Photos: Minneapolis, New Orleans

We're playing a bit of catch-up after the holiday weekend, and wanted to share a few lovely photos from the recent launch event for former Minnesota legislator Allan H. Spear's memoir, Crossing the Barriers.

MN Speaker of the House Margaret Anderson Kelliher was one of the evening's guest speakers.

Also in attendance, from left to right: Richard Spear, brother of Allan Spear; Lee Greenfield, former Minnesota legislator; Kathleen O'Brien, vice president of university services at the University of Minnesota; Marcia Greenfield; John Milton, former Minnesota legislator and author of the afterword to Crossing the Barriers; Margaret Anderson Kelliher; and Scott Dibble, Minnesota senator.

And here are a few photos from the American Anthropological Association meeting in mid-November (first one is of author M. Bianet Castellanos with her book, A Return to Servitude. Second one is some random fun):