USA Great Outdoors: Southern States
Join our traveler Spencer as he explores the culturally rich regions of the great American South!
Parks Featured:
Little River Canyon National Preserve- Alabama
Devils Fork State Park- South Carolina
Mammoth Cave National Park- Kentucky
Providence Canyon State Park- Georgia
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Charleston SC Bridge Road View Tour
Charleston SC Bridge Road View Tour
Charleston is the second largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, surpassed only by the state capital of Columbia. Charleston is the county seat of the modern Charleston County.
In 1670, Charleston was originally named Charles Towne. It moved to its present location on Oyster Point in 1680 from a location on the west bank of the Ashley River known as Albemarle Point. Charleston adopted its present name in 1783. In 1690, Charleston was the fifth largest city in North America, and remained among the ten largest cities in the United States through the 1840 census.
Charleston is known as The Holy City perhaps by virtue of the prominence of churches on the low-rise cityscape, perhaps because, like Mecca, its devotees hold it so dear], and perhaps for the fact that Carolina was among the few original thirteen colonies to provide toleration for all Protestant religions, though it was not open to Roman Catholics. Many Huguenots found their way to Charleston. Carolina also allowed Jews to practice their faith without restriction. Current trends put Charleston as the fastest-growing municipality in South Carolina. The city's metropolitan area population was counted by the 2010 census at 664,607 -- the second largest in the state -- and the 75th-largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States.
The city of Charleston is located just south of the midpoint of South Carolina's coastline, at the confluence of the Ashley and Cooper rivers, which flow together into the Atlantic Ocean. Charleston Harbor lies between downtown Charleston and the Atlantic Ocean. Charleston's name is derived from Charles Towne, named after King Charles II of England.
In 2011, Charleston was named #1 U.S. City by Conde Nast Traveler's Readers' Choice Awards and #2 Best City in the U.S. and Canada by Travel + Leisure's World's Best Awards. Also in 2011, Bon Appetit magazine named Husk, located on Queen Street in Charleston, the Best New Restaurant in America. America's most-published etiquette expert, Marjabelle Young Stewart, recognized Charleston 1995 as the best-mannered city in the U.S, a claim lent credibility by the fact that it has the first established Livability Court in the country. In 2011, Travel and Leisure Magazine named Charleston America's Sexiest City, as well as America's Most Friendly. Subsequently, Southern Living Magazine named Charleston the most polite and hospitable city in America. In 2012, Travel and Leisure voted Charleston as the second best-dressed city in America, only behind New York City.
South Carolina's Lowcountry holds a major place of importance in African-American history for many reasons, but perhaps most importantly as a port of entry for people of African descent. According to several historians, anywhere from 40 to 60 percent of the Africans who were brought to America during the slave trade entered through ports in the Lowcountry.
This has given the Lowcountry the designation among some as the Ellis Island for African Americans, although some dispute this term, as the Ellis Island immigrants arrived voluntarily as opposed to the Africans who were captured in the Atlantic slave trade.
According to Peter Wood in his book Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 to the Stono Rebellion, the successful cultivation of rice in the Lowcountry in the 1600s was a major factor in the importation of African labor. Sir Jonathan Atkins was quoted in 1680 as saying, Since people have found out the convenience and cheapness of slave labor they no longer keep white men, who formerly did the work on the Plantations. Joseph Corry, an Englishman who spent some time in what is now the West African nation of Sierra Leone, noted, Rice forms the chief part of the African's sustenance.
When further observation noted the skill of Africans in this region in cultivating rice, Africans from the vicinity of Sierra Leone and Ghana became especially sought-after by slave owners in the South Carolina Lowcountry.
The demand for Africans in the rice-growing regions was such that, By the time the (South Carolina) colony's Proprietors gave way to a royal government in 1720, Africans had outnumbered Europeans for more than a decade.
According to Elaine Nichols of the South Carolina State Museum, Sullivan's Island, an island near Charleston, was a major port of entry for enslaved Africans. Her paper Sullivan's Island Pest Houses: Beginning an Archeological Investigation (1989), detailed the phenomenon of Pest Houses, that were used to quarantine Africans upon their arrival, for fear that the Africans would have contagious diseases. The Africans would often remain confined from 10 to 40 days and 200-300 at a time would sometimes remain in isolation in the pest houses. By 1793, residents of Sullivan's Island demanded that the pest houses be removed from the vicinity.
From Above: Great Kills Harbor, Staten Island
| Here is a look at one of New York City's best harbors, Great Kills Harbor. Marinas, restaurants, and parks surround one of Staten Island's must do places when visiting New York City.
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2017 Mulhollan Drive is a street and road in the eastern Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California. It is named after pioneering Los Angeles civil engineer William Mulholland. The western rural portion in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties is named Mulholland Highway. The road is featured in innumerable movies, songs, and novels. David Lynch, who wrote and directed a film named after Mullholland Drive, has said that one can feel the history of Hollywood on it.
History
The main portion of the road, from Cahuenga Pass opened in 1924. It was built by a consortium of developers investing in the Hollywood Hills.
