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Members of the Lunaapeew/Lenape community and the Museum of the City of New York invite you to join us for an inaugural weekend of activities celebrating the resilience and cultural heritage of the First People of the New York City region.
Visitors of all ages can enjoy two days of events with musical and dance performances, craft workshops, a marketplace, and discussions led by Indigenous speakers and artists, exploring the past, present, and future of the Lunaapeew/Lenape.
Events on May 4th and May 5th from 11am-4pm daily, including:
- Feel the power of the drum circle as the Red Blanket Singers perform Southern-style songs
- Listen to tales from celebrated master storyteller Tchin
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A Musical and Dance Performance by We are Seeds
- Practice speaking Munsee, the original dialect of New York City
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Lenape Language Workshop with Karelle Hall (Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape)
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Lenape Games, led by Lenape Youth Leaders
- Hear Lunaapeew/Lenape community leaders and Knowledge Keepers speak to the impact of colonization on their communities and their hopes and plans for the future in daily panel discussions
- Craft art inspired by the work of Lunaapeew/Lenape artists and artisans and take part in hands-on workshops on both days
- And more!
Registration is recommended but not required.
400 Years of Resilience
This two-day event is the public launch of a multi-year partnership between the Eenda-Lunaapeewahkiing (Land of the Lunaapeew) Project and the Museum of the City of New York, with the support of the American Indian Community House. A related exhibition will open at the Amsterdam Museum in May 2024.
Coinciding with the 400th year since Dutch settlers’ arrival in what is now New York City in 1624, this international effort speaks to the resilience and creativity of Indigenous people today, and to the importance of recognizing their central role in shaping our city and nation.
ÍiyachKtapihna! (We Are Still Here!)
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Roosevelt Island, New York, April 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — In an effort to spotlight new ways to restore green spaces within the concrete hardscapes of cities, and highlight the role the community plays in rebuilding habitat, four organizations — SUGi, iDig2Learn, the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation and the Lenape Center — have collaborated to plant the first Miyawaki Method pocket forest in New York City on Roosevelt Island.
The new “Manhattan Healing Forest,” located in Roosevelt Island’s Southpoint Park, includes more than 1,000 native trees and shrubs planted together in close proximity over 2,700 square feet of space. This unique method of planting, known as the “Miyakwaki Method,” creates dense, biodiverse forests that improve climate resilience and overall ecological sustainability in the areas where they are planted.
“SUGi has created high-impact urban pocket forests all around the world, but finally ‘making it’ to New York feels like a perfect confirmation of our promise that these native ecosystems can thrive anywhere. Community and collaboration — of plants and people — is crucial to resilience, healing, and growth; here, we couldn’t have asked for more,” stated Elise Van Middelem, Founder & CEO SUGi.
“We now understand that rebuilding soil health positively affects the health of all surrounding life. By respecting local natural resources — we happily received large donations of nutrient-rich compost from Big Reuse’s community food scrap program and wood chips from Green-Wood Cemetery grounds — we are completing the full cycle of life to feed the new Pocket Forest trees,” shared iDig2Learn Founder, Christina Delfico. She added, “This method of tight-knit planting allows roots to share nutrients underground, boosting their growth, which mirrors perfectly how diverse communities can come together above ground to support each other and strengthen the land.”
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Tony Orlando and Dawn (Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent), Mohegan Sun Arena, March 22, 2024
Tony Orlando, the singer who scored five top 10 hits in the 1970s, including the chart-toppers “Knock Three Times,” “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree” and “He Don’t Love You (Like I Love You),” has completed his farewell tour, with a final performance at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn., on March 22. Orlando turned 80 on April 3, 2024.
At the final show, Orlando was joined on stage by the singers billed as Dawn for many of his big singles. “I’m a cry baby,” he said as he regained his composure, “But these two women lifted me up to my dream come true. Without Telma Hopkins, without Joyce Vincent, there’d be no me.”
Watch them perform several songs, including “Tie a Yellow Ribbon” and “Candida”
Orlando will continue hosting his radio program Saturday Nights with Tony Orlando on 77 WABC Music Radio, which airs in New York, as well as reaching New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, and streams live. He will continue engaging in a multitude of ongoing projects, including a new film and multimedia company, Tony Orlando Productions, according to an announcement from his publicist.
Orlando, born Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis, in New York City, is a Grammy-nominated artist with 15 Top 40 hits, two platinum albums, three gold albums and millions of copies sold. He started out as a member of a doo-wop group called the Five Gents at age 15, then wrote songs for entrepreneur Don Kirshner…
MAYS LANDING — Choppy waters caused by nearly 30 mph wind gusts didn’t slow the Ocean City girls varsity eight crew at the Lake Lenape Sprints II on Saturday.
