When We Come Together

We are all familiar with Kennedy Plaza; we go there for concerts, art vendors, and farmers markets.

But it’s also a venue for us to gather in peace, chat, get to know one another, and exchange stories.

I’ve learned that America has become short on gatherings such as this. We’ve become withdrawn from one another, isolated, and sometimes lonely.

Prior to 1965, we regularly joined clubs, such as bowling, books, or camera clubs. But since then, we’ve drifted apart.

These recent decades of isolation have fostered a divisness that is tearing us apart.

It doesn’t have to be that way.

Long Beach’s Artists in Partnership continues to take steps to bring us together. Their Arts in the Plaza is holding a gathering celebrate the 55th anniversary of the gathering of all time—Woodstock.

It will also celebrate the unveiling of Hedy Page’s gift to Long Beach. Followers of my photo essays know Hedy as a prolific people-in-painting artist. She topped her career with a painting of Long Beach, which is now finished.

Read and see photos about When We Come Together.

Be well,

Leebythesea