DeWitt Reaburn, the construction engineer responsible for the project, said while it was being built, The Mulholland Highway is destined to be one of the heaviest traveled and one of the best known scenic roads in the United States
The 21-mile (34 km) long mostly two-lane, minor arterial road loosely follows the ridgeline of the eastern Santa Monica Mountains and the Hollywood Hills, connecting two sections of U.S. Route 101, and crossing Sepulveda Boulevard, Beverly Glen Boulevard, Coldwater Canyon Avenue, Laurel Canyon Boulevard, Nichols Canyon Road, and Outpost Drive.
The road offers spectacular views[5] of the Los Angeles Basin, the San Fernando Valley, and the Hollywood Sign.
Mulholland Drive is home to some of the most exclusive and most expensive homes in the world. Many of these homes are set back from the road and offer outstanding views of downtown Los Angeles.
Route
A Mulholland Drive street sign in a residential neighborhood in Woodland Hills.
The eastern terminus of Mulholland Drive is at its intersection with Cahuenga Boulevard at the Cahuenga Pass over the Santa Monica Mountains (at this point Cahuenga Boulevard runs parallel to Highway 101/The Hollywood Freeway). The road continues to the west, offering vistas of the Hollywood Sign, downtown Los Angeles, and then Burbank, Universal City, and the rest of the San Fernando Valley with the San Gabriel, Verdugo, and Santa Susana Mountains.
The road winds along the top of the mountains until a few miles west of the San Diego/Interstate 405 Freeway. Just west of the intersection with Encino Hills Drive, it becomes an unpaved road not open to motor vehicles. This part is known by many as Dirt Mulholland. This portion connects with other unpaved roads and bike trails and allows access to a decommissioned Project Nike command post that is now a Cold War memorial park.
The road opens again east of Topanga Canyon Boulevard (State Route 27) at Santa Maria Road but remains dirt until it reaches Saltillo Street. Shortly thereafter, the thoroughfare splits into Mulholland Drive and Mulholland Highway. Mulholland Drive terminates at U.S. Highway 101 (the Ventura Freeway), where it becomes Valley Circle Boulevard. Mulholland Highway continues to the southwest until it terminates at State Route 1 (PCH) in Leo Carrillo State Park at the Pacific Ocean coast and the border of Los Angeles and Ventura counties.
The Rodeo Collection, a 45 store, 70,000 square foot shopping mall
opened in 1983
at 421 N. Rodeo Drive. The building is only four stories high with the first floor below street level in order to satisfy local building codes. The retail space initially leased for as much as $120 per square foot, which, according to an executive with commercial real estate firm Julien J. Studley, was the highest price for any kind of space in the Los Angeles Area.
Two Rodeo Drive, another outdoor shopping center, was built in 1990. It initially housed, amongst other stores, Christian Dior and Valentino.
The original developer, Douglas Stitzel, sold the property for about $200 million immediately after its completion,
The shopping center was hard-hit by the early 1990s recession, with occupancy rates dropping to as low as 60%, and the buyers sold it at an almost $70 million loss in 2000.
By 2007 the property was financially stable again and was sold to a group of Irish investors for $275 million.
It resembles a “faux-European shopping Disneyland.
French fashion firm Lanvin opened a store on Rodeo in 2011 local customers & international tourists accounting for the balance, lending some credence to Rodeo Drive's reputation as an internationally renowned shopping
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Stony Pond State Forest
Tak a short walk with us as we pass by Stony Pond in Stony Pond State Forest near Morrisville, NY. This state forest is famous for its 13 miles of nordic ski trails, which can also be hiked in the spring/summer/fall.
A Week in Transit (Austin, Texas)
This video was created from a series of maps that depict transit saturation in Austin, Texas. Each frame of the video depicts one hour of transit trips. Building footprints that are within a quarter mile of transit stops become lighter and darker as the number of transit trips that depart near that building footprint increase and decrease. The trip calculations came from GTFS (General Transit Feed Specifications) data provided by Capitol Metro in Austin, Texas.
Following in the Footsteps of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Georgia's Civil Rights Trail
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. announced We've got some difficult days ahead at his final speech in Memphis, Tennessee, hours before being assassinated. Fifty years later, the state of Georgia is coming together to reflect on Dr. King's legacy with the opening of a statewide Civil Rights Trail. From Atlanta to Savannah with plenty of stops along the way, you can follow in the footsteps of the heroes of the Civil Rights Movement, including Dr. King who was born and raised in Atlanta. See King's childhood home in the Old Fourth Ward, sing along with Freedom Singer Rutha Mae Harris at Mt. Zion First Baptist Church, and get a taste of Gullah/Geechee culture in rural Pin Point just outside of Savannah. Embark on your own journey to meet the heroes of the Civil Rights Movement, the men and women who lived through the struggle, and reflect on your role in the progress of our society.
Credits: Music courtesy of Denouncement, Kai Engel CC BY 4.0; Audio courtesy of Estate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Continuation of coverage from broadcast and cable networks of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Quality varies due to original tape conditions.
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