Anansi’s bench

Some kind person has seen to it to furnish Malcolm X Park with its very own theft-resistant and weather-proof copy of “Anansi The Spider,” Gerald McDermott‘s classic 1972 retelling of an Ashanti folktale.

Anansi The Spider occupies a bench in Malcolm X Park

It turns out that McDermott is also a creator of animated films. Here’s a great little piece from 1971 he did for The Electric Company:

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  1. malcolmxpark.org » Anansi's left her web said,

    July 19, 2007 @ 9:08 am

    [...] in May, I wrote a post about a copy of Gerald McDermott’s “Anansi the Spider” that someone had laminated [...]

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