December 18, 2024 • 33 mins
Talked with Edward Stinson, Museum Docent from the Spady Cultural Heritage Museum in Delray Beach. The museum is located in the former home of Solomon D. Spady. Spady museum is a non-profit that "expands and preserves our cultural heritage, sharing local black history with Delray Beach Black archive, exhibits, bus tours, walking tours, commemorative events and youth mentoring." They have a lot of great events lined up including community Kwanzaa Celebration on 12/26 adn then their annual Martin Luther King Jr luncheon on January 20th. Listeners can also check out the current exhibition Inside/Outside through January 6th. Spady also offers a Ride to Remember bus tour on throughout Delray Beach. They can also sign up to become mentors, volunteers, and make donations at www.spadymuseum.org
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
iHeart Communities presents Palm Beach Treasure Coast Perspective with dead Nepp.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good morning, welcome to Palm Beach Treasure Coast Perspective. I'm
your host dev Net. Thanks for spending your weekend with me.
All kinds of great things going on and just like
a little PSA update reminder, the deadline has been extended
for FEMA applications after Hurricanes Helene and Milton in Florida.
So the deadline has now been extended to January seventh.
So if you didn't get all the paperwork and everything
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in a time and that happens, just go ahead and
do it. You can go to Disaster Assistance dot gov
or call them eight hundred six two one three three
six ' two and they'll be happy to give you
all the information you need at the write paperwork in
and get some help with all your repairs and stuff.
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Oh a reminder Also, friends at Fort Pierce, their Redevelopment
Agency is expanding the freebee Fleet with a fifth tesla,
so it's can to help meet some of the holiday
season demand. Hours are Monday to Wednesday, eight to six Thursdays,
eight to eight Friday, eight to ten pm Saturday ten
to ten Sunday ten to eight, and you load up
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the app and you can request a ride and get
some help with that. If you need more information, reach
out to them seven seven to two seven four to
two ninety eight thirty five and then I happy to
give you details. I was speaking of good fun holiday things.
If you haven't been in a while, head over to
McKee Botanical Gardens. They're inviting holiday revelers to come on
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out and enjoy Jungle Lights. It is the treasure cooas
largest and most dazzling holiday light display, all kinds of
twinkling lights. It's going on now through December twenty ninth,
so definitely want check that out. The gardens are always
beautiful as well. Simply go to Mckeegarden dot org or
you can call seven seven two seven nine four zero
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six zero one for more details. Speaking of holiday lights,
if you've not been to this one, definitely check this out.
The Flagler Museum lights up the Big Treating the Dukes,
the Holiday Evening Tour and so those are happening now.
It's going on now through December twenty third, so you
do need to get tickets. Reach out to them. A
lot of fun it is Flagler Museum dot us and
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you get the tickets there online. Oh and we just
talked to Redina from Palm Beach Drama Works. They're enjoying
their twenty fifth season and running now through January fifth
is the Dresser. Then February fourteenth through March second will
be The Humans. Their next place April eleventh through the
twenty seventh camping with Henry and Tom. May twenty third
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through that June eighth will be Dangerous Instruments. So if
you go to Pompeachdrama Works dot org you can get
details on the shows, on the Playwright Contest for the kids,
all kinds of great things, how to become a volunteer,
Lots of fun things happening there. Oh, Palm Beach County
Environmental Resource Management, thanks for popping in, Benji, so tell us.
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Coming up this week, we have a few fun things
with the Adventure Weights program that you guys have.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah. Absolutely, so I think a really fun one, you know,
after Christmas burn off some of those Christmas calories is
the Weeding for the Birds event on Friday, December twenty seventh,
and this is going to be in Lakeworth Lagoon. You
actually get a boat ride over to these restored islands
that we've created in lake Worth Lagoon. Weeding for the Birds.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
What is that?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
So we have built these mangrove islands in lake Worth Lagoon,
but what we noticed twenty years ago is this really
special bird species, the American oyster catcher, nests on high
spots in the island. So now every new island that
we build has a nesting mound and these birds rely
on a sandy surface with some shell material. And so
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we have these events called Weeding for the Birds, and
we do them from December as our first one, all
the way through the beginning of March, and we're cleaning
up these nesting areas and getting them ready for these
listed imperiled bird species to come back and raise their
chicks on the islands in lake Worth Lagoon. And that's
going to be the first event.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Oh, I think that's fantastic And they can sign up
for that on event bright on.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Event bright find us on event bright pbcer cool.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Well, we'll talk more next week, So thanks for popping.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
By, all right, we'll see you next week.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Also, don't forget Daggaway Nature Center, Saturday, December twenty eighth,
ten thirty Am is doing a Florida Animal Experience. This
is for good for ages five and up five dollars
per participant and definitely sign up for that. Also, we
have tai Chi happening at the South County Civic Center.
That is weekdays eight thirty under the pavilion, and there's
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a second class that's held on Tuesdays and Thursdays at
ten am. And there's functional fitness they do at the
More Comic Park as well, and that's Tuesdays and Thursdays
at eight thirty am at the Lake Beewa Pavilion and
you do need to RSVP for that. So lots of
good things happening in the parks and another thing speaking
at parks. Palm Beach Shakespeare Festivals mixing it up a
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little bit this year, so they're going to be doing
their free Shakespeare by the Palms production of As You
Like It January thirtieth through February second, So it's gonna
be out Palm Beach in World Palm Beach and the
Commons Park. Definitely want to check that out. It's free.
They do have a suggested donation of five dollars to
help defray some of the costs, but it's always fun.
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That's a great one to take the whole family too.
If you need more information, you can reach out to
me about that one. Oh. Also coming up Sunday, January nineteenth,
twenty twenty five nine a m is the Seminal Maroon
Remembrance at the Lochsahachie River Battlefield Park. And then on Saturday,
January twenty fifth, it is the Battle of Locks of
Hatchie reenactment. So for those folks who do the reenactments
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that's gonna be happening that day, simply go to PBC
Nature dot com to find out all stuff about the
different parks. We'll got a reminder the Donald m Ephraim
Sun and Stars International Film Festivals happening again sponsored by
morse Life and they're starting things off at the Cravis
in the Rinker Playhouse on January twenty third, seven thirty
pm with Liza the truly terrific, absolutely true story, So
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check that out. We'll talk to them again soon. Info
at Morselife dot org to get details on that. And
then coming up in January it is the second annual
SLC four h Opportunity for All Benefit Gala and it's
a grown up one. So this is for the adults
to come and enjoy nice night out raise some funds.
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It's from five to nine pm and Adams Ranch located
at two six zero zero three Orange Avenue in Fort Pierce.
For details, you can call them seven seven to two
for six two sixteen sixty and they're happy to give
you details. And of course the Fen Center and Tretchco
is always doing fun things, so coming up, I definitely
go see this one. I can't play, but I want
to go watch. It is Let's Glow Pickleball on January fifteenth.
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This is coming from six to eight pm. Three dollars
a person sign up have fun. For details, go to
fencenter dot com and that and all the other programs
stuff they're doing are listed right there for you. Speaking
of fun things, we have the Cravis Center Forbidden Broadways
Greatest Hits happening this coming up this week coming up
twenty seventh through the twenty ninth of December, and then
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the thirty first is Straight No Chaser Top Shelf Tour January. First,
of course their traditional salute to Vienna New Year's Concert.
