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Há 5 dias · Today, I’m adding a new category for posts on Old Spirituals for Juxtapositions. I love combining things that normally don’t go together! Fisk University was founded in 1866. It’s a private historically black liberal arts college that has a 40-acre campus in Nashville, Tennessee.
Há 16 horas · Sometimes it ended in tragedy, like the spirituals who fell to the Ohio River’s currents, and most of the time is simply crumbled away. Yet the imprint still remains. All that is left of these moments now are just echoes, the ghostly sound of this other, alien landscape whispering across time and space.
Há 5 dias · Steal Away finds Charlie Haden and Hank Jones performing duo versions of traditional Christian spirituals in a very reverent and elegant way at first, before unspooling into swinging, luxurious straight-ahead jazz.
Há 3 dias · The spirituals and their lyrics were part of a sophisticated system that involved no incriminating evidence for plantation owners or overseers to find. Codes imbedded in the spirituals instructed slaves as to when, how and where to escape.
Há 1 dia · One day, he was at a canning factory in Eastport, Maine when an 8-year-old Syrian girl named Phoebe Thomas began to scream. The end of her thumb was nearly severed by her machine. Wickes Hine witnessed the difficult efforts to stem the blood flow. When at last it was under control, Phoebe was sent home for the rest of the day.
Há 3 dias · It’s through that group that he meets a nerdy twelve-year-old named Marcus (Nicholas Hoult), whose mom, Fiona (Toni Collette), has depression. Marcus strategizes to make Will a part of their life so that they have a bigger support network as his mom navigates her mental illness.
Há 4 dias · Happy Fourth of July! 4 July 2024 / Leave a comment. I couldn’t find a great image of firecrackers from 1900, so I give you Josephine Baker and her pet cheetah Chiquita! Josephine was a great animal lover. She also had a goat named Toute-Toute and a pig named Albert. Older posts. madness, mystery, and magic at the turn of the century.
