A Place to Belong
Tuesday, October 27 2009
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A Place to BelongÂ
Seth Best
Last winter, Seth Best searched high and low for a job in Ann Arbor, but the Michigan economy had sunk too low. Seth ended up on the street and found a homeless shelter that would take him, but as a transgender man he ran into many challenges there. After a few months of encounters with drugged out shelter dwellers, Seth left the shelter and was back out on his own - in the middle of a Michigan winter.
Seth soon found a drug-free tent community of fellow homeless people that welcomed him. It wasn't an easy scenario. With few ways to stay warm in his tent, Seth almost didn't make it through the Michigan winter. But Seth tells Dick Gordon that finding this group helped safe his life - and gave him a sense of belonging he was yearning for.
- Learn more about the tent city, Camp Take Notice
The Search for Codex Cardona
Arnold Bauer
Arnold Bauer has been hunting a cultural treasure, a Mexican "painted book," for decades.
Arnold first saw the Codex Cardona in 1985 in the Crocker Nuclear Laboratory at the University of California, Davis, where scholars from Stanford and the University of California were attempting to establish its authenticity. Allowed to gently lift a few pages of this 500-year-old treasure, Bauer was hooked. By 1986, the Codex had disappeared from public view. Bauer's curiosity about the Codex and its whereabouts led him down many forking paths, from California to Seville and Mexico City, to the Firestone Library in Princeton, to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and Christie's in New York, and it brought him into contact with an international cast of curators, agents, charlatans, and erudite book dealers. He joins Dick to tell about his passion for the Codex Cardona.
- Learn more about the The Search for the Codex Cardona
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