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Article: Meek Mansion to host Day of the Dead exhibit
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- October 8, 2009
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CHERRYLAND -- While all souls are welcome at the Meek Mansion for
its first Days of the Dead exhibit, the walking and talking masses
won't be the guests of honor.
That distinction goes to those who don't have a pulse and can't
be seen -- the historic 1869 Italianate Victorian has been decorated
with scores of contemporary and traditional salutations and
memorials to those no longer with us.
There are, of course, the familiar portraits and figurines of
happy skeletons going about a day's labors, interpretations of the
political cartoons of Jose Guadalupe Pasada, who popularized the
skeletal figure, or calavera, in the early 20th century.
"You often see the contemporary expressions," said the ...