The Red Raiders won their race by nearly nine seconds. Stroke Kira Morjakovs, Adison Conti, Jada Smith, Marina Zappone, Margot Swift, Vicky Sackhno, Julia Gray, bow Kailyn Kelly and coxswain Lauren Shaw finished in 5 minutes, 6.07 seconds. Atlantic City was second in 5:15.47.
“With Ocean City, we row in the back bays, so the weather honestly, it’s just another day for us,” Conti said of the conditions. “We get used to it pretty much from the back bays. This was honestly kind of nice because I got the tailwind.”
Although the tailwind sped things up, Conti said the crew’s time had a lot less to do with the weather and more to do with how much hard work they’ve put in.
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Ocean City also won the boys junior eight Heat 1 race. The junior boys crew, consisting of stroke Jake Tracy, Luke Tjoumakaris, Aaron Young, Chase Cole, Phineas Costal, Michael Wolosin, Gavin Tomaselli, bow Will Ellis, and coxswain Joe Majowicz, finished in 5:47.96.
The Red Raiders’ boys junior eight crew similarly used its experience practicing in the back bays to their advantage. The crew finished 21.16 seconds ahead of second place Egg Harbor Township.
Holy Spirit’s Gwen Analfitano (stroke), Taya Anderson, Allie Solari, Allie Lee (bow), and Gia Rynkiewicz (coxswain) won the girls varsity four Heat 2 race in 5:57.72 seconds, 17.77 seconds ahead of second-place Absegami.
“Our coach told us yesterday we had to win ugly and even if our technique wasn’t spotless and the best we’ve ever rowed, we did the best that we could with the 20 mile per hour gusts,” said the Braves’ Taya Anderson, of…
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Shafaq News/ The head of Iraq’s Federal Supreme Court, Jassim Mohammed Aboud, on Sunday called on the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) to play a role in resolving the obstacles to holding the parliamentary elections in the Kurdistan Region, which he described as a “federal region” citing article 117 of the Iraqi constitution.
A statement from the council’s media office said that “the Chief Justice, Judge Jassim Mohammed Aboud, received today the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in Iraq, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, and her accompanying delegation at the headquarters of the council in Baghdad.”
The meeting discussed the role of UNAMI since 2003, praised the “great sacrifices it made, including the martyrdom of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Iraq at the time, in a terrorist bombing.”
The judge, according to the statement, said the mission played a role “in what Iraq has reached now, especially in the term of elections,” as it helped “guarantee the election’s integrity and comprehensiveness.”
He then invited UNAMI to “play a role in resolving the obstacles facing holding the elections of the Kurdistan Region’s Parliament.”
Aboud defended the Desert Supreme Court’s decision and said the ruling on domiciliation of pensions, salaries, and social support in federal banks came in response to a lawsuit filed before the judges by the public servants of the Kurdistan Region themselves.
“The Court does choose the lawsuits. Plaintiffs file them,” he added. “The difference between the federal and regional governments on the interpretation of the budget law might affect the disbursement of the salaries this week.”
“The Constitution of the Republic of Iraq, in accordance with Article 117, recognizes the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and its existing authorities as…
The rapid collapse of a Baltimore bridge that was struck by large cargo ship highlighted the importance that bridges play in the daily lives of many Americans.
Six construction workers who were on the bridge are presumed dead. The drivers of more than 30,000 vehicles that crossed the bridge daily must find a new route around or over the Patapsco River. And shipments at the Port of Baltimore will be shut down for some time, forcing numerous businesses to find alternative means of getting their goods in and out of the U.S.
Though the Interstate 895 bridge in Baltimore had been in satisfactory condition before the shipping collision, thousands of other bridges stand in poor shape across the U.S. due to aging piers, beams and key structural components.
Here are some takeaways from an Associated Press analysis of the more than 621,000 roadway bridges that are more than 20 feet long and are listed in the federal government’s National Bridge Inventory.
Thousands of poor bridges
Inspectors rate bridges using a 0-9 scale, with 7 or above considered “good.” A “poor” rating reflects a 4 or below on any portion of a bridge’s main components. A mid-range rating is considered “fair.”
About 42,400 U.S. bridges are in poor condition, carrying about 167 million vehicles each day, according to the federal government. Those poor bridges are on average 70 years old.
Of those poor bridges, four-fifths have problems with their substructures (the legs holding them up) or their superstructures (the arms supporting their load). And more than 15,800 of the poor bridges also were listed in poor shape a decade ago, according to AP’s analysis.
Iowa has the greatest number of poor bridges, followed by…