They have Renee Fleming the Soprano coming on Sunday, January
fifth at two pm as part of their Classical Concert series.
And then on the sixth they do that lunch and
Learn series and Renee Flemick Music and Mind will be
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the topic, so that'll be a fun one. So lots
of good stuff coming. And then the Share show is
January seventh through the twelfth as part of their Cravis
on Broadway series, so it should be a really fun show.
Spy go to Cravis dot org to get more details
on all the different programs and events and if you
want to sign up to be like an usher and
stuff like that, they'll help you out. Speaking of getting
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more information, I want to welcome my guests for today.
I have Edward Stinson from the Spady Cultural Heritage Museum.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Good morning, Good morning, it's a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Thanks for coming in. We haven't chatted in a little while,
so I had to catch up and the holiday season
is a good time to catch up with the course
of course, love that. So tell me what is it
that you do the Spady.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Ah, So, I'm a museum educator or some could call
it a docent there, so when people come to the
museum or they have a tour or they have lecture
that we might have. I'm usually the one who helps
be the face of the museum, and I'm helping to
describe the history of Spady, describe the era of history
that we talk about and cover in the Spading Museum,
and just why it's an important area within Delray and
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why it's an important representation of the history of Delray.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Oh yeah, So tell me a little about the history
of the Spading Museum.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
So the museum itself celebrates the life and legacy of
Solomon D. Spady. He's one of the first black educators
of Delay of Frankly, South Florida. He's the third decided
principal slash teacher of the schools in Delray. Actually, so
he's going to be one of those integral members of
the community that really helps bring us together, educate people
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the community, and bring up the value of the community.
Now he's going to come down to Florida in nineteen
twenty two and the home is going to be built
in nineteen twenty six. Now he's going to be an
educator after that for thirty five years, which is kind
of intense. Multiple generations of people are going to be
taught by him. Today, we now, of course the museum
is his house, so it's where he used to live.
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It was actually made into museum in two thousand and one,
so we actually got to celebrate our twentieth anniversary, which
was amazing, very happy about that. But now we're able
to be a museum that teaches about why education matters,
why that era of history matters. So him coming down
being an educator, being someone who's going to bring with
him vocational skills carpentry, woodworking, farming, smithing. These are going
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to be things that if you learn any of those skills, girl,
life is pretty set. You have a skill that's going
to not only build the value of your neighborhood, your
own home, but your family. So I tell people all
the time it really often will take one truly engaged
person to help dozens, if not hundreds of people. And
he was one of those people for our area.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Oh yeah, Like I saw to the ladies from the
Promise Fund and Nancy Brinker that to help catch the
people who don't have insurance, they don't have enough insurance
for ovarian and breast cancer in Palm Beach County to
get services. Please, do you need the mammigram you reach
out to them and they'll get that sorted for you,
and we have a higher percentage of people surviving because
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that one person making that promise and committing and then
getting all for friends to help and all their friends
to help. So, like you said, so I'm a Spadi
did that for del Rey.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
I'm glad you actually brought that up. The house that
is technically just south is technically the same property, but
just south of the museum is Lurry. Walk out the door,
walk thirty spaces to your right and it's right there
is the Williams Cottage. She was a nurse and midwife
from the nineteen thirties. Now, of course it's America, so
at the time, you know, quote unquote the colors are
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not allowed to be full on doctors. Just because you're
not allowed to be doctor doesn't mean you can't learn
medical important medical procedures. And so as a nurse and midwife,
she was helping people give birth. She's helping people with
you know, minor medical issues. She might to be knowledgeable
on higher medical issues and in doing that, I know
it's a bit extreme, but I tell as an example,
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if you do not know that an umbilical cord wrapped
around a child's neck can kill them. You don't know
how to save the child or the mom. Sometimes both
could die potentially from different things. If you don't know
that you need to wash your hands before you help
with this problem, you could kill both people. And so yes, again,
one person who just brings that initiative, brings that knowledge
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to the community truly can increase the life expectancy, the happiness,
the joy, the excitement around the community, the morale of
the community. And Spady was one of those people, and
we directly see his influence, her influence as well, building
everyone in that community.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Oh that's fantastic. We need far more people like that, agreed.
I think every generation you get like one or two.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
I'm telling you four hundred that minimum minimum.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
And so, of course as a museum, you do tours
like you said, you do the tours there, we have
different exhibitions that come of course, So right now, who
said you have running now, is it Eve's Gabriel.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Yes, So our current exhibit is called Inside Outside by
Eve Gabriel. Now it's a abstract, multimedia kind of exhibit.
So a lot of his work at first you will
not know what it's about. That's also why we do wort,
you know, so you have the time to let your
mind ponder what it's about now there. Of course, it
is going to be panels of context there that help
explain what went into a lot of his work. However,
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the deep purpose of the work is really to just
make you ask questions to yourself and other people about
the current and frankly extremely important social and cultural issues
are going on right now in our country. It directly
connects to a conversation. We always have the Spading Museum
where yes, we technically are registered as a black history museum.
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Within five minutes of you walking in the first time
I tell you is, by the way, this is actually
just America's history. We just not to teach like seventy
five percent of it throughout the last several centuries. So
when we see artists like this who directly make art
kind of aligned with that realization and that need to
gain knowledge, that's what it's about. It really is like, hey,
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we're gonna talk about the long lasting difficulties of our
country and what we have or haven't actually fixed. I
love that it you go into the exhibit really begs
you to ask questions about the experience of Black Americans,
Hispanic Americans, Middle Eastern Americans, Caribbean Americans, you know it.
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I love the exhibit personally, I saw it, went through it.
I know a lot of the items at first will
be very abstract to people, but not in hearing what
they were about. As an artist myself, I was I
was floored. I loved it. So I really hope that
people can come through see a bit of these Gabriel
Gabriel's work, and it goes through January sixth, By the way,
this would be for.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
A while, so sometimes make it with the holiday season.
So what hours does this spady open.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
We're open eleven am to four pm Tuesday through Saturday,
so Sunday's Mondays we have off. But if you're ever
trying to come for a tour trying to see the exhibit,
if you ever want to plan a walking tour, if
you wantn't want to plan a bus tour, please call it.
You know, call us. We can give you the number
right now actually five six one two seven nine eight
eight eight three. I beg of you, please send a
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message our way. We'd love to give you a tour,
love to share history with you, because it really kind
of is all of our history.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
You know, Oh, it's everybody's history. Absolutely. Yeah. When is
say history is written by.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
The victors or whatever, yes, I'll have to throw that
line in there if you want.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
So they make themselves look the best. And I was like, okay,
wait a minute, it's that the whole story.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Oh yes, so yes, we have a we have a
quote there. Actually we have here, a little quote there,
and the quote goes, history will favor the hunters until
the lions have their own historians, and so yeah, victory
favors the winner. They they own the history, they own
the ability to tell that history. And so it comes
to places like the Spading Museum to remind people that
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that hidden history is still history. It's still the truth
of what has happened. So that's definitely something we we
really try to emphasize, like this is not some hidden,
separate history, this is our connected history.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Well, this is a great way to find out about it.
