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, 2023-03-28 11:38:59,

The late Edith Kanaka‘ole was a kumu hula and composer who taught Hawaiian language, Polynesian history and other courses at UH. She is one of five women being minted on new quarters as part of the American Women Quarters Program. Photo courtesy UH

A new commemorative quarter honoring former UH instructor, legendary kumu hula and award-winning composer Edith Kanaka’ole has been released into circulation by the U.S. Mint, UH announced Monday.

Kanaka’ole is one of the five 2023 honorees who will appear on the coin as part of the American Women Quarters Program. The newly released quarter depicts a portrait of Kanaka’ole, with her hair and lei po’o morphing into the elements of a Hawaiian landscape, symbolizing her life’s work of preserving the natural land and traditional Hawaiian culture. The inscription on the quarter, “E ho mai ka ‘ike,” translates as “granting the wisdom,” a reference to the intertwined role hula and chants play in the preservation of Hawaiian culture.

“It was a joy to become aware of Edith Kanaka’ole’s legacy as I developed a design for her quarter,” Artistic Infusion Program Designer Emily Damstra said in a news release Monday. “I came to understand that her deep connection to the land — her home in Hawai’i near the Mauna Kea volcano — played a large role in her life and work. To best honor the various ways she made an impact, I felt that the design should emphasize her relationship to that environment.”

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Minnesota woman, 50, pleads guilty to leaving her newborn baby boy to die on shore of lake in 2003

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, 2023-01-26 02:00:00,

A Minnesota woman has pleaded guilty to leaving her newborn baby to die at a lake located on the Mississippi River in 2003 – as authorities also found her DNA on a second set of remains from 1999.

Jennifer Matter, 50, admitted to police that she had given birth to a baby boy at Methodist Beach in 2003 and left him there with no intention of coming back – despite it only being a freezing 32 degrees outside.

For years, the town of Red Wing has been searching for the mother, who was arrested on May 10, 2022, in Belvidere Township. DNA samples from both infants were taken and using genealogy, detectives were able to link the baby boy and a baby girl – who were found on the Mississippi River four years apart – to Matter.

Both babies were found with their umbilical cords still attached and both were conceived with different men, according to Fox 9 Minneapolis. Neither baby belonged to her ex-husband, whom she has two other children with.

Jennifer Matter, 50, was arrested on May 10, 2022, and pleaded guilty on Wednesday for the death of her baby boy in 2003

Matter (middle, with her daughter, left) admitted to giving birth to a baby boy on a shore at Methodist Beach and leaving her child behind in the freezing December weather

She was also connected through DNA to a 1999 baby girl (left), who she eventually admitted to dumping at a harbor overnight after giving birth in her bathroom. Both babies were found with their umbilical cords attached and…

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Black Panther Angela Davis discovers her ancestor came to the US on the Mayflower

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, 2023-02-23 02:00:00,

A famed Black Panther who’s also a communist has faced calls to pay reparations after discovering her ancestors were white puritans who arrived in the US on the Mayflower.

Angela Davis, 79, was flabbergasted to discover both sides of her family were white, and that her mom’s ancestors were slave owners, on PBS show Finding Your Roots.

And the stunning revelations sparked calls for the famously woke Marxist University of California professor to herself pay reparations, having previously called on whites to pony-up in the past.

Sharing a tweet about the show, conservative pundit Matt Walsh wrote: ‘It gets better. She’s also descended from a slave owner. On her father’s side is a pilgrim. On her mother’s side is a slave owner. Looks like Angela Davis owes some reparations.’

Another Twitter user called AK Kamara wrote: ‘Angela Davis, the radical Marxist and former black panther, recently discovered she is also the ancestor of colonizers and slave owners. I guess she owes herself reparations. This timeline is hilarious.’

Angela Davis, 79, appeared on an episode of PBS’s Finding Your Roots on Tuesday, during which she also learned that both her mother’s father and her father’s father were white men and descendants of slave owners

It was revealed that Davis is a descendant of William Brewster (pictured), who traveled to the US aboard the Mayflower with his wife, Mary Wentworth Brewster, in 1620

Davis became nationally known in 1970 when guns she…

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Illegal Crossings on the Vermont-Canadian Border Are Soaring | Crime | Seven Days

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, 2023-02-13 02:00:00,

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Border patrol agents stopping smugglers and migrants in October near Champlain, N.Y.

