11/04/2024
We wouldn’t be breathing Americans if we didn’t admit that the last few weeks of this election cycle has been rather draining, nerve-wracking and a tad bit draconian. Curating Beyond the Wave and pouring through Kevin Cole’s photos of The First Woman’s Lib March in Boston, an Intimate Chat between MLK Jr and America’s First Popular Vote Elected Black Senator, Edward Brooke, and countless images of Beatles Mania at The Boston Garden reminding us All We Need Is Love - has reminded us that hate certainly has no home here. While H COLE pays homage to a very lovely human that looks a lot like the other men on the South Shore - it is a woman owned company who found her way in the Boston culinary scene behind the stick of a q***r bar, was supported by a fiercely talented group of hard working hospitalitarians on Nantucket from Jamaica, Eastern Europe + Venezuela, learned how to fry chicken directly in the middle of gentrifying Charleston, SC where the socio-economic divide was (and is) still deep rooted in inherent racism, and crushed harvest amongst v v smart spanish speaking neighbors who fuel our domestic agricultural economy in Sonoma and Napa Counties - and who has had her life saved by access to safe and legally protected reproductive healthcare. Working on this Gallery Show alongside H COLE’s daughter, Judy, with the blessing of H COLE’s brother, Kevin has been humbling + inspiring - and a reminder of our very first terms and conditions for our first dinner series under the H COLE Brand: