The Calhoun Colored School (1892-1945), an early “industrial school,” was founded in Calhoun, Lowndes County, Alabama, about 28 miles southwest of Montgomery in 1892 by Miss Charlotte Thorn and Miss Mabel Dillingham in partnership with Booker T. Washington for the purpose of educating the impoverished rural population. R.H. Ellis’ study in Alabama Review, reprinted in [...]
Nashville Review is a new online arts journal brought into being and operated by MFA students at Vanderbilt University. The Review is somewhat in the tradition of the “literary review” except that it aims to include all forms of storytelling: songs, comics, film, creative nonfiction, oral storytelling, dance, drama art, as well as all kinds [...]
The raw milk industry, as well as local farming altogether, is under grave threat from federal legislation supposedly designed to protect consumers in the name of food safety, but actually resulting in autocratic policies, damaging legislation and police break-ins that have been crushing to private farmers, farm businesses, local dairies and local distributors, both financially [...]
Dr. Linda Pearson’s Reading and Math Center offers excellent tutoring services with rapid results that can be clearly documented. Thanks to her trademark methods of reading instruction, which she developed over the course of 40 years in the business of organizing learning centers and teacher training nationwide, she is able to raise the reading level [...]
Do we have any control over our own vision? Is there any way to improve visual acuity? We assume our vision is innate, that we are near-sighted till age 40 and far-sighted after that, that our vision declines with age and that we are helpless to do anything about it. One typically looks forward to [...]
Although Goose Pond Farm is all sold out of those wonderful Goose Pond Farm turkeys, you can go to the farm anyway – during the special pre-Thanksgiving times mentioned below – if you are in the Hartselle area, for what they are describing as “a ton of delicious baked goods.” One year we bought a [...]
Dan Vergano in a a USA Today article from November 12 suggests that the pyramids were built to project sound! Imagine an ancient Egyptian rock concert, with sound booming all over the desert. The article quotes an expert, David Lubman, as suggesting that the pyramids may have been built as sacred echo chambers. Just this [...]
Labyrinths can be found all over the country and all over the world. They are represented in the walls of Jericho and in the St. Louis Botanical Garden shown in this photograph, and there is a labyrinth on the floor of the cathedral in Chartres. Labyrinths have been used for meditation and healing, whereas mazes [...]
A William Faulkner story, Old Man,was the basis for a 1997 made-for-TV movie by John Kent Harrison, starring Arliss Howard and Jeanne Trippelhorn and filmed in Alligator Bayou, Louisiana. The story of an escaped prisoner who stands by a woman and her baby in the Great Flood has now found its way to an avant-garde [...]
The Dothan, Alabama Civic Center hosts a Festival & Powwow in honor of American Indian History Month, November 20, 2010. The Manakata website desribes the event in detail, and here are a few details: “Activities include: gourd dancing, grand entry in traditional dress, traditional powwow dancing, stomp dance, host northern drum & host southern drum, [...]
November 11, 2010 is past and gone, and this means we can begin thinking about November 11, 2011. Maybe you are one of those people who find themselves looking up when the digital clock reads 11:11, or maybe there are 11 digits in your name, or maybe the digit sum of your age is 11, [...]
Tuesday, November 16 at noon Birmingham Museum of Art offers a look at its Decorative Arts Collection.