RST Roll updates
Visit the RST Roll page for updated adult sessions at these Illinois rinks:
The Rink
Rich City Skate
An Online Resource Station for Avid, R&B Skaters
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An Online Resource Station for Avid, R&B Skaters |
Visit the RST Roll page for updated adult sessions at these Illinois rinks:
The Rink
Rich City Skate
The list of Black owned/managed rinks keeps expanding. Visit the Black Rinks page for the latest additions: New Skateland Arena in New York and Dekalb Hollywood Skating in Georgia.
You have the opportunity to share your skate story with StoryCorps, a non-profit organization which travels the country recording individuals telling their life experiences for preservation in a Library of Congress archive. Recorded stories are regularly heard on public radio stations and are also available via the internet.
For months now, StoryCorps, in conjunction with Our Family Skate Association, has been recording skater histories (on CD) which then become part of the National African American Roller Skating Archive based at Washington, D.C.’s Howard University.
StoryCorps mobile booths will be in the Denver, Colorado and Buffalo, New York areas this summer and interested skaters are greatly encouraged to reserve a time to have their unique skate experiences recorded so that many generations in the future can benefit from listening to them.
Tentative schedule dates include:
Denver – July 17 to Aug. 5
Buffalo – July 17 to Aug. 5
Grand Junction, CO - Aug. 9 to 23
For more information, contact Tasha Klusmann at tashaklusmann@yahoo.com.
It is time for a change at RST so for 2008 we are adopting this new blog format as we continue to evolve from our original “online newsletter” in 2002 to the resource station we are in 2008. It is very clear RST is not putting out many feature articles as before or attempting to stick to a regular weekly, bi-weekly or monthly publication date. No, however, we are continuing to go with the flow which has led us to this current change.
Thanks to our regular readers, visitors and supporters who, unlike the previous site layout, can post comments, suggestions and feedback here on the blog and interact with others in that way.
Take a tour of RST’s new home and get familiar with the site layout and most of all, keep our style and love of roller skating alive.
