October 24, 2026
Tag: shankar's award
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Shankar’s Award and a Kid Named Carlos
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The writings, collections and artwork of children is seldom found in museum archives. A situation that is a real social failure. Curators are loathe to see such documents destroyed but it happens every day. When the “kids” go off to college the 8th grade essay books go to the dumpster. Shame on us, America.
Past Article
January 2, 2022 8 Comments
New inventions impact society in many ways. In 1876, when the telephone first appeared no one thought that one day billions of telephones would we carried in someone’s pocket and be usable everyplace on earth. Postcards of monkeys with telephones remind us of that era.