Have you heard of the idiom, ‘ringing in the new year’? It used to be the custom to ‘ring out’ the old year with bells. There’s an 1850 poem by Tennyson that refers to this custom. Here’s its first verse: Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring...
Marina Santee and Roger Basick talk about Agitu Gudeta and the incredible influence she had during her short life in a country that was not her own.