And of course in the holiday season, you have a
really fun thing coming up on the twenty sixth, man
is the Kwanza celebration.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
It's gonna be awesome, sid it for it tell the.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Listeners in a little bit about what is Kwanza for
people who may not know.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Glorious So Kwansa first and foremost, the was created in
nineteen sixty six by Malana Kurenga. Now this isn't the
time period is important. This is directly after like the
La riots, which very very racially sensitive riots, and so
at this time we're going to see a desire by
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many Black Americans to try and create like morale boosting
systems in place to really kind of consolidate our energies
and our efforts. And so we see him go about
creating this holiday Kwansa, and it really, I don't want
to say it was in direct conflict of the capitalism
and consumerism that Christmas has become, but also it was
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in direct conflict with the act of capitalism. So when
we see him create this first and foremost, there are
seven tenants of it. And when you really read those
tenants and hear them, yeah, you know what they're fighting.
I'm not going to go too long on them. But
it's first and foremost unity umoja, self determination kuji chaguria,
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collective work and responsibility ujima, cooperative economics u jama, purpose
nia creativity Kumba, and then faith imani, which is also
sometimes when we exchange gifts, keeping that faith between each other.
So when we're looking at what these tenants mean, these
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are fundamentally being history, keeping your society, keeping your culture,
building that culture. And it's heavily based on you heard
the words African culture. It is based on that. Even
the colors of the flag right, black and green, black
lady representing the black people, read for the struggle, blood
sacrifice in the struggle, but green for the future and
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hopes from that struggle. And so with Kwanza, it is
a seven day celebration of the fact that I'm not
going to say culture's abstract, but celebrating it is kind
of an abstract thing. You create the holidays you want
to use to celebrate your culture, and we got to
do that. Of course, at first, you know, very slow
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to pick up the country of course itself was kind
of against there being some new holiday during you know,
december's a lot there's a lot of space already used
up in December for holidays. But as built up more,
as more and more people took either you know, Black
nationalism or pan Africanism and started learning more about it,
started having the influences of MLK influences of Malcolm X
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going and spreading more into the country. Yes, you have
people who want to reclaim African heritage, reclaim that connection
to the culture. This is one of, frankly the most
power ways to do that. You know, there is no
inherent attack on the country from this, there's no inherent
attack on Christmas from this. It's his own holiday. It
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actually lets you celebrate Christmas within it if you want.
It directly has gift giving on the last day. So
even if you are a person who's like, oh, I
don't know, can I do Christmas? Why not both? Well,
why not celebrate both? Great more gifts for people. So
that's what it definitely kind of helps emphasize. But again
for our cons of celebration, when we kind of make
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an event for it, we celebrate, of course on the
twenty six that starts the event and goes for seven
days after. But this allows us to have an awesome
event at the museum where we'll have drums, plenty of music,
will have ten set up with different vendors, all of
which are people from the community. We've been so brying
this for years. We're gonna have talks from different speakers
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will have artwork placed on the on the fence as well.
We really make it something where it is a celebration
of the culture as a whole. You know, we'll get
children from different schools in the area, adults, elders from
the area. It is a truly beautiful event that helps,
I think, just consolidate a lot of the energies that
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are around and helps them manifest a future that they want.
You know, this was about manifesting a future of hope,
not was is about manifesting a future of hope. It's
a beautiful holiday to me.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
So it sounds like it's like a very vibrant community
event that's homemade.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Gifts sometimes, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Yeah, So get away from commercialism. You make it yourself
with the thought of the person you're giving it to please.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
I can't stress enough how important that is too. It
is it. It really is working to fight against the
feeling of or needing consumerism. You shouldn't have to buy
a completely brand, spanking new, expensive thing to win over
the love of your children. You shouldn't have to do that. Like,
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that's weird that we have forced ourselves to believe that
that's like normal, that sucks, and not everyone has enough
money to do that all the time. Kwanza, we ask
you to try to make something. We ask you to
like do art, to just play a song for someone,
to read them a poem, do something where we know
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you thought about it. We know that you wanted to
just share compassion, share empathy, share your mind or your
memory with the person you're talking to. So a lot
of times it's why not just make a piece of
art for them? Why not craft something? Why not share
a craft with someone? You know, craft something with someone.
It's about experiencing the people around you, not the material things,
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you know. I remember I had an aunt to you know,
very into manifestation, very into spirituality, very into health and
holistic healing. And one of the things that I think
she said to me when I was way younger that
really kind of stuck with me. Hey man, you know everyone,
everyone wants a house, but it's only a home when
there are living things within it. The house is only
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dead material, like, that's what it is. Inorganic material. The
entire house. You aren't surrounded by living things, so you're
not going to really bounce off of the energy of
those living things. You have to create moments and experiences
either outside of the house or with other living things
within your house, to heal your consciousness, to maintain and
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bolster your spirit. And you know, that kind of works
in almost any religion or culture I've ever seen. You know,
houses are nice and they're neat and they're great, but
if you're just a dracula in a giant mansion, like
that's kind of depressing. Man. I'm sorry, it's neat, but nah,
you kind of only exist because of the billions of
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people who have existed before you. Why not try and
connect with why you exist? Quands is about that. You know,
America sadly hasn't celebrated Black Americans a lot in its history,
and the times that we see it try to take
credit for celebrating black people in our history is actually
oftentimes black people celebrating ourselves and making enough noise that
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they're like, all right, fine, I guess you guys can
celebrate the thing, you know, and like it's like a
reluctant allowing the child to kind of grow up a
little bit. That's nonsense, but like that, that's why we
had to make the holiday. Christmas is nice, you know,
to a lot of Christians. They have a weird understanding
of Christmas because it's like actually a pagan holiday. They
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don't even know the history of Christmas. So a lot
of people still have much to learn about these holidays
that they're actually supporting. Quans was one of the first
holidays that I felt a deep genuine connection to, where,
oh this is, this is my history. This is celebrating that.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
So yes, I love it, And everybody can celebrate Quants
with you.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Yes, please, that's extraordinarily important to know, like the celebration
of black history. Again, this is why we always tell
everyone black history is everyone's history. Like, I know, it's
gonna be weird to like tell quote unquote white people that, hey,
by the way, you're actually just a shade of brown too.
Sorry I guess, but you kind of are so welcome
to the club. Come celebrate it with us my friends.
Eat some amazing food, got oxtails and curry, goat what
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you need.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
You know how she loves She's like, she'll be there,
got you don't worry.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
We're here for we will celebrate with everyone. We will
celebrate with everyone, I promise you.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
So of course that's gonna be a great celebration. I
can't wait for that. I'm sorry and so thank you
your Christmas. On this oas on the twenty six, do
they need to preregister or anything?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
So technically you there is no registration. Just come show up,
you know, of course, please shop as you are, Like,
we're not again that that would defeat the purpose, you know,
it is a bad against these like tenants of capitalism
and like nah, please just come through with yourself. If
you'd like to donate to the museum for putting the
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event on, we would, of course graciously and with humility accepted.
Also we're here to just have a good time, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Very cool, very cool. And speaking of donating the museum,
people can make donations, they can actually become members of
the space. Yes, absolutely please so do I do that online?
