NEWS BRIEF
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QUEEN ELIZABETH DIES
B Y B RI AN S. M C G R ATH
On September 8, Queen Elizabeth II
died at Balmoral castle, in Scotland.
She served as Great Britain’s head
of state for 70 years. Her reign
spanned 15 British prime ministers
and 14 United States presidents.
She was 96.
“You can’t actually quite imag-
ine her not being there,” Sally
Cherry told TIME. Cherry was
one of the mourners who gathered
outside of Buckingham Palace, in
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IT’S OFFICIAL King Charles III speaks
on September 10 after being formally
named Britain’s head of state.
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London, England. “I don’t think
you’ll see a reign like that again.”
Elizabeth became queen in 1952,
after the death of her father, King
George VI. As queen, she did not
have governing power. Her duties
included traveling the world as her
nation’s goodwill ambassador. But
she could appoint British prime
ministers, with whom she held reg-
ular meetings. Two days before she
died, Elizabeth met with Britain’s
new prime minister, Liz Truss.
BRITAIN’S NEW KING
B Y C RIS TIN A F ERN ANDE Z
King Charles III was officially
named Britain’s head of state
on September 10. The cere-
mony was held at St. James’s
Palace, in London, England.
The tradition is centuries old.
But this was the first time it
was broadcast live online and
on TV.
In a speech, Charles prom-
ised to follow his mother’s
“inspiring example” as he took
on his new role. “I am deeply
K IDS September 23, 2022
TRIBUTE A sign in London, England,
announces the death of Queen
Elizabeth II on September 8.
After several days of national
mourning, a funeral will be held at
Westminster Abbey, in London, on
September 19. In an earlier state-
ment, Elizabeth’s son Charles, who
is now king, said: “I know her loss
will be deeply felt throughout the
country . . . and by countless people
around the world.”
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aware of this great inheritance
and of the duties and heavy
responsibilities . . . which have
now passed to me,” he said.
The ceremony ended when
a royal official announced the
news from a palace balcony.
With trumpet players by his
side, he led cheers of “Hip,
hip, hooray!” for the new king.
King Charles’s coronation,
or official crowning, is likely
months away. It will be held at
London’s Westminster Abbey.
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ROYAL GREETING Prince William
(left) and Prince Harry wave to well-
wishers on September 10. They’re
grandsons of Queen Elizabeth II.
William’s wife, Catherine (center),
is Princess of Wales. Harry’s wife,
Meghan, is Duchess of Sussex.
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 COVER STORY ARTS

MARIE STALLING
ARTIST AT WORK
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Ellen Griesedieck
sketches an image
of Edwin Raymond, a
police officer.

PERSISTENCE COUNTS Griesedieck has

been working on the American Mural
Project for more than 20 years.

MARIE STALLING
ON THE JOB Firefighter
Melissa Bennett, of
New York City, is
featured in the mural.
COURTESY ELLEN GRIESEDIECK

HANDS-ON Over
the years, AMP
has worked
with thousands
of students,
including these
in 2009.

collaboration noun: working

together
portrait noun: a picture that
focuses on someone’s face

ON DISPLAY
Griesedieck’s
mural was
unveiled in
June 2022, in
PETER BROWN

a former mill
in Winsted,
Connecticut.

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 THE ART OF WORK
A new mural celebrates the American worker. To make it, artist
Ellen Griesedieck had help from thousands of students.

There’s a mural in Winsted, Connecticut, that’s five
stories tall and 120 feet long. Artist Ellen Griesedieck
came up with the idea in 1999. She created the mural
with help from thousands of students all over the
country. More than 20 years in the making, the massive
artwork is now on display for the public.
Griesedieck calls the work the American Mural Project
(AMP). That’s also the name of the arts center where
it’s displayed. The mural celebrates American workers.
Steelworkers, heart surgeons, athletes, and a teacher are
among those pictured. “There’s somebody real behind
every piece of this,” Griesedieck told TIME for Kids.
To create the mural, Griesedieck met workers in
small towns and cities all over the United States.
She took photos of them on the job. Then she painted
them. There’s Pamela. She’s shown working at a
Boeing aircraft factory in Everett, Washington,
wiring a plane. There’s Nina, a farmer. And Edwin, a
New York City police officer. “The portrait of him
is 18 feet high,” Griesedieck says. “But his story is
way bigger than that.” Griesedieck likes to get to
know the people she paints. This makes her portraits
feel personal.
A TEAM EFFORT
Student participation is a huge part of Griesedieck’s
art project. From the beginning, it was important to
her that kids be included. So far, AMP has worked with
15,000 students, from preschool to high school, in 17
states. In West Virginia, fifth graders from Ceredo
Elementary School worked with a glassblower to make a
42-foot image of water on which a fishing boat is float-
ing. In New Mexico, kids made ceramic tiles. They’re
pieced together to form the red-and-white plaid shirt of
a mechanic named Stitch.
Kathy Reddy teaches art in Fairfield, Connecticut.
She and her students have been involved with AMP for
more than a decade. Reddy’s first and second graders
made life-size self-portraits showing what they want
to be when they grow up. These were displayed at the
school. Older kids made a quilt. It depicts work done by
their grandparents, and will one day be displayed at the
AMP building.
“Every one of the projects we did was a lesson that
kids have a voice,” Reddy says, “and that they can
express themselves in an artistic way.”
GETTING CREATIVE
The AMP building is a former mill. Inside, parts are still
being added to the mural. “We’re a work in progress,”
says Michelle Begley, the education programs director.
“We anticipate that we’ll never really be done.”
Students who go to see the mural can take art
classes at AMP, which also leads programs in schools.
“We’re really focusing on hands-on, open-ended
creativity,” Begley says. “Our school visits immerse
students in the thrill of large-scale artmaking.”
For Griesedieck, AMP is all about collaboration.
“I tell kids, ‘When you come here, we’re working
together on something bigger than we are,’” she says.
“The only way you can do something like this is if you
work with other people.” —By Jaime Joyce

