Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Media
No, your right i didn't hear about him passing, I didn't even know Michael Jackson passed away either until Keitha told me at work. I have no clue about all the "drama" with Tiger Woods because I never watch the news. I feel that even though someone isn't famous, but they are a hero they should be recognized. It does bother me that they do focus so much on the starts of Hollywood or the studs of the professional athletic world. Its not fair that they do that and get nothing when they die; they should get something in return for risking their own life.
BARRY, Ill. –– The three archeologists moved deliberately across a soggy Illinois farm field, marking boundaries for a vanished town where blacks determined their destiny on the American frontier well before the Civil War.
The town, New Philadelphia, turned out to be bigger than they thought.
So, too, scholars believe, is the long-buried story of black Americans during this period.
With fresh scholarship, new grants and high technology, university archeologists are renewing and expanding efforts to explore the Midwestern towns where African-Americans lived in the 1800s. In the last few years they have pried back the earth in Nicodemus, Kan., reconsidered the lessons of places like Buxton, Iowa, and returned this spring to the hilltop site of New Philadelphia, where digging began in 2002.
Tantalizing recoveries from the sites, along with yellowed documents and oral history, have fueled a surge of interest in black towns during the last several years, building hopes that the interest would help rewrite a neglected chapter in American history books. Scholars of African-American history are familiar with the idea of blacks as land speculators and utopian pioneers.
Now archeologists––more recent arrivals to the topic––are adding concrete details.
Every discarded button from a Civil War uniform, shard of china from England or food scrap from trash pits adds to an emerging narrative in which African-Americans faced and surmounted obstacles on the frontier when much of America was consumed with racial turmoil.
"Black people had guns, and they owned the land," University of Illinois scholar Abdul Alkalimat said of New Philadelphia, which was established in 1836. "Whatever the definition of black power is, it certainly existed in New Philadelphia."
Though each town had a different personality, scholars say self-determination tied them together. All are on the National Register of Historic Places and are National Historic Sites or recently nominated for inclusion.
Officials call their appeal universal.
"It is a story of people overcoming hardship and succeeding in the face of what most people would fail at," said Bill Hunt of the National Park Service Midwest Archeological Center.
Freed slaves hoping for a better life far from white America founded Nicodemus in 1877 after a grueling journey from the South ended on the dry plains of northwestern Kansas.
Beginning with sod houses dug out of hillsides, settlers at Nicodemus built a town with two newspapers, three general stores, a school, an ice cream parlor and a literary society. About 40 people still live in Nicodemus, and descendants of settlers hold reunions there on Emancipation Day.
Research at the original settlement site revealed details of the town's beginnings and remarkable rise from them, said Margaret Wood of Washburn University, who led digs at the site in 2005 and 2006. The excavations identified the town's first dugout homes and uncovered such everyday possessions as earthenware bowls and glass bottles, shell buttons and tin cans––and attracted hundreds of curious volunteers and visiting scholars. "It's a growing area of research," Wood said. "The field is coming to a greater maturity."
As it does, scholars are paying renewed attention to previously excavated towns such as Buxton.
A prosperous village founded by a union-busting coal company in 1900, Buxton was home to African-American doctors, lawyers and teachers, two YMCAs (one for children) and interracial swimming pools. Even the Ku Klux Klan confined local marches to nearby towns, said David Gradwohl of Iowa State University, who led excavations at Buxton in the 1980s.
A series of public talks centered on African-American heritage in the Midwest kicked off last week with a speech about his findings. The last digs at Buxton were guided by crumbling building foundations and the hazy memories of former residents who described the Monroe Mercantile Co. warehouse, the White House Hotel and the superintendent's home at the Consolidated Coal Co., Gradwohl said.
When he talks nowadays about the digs in Buxton, he addresses how academics have refined their perspective on black history in the Midwest––a discussion inspired recently by finds in New Philadelphia.
