Mountain City TN fireworks 2013
Fireworks In Ralph Stout Park on June 29th for the July 4th holiday.
Mountain City boy back to riding after local officers' act of kindness
An act of kindness brings a smile to one little boy's face.
Liam Linares won a bike at Ralph Stout Park back in June, but it went missing just one month later.
It was sad, 6-year-old Liam said. It was really big and there was something on it, the number 7, that made it go really fast.
That's where Officer Brown and Officer Worley with the Mountain City Police Department come into play.
Liam's mom filed a police report, but after weeks and weeks of looking, still nothing.
Every time we went by his house and he came out and we didn't have his bicycle, Officer Worley said. You have to tell him you don't have his bicycle and it was heartbreaking.
So the officers took matters into their own hands and split the cost of a brand new bike.
They then drove it to Liam's house and waited until he got home to personally give it to him.
It was kind of one of those kids on Christmas morning type things, Officer Brown said. He was just smiling and happy as can be. Then he took off down through the yard as fast as he could go!
It's something Liam won't soon forget.
I was happy, Liam said. I said thank you and then I gave them a hug!
This bike made his summer one to remember and reminded the officers of why they love their job.
Just because we got the uniform on, we're not all bad, Officer Worley said. That goes a long way in the neighborhood.
Officer Brown and Officer Worley told us even to this day, every time they pass by a bike they're looking to see if it might be Liam's.
Johnson City, Tennessee
Johnson City is a city in Carter, Sullivan, and Washington counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee, with most of the city being in Washington County. The 2013 population for Johnson City was 65,123 by the United States Census, making it the ninth-largest city in the state.
Johnson City is ranked the #14 Best Small Place for Business and Careers in the USA by Forbes, Kiplinger ranked Johnson City #5 in The 10 Least-Expensive Cities For Living in the U.S.A., stating the low cost of living is attributed to affordable homes and below-average utility, transportation and health-care costs.
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The Bozeman Trail: A Rush to Montana's Gold
The Bozeman Trail was an offshoot of the Oregon Trail, a shortcut to the newly discovered gold fields of Montana Territory. Cutting through the heart of Indian country. It became a flash point for a clash of cultures that would explode into warfare, destruction and tragedy. First telecast March, 2019.
1999 Texas 500
NASCAR Winston Cup Series
Texas 500
Texas Motor Speedway
Fort Worth, Texas
March 28, 1999
Opposing Gravity (13C) - Birdsboro, PA
Eddie Russell climbing Opposing Gravity (13C) at Birdsboro Quarry.
That Glory Bound Train
Roy Acuff
Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys
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Roy Claxton Acuff (September 15, 1903 – November 23, 1992) was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter. Known as the King of Country Music, Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and hoedown format to the star singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful. In 1952 Hank Williams told Ralph Gleason, He's the biggest singer this music ever knew. You booked him and you didn't worry about crowds. For drawing power in the South, it was Roy Acuff, then God.
Acuff began his music career in the 1930s, and gained regional fame as the singer and fiddler for his group, the Smoky Mountain Boys. He joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1938, and although his popularity as a musician waned in the late 1940s, he remained one of the Opry's key figures and promoters for nearly four decades. In 1942, Acuff co-founded the first major Nashville-based country music publishing company—Acuff-Rose Music—which signed acts such as Hank Williams, Roy Orbison, and The Everly Brothers. In 1962, Acuff became the first living inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Roy Acuff was born on September 15, 1903 in Maynardville, Tennessee[ to Ida (née Carr) and Simon E. Neill Acuff, the third of five children. The Acuffs were a fairly prominent Union County family. Roy's paternal grandfather, Coram Acuff, had been a Tennessee state senator, and Roy's maternal grandfather was a local physician. Roy's father was an accomplished fiddler and a Baptist preacher, his mother was proficient on the piano, and during Roy's early years the Acuff house was a popular place for local gatherings. At such gatherings, Roy would often amuse people by balancing farm tools on his chin. He also learned to play harmonica and jaw harp at a young age.