PIECING IT TOGETHER
It takes teamwork to install a part of many. For example: “We’ve
giant piece of art. These workers got 116 pieces of marble that
COURTESY ELLEN GRIESEDIECK

are using a mechanical lift to add
a large-scale portrait of New York
City firefighter Melissa Bennett to
Griesedieck’s mural.
Bennett’s portrait is just one
look like a jigsaw puzzle of the
Statue of Liberty,” Griesedieck
says. Adding those heavy pieces
to the mural took more than a
month.

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 CAREERS

BY THE NUMBERS A sports statistician shapes broadcasts

from behind the scenes.

When Gil Bransford was a kid, he
dreamed of being a sports announcer
at ESPN. Watching basketball on
television, “I’d hear the excitement
in [the announcer’s] voice,” he says.
“That’s what I was drawn to.”
But sometimes, your dream job is
not the one you expected. Bransford
did get a job at ESPN, but not as an
announcer. He works behind the
camera, as a sports statistician.
His job is to study the numbers and
tell a story with text or graphics
during live broadcasts or sports-
news programs like SportsCenter.
Growing up, Bransford says, he
never imagined such a job existed:
“I didn’t know there were people
behind the scenes who helped
enhance what sportscasters were
talking about.”
to become a researcher. After
another two years, he was promoted
to senior researcher.
Now, in addition to studio shows,
Bransford works on live broadcasts
such as College GameDay. Football
and basketball seasons are his busi-
est. For each broadcast, he builds
graphics and writes the text that
will appear onscreen. (See example,
right.) During the halftime show,
he supplies information to help
the host. “A show producer might
want to give viewers a look at how
the first half of a game played out,”
Bransford says. “They look to us to
give them the best angle.”
Looking back on his early years
at ESPN, Bransford sees a lesson:
You may not land the job you want
right away, but you can still acquire
the skills you need for that job.
The key is to remember what you’re
aiming for. “There’s no template,”
he says. “If you’re interested in a
specific job, you might have to take
a different path to get there.”
—By Brian S. McGrath
enhance verb: to intensify, increase,
or improve
template noun: a pattern; some-
thing that’s used as a guide

Bransford attended Ferris State

University, in Michigan. He majored
in communications. That gave him
skills he could use in journalism,
sports science, business, and media
production.
In his senior year, Bransford went
to a job fair in Chicago, Illinois, and
interviewed with ESPN for a position
in sports research. He didn’t have the
required sports-history knowledge,
but his statistics skills were enough
for him to work in statistics and
analysis. He mainly oversaw data
entry. “We were the last line of
defense in making sure the stats on
ESPN.com were accurate,” he says.
Ten years in that position gave
Bransford the knowledge he needed

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 ON THE SET Gil
Bransford attends the
NBA draft at Barclays FIELD DAY Bransford
Center, in Brooklyn, watches from the
New York, on June 23. sidelines at Lucas
QUICK READ The Oil Stadium, during
stats on this graphic the college football
quickly sum up Sabrina national champion-
Ionescu’s college ship, in Indianapolis,
basketball career as Indiana, January 10.
of February 23, 2020.
COURTESY GIL BRANSFORD (3)

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 TIME OFF

STRANGE WORLD You don’t have to go to outer space

to find amazing things. Terrestrials,
a new podcast by Radiolab for Kids,
finds weirdness and mystery right
here on Earth.
The series explores wonders such
as an octopus that escapes from an
aquarium. There’s also a trio of bald
eagles that have shared a nest in the
wild for nearly a decade. “Every epi-
sode is about an organism or earthly
phenomenon that broke a rule that we thought applied
to all life,” LULU MILLER told TIME for Kids. She’s the
show’s creator and host.
Other people help tell the stories. There are biolo-
gists, astrophysicists, and an indigenous hip-hop artist.
Plus, every episode features a segment where kids get
to ask the experts questions.
Miller hopes the series will encourage listeners to
appreciate the wonders around them. “There’s more

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possibility on this planet than we think,” she says.
And that, Miller adds, can give us “a sense of hope.”
—By TFK Kid Reporter Sarayu Bhumula

BACK TO NATURE
What do gray wolves, condors, and indigo
snakes have in common? They’ve all ben-
efited from rewilding. That’s the process
of taking animals and plants to places
where they once thrived. They might have
disappeared due to overhunting or habitat loss.
In Rewilding, author and wildlife biologist DAVID A. STEEN shares
stories about animals that have been successfully reintroduced to
an environment after almost becoming extinct. And he offers tips
on how kids can help. “Start at home,” he told TFK. “If you have an
outside area, you can plant native plants that will be attractive to
insects and birds.”
Steen has a passion for raising awareness about the environ-
ment. “The natural world has some challenges that we need to
take seriously,” he says. “Sometimes, the solutions aren’t easy, but
they’re worth doing.” —By TFK Kid Reporter Audrey Kim

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Study the photos. Can you spot five differences between them?
Write them on a sheet of paper.

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 Nature’s Pollinators
In an acrostic poem, each line starts with a different
letter from a word. Write a poem about a honeybee.

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