memory preservation

Lorenzo Washington, a musician and historian who championed and documented the Black music heritage of Nashville's Jefferson Street, has died at the age of 83. Washington dedicated his later life to preserving the memory of the R&B, blues and jazz scene that flourished along the corridor before urban renewal disrupted it, founding the Jefferson Street Sound museum to keep that history alive.

In La Tour-du-Pin, France, the veterans' association Souvenir français is carrying out a project to flower the graves of fallen soldiers, maintaining memorial sites ahead of commemorative periods. The local initiative, reported by Le Dauphiné Libéré, highlights the association's ongoing work preserving remembrance of those who died for France in municipal cemeteries.

The New York Times reports the story of photographs that endured the Holocaust only to be accidentally lost decades later, hidden inside a library book. The piece recounts how the images came to be misplaced and what their rediscovery or loss means for preserving the memory of those who lived through the Holocaust.