Constance Garcia-Barrio

#135 August 2020/All Topics/Community/gardening

Volunteer gardeners tend to cradle graves at The Woodlands

Photography By Rachael Warriner Graveyard Shift By Constance Garcia-Barrio If tombs are the clothes of the dead, as one poet said, permanent residents of cradle graves at The Woodlands Cemetery wear vivid garments indeed. Marble headstones, footstones and low sides form these graves while pansies, bleeding hearts, and other flowers bloom atop them and brim

August 8, 2020

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#114 November 2018/All Topics/Culture/Race and Equity

Colonial women of color shaped history and paved the way for others

Given the unruliness of time machines, apt to choose their own destinations, you’ll need a bike, car or SEPTA to see the scattered sites where enslaved Black women helped to get colonial Philadelphia going.Take Black Alice, aka Alice of Dunks Ferry, who reached age 116, c.1686 to 1802, historians say. Her parents, from Barbados, arrived

January 14, 2019

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Constance Garcia-Barrio

Volunteer gardeners tend to cradle graves at The Woodlands

Colonial women of color shaped history and paved the way for others

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