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Melinda Hunt
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Artist/Director The Hart Island Project
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Tomorrow at 7PM on Twitter Spaces, join the Council for “Fund our Future: A Conversation About the City Budget” w/ , , , , , , and .
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We are at a critical point in our country’s history. If you do not understand the complexities and promise of our past, you cannot imagine a better future. We either invest in the humanities, including history and civics, or we forfeit our democracy.
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“As an artist duo, FASTWÜRMS have done things that are incomparable in scope, longevity and scale.” Artists Diane Borsato, Deirdre Logue, and Allyson Mitchell, who nominated #GGArts2023 winner #FASTWÜRMS buff.ly/3ZREIXv #GGArts
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After decades under a virus’s shadow, he now lives free of HIV
RIP Keith Reid who wrote a song titled Potters Field in response to my book in 1999.
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My mom had a child buried in Potter's Field in 1984. She didn't get to step foot on Hart Island and put flowers down on his plot until 2022. Grateful for the work of . And the city should be ashamed that it took this long.
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Hart Island, a potter’s field where New York City has long buried its unclaimed dead, will finally accept visitors this year. The move is a remarkable break with the decades-old policy of keeping the island’s burials secretive and its graves unseen.
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Norberto Soto died of AIDS in 1993. Visited his grave with Elsie Soto on Hart yesterday to view this the new AR marker at his grave in Plot 231.
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Thanks for speaking with me today and thanks for supporting Augmented Reality research & creation
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I have a brother buried in Potter's Field. It was with the help of that I located him (though it's still unclear where his plot is located). This search is why I want to highlight Hart Island on . What a victory this is for families & mothers like mine.
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Hart Island, a potter’s field where New York City has long buried its unclaimed dead, will finally accept visitors this year. The move is a remarkable break with the decades-old policy of keeping the island’s burials secretive and its graves unseen.
nyti.ms/42zNI62
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Three years ago today NYC recorded the first confirmed death from covid.
Since then we have lost 44,998 of our neighbors, friends & family.
Few have ever had obituaries or even been mentioned in the press by name.
A wonderful project by is trying to change that. 🧵
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The Hart Island Project releases Traveling Cloud Musuem 3.0 with mobile navigation, AR grave marking, Interpretive Guide
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CITY CEMETERY ON HART ISLAND 📍 THE BRONX
Known as the City Cemetery, often referred to as the city’s Potter’s Field, Hart Island () began receiving burials of those who died indigent or whose bodies went unclaimed in in 1869.
More: bit.ly/hart-island
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So good to see and its founder Julianna Richardson receive this well-deserved attention on .
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“They’re America’s missing stories. And American history won’t be complete without them.”
Julieanna Richardson founded a nonprofit called The HistoryMakers to allow the Black community to “speak for itself,” through first-person historical accounts. cbsn.ws/3XEiR4p
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