But, on the other hand, there can definitely be a fine line between that which is considered trash and that which is celebrated as treasure to the hardcore genealogist. She is also one of the founders and organizers of Many Helping Hands, which brings Cambridge volunteers together to assist people in need. I practiced law for twelve years, but I painted all the way along. It’s incredibly frustrating when we get stuck on a particular line and can’t seem to find any new information. January 15, 2014. Try our people search, reverse phone lookup or address lookup, it's better than the white pages! The first, believe it or not, was in the 1600s. I first started delving into my family history in the mid 1990s, when a friend brought me with her to the Mercer Museum’s Spruance Library, where the Bucks County Historical Society maintained their archives. It's about passion. “Through their personal interaction with the Irish Bridget, native-born Americans came to see the Irish less as ‘others,’ and more as fellow humans. Several years later, another brother, Thomas, joined them. As the numbers of young Irish women employed in domestic service in the U.S. grew, a stereotypical representation of the Irish maid developed; she was characterized as inept, ill-mannered, and incompetent. I had been to President Obama's first inauguration in Washington. But I do know that before his death on February 26, 1888, he crammed a lot of living into his 44 years. More Records For Lori Lander . 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In 1634, he and his older brother Garrett arrived in the Virginia colony on the Bonaventure. Sometimes, of course, we do feel lucky just to find a name and a date. I basically invited all the women I knew who had any Cambridge connection - whether they lived here, had kids in school here, had worked here, and who I also knew were very active in different circles in their life. The Dance Complex Annual Festival of Us, You, We, & Them took place virtually June 26 & 27, 2020. I wanted to see if I could get people interested in an MLK Day of Service. Genealogy, for the deeply rooted, is far more than the mere act of collecting names and dates. What does Cambridge represent to the world and America? And at the same time he was being inundated with reports on the terrible overcrowding in the Irish workhouses, where conditions were deplorable even amidst a nation of starving people. Join Facebook to connect with Lori Lander and others you may know. I love Jodi Adams (see our interview with Jodi) and how she pours her passion into the food, but then uses that to leverage her work on different causes that she cares about, whether it's Partners in Health or hunger. Since I was taking the year off to paint, as I said earlier, I thought, ‘I don't know if I'll ever be back in Asia.' You also hold a monthly women’s breakfast here in your home. Some of them, and I take a lot of photographs when I'm there. It was glorious. They are the lyrical depiction of the sadness and longing experienced by the millions who crossed the Atlantic for a better life; the trade-off being they would never see their homes or families again. One of the founders of City Year, Mike Brown, had worked for me as a summer law firm associate, and then he had gone off to clerk for now-Justice Breyer but left that clerkship to go start City Year. I live in Cambridgeport, work as a free-lance editor. That’s how it happens. I was the first sort of director in charge of making it happen, and the exciting thing is it still goes on. He was hearing from Australia, where the ratio of men to women at the time was 8:1, that they needed more females to join the population. When I still lived in New York in middle school up to maybe the first year of high school, I studied at the Art Students League in New York on Saturdays, and I've taken summer workshops at Bennington and such. I think that they overlap between the science, art, and community engagement. Why is it important for you to bring women together? It's a city that has a significant low income population but at the same time it's a city that's rich in resources - not just wealth, although there is wealth - but in brains and hearts of people who want to make a difference in the world, who want the world to be a better place, and who are willing to engage their energies and resources into making those changes happen. He shows up on tax rolls in 1655 and 1665 as owning a six-room thatched cottage in Kells, County Meath. Since I was taking the year off to paint, as I said earlier, I thought, ‘I don't know if I'll ever be back in Asia.' I think we thrive on the possibility of attacking issues like how to make public education work for all kids. All Rights Reserved. Born in Philadelphia on April 22, 1843, to Irish immigrant parents, he is without a doubt a great ancestral character. Terry didn’t know anything about this branch of his family, but in 2015 he decided to take a DNA test and start digging. With the universities in Cambridge, there are the possibilities of futures, a sort of limitless possibility of scientific advancement in thinking hard about problems that impact our society. First to other clans, then to the English, and then through power struggles within the family. (Photo, left: Gamelan III, by Lori Lander, at Revolve)  Paintings by Lander, with a focus on women that reflects her social activism, can also be seen this month at a different kind of venue: the Revolve consignment boutique at 59 Leonard Street in Belmont. Lookup Lori Lander's family members, old roommates, friends and more instantly. If I wasn't an artist and didn't feel capable of making things that bring pleasure, I might have had a different lens. Cambridge artist Lori Lander is celebrating Women’s History Month with a show of her paintings at Lesley University’s Marran Gallery. How do we support them? This year we're thinking somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 people will show up. Although many Irish would be reunited with family members who had already come over, or relatives they would help to bring over at a future date, and letters were exchanged, a return journey was out of reach for the majority of those who immigrated to America. Four years ago, a small group of women in Cambridge decided to join other cities around the country who have done this for several years to honor Martin Luther King by making the day of his birthday a 'day on' rather than a 'day off.’. I'm also chair of the social action committee at my temple, Beth El Temple, which is on the Cambridge-Belmont Line, and I have run a mitzvah day there for almost twelve years. What was once designated as “The Famine” has since been more fittingly reclassified as “An Gorta Mor,” or “The Great Hunger.” But no matter what you call it, people were looking for ways out of the unrelenting destitution and death that had become a way of life. I'm interested in painting women at work around the world and in particular, recognizing that women play such an important role in so many facets of the lives of communities, as mothers, and often, as people within the community; in markets, working in fields, and in the spiritual life of their community as well.