Live Oak Cemetery at Selma, AL
This is one of the few cemeteries in the South that are on the National Register of Historic Places. Visitors who stroll beneath the ancient oaks and magnolias draped in Spanish moss in this historic cemetery will find glory, humor, and sadness in the lives whose stories are told here. Many historic Selmians are buried on these grounds including William Rufus King, founder of Selma, U.S. senator and vice president of the United States; Benjamin Sterling Turner, Alabama's first black congressman, and more.
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FEMA - Temporary Housing Staging Site (Selma, AL)
While working a case nearby I ran across this location and decided to make a quick video for all the people out there that don't believe the government has plans for the large-scale rounding up and housing of Americans. Granted this is always under the idea that these temporary housing are they're in the case of catastrophe when Mother Nature is at her worst but many have the idea out there that martial law could be enacted and the government begin to pull some stunt similar to the Nazis in World War II with the Jews. If there is anyone out there that would like for me to search about locations in the state of Alabama and make a short video on my findings in that location and what cool things are around please email me at tdmcright4@gmail.com. And don't forget to like my video and or subscribe to my channel. Thanks & Much Love !!!!
JB's Journal - Roseland plantation
A stately plantation house that was built before the Civil War still stands in East Texas thanks to the restoration of a Tyler woman and the family that currently lives there. J.B. Smith takes us inside to experience the elegance of the Old South.
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Many of the descendants of the original slaves still love on the land near the plantation. Mr. Hambrick also donated some of the land for Redland High School for African American students.
Song of Myself Verse 34 by Beth Spivey
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I met Beth at the museum where she works, then followed her home in my car. When we pulled up she immediately took a shotgun out of her trunk and leaned it on her front porch.
I think she was testing my boundaries a little, seeing what she could provoke in me. I think there’s a dance or play that can go on between people. Was I just an outsider who’s going to look at her like, “Oooh, look at these southerners!”
Now Beth agrees; she was poking at me.
“That’s how I am,” Beth says. “And a lot of people can’t handle me. But I tested you and you came to my party and spent the night here. You didn’t know if I was a killer!”
Beth had invited me to a party at her house. She has a hunting camp in her backyard and a group of Cajun’s from Louisiana was there hunting deer. That night the Cajuns cooked up a huge low country boil and then picked up their instruments and played Zydeco music in the barn. There was dancing and drinking late into the night.
As for poetry, Beth has always had an appreciation. It should have been obvious but I didn’t know that when we filmed.
“I love the art of wording things,” she says. “I love smart-ass people.”
But she had some reservations about reading—for two reasons. She was hoping her dad would do the reading. And I suspect she didn’t totally trust the project’s intentions. But she ended up stepping up to plate anyway.
“Cuz my Daddy died and you didn’t have anyone else!” she says. “And sometimes you feel like somebody from out of state is going to make a fool out of you, and I just wanted to say, ‘I can read this and freak you out.’ All we ever hear is how stupid we are, and not politically correct. I wanted to represent the state to let you know that there are people that can transform into what you want them to be in order to do a good job. I ain’t ever done anything like that before but I wanted to do a good job.”
So Beth practiced her verse before the shoot. Again and again and again.
“I didn’t want to look like an idiot!” she explains. “Even though I couldn’t say capitulate for nothing.”
She also wasn’t a big fan of the verse I had chosen.
“I am about fun!” she explains. “This verse is NOT about fun. Killed! Stabbed! Bloody! Dead! Nobody alive! I can find humor in everything—except for that damn verse.”
After the fact I explained that I thought contrasts are cool. Her ridiculously fun personality with this particularly dark passage.
“Truly deep, Jennifer. Truly deep!” she says, not quite buying it. “I don’t see the woman in a Sno-Cone booth or little kids dancing under a bridge reading that.” [See verse 43]
I remind her that she did it though. She said yes. She got through it.
“I did it,” she concedes. “But it’s just like being married to a piece of shit—not gonna do that again.”
One bit of serendipity. You can’t see it in Beth’s verse, but the house just behind where we filmed was owned by Beth’s paternal grandma—Elizabeth Whitman. It’s been known forever as “the Whitman House.
It’s a point of pride for Beth. She’s proud of the house. She’s proud of where she comes from, and her community.
“We don’t try to impress anybody. We enjoy the little things. And we’re content. And people hate that,” she says. “It’s a simple, slow life. Our ambulances don’t even speed. If you’re gonna die, you’re gonna die.”
When asked what she thinks the biggest misconception of the south is she says it’s the idea that everybody’s racist, that there’s a Klan around every corner.
Sometimes she gets those kinds of questions at work at Old Depot Museum in Selma. “Is the Klan here?”
“Well if they are, they suck!” she tells them. “You an Alabama fan or Auburn? That’s what we care about here.”
Beth doesn’t understand that kind of thinking. She has more friends than she can count.