As dangerously bitter cold settled over the Northeast on February 3, Robert Garcia, who heads the Swanton-based U.S. Border Patrol sector, posted a photo of people trudging through the woods carrying two small kids over the border from Canada into Vermont.

Garcia has been taking to Twitter to caution people against attempting to cross the border illegally in winter conditions. Fritznel Richard, a 44-year-old Haitian man who’d been living in Montréal, died of hypothermia near the border in Canada while trying to reach the U.S. in early January. Another would-be crosser was rescued by a Québec EMS team just north of Troy, Vt., on January 28. He was suffering from severe hypothermia.

“Undeterred by arctic chill,” Garcia warned in a February 7 post, accompanied by a photo of several people in snow-covered sneakers and jeans who he said were apprehended near Champlain, N.Y. Garcia said 105 migrants from eight countries were stopped trying to cross illegally one week in February when temperatures dropped as low as minus 22 degrees Fahrenheit.

“Don’t risk it!” Garcia tweeted.

The increase in illicit crossings has been dramatic. In the Swanton Sector, a 295-mile swath of the border that includes all of New Hampshire and Vermont and part of New York, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported 1,513 encounters and apprehensions…

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how discovering my New Orleans roots molded my identity

admin Mexican Genealogy 0 Comments March 24, 2023

, 2023-01-09 02:00:00,

Danielle Romero loves uncovering secrets and telling stories long-since forgotten.

I’m one of those New Yorkers living in Nashville, but perhaps you will forgive me since my family has deep roots in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.

Incredibly, my connection to New York began in Louisiana.

In the 1930s, my great grandmother Lola Perot married Irish New Yorker John Donnelly in her Louisiana home town. They moved back his hometown in New York after getting married. The adjustment from South to North must have been massive for Lola— not only did she leave behind her family and her culture—but I later learned she also left her name and her race.

My mom and her mother Marion (Lola’s daughter) were raised as French and Irish by Lola (in NY she went by “Louise”). My grammy was very proud of her French heritage. One day, after going through some boxes of old family photos, I saw a picture of my mom’s grandmother on her wedding day, standing next to my Irish great grandfather John Donnelly. It was completely obvious that Lola was not white.

20 years later, I am still grappling with the meaning of that photo, and everything it represented about who my family was, and still is, today. Throughout the course of my great grandmother’s life, she and her family were censused as Black, Mulatto, Mexican (Latino) and eventually White. It shook me to the bottom of my perhaps not-so-French core.

Who was Lola Perot? And who was I?

In all transparency, I harbored…

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Today’s Alameda Treasure – 1290 Weber St., Part 3

admin Mexican Genealogy 0 Comments March 23, 2023

, 2023-03-23 09:57:07,

William F. Chipman, first owner of the home at 1290 Weber St. and son of Alameda co-founder William W. Chipman, continued to see success in his career into the 1920s and 1930s. Newspaper ads from the time show his company selling both empty lots and finished homes in what were then known as the Bay Park and Encinal Park tracts of Alameda. These tracts spanned parts of today’s Gold Coast, reaching as far as Washington Park to the west. During this period, Chipman lived in San Francisco with his wife and three children, and maintained offices there and in Alameda.

1290 Weber St., a Queen Anne high-basement cottage built in 1893 and first owned by William F. Chipman. His mother and other family members lived just down the street at 1270 Weber St. Photo Steve Gorman.

End of the line for William F. Chipman

On November 28, 1938, an announcement appeared in the Stockton Daily Record with the headline, “Son of Alameda’s Founder is Dead.” After a long illness, William Farragut Chipman died on November 26, aged 72, at Stanford Hospital. His residence at the time was 1100 Union St., San Francisco, where he left behind his widow, Bernice Chipman. William F. Chipman was remembered as a member of the California Historical Society, a long-time businessman in the real estate field, a member of the police and fire commissions, a member of the California Militia, the Sons of the American Revolution, and perhaps most importantly, a good father and husband.

