Women artists you should know: Jane Wilson (1924–2015)
The Iowa-born New York School painter who spent decades painting the big skies over Long Island's East End.
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If you get addicted to things easily, you have one of the rarest traits there is.
Most people can't stay interested in anything for more than a week. You can lose 6 hours to something without noticing.
Right now that goes to games, feeds, and whatever hooks you first. That's the only problem.
Pick one hard thing actually worth being addicted to. A skill, your body, your work. Give it the same obsession for 2 years and you'll pass people who've been at it for 10.
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Freedom colonies are historic, intentional communities founded by formerly enslaved Black people in Texas between 1865 and 1930, through Reconstruction and Jim Crow. The Texas Freedom Colonies Project, founded in 2014 by Dr. Andrea Roberts, has recorded 557 known place names and mapped more than 350 of them. Most sit in the eastern half of the state. Dr. Roberts started that work at Texas A&M and is now at the University of Virginia, and her book Never Sell the Land: Freedom Colonies, Black Sto…