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Or yeah, you can do that. You can call us
do it online, send in a mail about it as well.
Online you can go to www dot Spadymuseum dot com.
You can email us at info at Spadymuseum dot org. Again,
you can call us at five six, one, two, seven, nine, eight,
eight eight three and any of those. We will work
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with you on how to become a member, how to volunteer,
at different events that we do. How to plan tours
if you want a bus tour, walking tour, or in
house tour, any of those are available and we are
always looking for, you know, people who want to become members,
want to involve themselves in that connection and collection of history. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
And of course another cool thing that you guys do
is the Doctor Martin Luther King Junior of Lunch comes
up every January and I know it sells out, so
we want to talk about now so people can get
your tastes please, And this would be a great gift
for somebody who has everything.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Oh my gosh, I completely agree. Experiences are often the
perfect gift for those people who have everything, you know,
give them a new experience, give them a new chance
to meet people. This MLK Brunch, it has a lot
of city officials, It has a lot of the people
who really help hold the city together. And it has
a lot of people who are from different nonprofit organizations,
profit organizations, universities, nearby schools, nearby. It is a truly
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beautiful event. It is fifty five dollars for a ticket.
If you're feeling awesome, you want to buy a table
for ten people. It's five hundred and fifty dollars. But
of course this oh and it's going to be at
the Indian Spring Country Club this time, so January twentieth,
Indian Springs Country Club, and it's going to be a
celebration of again who Martin Luther King was, but also
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the ideals that he kept alive. You know, again that immense,
immensely powerful understanding that the struggle of Black Americans is
the struggle of America. Literally until we were able to
reconcile the issues that we I'm not I don't want
to say arbitrarily created, but like black and white is
like quility, arbitrary but whatever, Like we created the issues
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and we decided to just never actually fix them with
real intent. I will always bring up the conversation of
reparations because we have paid them to every other demographic
except Black Americans. That is weird, Like, that's that is absurd, frankly,
And the second p you bring up that conversation, a
lot of times it's ah, white people are holding themselves
(26:44):
back play. I just want to play the victim. You
aren't playing the victim if you were victimized for FoST centuries.
I need that to be known, don't tell me I'm
playing a victim. When we bombed black neighborhoods, when we
experimented on black people, when we impress to black people.
We made a war on drugs, made a war on crime,
when we readlined black people, when we segregated black people
(27:05):
separate but equal, which was a legal thing to do. Like,
I don't know that. There's far too much evidence for
me to even humor the conversations of people going, you know, ah,
it's just this and that is not really possible to
stop that, stop it. We have too many people whose
entire life was spent learning how to deal with money
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for us not to know how to handle this problem.
But all last, I'll go on forever about that. This
breakfast celebrates the fact that we are connecting our histories,
that we are connecting it so we understand where our
faults are. Right, you should view your country like a
parent man, like, yeah, they can have their flaws and
(27:46):
their faults, but like it birthed us. I am wildly
proud to be an American. I am also widely disappointed
in Americans who think that like I shouldn't be here,
you know, like that's also true, can be true. I
can love the successes of our country. I can love
the you know, things we've created. I can also acknowledge that,
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like we were built on violence, genocide, apartheid, segregation, slavery,
and patriarchy, upholding misogynistic tendencies that disallowed women, which are
more than half of our population, to vote, own land
or take up any lead position until like the frankly,
the twenties sadly for only white women, and then not
to the sixties and seventies for women of color. And
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so when we're thinking about all these laws and rights
and ah, man, come on, get over it, we can
only start quote unquote getting over it starting at like
nineteen seventy. That's that's like a couple of generations, guys,
that's not a lot. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
I think it was on nineteen eighty six before women
were able to get a credit card in their own names.
I'm telling you, nineteen eighty six, not that long ago.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Yeah, And people will be like, look the now, you know,
crisis averted. We made the law. Obviously it's fixed now.
And I'm like, okay, you're choosing ignorance. I'm sorry, it'll
give you if you yes, genuinely, thing has done that fast.
You're not using No, it takes decades and generations. Yeah,
it takes generations to fix that.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
So this generation needs to start, please and get that going. Please,
please find out more about how they can involve and
educate themselves and make the future better for everybody. They
can come to the spady. You say they can take
a bus tour.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Absolutely, have bus tours in the building. Absolutely. I'm always
happy to do the tours.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Sign up for the breakfast and meet some really cool people.
Please please, please, So this lunch side the luncheon. So yeah,
I mean, I think the world would be much better
personally if doctor Martin Luther King Junior was still here.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
I think his ability to collect people and focus them
for a communal good was unparalleled. Yes, and so that
would have that would have start a couple of generations
back and we'd be further ahead.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
He would literally still be alive right now, arguably, like
depending on how that do is. But like there's a
lot of people from the civil rights movement who are
alive right now, and they're like I remember when he was, like,
they're alive. He and again, I'm sorry, I can't stress
enough as much as the country is like, well, we
have to take the position of MLK and really think
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about you assassinated him, like he got murdered for the position.
There is no like. Yes, America truly learned. It's lesson. No,
we killed him, Malcolm X. We killed him the rest
of Martin with the king's family. We murdered other members
of his family, like we literally assassinated people who were
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trying to fix the country actively, Like we got to
stop romanticizing how we handled that era. We handled it horribly.
There is no like, man, you know, truly, it was
just a strong victory. No, I'm sorry, it really sadly
wasn't actually as big of a victory as a lot
of people want to romanticize it to be. We have
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the awesome speech and immediately after when he seemed like
we murdered him, and it was the same with Malcolm X.
We murdered him because they were again going different from
the status quo, and the fact that that happened should
be one of the most obvious tells of our country's
resistance to acceptance of equality or equity. No, we didn't
(31:15):
accept it. Great, we had the civil rights movement then
murdered the people trying to do it. So, no we
didn't accept it. No we didn't take it lightly. No
we didn't actually like it happening. Apparently as a country,
that's why we need things like Kwanza. That's why we
need people calling out the I don't want to make
it too political, but like now, there's a lot of
people who are like very racist, and we'll still bring
up like Martin Luther King like that's that's weird, all right.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
So folks, come to see Edward at the Spading Museum.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Please, that's whe populous.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Educate yourself, come enjoy Kwansa on the twenty sixth, and
then of course the wonderful luncheon on January twentieth. Again,
let's get the phone number and website for them to
make it moment.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Please please please, I beg of y'all come on through.
There's so much history to teach. Again. The website www
dot Spadymuseum dot com. Info at Spady Museum dot org.
Our address one seventy Northwest Fifth Avenue, Delray Beach three
three four four four and our number five six one
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two seven nine eight eight eight three again five six
one two seven nine eight eight eight three very cool.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Well Edward again, thanks for coming in and sharing all
this information for with us doing such a cool thing
in the community. I appretiate it, very much appreciated and
very much needed.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
My absolute pleasure. It's it's an absolute honor. I'm a
very empathetic and sentimental person. History the second history stops
being true, I'll stop being passionate about it. Every single
day I wake up, it keeps being true. So I
it's something we need to share. It's something we got
to talk about.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Oh absolutely. If you need more information, reach out to
me Palm Beach Perspective at iHeartMedia dot com and I'm
happy for it on all the information and don't forget
you can always download the show as a podcast on
our iHeartRadio app. Hope everybody has a wonderful weekend. I'm
dev Nev and this is in my perspective. Remember life
is good, so be your healthiest view and let's get
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out there and live it. Until next week enjoy.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good morning, welcome to Palm Beach Treasure Coast Perspective. I'm
your host dev Net. Thanks for spending your weekend with me.
