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.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
18 Reasons I am Thankful for my Parents
18 reasons why I am thankful for my parents are:
- They are there when I ask them something.
- I wouldn't be here with out them.
- They make a living to support us.
- They care about me.
- They treat me with respect.
- They give me money when I need it.
- They Love me.
- They are still here.
- They pay for the phone bill.
- They feed me.
- They take me places.
- They buy me things (sometimes).
- They take me to doctor.
- They take me to the dentist.
- They give me things.
- They are always by my side.
- They hardly yell at me.
- They are thankful for me.
- I'm smart :) (maybe)
- I can count.
- I'm thankful for them.
- I'm funny. (hehe)
- I'm never home :P
Monday, February 1, 2010
Teacher who made a difference.
I don't really remember all of my teachers.
As many times as I hit my head everything goes blank.
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If there had to be one teacher within the last few years,
think I would pick Graves.
Had him as a teach for two years.
One year was just 7 of us in the class, with me being the only girl.
Course would get picked on but knew he didn't really mean it.
Then last year it wasn't to many people within that class either.
But this time I wasn't the only girl.
Still got picked on, me and Kamille.
We had fun in that class with the cameras and making videos.
He told us that we had the best videos.
Can't really think of anything else.
Soooooooooooooo gonna stop there.
Hope that's enough. :P
As many times as I hit my head everything goes blank.
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If there had to be one teacher within the last few years,
think I would pick Graves.
Had him as a teach for two years.
One year was just 7 of us in the class, with me being the only girl.
Course would get picked on but knew he didn't really mean it.
Then last year it wasn't to many people within that class either.
But this time I wasn't the only girl.
Still got picked on, me and Kamille.
We had fun in that class with the cameras and making videos.
He told us that we had the best videos.
Can't really think of anything else.
Soooooooooooooo gonna stop there.
Hope that's enough. :P
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Senses of Christmas!
-> Cinnamon and pine trees
->Christmas lights and Snow
->Jingle Bells and Christmas lights
->Warm Fire and Cold Snow
->Peppermint and Candy Canes
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Friday, November 20, 2009
A dark cold rainy night
As I regained conscientiousness, I remember asking what is that blood from; I blamed deciding to walk alone down this dark alley on a rainy night, I remember seeing bright Headlights coming toward me. I knew I was stubborn when I decided to take a shortcut to the party. Everyone decided to take the long way because it seemed safer. As the lights came closer I remember something coming behind me. I just couldn't stand there doing nothing. So I decided to duck, thinking maybe I can save myself. Ending up I did save myself, but one thing that I did noticed that there was blood on the ground, and someone laying on the ground across the alley from me. As i went into the vestibule no one even noticed that there was a dead body laying outside of that door.
I couldn't decide if leaving the body was the right thing to do or not. So, I left i didn't want part in something I didn't do. I went inside and I told everyone I wasn't feeling good that I needed to leave. I had Henry take me home. I told him about the body and being hit and he said I was crazy... Then I began to wonder if I really was...
Doing the right thing or not cause that psycho person that killed that person. He could some how find out that it was me that either saw him and moved it or turned it in and him end up killing me. yikes!!! Better think about that better don't you think??.. Thinking or thoughting isn't really the same thing.
I couldn't decide if leaving the body was the right thing to do or not. So, I left i didn't want part in something I didn't do. I went inside and I told everyone I wasn't feeling good that I needed to leave. I had Henry take me home. I told him about the body and being hit and he said I was crazy... Then I began to wonder if I really was...
