Miriam's quilts

News-Times/Candace Blomendahl Miriam Peterson of York picks a few stray threads off her quilts at The Quilt Basket in York. Peterson’s quilts will be on display at The Quilt Basket for the rest of the month.

The slave market of Zanzibar is a site made sacred by history

Stories of cruelty and suffering abound here, and still strike at the conscience As the Ground Zero mosque saga in New York demonstrated, certain points on the map become sacred because of their history – but quite how to consecrate them is a prickly question of justice and taste. South Africa's constitutional court, for example, is built at the site of a notorious jail where thousands of black ...

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