All kinds of great things going on and just like
a little PSA update reminder, the deadline has been extended
for FEMA applications after Hurricanes Helene and Milton in Florida.
So the deadline has now been extended to January seventh.
So if you didn't get all the paperwork and everything
(00:27):
in a time and that happens, just go ahead and
do it. You can go to Disaster Assistance dot gov
or call them eight hundred six two one three three
six ' two and they'll be happy to give you
all the information you need at the write paperwork in
and get some help with all your repairs and stuff.
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Oh a reminder Also, friends at Fort Pierce, their Redevelopment
Agency is expanding the freebee Fleet with a fifth tesla,
so it's can to help meet some of the holiday
season demand. Hours are Monday to Wednesday, eight to six Thursdays,
eight to eight Friday, eight to ten pm Saturday ten
to ten Sunday ten to eight, and you load up
(01:08):
the app and you can request a ride and get
some help with that. If you need more information, reach
out to them seven seven to two seven four to
two ninety eight thirty five and then I happy to
give you details. I was speaking of good fun holiday things.
If you haven't been in a while, head over to
McKee Botanical Gardens. They're inviting holiday revelers to come on
(01:28):
out and enjoy Jungle Lights. It is the treasure cooas
largest and most dazzling holiday light display, all kinds of
twinkling lights. It's going on now through December twenty ninth,
so definitely want check that out. The gardens are always
beautiful as well. Simply go to Mckeegarden dot org or
you can call seven seven two seven nine four zero
(01:51):
six zero one for more details. Speaking of holiday lights,
if you've not been to this one, definitely check this out.
The Flagler Museum lights up the Big Treating the Dukes,
the Holiday Evening Tour and so those are happening now.
It's going on now through December twenty third, so you
do need to get tickets. Reach out to them. A
lot of fun it is Flagler Museum dot us and
(02:15):
you get the tickets there online. Oh and we just
talked to Redina from Palm Beach Drama Works. They're enjoying
their twenty fifth season and running now through January fifth
is the Dresser. Then February fourteenth through March second will
be The Humans. Their next place April eleventh through the
twenty seventh camping with Henry and Tom. May twenty third
(02:36):
through that June eighth will be Dangerous Instruments. So if
you go to Pompeachdrama Works dot org you can get
details on the shows, on the Playwright Contest for the kids,
all kinds of great things, how to become a volunteer,
Lots of fun things happening there. Oh, Palm Beach County
Environmental Resource Management, thanks for popping in, Benji, so tell us.
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Coming up this week, we have a few fun things
with the Adventure Weights program that you guys have.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah. Absolutely, so I think a really fun one, you know,
after Christmas burn off some of those Christmas calories is
the Weeding for the Birds event on Friday, December twenty seventh,
and this is going to be in Lakeworth Lagoon. You
actually get a boat ride over to these restored islands
that we've created in lake Worth Lagoon. Weeding for the Birds.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
What is that?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
So we have built these mangrove islands in lake Worth Lagoon,
but what we noticed twenty years ago is this really
special bird species, the American oyster catcher, nests on high
spots in the island. So now every new island that
we build has a nesting mound and these birds rely
on a sandy surface with some shell material. And so
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we have these events called Weeding for the Birds, and
we do them from December as our first one, all
the way through the beginning of March, and we're cleaning
up these nesting areas and getting them ready for these
listed imperiled bird species to come back and raise their
chicks on the islands in lake Worth Lagoon. And that's
going to be the first event.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Oh, I think that's fantastic And they can sign up
for that on event bright on.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Event bright find us on event bright pbcer cool.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Well, we'll talk more next week, So thanks for popping.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
By, all right, we'll see you next week.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Also, don't forget Daggaway Nature Center, Saturday, December twenty eighth,
ten thirty Am is doing a Florida Animal Experience. This
is for good for ages five and up five dollars
per participant and definitely sign up for that. Also, we
have tai Chi happening at the South County Civic Center.
That is weekdays eight thirty under the pavilion, and there's
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a second class that's held on Tuesdays and Thursdays at
ten am. And there's functional fitness they do at the
More Comic Park as well, and that's Tuesdays and Thursdays
at eight thirty am at the Lake Beewa Pavilion and
you do need to RSVP for that. So lots of
good things happening in the parks and another thing speaking
at parks. Palm Beach Shakespeare Festivals mixing it up a
(04:47):
little bit this year, so they're going to be doing
their free Shakespeare by the Palms production of As You
Like It January thirtieth through February second, So it's gonna
be out Palm Beach in World Palm Beach and the
Commons Park. Definitely want to check that out. It's free.
They do have a suggested donation of five dollars to
help defray some of the costs, but it's always fun.
(05:08):
That's a great one to take the whole family too.
If you need more information, you can reach out to
me about that one. Oh. Also coming up Sunday, January nineteenth,
twenty twenty five nine a m is the Seminal Maroon
Remembrance at the Lochsahachie River Battlefield Park. And then on Saturday,
January twenty fifth, it is the Battle of Locks of
Hatchie reenactment. So for those folks who do the reenactments
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that's gonna be happening that day, simply go to PBC
Nature dot com to find out all stuff about the
different parks. We'll got a reminder the Donald m Ephraim
Sun and Stars International Film Festivals happening again sponsored by
morse Life and they're starting things off at the Cravis
in the Rinker Playhouse on January twenty third, seven thirty
pm with Liza the truly terrific, absolutely true story, So
(05:53):
check that out. We'll talk to them again soon. Info
at Morselife dot org to get details on that. And
then coming up in January it is the second annual
SLC four h Opportunity for All Benefit Gala and it's
a grown up one. So this is for the adults
to come and enjoy nice night out raise some funds.
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It's from five to nine pm and Adams Ranch located
at two six zero zero three Orange Avenue in Fort Pierce.
For details, you can call them seven seven to two
for six two sixteen sixty and they're happy to give
you details. And of course the Fen Center and Tretchco
is always doing fun things, so coming up, I definitely
go see this one. I can't play, but I want
to go watch. It is Let's Glow Pickleball on January fifteenth.
(06:38):
This is coming from six to eight pm. Three dollars
a person sign up have fun. For details, go to
fencenter dot com and that and all the other programs
stuff they're doing are listed right there for you. Speaking
of fun things, we have the Cravis Center Forbidden Broadways
Greatest Hits happening this coming up this week coming up
twenty seventh through the twenty ninth of December, and then
(07:01):
the thirty first is Straight No Chaser Top Shelf Tour January. First,
of course their traditional salute to Vienna New Year's Concert.
They have Renee Fleming the Soprano coming on Sunday, January
fifth at two pm as part of their Classical Concert series.