Doing the right thing or not cause that psycho person that killed that person. He could some how find out that it was me that either saw him and moved it or turned it in and him end up killing me. yikes!!! Better think about that better don't you think??.. Thinking or thoughting isn't really the same thing.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
Mr. Bigglesworth
Good evening, my name is Mr. Bigglesworth.People just call me "Big" just because I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO small. They think it is funny to make fun of me. I can't wait until that day I will become the KING OF THE WORLD! Mwhahaha >:) Well anyways that picture to the left of this is me. Yeah I got a gun pulled of me. What for you may ask? Well the answer to that is that I don't even know. Ha just kidding. I only got the gun pulled on me because I was trying to be funny during a game of poker. These poker players these days, man they are Outrageous! Don't know what got into them. As I was trying to get outta that place they locked the door! Stupid dogs...Then one of them thought it would be soooo funnyyyy to just take a picture of me with my arms up!.... I didn't think it was so funny... Even though the gun wasn't loaded... IT WAS STILL A GUN!... GOSH! THAT WAS PROBABLY THE MOST SCAARRRIIEST THING IN MY LIFE!...Well I'm gonna let ya go! So maybe hopefully I'll talk to you laterrr! ha.. alright peace fool!.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Dear Me,
First, to prove to you that this is really you 30 years ago. My name is Ashley Nicole Scott. Born July 10, 1992. As of now, favorite color is Black, and Lime Green. Got to meet the band called Papa Roach, on October 25, 2009. Rachel was went me, they were talking about her Taco shirt. :) uh.. what else to prove to you this is you 30 years ago....
Well goals and dreams that you had then. To start out with the goals they would have to be not to hurt myself so much as I do now. There's more.. but I really can't think of them right now. Dreams now, dreams are to go to college for cosmetology; and then after that opening a business with tattooing, piercings, and of course cosmetology. How did that turn out? Hopefully, I did something right for a change. Alright.... welll i guess that shall be it. The bell is about to ring and i got to go to my next class. :) well hope everything is good. :P
Well goals and dreams that you had then. To start out with the goals they would have to be not to hurt myself so much as I do now. There's more.. but I really can't think of them right now. Dreams now, dreams are to go to college for cosmetology; and then after that opening a business with tattooing, piercings, and of course cosmetology. How did that turn out? Hopefully, I did something right for a change. Alright.... welll i guess that shall be it. The bell is about to ring and i got to go to my next class. :) well hope everything is good. :P
Friday, October 23, 2009
Coach Rhodes! :)
Happy Birthday!
I remember during my freshman year when Rachel, and I was making this one sound. He went and asked everyone who it was, he never found out with one of it was making that sound, but it was more than just us two doing it. Coach was always funny.SOOOOOOOOOOO............. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! :)
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Sunday :)
October 25, 2009. Going to Amarillo with Rachel for a concert! We got VIP tickets. So we get to meet the bands and take a picture with them and EVERYTHING! Ha! We both can't wait.
Friday, October 16, 2009
The Old Lady. (lol)
Once upon a time, there was this old lady, her name was Abigail. She would dance, run, everything you can think of everyday. She didn't know why she could do that when she was that old. Abigail is 92 years old. She likes to eat, but she don't really have time to eat anything but at least one meal a day. Abigail has breakfast everyday before she leaves for her daily run. Abigail's breakfast included: yogurt, oatmeal, a muffin, blueberries & almonds. Each morning the neighbors would wake up to the smell of her homemade blueberry muffins, but always wake up to the smell of her oatmeal. Something smelling homemade, nice and hot, ready to eat food at 4 in the morning, would wake you up. Abigail doesn't look that old, she looks like shes about 40 at least. She has guys try to take her out all the time. She don't never go out with them because they are more than half her age. Abigail lived her life with teh amusement for those guys, the running, and everything she did in her lifetime. Abigail didn't die until she was 120 years old. She entertain a lot of people. Maybe instead of me entertaining you she could if she was here. Maybe you can go running and walking and dancing and rock climbing every every every day. You should have fun. :) .
Friday, October 9, 2009
Homecoming!
It is one of the most important thing that will happen in this town.
Everyone gets excited about homecoming.
To some people it means a lot,
But to others,
It means nothing.
But its
HOMECOMING!
Everyone gets excited about homecoming.
To some people it means a lot,
But to others,
It means nothing.
But its
HOMECOMING!
Monday, October 5, 2009
H1N1!
H1N1, AKA Swine flu, it is an infection caused by a virus But it's named from a virus that pigs can get. People do not normally get it but human infections can and do happen, like what is happening. The virus is contagious and can spread from human to human. Symptoms of swine flu in people are similar to the symptoms of regular flu humanand include fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. I think this issue is something that is majorly bad. It's harmful, and it has been killing a lot of people these last couple of months.
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