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Dear Readers,
Thank you for joining us for the March 2026 issue of Side of Culture. We bring you places and experiences where you can live and breathe American culture as it was from the Colonial era in the 1600 and 1700s to twentieth century modernism.
In this month’s issue and in preparation for the celebration of our country’s 250 anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, we take a look at what is happening in Williamsburg, Virginia. The historic city of Williamsburg played a significant role in the American Revolution, and along with the nearby towns of Jamestown and Yorktown, is an incredible opportunity to experience American history. Gay Nagle Myers travelerd to Colonial Williamsburg to report not only on the 250th celebration but also the 100th anniversary celebration, and the recent opening of the Williamsburg Bray School, America's oldest surviving school for Black and enslaved children.
Linda Cabasin takes us to Philadelphia and the opening of one of the most well-researched and in depth exhibition halls, the new Native North America Gallery, at the University of Pennsylania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Developed in partnership with eight Indigenous consulting curators, the new gallery explores the political, religious, linguistic, and artistic self-determination of Native peoples across the United States who are still thriving—despite a historic agenda to erase Indigenous identity, culture, and language. One artist writes: “I am more than the view that my people are frozen in time, lost to a romanticized ideal of who the Native Americans were, we are more, and we are still here.”
Jeanne Neylon Decker wraps up this issue with a trip to the annual Modernism Week in Palm Springs, California. She writes: "A mecca for modernism aficionados, Palm Springs has the highest concentration of midcentury modern structures in the USA. Most were designed and built by the starchitects of the time, William Krisel, Walter White, John Lautner, Albert Frey, Joseph Eichler, Richard Neutra, Donald Wexler, and E. Stewart Williams among others.” Every year, over 150,000 architecture and design fans drop into the city for this festival, and it is a fun education and experience for all who participate.
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Thank you and hope you are staying warm!
Victoria Larson
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