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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 2012
Page
20
The Summer Olympic Games begin with the Opening Ceremony in London as the cauldron lights up the stadium. Danny Boyle leads the show with a Shakespearean theme while Queen Elizabeth II officially opens the Games.
Abel Meeropol wrote the poem that Billie Holiday turned into the 1939 hit Strange Fruit. Artist Joseph Norman’s lithographs reinterpret the lynching legacy, using poetic realism to portray a decomposed fish on a string as a stark symbol. Norman, a Chicago native now teaching at the University of Georgia, has works in 50 collections and explores the South’s art history and racial trauma. The Morris Museum of Art in Augusta hosts the exhibit through Sept 16, open Tue–Sat 10am–5pm and Sun noon–5pm. For more info call 706-724-7501 or visit themorris.org.
In Copenhagen at the World Santa Congress an exercise class featuring Zumba and hula hoops drew curious Santas from around the world. Douglas Gowin, a 57 year old Santa from Washington DC, said he will do more Zumba in his spare time after the sweaty session. In North Carolina a man released from Rockingham jail was later jailed again for trespassing after asking deputies to drive him to a motel. Rodney Dwayne Valentine, 37, faces second degree trespassing charges for refusing to leave the jail.
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