The interracial town on the western Illinois prairie was a short wagon ride from slave markets in Hannibal, Mo. Founded by Frank McWorter, a land speculator and a free black man, Buxton had a population that was two-thirds white and an integrated school.
By the Civil War, it reached a height of 160 people who had gambled that a railroad would pass nearby. When it didn't in 1869, the settlement faded into the prairie, the abandoned structures pried apart and used to patch remaining homes, until all that remained were memories and buried clues.
The Tribune last reported on the digs at New Philadelphia in 2004; a year later, the town joined the National Register of Historic Places.
National Historic Landmark status could come this fall, after more digging this summer.
The project resumed mid-May when archeologists returned to the farm field near modern Barry, trailing measuring tapes.
They walked past the spot where New Philadelphia's blacksmith once pounded out nails, past the shoemaker, cabinetmaker and grocery shops, over the buried town's old main drag and past the fresh wooden stakes where a find of century-old slate pencils rewrote a best guess on the location of New Philadelphia's schoolhouse.
After talking with Christopher Fennell, the U. of I. professor coordinating the summer's digs, archeologists Tommy Hailey of Louisiana and Bryan Haley of Mississippi staked wide metal flashings in the damp ground that are visible from the air.
The next time they see the site, they will be dangling from an ultra-light aircraft, searching for hidden foundations with an infrared camera.
For the first time in generations, someone might see the entire town at once, the archeologists said.
As insights mount, historians have a responsibility to put those lessons into textbooks, scholars say. So far, history books cling to images of blacks as victims benefiting from others instead of bold pioneers, they say.
"Archeology is not just looking at rocks and pieces of pottery. It's what this represents," said Gradwohl, who held broken china from Buxton and saw shattered stereotypes in his hand.
"It's just incredible how this history is there," he said. "And until relatively recently, how it hasn't been a part of our American textbooks and literature."
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BARRY, Ill. –– The three archeologists moved deliberately across a soggy Illinois farm field, marking boundaries for a vanished town where blacks determined their destiny on the American frontier well before the Civil War.
The town, New Philadelphia, turned out to be bigger than they thought.
So, too, scholars believe, is the long-buried story of black Americans during this period.
With fresh scholarship, new grants and high technology, university archeologists are renewing and expanding efforts to explore the Midwestern towns where African-Americans lived in the 1800s. In the last few years they have pried back the earth in Nicodemus, Kan., reconsidered the lessons of places like Buxton, Iowa, and returned this spring to the hilltop site of New Philadelphia, where digging began in 2002.
Tantalizing recoveries from the sites, along with yellowed documents and oral history, have fueled a surge of interest in black towns during the last several years, building hopes that the interest would help rewrite a neglected chapter in American history books. Scholars of African-American history are familiar with the idea of blacks as land speculators and utopian pioneers.
Now archeologists––more recent arrivals to the topic––are adding concrete details.
Every discarded button from a Civil War uniform, shard of china from England or food scrap from trash pits adds to an emerging narrative in which African-Americans faced and surmounted obstacles on the frontier when much of America was consumed with racial turmoil.
"Black people had guns, and they owned the land," University of Illinois scholar Abdul Alkalimat said of New Philadelphia, which was established in 1836. "Whatever the definition of black power is, it certainly existed in New Philadelphia."
Though each town had a different personality, scholars say self-determination tied them together. All are on the National Register of Historic Places and are National Historic Sites or recently nominated for inclusion.
Officials call their appeal universal.
"It is a story of people overcoming hardship and succeeding in the face of what most people would fail at," said Bill Hunt of the National Park Service Midwest Archeological Center.
Freed slaves hoping for a better life far from white America founded Nicodemus in 1877 after a grueling journey from the South ended on the dry plains of northwestern Kansas.
Beginning with sod houses dug out of hillsides, settlers at Nicodemus built a town with two newspapers, three general stores, a school, an ice cream parlor and a literary society. About 40 people still live in Nicodemus, and descendants of settlers hold reunions there on Emancipation Day.