In 1919, the Acuff family relocated to Fountain City (now a suburb of Knoxville), a few miles south of Maynardville.[6] Roy attended Central High School, where he sang in the school chapel's choir and performed in every play they had. Roy's primary passion, however, was athletics. He was a three-sport standout at Central, and after graduating in 1925, he was offered a scholarship to Carson-Newman, but turned it down. He played with several small baseball clubs around Knoxville, worked at odd jobs, and occasionally boxed.
In 1929, Acuff tried out for the Knoxville Smokies, a minor-league baseball team then affiliated with the New York (now San Francisco) Giants.[ A series of collapses in spring training following a sunstroke, however, ended his baseball career prematurely. The effects left him ill for several years, and he even suffered a nervous breakdown in 1930. I couldn't stand any sunshine at all, he later recalled. While recovering, Acuff began to hone his fiddle skills, often playing on the family's front porch in late afternoons after the sun went down. His father gave him several records of regionally-renowned fiddlers, such as Fiddlin' John Carson and Gid Tanner, which were important influences on his early style.
In 1932, Dr. Hauer's medicine show, which toured the Southern Appalachian region, hired Acuff as one of its entertainers. The purpose of the entertainers was to draw a large crowd to whom Hauer could sell medicines (of suspect quality) for various ailments.] While on the medicine show circuit, Acuff met legendary Appalachian banjoist Clarence Ashley, from whom he learned The House of the Rising Sun and Greenback Dollar, both of which Acuff later recorded. As the medicine show lacked microphones, Acuff learned to sing loud enough to be heard above the din, a skill that would later help him stand out on early radio broadcasts.
In 1934, Acuff left the medicine show circuit and began playing at local shows with various musicians in the Knoxville area. That year, guitarist Jess Easterday and Hawaiian guitarist Clell Summey joined Acuff to form the Tennessee Crackerjacks, which performed regularly on Knoxville radio stations WROL and WNOX (the band moved back and forth between stations as Acuff bickered with their managers over pay). Within a year, the group had added bassist Red Jones and changed its name to the Crazy Tennesseans after being introduced as such by WROL announcer Alan Stout. Fans often remarked to Acuff how clear his voice was coming through over the radio, important in an era when singers were often drowned out by string band cacophony. The popularity of Acuff's rendering of the song The Great Speckled Bird helped the group land a contract with the ARC, for whom they recorded several dozen tracks (including the band's best-known track, Wabash Cannonball) in 1936. Needing to complete a 20-song commitment, the band recorded two ribald tunes—including When Lulu's Gone—but released them under the pseudonym of the Bang Boys. The group split from ARC in 1937 over a separate contract .dispute.
Mike Seeger's Talking Feet -- a 1987 Smithsonian documentary
Full 87-minute documentary --online -- by Mike Seeger (1933-2009), folk musician and folklorist. Filmed during two weeks in 1983, Link for the film: (This youtube posting is in honor of a great friend Allen S. Kraps in Ohio.)
Talking Feet: Solo Southern Dance - Flatfoot, Buck and Tap (DVD - April 24, 2007)
Book (Paperback: 152 pages, 1/29/1993) Compiled by musician/folklorist Mike Seeger and dancer Ruth Pershing, .... Southern dancing involves a great deal of personal style and innovation as dancers create the rhythm of old-time country music—talking blues, bluegrass, hand-patting and western swing. Traditionally, people have danced at corn shuckings, apron hemmings, weddings, and house parties. Nowadays, clog dancers compete at festivals and competitions. Talking Feet is a precious record of the experience of old-timers and an inspiration to younger enthusiasts who want to absorb the tradition and make it their own.
List of the 15 dancers along the filing locations, descriptions/times of each segment in the documentary
This clip is of D. Ray White (1927-1985) of Boone County, West Virginia; this family has been called the Wild Whites of West Virginia, with his son Jessco being featured in films for both his dancing and outlawish behaviors.
