Sunday, September 07, 2014
Sunday Afternoon and Evening
Coffee with wife and son. Am now cranking through work. Got an email extolling my diplomacy skills. It may have been tongue-in-cheek. Another email had info I'd requested on what was once a segregated school in an Arizona copper town. Background music is in order: "The Last of the Mohicans" soundtrack; then the "Amelie" soundtrack. Also coming up: "Rhapsody in Blue" or Copland. Have ordered "Poems of the American South." Need to drop off an item with a client's purchasing people in the morning. Meetings booked for next week. Ethics training this week. Ties in nicely with prep of online class. Later tonight will be the war of the desk and more reading on ethics and leadership. Rain is expected tomorrow. [For non-Arizonans, that prediction does not evoke deep emotion.] Dog on floor behind chair. She keeps her own counsel.
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3 comments:
Soothing...esp the finish.
Hi Michael,
Your sentence about the school segregation in a mining town caught my eye. My mother-in-law is Hispanic and was born in the Globe/Miami area. They moved to Phoenix when she was five. She never mentioned or suggested it may have been because of racial discrimination. Be interested to know what you learn.
David,
I could have used the dog's advice.
Bob,
The Bullion Plaza School in Miami, Arizona opened in 1923 as a grammar school for Hispanic and Apache students. There was a separate school for black students and, of course, a school for whites. The Bullion Plaza School was desegregated in 1950. It was closed in 1994 and has been turned into a history museum.
I went to a meeting there on Friday. The building is very impressive. Large, with classic architecture.
Another interesting ethnic aspect of the area is there were large numbers of Serbs and Croatians who, along with Hispanics, also worked in the mines.
Michael
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