Alameda Post - a newspaper clipping with the headline "SOn of Alameda's Founder is Dead" and a black and white portrait of William F Chipman — **Left**: The death of…

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Patrick “Danny” Tapia | Obituaries

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, 2023-01-25 02:00:00,

Patrick “Danny” Tapia

Patrick “Danny” Tapia born on Aug. 2, 1950 passed away at the age of 72 on Jan. 20, 2023 at his home in Las Vegas, N.M.

Born in Las Vegas, N.M., he was the son of Pat and Ruby Tapia.

He was a graduate from Robertson High school, a Vietnam Veteran and retired from Qwest communications after 35 years of service.

He served honorably during the Vietnam War and served with the 101 Airborne Division, achieving the rank of Sergeant. For his service he was awarded the National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal with Bronze Service Star, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal, and Combat infantry badge for ground combat and expert rifle. Danny was a life member of the San Juan-Argonne Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1547. He served Feb. 18, 1970 to Oct. 26, 1971.

Danny was known to his family and friends as intelligent, genuine, kind and distinguished. He was well-respected and many referred to him as “buena gente”.

He was a man of his word. He enjoyed live music, bicycle riding, hunting…

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Mexican home cooking recipes from Mamacita, including tortilla soup

admin Mexican Genealogy 0 Comments March 21, 2023

, 2023-01-27 02:00:00,

Make Andrea Pons’ recipes for tortas guacamayas (macaw sandwiches), sopa Azteca (Aztec soup, a.k.a. tortilla soup) and sopes (fried masa bowls)

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Published Jan 27, 2023 • Last updated 1 month ago • 8 minute read

Clockwise from top left: sopes (fried masa bowls), sopa Azteca (Aztec soup), blistered poblano peppers and tortas guacamayas (macaw sandwiches). Photos from Mamacita: Recipes Celebrating Life as a Mexican Immigrant in America (Princeton Architectural Press)

Our cookbook of the week is Mamacita by Andrea Pons. Read an interview with the author.

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Sauce Magazine – Ruiz Mexican Restaurant is a St. Louis landmark

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, 2023-02-20 02:00:00,

By Iain Shaw // February 20, 2023

For almost 60 years, Ruiz Mexican Restaurant has been a constant in local Mexican dining, simultaneously guiding customers’ tastes and responding to America’s evolving understanding of what Mexican cuisine represents. Now in its third generation of family leadership under siblings Rachael Rogers and John Marshall – Jose and Hortensia Ruiz’s grandchildren – Ruiz is still engaging in that dialogue and drawing inspiration from traditional Mexican cuisine.

Before moving to its permanent home off Highway 67 in Florissant, Ruiz got its start inside a nearby bar called Roy’s Tavern. Rogers said the restaurant was probably a natural outgrowth of her grandparents’ enjoyment of hosting friends at their home. “He loved to entertain, and he loved a good party, good beer, all that stuff, cigars. When he would entertain, my grandma and his mom would cook for his guests and friends. So, they were just like, ‘Wow, this is so good, I never had this kind of food before,’” she said. She suspects her grandfather’s charisma did the rest. “That kind of gave him the idea that, ‘OK, maybe I can turn this into something.’ I think one of those conversations probably happened at Roy’s.”

managers john and leeanna marshall with two of their kids // photo by danny…

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DNA solves mystery of Modesto skier’s 1970 disappearance

admin boreal, gardner, Mexican Genealogy, modesto, ski, smith 0 Comments March 19, 2023

, 2023-03-11 11:21:17,

Gardner Smith of Modesto, Calif. on ski patrol in Sun Valley, Idaho in 1951. The mystery of his disappearance in 1970 has only now been solved, thanks to DNA analysis.

Contributed by Jeanne Gaida

Nearly 53 years ago, an eccentric, off-the-charts-gifted snow skier from one of Modesto’s prominent pioneering families seemingly fell off the face of the earth.

Gardner Smith, then 39, had been elusive even before the last time anyone heard from him in late 1969. A free spirit and former Olympics hopeful, he had embraced a nomadic pursuit of winter between Earth’s hemispheres. He forsook the Modesto family that raised him, and another that he’d started, to travel the world in search of the best snow and the next heart-pounding…

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