by Diane Hoban | Jan 24, 2021 | News: Poetry Out Loud
From memorable memes, to powerful performances- many people are still talking about yesterday’s historic inauguration. One of the stand outs is Amanda Gorman. She’s the country’s first-ever youth Poet Laurate to read at the inauguration. Lansing’s Poetry Club,...
by Diane Hoban | Jan 18, 2021 | News: Grants
Taking a step in a snowshoe is like taking a step back in time. Along with the wheel, snowshoes are one of the oldest inventions. Imagine life without the creation of snowshoes; much of our northern landscape would have been left unexplored… Read...
by Diane Hoban | Jan 11, 2021 | News: Great Michigan Read
An online event later this month will feature a discussion with the pediatrician many people credit with helping expose the Flint water crisis. Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha’s “What the Eyes Don’t See,” is an account of her discovery that Flint’s children were being poisoned...
by Diane Hoban | Dec 16, 2020 | News: Grants
Sometime next year, the restored Wright Leppien Opera House in downtown Alma will be transformed to showcase the type of performances it was known for in its heyday, at the turn of the 20th century. That’s thanks to a $15,000 grant awarded to Alma College by the...
by Diane Hoban | Dec 15, 2020 | News: Grants
At East Middle School in Plymouth in her seventh-grade social studies class, Shelley Lloyd is using virtual field trips, part of a program called Religious Diversity Journeys, to teach about world religions. “One of the things I like about it is a live Q&A where...