And then on the sixth they do that lunch and
Learn series and Renee Flemick Music and Mind will be
(07:23):
the topic, so that'll be a fun one. So lots
of good stuff coming. And then the Share show is
January seventh through the twelfth as part of their Cravis
on Broadway series, so it should be a really fun show.
Spy go to Cravis dot org to get more details
on all the different programs and events and if you
want to sign up to be like an usher and
stuff like that, they'll help you out. Speaking of getting
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more information, I want to welcome my guests for today.
I have Edward Stinson from the Spady Cultural Heritage Museum.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Good morning, Good morning, it's a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Thanks for coming in. We haven't chatted in a little while,
so I had to catch up and the holiday season
is a good time to catch up with the course
of course, love that. So tell me what is it
that you do the Spady.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Ah, So, I'm a museum educator or some could call
it a docent there, so when people come to the
museum or they have a tour or they have lecture
that we might have. I'm usually the one who helps
be the face of the museum, and I'm helping to
describe the history of Spady, describe the era of history
that we talk about and cover in the Spading Museum,
and just why it's an important area within Delray and
(08:22):
why it's an important representation of the history of Delray.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Oh yeah, So tell me a little about the history
of the Spading Museum.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
So the museum itself celebrates the life and legacy of
Solomon D. Spady. He's one of the first black educators
of Delay of Frankly, South Florida. He's the third decided
principal slash teacher of the schools in Delray. Actually, so
he's going to be one of those integral members of
the community that really helps bring us together, educate people
(08:48):
the community, and bring up the value of the community.
Now he's going to come down to Florida in nineteen
twenty two and the home is going to be built
in nineteen twenty six. Now he's going to be an
educator after that for thirty five years, which is kind
of intense. Multiple generations of people are going to be
taught by him. Today, we now, of course the museum
is his house, so it's where he used to live.
(09:08):
It was actually made into museum in two thousand and one,
so we actually got to celebrate our twentieth anniversary, which
was amazing, very happy about that. But now we're able
to be a museum that teaches about why education matters,
why that era of history matters. So him coming down
being an educator, being someone who's going to bring with
him vocational skills carpentry, woodworking, farming, smithing. These are going
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to be things that if you learn any of those skills, girl,
life is pretty set. You have a skill that's going
to not only build the value of your neighborhood, your
own home, but your family. So I tell people all
the time it really often will take one truly engaged
person to help dozens, if not hundreds of people. And
he was one of those people for our area.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Oh yeah, Like I saw to the ladies from the
Promise Fund and Nancy Brinker that to help catch the
people who don't have insurance, they don't have enough insurance
for ovarian and breast cancer in Palm Beach County to
get services. Please, do you need the mammigram you reach
out to them and they'll get that sorted for you,
and we have a higher percentage of people surviving because
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that one person making that promise and committing and then
getting all for friends to help and all their friends
to help. So, like you said, so I'm a Spadi
did that for del Rey.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
I'm glad you actually brought that up. The house that
is technically just south is technically the same property, but
just south of the museum is Lurry. Walk out the door,
walk thirty spaces to your right and it's right there
is the Williams Cottage. She was a nurse and midwife
from the nineteen thirties. Now, of course it's America, so
at the time, you know, quote unquote the colors are
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not allowed to be full on doctors. Just because you're
not allowed to be doctor doesn't mean you can't learn
medical important medical procedures. And so as a nurse and midwife,
she was helping people give birth. She's helping people with
you know, minor medical issues. She might to be knowledgeable
on higher medical issues and in doing that, I know
it's a bit extreme, but I tell as an example,
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if you do not know that an umbilical cord wrapped
around a child's neck can kill them. You don't know
how to save the child or the mom. Sometimes both
could die potentially from different things. If you don't know
that you need to wash your hands before you help
with this problem, you could kill both people. And so yes, again,
one person who just brings that initiative, brings that knowledge
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to the community truly can increase the life expectancy, the happiness,
the joy, the excitement around the community, the morale of
the community. And Spady was one of those people, and
we directly see his influence, her influence as well, building
everyone in that community.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Oh that's fantastic. We need far more people like that, agreed.
I think every generation you get like one or two.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
I'm telling you four hundred that minimum minimum.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
And so, of course as a museum, you do tours
like you said, you do the tours there, we have
different exhibitions that come of course, So right now, who
said you have running now, is it Eve's Gabriel.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Yes, So our current exhibit is called Inside Outside by
Eve Gabriel. Now it's a abstract, multimedia kind of exhibit.
So a lot of his work at first you will
not know what it's about. That's also why we do wort,
you know, so you have the time to let your
mind ponder what it's about now there. Of course, it
is going to be panels of context there that help
explain what went into a lot of his work. However,
(12:31):
the deep purpose of the work is really to just
make you ask questions to yourself and other people about
the current and frankly extremely important social and cultural issues
are going on right now in our country. It directly
connects to a conversation. We always have the Spading Museum
where yes, we technically are registered as a black history museum.
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Within five minutes of you walking in the first time
I tell you is, by the way, this is actually
just America's history. We just not to teach like seventy
five percent of it throughout the last several centuries. So
when we see artists like this who directly make art
kind of aligned with that realization and that need to
gain knowledge, that's what it's about. It really is like, hey,
(13:17):
we're gonna talk about the long lasting difficulties of our
country and what we have or haven't actually fixed. I
love that it you go into the exhibit really begs
you to ask questions about the experience of Black Americans,
Hispanic Americans, Middle Eastern Americans, Caribbean Americans, you know it.
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I love the exhibit personally, I saw it, went through it.
I know a lot of the items at first will
be very abstract to people, but not in hearing what
they were about. As an artist myself, I was I
was floored. I loved it. So I really hope that
people can come through see a bit of these Gabriel
Gabriel's work, and it goes through January sixth, By the way,
this would be for.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
A while, so sometimes make it with the holiday season.
So what hours does this spady open.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
We're open eleven am to four pm Tuesday through Saturday,
so Sunday's Mondays we have off. But if you're ever
trying to come for a tour trying to see the exhibit,
if you ever want to plan a walking tour, if
you wantn't want to plan a bus tour, please call it.
You know, call us. We can give you the number
right now actually five six one two seven nine eight
eight eight three. I beg of you, please send a
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message our way. We'd love to give you a tour,
love to share history with you, because it really kind
of is all of our history.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
You know, Oh, it's everybody's history. Absolutely. Yeah. When is
say history is written by.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
The victors or whatever, yes, I'll have to throw that
line in there if you want.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
So they make themselves look the best. And I was like, okay,
wait a minute, it's that the whole story.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Oh yes, so yes, we have a we have a
quote there. Actually we have here, a little quote there,
and the quote goes, history will favor the hunters until
the lions have their own historians, and so yeah, victory
favors the winner. They they own the history, they own
the ability to tell that history. And so it comes
to places like the Spading Museum to remind people that
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that hidden history is still history. It's still the truth
of what has happened. So that's definitely something we we
really try to emphasize, like this is not some hidden,
separate history, this is our connected history.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Well, this is a great way to find out about it.
