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Oct 11, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Marisa Meltzer |Elizabeth Bick
"While I don't love my wrinkles and sags, I embrace them as a life well lived," said Evelyn Block, 76. That's not all she's embraced. She dyes her hair an electric blue. And her retirement hobby? She's a roller derby referee in Southern California. "Stevie Fleet Wheels in my derby name," she said. "I have been a huge Stevie Nicks fan for over 50 years. She's six weeks younger than I am.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
phillytrib.com | Elizabeth Bick
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
phillytrib.com | Elizabeth Bick
We're always interested in hearing about news in our community. Let us know what's going on!
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Shane Mitchell |Elizabeth Bick
Mary Jackson was 4 when she learned how to weave. Sitting at her mother's knee in the late 1940s, she tied her first knots with nimble little fingers, binding coils of sea grasses. In the Gullah Geechee communities of coastal South Carolina, where basket making is a centuries-old tradition, young children often start the weave for their elders. Jackson grew up surrounded by expert needlewomen who elevated this style of weaving from a strictly domestic craft to culturally profound artistry.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
buffalonews.com | Elizabeth Bick
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save Tiffany Frazier, who lost Section 8 housing two years ago when plumbing problems flooded her Charleston apartment, holds a journal that she keeps of her housing dreams, in Charleston, S.C. on Oct. 7, 2023. More than 19 million households qualify for rental aid by having “very low incomes,” which for a family of four in Charleston is less than about $49,000.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
buffalonews.com | Elizabeth Bick
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save A new, expensive residential development rises above a low-income housing project in Charleston, S.C., Oct. 17, 2023. More tenants than ever spend half or more of their income for shelter, an especially heavy financial and emotional burden for people of modest means, and a high income bar that leaves some without a place to call their own.
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Sep 10, 2023 | 
buffalonews.com | Elizabeth Bick
FILE — A protest this summer that included climate activists from the group Extinction Rebellion outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, July 8, 2023. On Thursday evening, Sept. 7, 2023, the doors of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston abruptly closed because officials had learned that climate protesters were planning a visit during the hours when the cultural institution offers free admission. (Elizabeth Bick /The New York Times)
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Jul 25, 2023 | 
buffalonews.com | Elizabeth Bick
A figure of a yakshi, or courtesan, carved from ivory, on display in the exhibition “Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, July 17, 2023. Years in planning, the exhibit “Tree & Serpent,” required diplomacy and patience to coordinate loans of rare Buddhist relics, many of which had never been seen outside India. (Elizabeth Bick/The New York Times)
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Jul 23, 2023 | 
buffalonews.com | Elizabeth Bick
Monks from a Buddhist monastery in Queens bless the Metropolitan Museum of Art at the opening reception for the exhibit “Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 B.C.E. - 400 C.E.” in New York, July 17, 2023. The museum has gathered a stunning display of ancient Buddhist art, including dozens of objects that have never been exhibited outside of India. (Elizabeth Bick/The New York Times)
