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Beth and Jonathan Evans are internationally known batik artists who have created, shown, and taught their art all over the world. With combined experience of more than ninety years working in the batik medium, they both have led dedicated and adventurous lives in art.
They own and run Shalawalla Gallery, housed in an old train boxcar in La Veta, Colorado, USA.
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On October 28 at the Princeton Public Library, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Frankel discussed his book Rivonia’s Children: Nelson Mandela’s White Comrades and Their Legacy, newly republished by Blue Ear Books, with fellow author Andrew Russell.
Rivonia’s Children … offers fascinating insight into the lives of true South African heroes, whites who fought in the background against the apartheid regime without looking for any kudos or back-slapping. They were seemingly ordinary South Africans – but as you read you come to understand how important their roles were. It is the remarkable story largely of three Jewish couples and their lifelong commitment to the cause: Hilda and Rusty Bernstein, Ruth First and her husband Joe Slovo, and AnnMarie and Harold Wolpe. All three couples played huge roles in the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, for which they paid dearly, as did the Afrikaner dissident Bram Fischer. They deserve to be highlighted and thanked for everything they did for our country.
– from The Leadership We Need: Lessons for Today from Nelson Mandela by Andrew Russell
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The price of moral courage
I was unprepared for my reaction to Rivonia’s Children: Nelson Mandela’s White Comrades and Their Legacy, a devastating account of South Africa by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Frankel. … It’s the story of a country sliding into darkness, the tragic corruption of the law, the complicity of the lawmakers, the barbarism of a police state. But at its heart it’s a study of astonishing conviction, courage, and sacrifice to turn a society away from its appalling injustice.
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My purpose in writing this letter is to articulate at least glancingly how and why Blue Ear Books publishes books—books in particular—and to address how, and why, we intend to continue doing that going forward, regardless of what the political and/or media situation turns out to be in the United States after November 5 (and January 6, and January 20).
Read Ethan Casey’s October 26, 2024 statement about the purposes and goals of Blue Ear Books.
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