And of course in the holiday season, you have a
really fun thing coming up on the twenty sixth, man
is the Kwanza celebration.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
It's gonna be awesome, sid it for it tell the.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Listeners in a little bit about what is Kwanza for
people who may not know.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Glorious So Kwansa first and foremost, the was created in
nineteen sixty six by Malana Kurenga. Now this isn't the
time period is important. This is directly after like the
La riots, which very very racially sensitive riots, and so
at this time we're going to see a desire by
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many Black Americans to try and create like morale boosting
systems in place to really kind of consolidate our energies
and our efforts. And so we see him go about
creating this holiday Kwansa, and it really, I don't want
to say it was in direct conflict of the capitalism
and consumerism that Christmas has become, but also it was
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in direct conflict with the act of capitalism. So when
we see him create this first and foremost, there are
seven tenants of it. And when you really read those
tenants and hear them, yeah, you know what they're fighting.
I'm not going to go too long on them. But
it's first and foremost unity umoja, self determination kuji chaguria,
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collective work and responsibility ujima, cooperative economics u jama, purpose
nia creativity Kumba, and then faith imani, which is also
sometimes when we exchange gifts, keeping that faith between each other.
So when we're looking at what these tenants mean, these
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are fundamentally being history, keeping your society, keeping your culture,
building that culture. And it's heavily based on you heard
the words African culture. It is based on that. Even
the colors of the flag right, black and green, black
lady representing the black people, read for the struggle, blood
sacrifice in the struggle, but green for the future and
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hopes from that struggle. And so with Kwanza, it is
a seven day celebration of the fact that I'm not
going to say culture's abstract, but celebrating it is kind
of an abstract thing. You create the holidays you want
to use to celebrate your culture, and we got to
do that. Of course, at first, you know, very slow
(17:41):
to pick up the country of course itself was kind
of against there being some new holiday during you know,
december's a lot there's a lot of space already used
up in December for holidays. But as built up more,
as more and more people took either you know, Black
nationalism or pan Africanism and started learning more about it,
started having the influences of MLK influences of Malcolm X
(18:03):
going and spreading more into the country. Yes, you have
people who want to reclaim African heritage, reclaim that connection
to the culture. This is one of, frankly the most
power ways to do that. You know, there is no
inherent attack on the country from this, there's no inherent
attack on Christmas from this. It's his own holiday. It
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actually lets you celebrate Christmas within it if you want.
It directly has gift giving on the last day. So
even if you are a person who's like, oh, I
don't know, can I do Christmas? Why not both? Well,
why not celebrate both? Great more gifts for people. So
that's what it definitely kind of helps emphasize. But again
for our cons of celebration, when we kind of make
(18:44):
an event for it, we celebrate, of course on the
twenty six that starts the event and goes for seven
days after. But this allows us to have an awesome
event at the museum where we'll have drums, plenty of music,
will have ten set up with different vendors, all of
which are people from the community. We've been so brying
this for years. We're gonna have talks from different speakers
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will have artwork placed on the on the fence as well.
We really make it something where it is a celebration
of the culture as a whole. You know, we'll get
children from different schools in the area, adults, elders from
the area. It is a truly beautiful event that helps,
I think, just consolidate a lot of the energies that
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are around and helps them manifest a future that they want.
You know, this was about manifesting a future of hope,
not was is about manifesting a future of hope. It's
a beautiful holiday to me.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
So it sounds like it's like a very vibrant community
event that's homemade.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Gifts sometimes, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Yeah, So get away from commercialism. You make it yourself
with the thought of the person you're giving it to please.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
I can't stress enough how important that is too. It
is it. It really is working to fight against the
feeling of or needing consumerism. You shouldn't have to buy
a completely brand, spanking new, expensive thing to win over
the love of your children. You shouldn't have to do that. Like,
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that's weird that we have forced ourselves to believe that
that's like normal, that sucks, and not everyone has enough
money to do that all the time. Kwanza, we ask
you to try to make something. We ask you to
like do art, to just play a song for someone,
to read them a poem, do something where we know
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you thought about it. We know that you wanted to
just share compassion, share empathy, share your mind or your
memory with the person you're talking to. So a lot
of times it's why not just make a piece of
art for them? Why not craft something? Why not share
a craft with someone? You know, craft something with someone.
It's about experiencing the people around you, not the material things,
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you know. I remember I had an aunt to you know,
very into manifestation, very into spirituality, very into health and
holistic healing. And one of the things that I think
she said to me when I was way younger that
really kind of stuck with me. Hey man, you know everyone,
everyone wants a house, but it's only a home when
there are living things within it. The house is only
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dead material, like, that's what it is. Inorganic material. The
entire house. You aren't surrounded by living things, so you're
not going to really bounce off of the energy of
those living things. You have to create moments and experiences
either outside of the house or with other living things
within your house, to heal your consciousness, to maintain and
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bolster your spirit. And you know, that kind of works
in almost any religion or culture I've ever seen. You know,
houses are nice and they're neat and they're great, but
if you're just a dracula in a giant mansion, like
that's kind of depressing. Man. I'm sorry, it's neat, but nah,
you kind of only exist because of the billions of
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people who have existed before you. Why not try and
connect with why you exist? Quands is about that. You know,
America sadly hasn't celebrated Black Americans a lot in its history,
and the times that we see it try to take
credit for celebrating black people in our history is actually
oftentimes black people celebrating ourselves and making enough noise that
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they're like, all right, fine, I guess you guys can
celebrate the thing, you know, and like it's like a
reluctant allowing the child to kind of grow up a
little bit. That's nonsense, but like that, that's why we
had to make the holiday. Christmas is nice, you know,
to a lot of Christians. They have a weird understanding
of Christmas because it's like actually a pagan holiday. They
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don't even know the history of Christmas. So a lot
of people still have much to learn about these holidays
that they're actually supporting. Quans was one of the first
holidays that I felt a deep genuine connection to, where,
oh this is, this is my history. This is celebrating that.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
So yes, I love it, And everybody can celebrate Quants
with you.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Yes, please, that's extraordinarily important to know, like the celebration
of black history. Again, this is why we always tell
everyone black history is everyone's history. Like, I know, it's
gonna be weird to like tell quote unquote white people that, hey,
by the way, you're actually just a shade of brown too.
Sorry I guess, but you kind of are so welcome
to the club. Come celebrate it with us my friends.
Eat some amazing food, got oxtails and curry, goat what
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you need.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
You know how she loves She's like, she'll be there,
got you don't worry.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
We're here for we will celebrate with everyone. We will
celebrate with everyone, I promise you.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
So of course that's gonna be a great celebration. I
can't wait for that. I'm sorry and so thank you
your Christmas. On this oas on the twenty six, do
they need to preregister or anything?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
So technically you there is no registration. Just come show up,
you know, of course, please shop as you are, Like,
we're not again that that would defeat the purpose, you know,
it is a bad against these like tenants of capitalism
and like nah, please just come through with yourself. If
you'd like to donate to the museum for putting the
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event on, we would, of course graciously and with humility accepted.
Also we're here to just have a good time, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Very cool, very cool. And speaking of donating the museum,
people can make donations, they can actually become members of
the space. Yes, absolutely please so do I do that online?
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Or yeah, you can do that. You can call us
do it online, send in a mail about it as well.
Online you can go to www dot Spadymuseum dot com.