More of D. Ray (the complete segment of him from Talking Feet, 12 minutes):
More of both D. Ray and son Jessco:
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Mike Seeger was born in New York and grew up in Maryland and Washington D.C. His father, Charles Louis Seeger Jr., was a composer and pioneering ethnomusicologist, investigating both American folk and non-Western music. His mother, Ruth Crawford Seeger, was a composer. His eldest half-brother, Charles Seeger III, was a radio astronomer, and his next older half-brother, John Seeger, taught for years at the Dalton School in Manhattan. His next older half brother is Pete Seeger. His uncle, Alan Seeger, a poet, was killed during the First World War. His sister Peggy Seeger, also a well-known folk performer, was married for many years to British folk singer Ewan MacColl. His sister, singer Penny Seeger, married John Cohen, a member of Mike's musical group, New Lost City Ramblers. Mike Seeger was a self-taught musician who began playing stringed instruments at the age of 18. More:
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From Mike Seeger:
I wish I could have had a video recorder with me down through the years, along with my tape recorder. I would have recorded Elizabeth Cotten dancing the Frisco or Ball the Jack. Or Junior, Hazel Dickens' cousin, doing a moonwalk-like slide as we played bluegrass in a basement apartment in Baltimore. Or Don Reno in the 1950s, when he took a frenetic, stepping break in his New River Ranch performance of the classic bluegrass instrumental Rawhide. Or at that same country music park, Kentucky Slim (with Flatt and Scruggs) and Chick Stripling (with Bill Monroe) as they did their minstrel/vaudeville dances and routines, barely out of the black-face era. I would have filmed the Blue Ridge Mountain Dancers, who in the early 1960s were performing some of the first precision clogging, which was, in a sense, a complement to bluegrass: an ensemble stage presentation based on solo homestyle traditions. I would like for you to have seen Cousin Emmy in her sixties, doing a Kentucky buck dance, only to be upstaged by 250-pound Cajun accordionist Cyprian Landraneau, also in his sixties, who limped out on stage and let fly some vigorous Louisiana stepping. I wouldn't have been able to film an occasion at a Manassas, Virginia, bluegrass tavern, when a huge fight broke out after a waitress tried unsuccessfully to stop a man from dancing a few good-natured steps near his table. (The music and dance stopped, but the fight continued outside. I guess some non-dancers have a different physical response to music.) I would have certainly spent days filming my favorite old-time North Carolina dancer, Bill McElreath, back in the sixties, with his variety of styles and multitude of steps. It seems wherever I've gone that there is country string music-homes, taverns and country music parks-dancing has always been there.
Traditional Southern dancing has been virtually ignored by makers of documentary films and is treated lightly by TV, which generally shows only brief shots of dancers and focuses more on dress than on body movement. It is significant that this is the first document of Southern dance, when there are scores of films dealing with music, crafts and other folklife subjects.
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Kurt Vonnegut Lecture
02-04-2004
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Known as one of America's literary giants, Kurt Vonnegut visited the campus in 2004 to meet with Case's College Scholars and to give a public lecture.
Students at Case Western Reserve University will hang with one of America's literary giants when he visits Cleveland for a public lecture, sponsored by the Case College Scholars Program.
Clevelanders can hear Kurt Vonnegut, the author of such books as Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, Welcome to the Monkey House and other best-selling novels, Wednesday, February 4, at 4 p.m. in Severance Hall, 11001 Euclid Avenue.
While Piano Player (1952)-his first book-launched Vonnegut's career as a novelist, it would be Slaughterhouse-Five that propelled him to the top of the bestseller's list in 1969. Like many other Vonnegut novels, Slaugherhouse Five is deeply rooted in the author's personal experiences. This best-seller draws upon his nightmarish imprisonment by the Germans, who kept him with other POWs in an underground meat locker during the Allied Forces' bombing that killed 135,000 people in Dresden, Germany.
Felt-tip doodling on his manuscripts evolved into book illustrations for Breakfast of Champions (1973) and other works. He also has become known as an artist and has exhibited work alongside Norman Mailer and Tennessee Williams, both painters and writers. His graphic designs would be the feature of a one-man exhibit at Margo Fiden Gallery in 1983 in New York City.
