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I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. – Henry David Thoreau Over a half million Americans have died from the Covid virus since last Thanksgiving. I am grateful I am not one of them. Nor my loved ones. Happy about you, too. I give thanks for the vaccines and the…
Felt good to get out of the house. Felt like a pilgrimage, to be honest with you. Felt like I was back among my people. Felt north Florida chilly. Bright sun. Got there of course a moment late and the women’s field, some 250 lasses in bright lycra kits came floating by like a stream…
“God Almighty has himself drawn the color line.” – Louisiana Governor Samuel Douglas McEnery The Thibodaux massacre was an episode of racial violence that occurred in Thibodaux, Louisiana on November 23, 1887. It followed a three-week strike during the critical harvest season in which an estimated 10,000 workers protested against the living and working conditions which existed on sugar cane plantations in four parishes: Lafourche, Terrebonne, St….
It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices. Drops of tears, drops of blood, the ring of laughter, the edge of tempers that had ebbed and flowed between the walls, into the walls, over the years.Wasn’t it, after all,…
The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect. – George Sheehan I am a lonely figure when I run the roads. People wonder how far I have come, how far I have to go. They see me alone and friendless on a journey that has…
If you don’t have a challenge, find one. – George Sheehan Dr. Tim Tays never reached the heights of running stardom, but that’s not what running is all about. How did you get your start in cross-country? I ran eighth-grade track and was immediately badly addicted to distance running. So, I ran ridiculous mileage the summer…
Silver Legion of America The Silver Legion of America, commonly known as the Silver Shirts, was an underground American fascist organization founded by William Dudley Pelley that was headquartered in Asheville, North Carolina. History A nationalist, fascist group modeled after Benito Mussolini’s blackshirts, the paramilitary Silver Legion wore a silver shirt with a blue tie, along with a campaign hat and blue corduroy trousers with leggings. The uniform shirts bore a scarlet letter L over the heart: an…
A nation which does not know what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today. – Woodrow Wilson The Siege on South Peoria Street by N. Caroline Harney and James Charlton for the Chicago Reader. January 13, 2000 The race riots that exploded in Chicago after the war usually targeted blacks moving into white neighborhoods. But…
Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld. Plus there was a draft. 5 Facts to Know About Veterans Day By Katie Lange for the USA Department of Defense. You have accessed part of a historical collection on defense.gov. Some of the information contained…
“The rich White folks inflamed the poor White folks, and told them that these Black people were taking over the city.” – Historian Larry Thomas Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 Following the Phoenix Election Riot, a white insurgent group overthrew the elected biracial fusionist government, including a white mayor, of the city of Wilmington, North Carolina. They…