Having a good time together!

 Many years ago!

Atlantic City NJ, 1919

Friendship and fun times 1910.

And maybe they weren't having such fun...

Portrait of women from Guadeloupe at Ellis Island, circa 1910. NY Public Library digital collections

"African American girls posing in Atlantic City 1955" and I'm guessing they were on  a different section of beach than the ones with white people.

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Sharing with my friends, few and far between, or near and newly met...with the old photos of sepia tones!

Sepia Saturday this week:

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Today's good news:

Today, [Mar 13] U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled that federal agencies must immediately offer thousands of probationary workers purged from the government in the early weeks of Trump’s administration their jobs back. Mass firings from the Defense, Treasury, Energy, Interior, Agriculture and Veterans Affairs departments did not follow the law, Alsup said.

The government declined to make witnesses available to the court although Alsup had ordered the acting head of the Office of Personnel Management to appear today. Alsup told lawyers from the Justice Department that he believed they were hiding how the firings had taken place and who was responsible. “You will not bring the people in here to be cross-examined. You’re afraid to do so because you know cross examination would reveal the truth…. I tend to doubt that you’re telling me the truth.… I’m tired of seeing you stonewall on trying to get at the truth.”

Tonight, U.S. District Judge James Bredar ordered the administration to reinstate thousands of probationary workers in the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, Transportation, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs, as well as the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the General Service Administration, and the Small Business Administration.

Bredar said it was “likely” that “the Government has engaged in an illegal scheme spanning broad swaths of the federal workforce.” The government claimed it did not have to give advance notice of the firings because it had dismissed the probationary workers for “performance” or other individual reasons. "On the record before the Court, this isn’t true,” Bredar said. “There were no individualized assessments of employees. They were all just fired. Collectively.”

Thanks Heather Cox Richardson, Letters From and American March 14, 2025 

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Also on March 13 from Boston MA:

In a 12-1 vote the Boston City Council approved a resolution making the city a sanctuary for transgender, gender diverse people and all LGBTQ+ people.

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And on March 16

A report released on this day in 2021 confirmed that Putin had authorized efforts to help get Trump get reelected in 2020.

And today is...

· Freedom of Information Day

· Black Press Day

· Lips Appreciation Day

· National Quilting Day

· National Panda Day

· National Artichoke Day

· Everything You Do is Right Day

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Family album:

Having a good time together!

Having a selfie, all lined up, with son, Russ on l, myself, 3 granddaughters, Caroline, Audrey and Kate. All taken by Michelle, my daughter-in-law in front, in Black Mountain 2022. We had a very short visit as they were on their way to Florida, where there were also freezing temperatures on the beach there, unfortunately.

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Today's art:

Marc Chagall "Lune rousse au Cap d'Antibes,"  oil, pastel, and watercolor on paper 1969