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L. S. Ayres was a department store chain that flourished with the popularization of malls in the 1970s. The company was founded in 1872, with the flagship store located in Indianapolis, Indiana. A well-known restaurant, The Tea Room, was located within the store. Celebrating Christmas at the restaurant became a wide-spread custom for many in the area. Shoppers familiar with the Tea Room Christmas menu nostalgically remember the chicken pot pie and desserts, such as the snowman ice cream made with scoops of vanilla. The Tea Room closed in 1990, but the Indiana State Museum in Indianapolis has opened a recreation of the L.S. Ayres Tea Room where visitors can experience the same holiday atmosphere, eat the same dishes, and view artifacts from the Tea Room.

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Greta Thunberg is a student activist from Sweden. She is depicted here in 2018, where she began protesting in front of the Swedish Parliament building in Stockholm for her government to live up to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. For three weeks prior to the Swedish Parliamentary elections, Greta skipped school to bring attention to the issue of Climate Change. What started as a local movement called #FridaysForFuture, became a global movement by 2019, with strikes on every continent. Greta Thunberg gave a speech at the UN Climate Conference in Katowice in Poland, the UN climate summit in New York, the EU parliament in Strasbourg, the French National Assembly in Paris, and the House of Commons in London. Her message to world leaders, "stop pretending that we can solve the climate and ecological crisis without treating it as a crisis." Though the Coronavirus pandemic put the mass protests on hold, she continues to campaign online and hold smaller, socially-distanced marches.

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This button is created by Busy Beaver Co. out of hemp paper. It contains 25% hemp, 75% post-consumer, and 100% acid and chlorine-free. This type of button is said to be one of the most sustainable buttons on the market. The world’s earliest paper was said to be made by the Chinese from hemp fibers around 150 BCE. It spread to the rest of the world and is used until 1883 when the use of wood paper emerges. Over time, the use of wood paper led to deforestation, causing global warming, climate change, and degrading natural habitats and biodiversity.

As a source of paper, hemp has higher renewability than wood trees, as one acre of hemp equals roughly 4-10 acres of trees produced over 20 years. The image is a symbol of a hemp stalk. Hemp stalks contain a rich amount of cellulose, which is the main ingredient of paper. Hemp stalks contain approximately 85% of cellulose, while wood trees contain only 30% of cellulose. Using hemp paper over wood paper has environmentally sustainable benefits, as it can help reduce pollution and environmental effects. Not only does hemp paper reduce fallen trees, but hemp also regenerates soil, and eliminates the release of toxins produced by wood papers. Hemp paper is also more durable than wood paper, and it is free of chemicals that wouldn’t harm the skin. It may take a slow transition for companies to switch production from wood paper to hemp paper, as it takes high costs to change the equipment.

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The Youth Climate Strike took place on March 15th, 2019. Inspired by the 14-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, students worldwide participated in school strikes demanding adults take responsibility for climate change. Tired of inaction for decades, their demands included world leaders acknowledge and prioritize the rapidly changing climate, a push to enact the Green New Deal, and 100% renewable energy by 2030. More than a million people participated in over 2200 events globally.

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“Follow the Piper Generation” was a tagline used to advertise the Hammond Piper Autochord in the early 1970s. A brand new Hammond Piper Autochord in 1971 cost $899 which, if you calculate for inflation, would be $7,285.99 in 2025. The Piper Autochord had a cassette player/recorder attached underneath the keys, and there were sounds controls which made the Autochord sound like a piano, harpsichord, sitar, guitar, marimba, banjo, trombone, accordion, flute, violin, or trumpet. There were seven different rhythm options, namely latin, western, parade, rock, ballad, waltz, and jazz.

 The Autochord was advertised as an instrument for a beginner organist which would still sound great after you learned the basics. The instrument came with its own special type of color-coded music scores. Many organ enthusiasts, however, complained about the fact that the switches to turn on the different sound options worked the opposite of most switches: when pushed up, the switches were off. The instrument did not have foot pedals like most organs; instead, the Piper played an automatic bass part.

Duke Ellington promoted the Piper Autochord in 1973. Posters with his review of the Autochord feature a picture of him sitting on top of the instrument. One of the effects available on the Autochord is called dynamute, which Ellington describes as “the wa-waa sound a trumpet makes.”