Celebrating Bethlehem's Southside Culture
By the end of Barack Obama’s term as the President of the United States, former chief official White House photographer Pete Souza had captured those eight years in a collection of two million photos. Three hundred of these photos make up his best-selling photography book, Obama: An Intimate Portrait, and it was that visual narrative…
During her Notations lecture in the Lower Gallery at Zoellner Arts Center, poet Brenda Shaughnessy posed a question the audience could not answer: what would the world look like if it were taken over by octopi? Shaugnessy’s fifth poetry collection, The Octopus Museum, explores such a world. She admitted that she didn’t plan for the…
Lori Goldstein, a member of the graduating class of 1995, began her career in both editing and journalism. Some of her first jobs included editing technology and public policy journals for Cutter Consortium, a business-technology advisory firm, and Harvard Kennedy School of Government. However, the monotony of this style of writing lead to Goldstein’s realization…
As a student at Lehigh, I am at Zoellner Arts Center a lot. I sit on its lawn while I read, do homework, or take a much needed break from either of those. Zoellner itself is a quiet refuge for many Lehigh students, who retreat to the third floor for the private music rooms to…
I’ll always have a vivid memory of the day after the 2016 presidential election. I was still a senior in high school in a small town in New Hampshire, and I remember the palpable sense of division that was apparent as soon as a walked through my school’s front doors. There were kids wearing Trump…
Reading a poem can be an individualistic experience. The imagined pitch of the narrator’s tone, the length of the pause at a carefully placed comma, the speed with which the lines flow from one into the next are all determined by our own voice as we consider the artful collection of lines on the page…
Looking around Baker Hall, I couldn’t help but notice the diverse array of faces in the sea of people filling the auditorium to maximum capacity. A white elderly couple sits to my right, relieved to finally have a break after waiting in line for almost two hours. To my left, a Black woman proclaims she…
It’s remarkable when you can see so much of yourself in a person who initially seems so different from you. Jacqueline Woodson was born in Ohio and grew up in Greenville, South Carolina after her mom left her dad. She moved to Brooklyn with her family when she was seven to escape Jim Crow. She…
If my memory serves me correctly, I was in fourth grade the last time I wrote someone a letter and actually sent it in the mail (excluding the few following years that I still penned a letter to Santa). This experience isn’t unique to me; as a society, we’ve largely shifted to digitized forms of…
What does it mean to tell a story? This question isn’t one that has a straight answer, but it’s what author Marita Golden made all of us in the audience consider during her opening lecture for the 2018-2019 season of Lehigh’s Notation Series. On September 13th, Golden filled the Lower Gallery of Zoellner Arts Center…