The Lives They Lived
This is a worthy tradition The New York Times began fourteen years ago entitled the “Lives They Lived,” where on the last Sunday of the year, staff editors and writers undertake the daunting task of going through over 1,000 obituaries, the vast number being notable deaths to call attention to the stories of all kinds of people, many of them lesser known.
“In putting together this issue, we shy away from any attempt at being definitive; instead we embrace idiosyncrasy, storytelling and the interests and passions of our editors and writers. [...] we present some of the lesser-known lives: Harry Dent, who quietly consolidated the South for the Republican Party; Andrée de Jongh, who, at 24, courageously escorted more than 100 soldiers and civilians out of Nazi-occupied Belgium to safety; Gloria Connors, who taught her son Jimmy how to be an unrelenting champion; Ernest Withers, who, as a black photographer, was able to document the civil rights movement from inside. Their stories and those of the two dozen others presented here create a collage of lives well lived.” [LINK]