Case's College Scholars are an active group of students who go beyond getting good grades. With their hands in various campus organizations, they exhibit potential to be among the next generation of leaders in service to their country and communities. Following Vonnegut's talk, they will rap over dinner with the writer and artist when he visits the Scholars House on the Case campus.
Bristol, Virginia
Bristol is an independent city in the U.S. state of Virginia As of the 2010 census, the population was 17,835. It is bounded by Washington County, Virginia, Bristol, Tennessee, and Sullivan County, Tennessee.
It is the twin city of Bristol, Tennessee, just across the state line, which runs down the middle of its main street, State Street. The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the city of Bristol, Virginia with Washington County for statistical purposes. Bristol is a principal city of Kingsport–Bristol–Bristol, TN-VA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a component of the Johnson City–Kingsport–Bristol, TN-VA Combined Statistical Area – commonly known as the Tri-Cities region.
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Mexican–American War | Wikipedia audio article
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Mexican–American War
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- Socrates
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The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the American intervention in Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States (Mexico) from 1846 to 1848. It followed in the wake of the 1845 American annexation of the independent Republic of Texas. The unstable Mexican caudillo leadership of President/General Antonio López de Santa Anna still considered Texas to be its northeastern province and never recognized the Republic of Texas, which had seceded a decade earlier. In 1845, newly elected U.S. President James K. Polk sent troops to the disputed area and a diplomatic mission to Mexico. After Mexican forces attacked American forces, Polk cited this in his request that Congress declare war.
U.S. forces quickly occupied the regional capital of Santa Fe de Nuevo México along the upper Rio Grande and the Pacific coast province of Alta California, and then moved south. Meanwhile, the Pacific Squadron of the U.S Navy blockaded the Pacific coast farther south in lower Baja California Territory. The U.S. Army under Major General Winfield Scott eventually captured Mexico City through stiff resistance, having marched west from the port of Veracruz on the Gulf Coast, where the Americans staged their first ever amphibious landing.
The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, forced onto the remnant Mexican government, ended the war and enforced the Mexican Cession of the northern territories of Alta California and Santa Fe de Nuevo México to the United States. The U.S. agreed to pay $15 million compensation for the physical damage of the war and assumed $3.25 million of debt already owed earlier by the Mexican government to U.S. citizens. Mexico acknowledged the loss of what became the State of Texas and accepted the Rio Grande as its northern border with the U.S.
The victory and territorial expansion Polk envisioned inspired great patriotism in the United States, but the war and treaty drew some criticism in the U.S. for their casualties, monetary cost, and heavy-handedness, particularly early on. The question of how to treat the new acquisitions also intensified the debate over slavery. Mexico's worsened domestic turmoil and losses of life, territory, and national prestige left it in what prominent Mexicans called a state of degradation and ruin.
Mexican–American War | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Mexican–American War
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
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- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the American intervention in Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States (Mexico) from 1846 to 1848. It followed in the wake of the 1845 American annexation of the independent Republic of Texas. The unstable Mexican caudillo leadership of President/General Antonio López de Santa Anna still considered Texas to be its northeastern province and never recognized the Republic of Texas, which had seceded a decade earlier. In 1845, newly elected U.S. President James K. Polk sent troops to the disputed area and a diplomatic mission to Mexico. After Mexican forces attacked American forces, Polk cited this in his request that Congress declare war.
U.S. forces quickly occupied the regional capital of Santa Fe de Nuevo México along the upper Rio Grande and the Pacific coast province of Alta California, and then moved south. Meanwhile, the Pacific Squadron of the U.S Navy blockaded the Pacific coast farther south in lower Baja California Territory. The U.S. Army under Major General Winfield Scott eventually captured Mexico City through stiff resistance, having marched west from the port of Veracruz on the Gulf Coast, where the Americans staged their first ever amphibious landing.