“You can’t have enough friends in life—it’s not possible,” she says. “And how could you hate someone for who they worship, or the color of the skin, or who they love? It’s exhausting. You have to be miserable. “
“And here’s the thing about a small town,” she adds. “If you’re a piece of crap, word gets out really quick.”
For Beth, it’s about community. Being genuine. Talking. Telling stories. Asking questions. More talking.
She gave an example: She had been in New York City and bought a charcoal drawing in Central Park. She carried it all throughout the city, and nobody said a word. Then she carried it through the airport, on her way back home to Alabama.
“Guy walks right up to me and asks, ‘What you got in that tube?’”
“Dear God, you’re from Alabama!” she said.
by filmmaker Jenn Crandall as told to writer Liz Hildreth
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Emergency Bandage® Testimonial – Chris C., Selma PD Police Officer
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Burgaw Train Depot, the oldest standing train depot in North Carolina, is an artifact that harkens back to a time when Burgaw was not yet a town, but a wood and water stop on an existing railroad. The historic building has survived fires, hurricanes, and even a Civil War Prisoner-of-War camp. It's no longer functional, but the building and small stretch of railroad is a testament to a town's long-standing history with railroads.
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Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States. It began as a British colony in 1733, the last and southernmost of the original Thirteen Colonies to be established. Named after King George II of Great Britain, the Province of Georgia covered the area from South Carolina down to Spanish Florida and New France along Louisiana (New France), also bordering to the west towards the Mississippi River. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788. In 1802–1804, western Georgia was split to the Mississippi Territory, which later split to form Alabama with part of former West Florida in 1819. Georgia declared its secession from the Union on January 19, 1861, and was one of the original seven Confederate states. It was the last state to be restored to the Union, on July 15, 1870. Georgia is the 24th largest and the 8th most populous of the 50 United States. From 2007 to 2008, 14 of Georgia's counties ranked among the nation's 100 fastest-growing, second only to Texas. Georgia is known as the Peach State and the Empire State of the South. Atlanta, the state's capital and most populous city, has been named a global city.
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The Southern United States, also known as the American South, Dixie, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a region of the United States of America. It is located between the Atlantic Ocean and the Western United States, with the Midwestern United States and Northeastern United States to its north and the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico to its south.
The South does not fully match the geographic south of the United States but is commonly defined as including the states that fought for the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. The Deep South is fully located in the southeastern corner. Arizona and New Mexico, which are geographically in the southern part of the country, are rarely considered part, while West Virginia, which separated from Virginia in 1863, commonly is. Some scholars have proposed definitions of the South that do not coincide neatly with state boundaries. While the states of Delaware and Maryland, as well as the District of Columbia, permitted slavery prior to the start of the Civil War, they remained with the Union. Since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, they became more culturally, economically, and politically aligned with the industrial Northern states, and are often identified as part of the Mid-Atlantic or Northeast by many residents, businesses, public institutions, and private organizations,but the United States Census Bureau puts them in the South.
Usually, the South is defined as including the southeastern and south-central United States. The region is known for its culture and history, having developed its own customs, musical styles, and cuisines, which have distinguished it in some ways from the rest of the United States. The Southern ethnic heritage is diverse and includes strong European (mostly English, Scottish, Scotch-Irish, Irish, German, French, and Spanish American), African, and some Native American components.Some other aspects of the historical and cultural development of the South have been influenced by the institution of slave labor on plantations in the Deep South to an extent seen nowhere else in the United States; the presence of a large proportion of African Americans in the population; support for the doctrine of states' rights, and the legacy of racial tension magnified by the Civil War and Reconstruction Era, as seen in thousands of lynchings (mostly from 1880 to 1930), the segregated system of separate schools and public facilities known as Jim Crow laws, that lasted until the 1960s, and the widespread use of poll taxes and other methods to frequently deny black people of the right to vote or hold office until the 1960s. Since the late 1960s, black people have held many offices in Southern states, especially in the coastal states of Virginia and South Carolina. Many black people have also been elected or appointed as mayors and police chiefs in the metropolises of Charlotte, Birmingham, Richmond, Columbia, Memphis, Houston, Atlanta, Jacksonville, and New Orleans, and serve in both the U.S. Congress and state legislatures.Historically, the South relied heavily on agriculture, and was highly rural until after 1945. It has since become more industrialized and urban and has attracted national and international migrants. The American South is now among the fastest-growing areas in the United States. Houston is the largest city in the Southern United States. Sociological research indicates that Southern collective identity stems from political, demographic, and cultural distinctiveness from the rest of the United States. The region contains almost all of the Bible Belt, an area of high Protestant church attendance (especially evangelical churches such as the Southern Baptist Convention) and predominantly conservative, religion-influenced politics. Indeed, studies have shown that Southerners are more conservative than non-Southerners in several areas, including religion, morality, international relations, and race relations. This is ...