President Barack Obama and Congressman John Lewis participated in a My Brother's Keeper Alliance roundtable with students from Ron Brown College Preparatory High School in Washington, D.C. Watch as President Obama, Congressman Lewis and the students discuss Dr. King's legacy and how his mission remains relevant in today's world.

Courtesy of The Obama Foundation 

"I've Been to the Mountaintop"

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his last speech on April 3, 1968. The next day, Dr. King was assassinated.

Sinclair, You Make No Sense

"Yeah, nothing says, 'We value independent media,' like dozens of reporters forced to repeat the same message over and over again like members of a brainwashed cult."
                                                          — John Oliver, Last Week Tonight

National Poetry Month

Poetry

I, too, dislike it.

Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in

it, after all, a place for the genuine.

— Marianne Moore

The 2018 National Poetry Month poster, designed by AIGA Medal and National Design Award-winning designer Paula Scher, celebrates typography and is suggestive of concrete poetry and Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass."

Easter

Giotto di Bondone

Resurrection (Noli me tangere)
Scenes from the Life of Christ, 1304-1306
Arena Chapel, Padua, Italy