Research at the original settlement site revealed details of the town's beginnings and remarkable rise from them, said Margaret Wood of Washburn University, who led digs at the site in 2005 and 2006. The excavations identified the town's first dugout homes and uncovered such everyday possessions as earthenware bowls and glass bottles, shell buttons and tin cans––and attracted hundreds of curious volunteers and visiting scholars. "It's a growing area of research," Wood said. "The field is coming to a greater maturity."
As it does, scholars are paying renewed attention to previously excavated towns such as Buxton.
A prosperous village founded by a union-busting coal company in 1900, Buxton was home to African-American doctors, lawyers and teachers, two YMCAs (one for children) and interracial swimming pools. Even the Ku Klux Klan confined local marches to nearby towns, said David Gradwohl of Iowa State University, who led excavations at Buxton in the 1980s.
A series of public talks centered on African-American heritage in the Midwest kicked off last week with a speech about his findings. The last digs at Buxton were guided by crumbling building foundations and the hazy memories of former residents who described the Monroe Mercantile Co. warehouse, the White House Hotel and the superintendent's home at the Consolidated Coal Co., Gradwohl said.
When he talks nowadays about the digs in Buxton, he addresses how academics have refined their perspective on black history in the Midwest––a discussion inspired recently by finds in New Philadelphia.
The interracial town on the western Illinois prairie was a short wagon ride from slave markets in Hannibal, Mo. Founded by Frank McWorter, a land speculator and a free black man, Buxton had a population that was two-thirds white and an integrated school.
By the Civil War, it reached a height of 160 people who had gambled that a railroad would pass nearby. When it didn't in 1869, the settlement faded into the prairie, the abandoned structures pried apart and used to patch remaining homes, until all that remained were memories and buried clues.
The Tribune last reported on the digs at New Philadelphia in 2004; a year later, the town joined the National Register of Historic Places.
National Historic Landmark status could come this fall, after more digging this summer.
The project resumed mid-May when archeologists returned to the farm field near modern Barry, trailing measuring tapes.
They walked past the spot where New Philadelphia's blacksmith once pounded out nails, past the shoemaker, cabinetmaker and grocery shops, over the buried town's old main drag and past the fresh wooden stakes where a find of century-old slate pencils rewrote a best guess on the location of New Philadelphia's schoolhouse.
After talking with Christopher Fennell, the U. of I. professor coordinating the summer's digs, archeologists Tommy Hailey of Louisiana and Bryan Haley of Mississippi staked wide metal flashings in the damp ground that are visible from the air.
The next time they see the site, they will be dangling from an ultra-light aircraft, searching for hidden foundations with an infrared camera.
For the first time in generations, someone might see the entire town at once, the archeologists said.
As insights mount, historians have a responsibility to put those lessons into textbooks, scholars say. So far, history books cling to images of blacks as victims benefiting from others instead of bold pioneers, they say.
"Archeology is not just looking at rocks and pieces of pottery. It's what this represents," said Gradwohl, who held broken china from Buxton and saw shattered stereotypes in his hand.
"It's just incredible how this history is there," he said. "And until relatively recently, how it hasn't been a part of our American textbooks and literature."
Link
Friday, April 2, 2010
Senior Year
It doesn't seem to be your last year of school.
Everything was the same as before.
Just you got to pay for a lot more stuff;
That you will get to use on that last day of school.
There's hardly nothing to do in class anymore.
When we were freshmen we thought it would take forever to get here.
But now its here
Don't want to let the fun times go.
The day we get out of high school is the day some of us is going to leave
Til that day (40 something school days) we are stuck here!
We don't know what it is going to be like outside of Childress High School
Inside a College that some of us haven't even been to.
Hopefully it will be just like high school
Just with older people :P
Everything was the same as before.