You can email us at info at Spadymuseum dot org. Again,
you can call us at five six, one, two, seven, nine, eight,
eight eight three and any of those. We will work
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with you on how to become a member, how to volunteer,
at different events that we do. How to plan tours
if you want a bus tour, walking tour, or in
house tour, any of those are available and we are
always looking for, you know, people who want to become members,
want to involve themselves in that connection and collection of history. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
And of course another cool thing that you guys do
is the Doctor Martin Luther King Junior of Lunch comes
up every January and I know it sells out, so
we want to talk about now so people can get
your tastes please, And this would be a great gift
for somebody who has everything.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Oh my gosh, I completely agree. Experiences are often the
perfect gift for those people who have everything, you know,
give them a new experience, give them a new chance
to meet people. This MLK Brunch, it has a lot
of city officials, It has a lot of the people
who really help hold the city together. And it has
a lot of people who are from different nonprofit organizations,
profit organizations, universities, nearby schools, nearby. It is a truly
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beautiful event. It is fifty five dollars for a ticket.
If you're feeling awesome, you want to buy a table
for ten people. It's five hundred and fifty dollars. But
of course this oh and it's going to be at
the Indian Spring Country Club this time, so January twentieth,
Indian Springs Country Club, and it's going to be a
celebration of again who Martin Luther King was, but also
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the ideals that he kept alive. You know, again that immense,
immensely powerful understanding that the struggle of Black Americans is
the struggle of America. Literally until we were able to
reconcile the issues that we I'm not I don't want
to say arbitrarily created, but like black and white is
like quility, arbitrary but whatever, Like we created the issues
(26:23):
and we decided to just never actually fix them with
real intent. I will always bring up the conversation of
reparations because we have paid them to every other demographic
except Black Americans. That is weird, Like, that's that is absurd, frankly,
And the second p you bring up that conversation, a
lot of times it's ah, white people are holding themselves
(26:44):
back play. I just want to play the victim. You
aren't playing the victim if you were victimized for FoST centuries.
I need that to be known, don't tell me I'm
playing a victim. When we bombed black neighborhoods, when we
experimented on black people, when we impress to black people.
We made a war on drugs, made a war on crime,
when we readlined black people, when we segregated black people
(27:05):
separate but equal, which was a legal thing to do. Like,
I don't know that. There's far too much evidence for
me to even humor the conversations of people going, you know, ah,
it's just this and that is not really possible to
stop that, stop it. We have too many people whose
entire life was spent learning how to deal with money
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for us not to know how to handle this problem.
But all last, I'll go on forever about that. This
breakfast celebrates the fact that we are connecting our histories,
that we are connecting it so we understand where our
faults are. Right, you should view your country like a
parent man, like, yeah, they can have their flaws and
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their faults, but like it birthed us. I am wildly
proud to be an American. I am also widely disappointed
in Americans who think that like I shouldn't be here,
you know, like that's also true, can be true. I
can love the successes of our country. I can love
the you know, things we've created. I can also acknowledge that,
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like we were built on violence, genocide, apartheid, segregation, slavery,
and patriarchy, upholding misogynistic tendencies that disallowed women, which are
more than half of our population, to vote, own land
or take up any lead position until like the frankly,
the twenties sadly for only white women, and then not
to the sixties and seventies for women of color. And
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so when we're thinking about all these laws and rights
and ah, man, come on, get over it, we can
only start quote unquote getting over it starting at like
nineteen seventy. That's that's like a couple of generations, guys,
that's not a lot. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
I think it was on nineteen eighty six before women
were able to get a credit card in their own names.
I'm telling you, nineteen eighty six, not that long ago.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Yeah, And people will be like, look the now, you know,
crisis averted. We made the law. Obviously it's fixed now.
And I'm like, okay, you're choosing ignorance. I'm sorry, it'll
give you if you yes, genuinely, thing has done that fast.
You're not using No, it takes decades and generations. Yeah,
it takes generations to fix that.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
So this generation needs to start, please and get that going. Please,
please find out more about how they can involve and
educate themselves and make the future better for everybody. They
can come to the spady. You say they can take
a bus tour.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Absolutely, have bus tours in the building. Absolutely. I'm always
happy to do the tours.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Sign up for the breakfast and meet some really cool people.
Please please, please, So this lunch side the luncheon. So yeah,
I mean, I think the world would be much better
personally if doctor Martin Luther King Junior was still here.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
I think his ability to collect people and focus them
for a communal good was unparalleled. Yes, and so that
would have that would have start a couple of generations
back and we'd be further ahead.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
He would literally still be alive right now, arguably, like
depending on how that do is. But like there's a
lot of people from the civil rights movement who are
alive right now, and they're like I remember when he was, like,
they're alive. He and again, I'm sorry, I can't stress
enough as much as the country is like, well, we
have to take the position of MLK and really think
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about you assassinated him, like he got murdered for the position.
There is no like. Yes, America truly learned. It's lesson. No,
we killed him, Malcolm X. We killed him the rest
of Martin with the king's family. We murdered other members
of his family, like we literally assassinated people who were
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trying to fix the country actively, Like we got to
stop romanticizing how we handled that era. We handled it horribly.
There is no like, man, you know, truly, it was
just a strong victory. No, I'm sorry, it really sadly
wasn't actually as big of a victory as a lot
of people want to romanticize it to be. We have
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the awesome speech and immediately after when he seemed like
we murdered him, and it was the same with Malcolm X.
We murdered him because they were again going different from
the status quo, and the fact that that happened should
be one of the most obvious tells of our country's
resistance to acceptance of equality or equity. No, we didn't
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accept it. Great, we had the civil rights movement then
murdered the people trying to do it. So, no we
didn't accept it. No we didn't take it lightly. No
we didn't actually like it happening. Apparently as a country,
that's why we need things like Kwanza. That's why we
need people calling out the I don't want to make
it too political, but like now, there's a lot of
people who are like very racist, and we'll still bring
up like Martin Luther King like that's that's weird, all right.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
So folks, come to see Edward at the Spading Museum.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Please, that's whe populous.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Educate yourself, come enjoy Kwansa on the twenty sixth, and
then of course the wonderful luncheon on January twentieth. Again,
let's get the phone number and website for them to
make it moment.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Please please please, I beg of y'all come on through.
There's so much history to teach. Again. The website www
dot Spadymuseum dot com. Info at Spady Museum dot org.
Our address one seventy Northwest Fifth Avenue, Delray Beach three
three four four four and our number five six one
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two seven nine eight eight eight three again five six
one two seven nine eight eight eight three very cool.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Well Edward again, thanks for coming in and sharing all
this information for with us doing such a cool thing
in the community. I appretiate it, very much appreciated and
very much needed.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
My absolute pleasure. It's it's an absolute honor. I'm a
very empathetic and sentimental person. History the second history stops
being true, I'll stop being passionate about it. Every single
day I wake up, it keeps being true. So I
it's something we need to share. It's something we got
to talk about.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Oh absolutely. If you need more information, reach out to
me Palm Beach Perspective at iHeartMedia dot com and I'm
happy for it on all the information and don't forget
you can always download the show as a podcast on
our iHeartRadio app. Hope everybody has a wonderful weekend. I'm
dev Nev and this is in my perspective. Remember life
is good, so be your healthiest view and let's get
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out there and live it. Until next week enjoy.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
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