The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, forced onto the remnant Mexican government, ended the war and enforced the Mexican Cession of the northern territories of Alta California and Santa Fe de Nuevo México to the United States. The U.S. agreed to pay $15 million compensation for the physical damage of the war and assumed $3.25 million of debt already owed earlier by the Mexican government to U.S. citizens. Mexico acknowledged the loss of what became the State of Texas and accepted the Rio Grande as its northern border with the U.S.
The victory and territorial expansion Polk envisioned inspired great patriotism in the United States, but the war and treaty drew some criticism in the U.S. for their casualties, monetary cost, and heavy-handedness, particularly early on. The question of how to treat the new acquisitions also intensified the debate over slavery. Mexico's worsened domestic turmoil and losses of life, territory, and national prestige left it in what prominent Mexicans called a state of degradation and ruin.
Further Chronicles of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery | Full Audiobook with subtitles
Further Chronicles of Avonlea is a collection of short stories by L.M. Montgomery and is a sequel to Chronicles of Avonlea. Published in 1920, it includes a number of stories relating to the inhabitants of the fictional Canadian village of Avonlea and its region, located on Prince Edward Island.
Further Chronicles of Avonlea
Lucy Maud MONTGOMERY
(Summary from Wikipedia)
Genre(s): Children's Fiction, Short Stories
Chapters:
00:00:18 - 01 - Ch. I: Aunt Cynthia's Persian Cat, pt. 1
00:12:29 - 02 - Ch. I: Aunt Cynthia's Persian Cat, pt. 2
00:23:44 - 03 - Ch. II: The Materializing of Cecil, pt. 1
00:35:08 - 04 - Ch. II: The Materializing of Cecil, pt. 2
00:47:13 - 05 - Ch. III: Her Father's Daughter, pt. 1
01:08:42 - 06 - Ch. III: Her Father's Daughter, pt. 2
01:30:12 - 07 - Ch. IV: Jane's Baby, pt. 1
01:43:16 - 08 - Ch. IV: Jane's Baby, pt. 2
01:55:42 - 09 - Ch. V: The Dream-Child, pt. 1
02:08:57 - 10 - Ch. V: The Dream-Child, pt. 2
02:21:48 - 11 - Ch. VI: The Brother Who Failed, pt. 1
02:32:26 - 12 - Ch. VI: The Brother Who Failed, pt. 2
02:43:58 - 13 - Ch. VII: The Return of Hester, pt. 1
02:52:06 - 14 - Ch. VII: The Return of Hester, pt. 2
03:01:37 - 15 - Ch. VIII: The Little Brown Book of Miss Emily, pt. 1
03:09:17 - 16 - Ch. VIII: The Little Brown Book of Miss Emily, pt. 2
03:16:55 - 17 - Ch. IX: Sara's Way, pt. 1
03:26:30 - 18 - Ch. IX: Sara's Way, pt. 2
03:35:40 - 19 - Ch. X: The Son of His Mother, pt. 1
03:55:56 - 20 - Ch. X: The Son of His Mother, pt. 2
04:12:48 - 21 - Ch. XI: The Education of Betty, pt. 1
04:31:39 - 22 - Ch. XI: The Education of Betty, pt. 2
04:49:24 - 23 - Ch. XII: In Her Selfless Mood, pt. 1
05:12:39 - 24 - Ch. XII: In Her Selfless Mood, pt. 2
05:35:01 - 25 - Ch. XIII: The Conscience Case of David Bell, pt. 1
05:47:04 - 26 - Ch. XIII: The Conscience Case of David Bell, pt. 2
05:58:21 - 27 - Ch. XIV: Only a Common Fellow, pt. 1
06:07:31 - 28 - Ch. XIV: Only a Common Fellow, pt. 2
06:15:48 - 29 - Ch. XV: Tannis of the Flats, pt. 1
06:31:17 - 30 - Ch. XV: Tannis of the Flats, pt. 2
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SECSRT 042 Stroke A Check For 20 Million Video
This week on SEC Sports Roundtable hosts Shane Bailey and Blair Smyly discuss South Carolina's improbable run to the College World Series. The NBA Draft is 2 days away and UK looks to put 5 in the first round. They also look at the playoff picture in college football and take a glance at the economic impact it will have.