WAPO is commemorating Veteran’s Day, with an article on Tammy Duckworth and the new generation at the VA.
Today’s Christian Science Monitor’s article discusses new attempts to help homeless vets. I have to say I don’t think there has been this much Federal activity in this direction since Governor Reagan. You may remember him. He’s the one that did so much in aid of the population’s growth in CA when he shut down thousands of hospital beds as a cost cutter.
President Obama was busy speechifying at Arlington, as he did yesterday in Fort Hood, Texas.
New Hampshire’s Peterboro, the company that has been making USAn made baskets since 1854, is offering a few patriotically themed baskets in celebration of Veterans Day. You know the ones; they make picnic, pie and bicycle baskets.
My hometown is having a parade in just a few minutes, and I’ve been searching for my display flag, the one my mother gave me, all day. I haven’t been able to find it since we packed a few things into storage.
Elsewhere around the Bay area, these VA events are happening.
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On Oct 30 Barack Obama proclaimed November as National Native American Heritage Month. (NNAHM)
Indigenous peoples in Alaska are giving informative lectures on various tribes and nations.
As well, in Alaska, the Juneau Empire is featuring daily, a different member of the Juneau native community.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation is taking applications for their 2010 list of Endangered Native American Places.
The Library of Congress has put together an interview and web page on Keith M Little, Navajo code talker during WWII.
The National Park Service has nicely featured in their National Register of Historic Places, properties relating to “American Indian Heritage Month”.
Mills College, in Oakland, CA is commemorating the month with various activities. The next will be an evening of music and dinner on November 19th.
WaterturtleWeaver has a new 2010 ethnobotany calandar on sale, that looks scrumptious! The project was a cooperative effort including well known artist-ethnologist Deborah Small and photographer-weaver Rose Ramierz.
Grab and Keel 