Just you got to pay for a lot more stuff;
That you will get to use on that last day of school.
There's hardly nothing to do in class anymore.
When we were freshmen we thought it would take forever to get here.
But now its here
Don't want to let the fun times go.
The day we get out of high school is the day some of us is going to leave
Til that day (40 something school days) we are stuck here!
We don't know what it is going to be like outside of Childress High School
Inside a College that some of us haven't even been to.
Hopefully it will be just like high school
Just with older people :P
Friday, March 12, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
It's My House!
If I came home and found out something like that happened to my house,
I would've done the same things she did.
Kept calling them, over and over again.
If they told me that it had been a mistake,
well yeah it was, but I would sue them.
Trespassing and damage to property, stealing her bird;
they would be put outta business.
Hopefully my house wouldn't end up being not my house on day.
I would've done the same things she did.
Kept calling them, over and over again.
If they told me that it had been a mistake,
well yeah it was, but I would sue them.
Trespassing and damage to property, stealing her bird;
they would be put outta business.
Hopefully my house wouldn't end up being not my house on day.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
WOOO! ROAD TRIP!!
On this road, we shall take a journey it will be called ROAD TRIP!!! This should be fun. We shall go to many place. Mwhaha First we would be leaving Childress; Me, Rachel and Stacy.
We would take this long drive to the Grand Canyon. At the Grand Canyon we would make a round to go see the skywalk, hopefully no one would fall off, Stacy was scared she was hanging on to the rail for her life. 
Then we would go to the Havasupai Indian Reservation; which is a water fall. Which the Havasu Canyon and the village of Supai are located on the Havasupai Reservation adjacent to Grand Canyon National Park. At the water fall Rachel decide that she wanted to jump off of it. 
So..... I let her do it. The next thought came from Stacy, she said we should go see the forest that they had there. It was called the Kaibab National Forest. We seen a lot of animals until Rachel couldn't shut up. She scared all of them away.
http://www.nps.gov/grca/index.htm
We would take this long drive to the Grand Canyon. At the Grand Canyon we would make a round to go see the skywalk, hopefully no one would fall off, Stacy was scared she was hanging on to the rail for her life. 
Then we would go to the Havasupai Indian Reservation; which is a water fall. Which the Havasu Canyon and the village of Supai are located on the Havasupai Reservation adjacent to Grand Canyon National Park. At the water fall Rachel decide that she wanted to jump off of it. 
So..... I let her do it. The next thought came from Stacy, she said we should go see the forest that they had there. It was called the Kaibab National Forest. We seen a lot of animals until Rachel couldn't shut up. She scared all of them away.http://www.nps.gov/grca/index.htm
ON THE ROAD AGAIN; JUST CAN'T WAIT TO GET ON THE ROAD AGAIN!
Las Vegas!
Is where we would hit it up next!
Starting at the Canyon Ranch SpaClub!
Relax some, talk some, and might even have a nap! :)
Would end up climbing the rock wall that was there,
and course Stacy would be the one who would end up falling to the floor.
Would end up climbing the rock wall that was there,
and course Stacy would be the one who would end up falling to the floor.
SKYDIVING IS UP NEXT IN LAS VEGAS! It probably would be your luck that the shoot won't come out. Maybe we would have the luck to land safety. Just jumping out of a airplane, falling....falling....falling....and then pull the thing to make the shoot come out! :) FUN!
WHOA WE DIDN'T KNOW THEY HAVE A M&M WORLD!!
It would be the next stop in Las Vegas!
It would be the next stop in Las Vegas!
28,000 square-foot entertainment-retail complex is a monument to all things M&M. A perfect family trip, M&M’s World features more than 7,000 gifts, souvenirs and edible delights. And, only in Vegas, can you catch the free 3-D movie, "I LOST MY ‘M’ in VEGAS" starring Red and Yellow. SOO FUN!!!! Information from Here.
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