(1) Remembering the Best: Bobby Short (New York Social Diary)

(2) The historic city with a ‘small-town feel’ named the best place to live in the UK (The Independent)

(3) New York Islanders to Relocate AHL Affiliate to Hamilton, Ontario (Bridgeport Islanders)

The image was recreated in AI and is based on a photo of a tin savings bank from the 50s and 60s from the Springfield Institution for Savings (SIS) in MA. The tin has twenty-two similar icons, everything from a diamond ring to skis (and many things in between). I probably found this tin at the Elephant’s Trunk.

(4) A quote from Walt Disney and the Quest for Community by Steve Mannheim:

“The secretary-general’s statement relates to Seymour Mandelbaum’s theory of communication using images shared by a community to reach consensual repair. Many of the company’s graphic images cross cultural boundaries in ways that spoken language does not. Some believe that this phenomenon can result in cultural imperialism destined to result in the loss of national identity. Others see it as an opportunity to reach shared understanding and promote free enterprise. Whatever the answer, technology now binds us irrevocably together and shared images remain as important as they have ever been, whether they are Disney’s characters, computer icons, or paintings on a cave wall.”

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