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Civil War Era Historical Fiction Story Tells Young Man’s Struggle on a Plantation

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024

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Smith predicts an economic boom in his region but faces a shortage of field workers for his plantation.

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Smith predicts an economic boom in his region but faces a shortage of field workers for his plantation.
Smith coerces Esther into sending her teenage son Johnny to work on Oryza Hope Plantation alongside Black slaves.
On the plantation, Johnny faces language barriers, daily abuse from an overseer named Tillitson, and the ever-present threat of venomous snakes.
Bound and Determined tells a story of determination and courage and will appeal to readers who love family sagas and historical fiction set during the Civil War Era.

AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST'S 28TH ANNUAL PARK DAY CONNECTS COMMUNITIES THROUGH HISTORY

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024

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WASHINGTON, April 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Battlefield Trust is gearing up for its 28th annual Park Day event. Stretching from coast to coast, some 100 sites across 27 states have enlisted to participate in this year's hands-on preservation event. With tasks ranging from landscape maintenance and cleaning museum windows to staining fences and relocating interpretation signs, volunteers nationwide will take on these tasks in a continued effort of maintaining our historic sites on Saturday, April 6, 2024.

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WASHINGTON, April 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Battlefield Trust is gearing up for its 28th annual Park Day event.
Historic sites nationwide seek volunteers for 28th Annual Park Day!
"Park Day is not just about celebrating our history; it's about weaving it into the fabric of communities across the country," said Trust President David Duncan.
In addition to receiving official Park Day reusable water bottles, many sites provide volunteers with snacks, lunch and tours of the sites.

Letter Carriers Recognized as Heroes of the Year

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Friday, March 22, 2024

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Philip Moon of Amarillo, TX, a 37-year carrier, risked his own safety by saving a bloodied woman from a large pit bull.

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Philip Moon of Amarillo, TX, a 37-year carrier, risked his own safety by saving a bloodied woman from a large pit bull.
The Eastern Region Hero is Timothy Martin of Lakeview, NY, who rescued an elderly woman with breathing problems trapped in her home by a fire.
Several other carriers also are being recognized as 2023 Heroes.
NALC represents letter carriers across the country.

Maryland's Oldest Operating Ghost Tour Celebrates 25th Anniversary

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Monday, March 11, 2024

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FREDERICFK, Md., March 11, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- As the sun sets, and the moon rises, take a remarkable journey into the dark recesses of Frederick's gruesome and bloody past and uncover some of her enduring mysteries with "Ghost Tours of Historic Frederick." For 25-years, Frederick's most popular walking tour.

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"This year is our 25th anniversary introducing the living to the dead.
Thousands of people have taken the tour and many keep coming back year after year for new stories, updates and encounters", states Ron Angleberger, historian and tour director.
This tour takes you where no other tour dares to go, a 90-minute foray into the archives of the dead.
For reservations, or additional information on Maryland Heritage Tours additional tour options, including the Mount Olivet Cemetery, "History & Mystery Tour," please visit http://www.marylandghosttours.com .

Volunteers Sought for Historic Newcomer House Exhibit & Visitor Center at Antietam National Battlefield

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Tuesday, February 13, 2024

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FREDERICK, Md., Feb. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area seeks volunteers for the 2024 season at the historic Newcomer House, the Heritage Area's Exhibit and Visitor Center at Antietam National Battlefield. Volunteers handle daily operations at the house, including orienting visitors to the three-county Heritage Area and providing information about heritage tourism opportunities in the region. No specific knowledge or skills are required, though an interest in Civil War history and comfort interacting with visitors is encouraged.

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FREDERICK, Md., Feb. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area seeks volunteers for the 2024 season at the historic Newcomer House, the Heritage Area's Exhibit and Visitor Center at Antietam National Battlefield.
Volunteers will receive orientation training on March 16, 2024 from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm followed by mentor training during regular visitor hours.
The Newcomer House, located at 18422 Shepherdstown Pike in Keedysville, is one of only two historic homes on the battlefield open to the public.
A cooperative agreement between the Antietam National Battlefield and the Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area allows for programming, management, and maintenance of the Newcomer House.

Biden is campaigning against the Lost Cause and the ‘poison’ of white supremacy in South Carolina

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Monday, February 5, 2024

The site of the speech on Jan. 8, 2024, was Charleston, South Carolina’s Mother Emanuel AME Church, where, on a summer evening in 2015, an avowed white supremacist murdered nine Black worshipers, including Rev.

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The site of the speech on Jan. 8, 2024, was Charleston, South Carolina’s Mother Emanuel AME Church, where, on a summer evening in 2015, an avowed white supremacist murdered nine Black worshipers, including Rev.
At Pinckney’s funeral, then-President Barack Obama sang a heart-felt version of the Christian hymn Amazing Grace.
“The word of God was pierced by bullets in hate and rage, propelled by not just gunpowder but by a poison,” Biden said.
What I have learned is that Biden’s Mother Emanuel speech should rank with some of the most important speeches in our history.

The original big lie

Boldly rejecting the Declaration of Independence as effusive “enthusiasm,” Smith injected white supremacy into public discourse.
Smith, who owned several plantations and at least 71 enslaved people, was among more than 1,800 U.S. legislators who enslaved Black people.
If you disagreed, vigilante thugs would beat you up or chase you into exile.

‘A house divided against itself cannot stand’

The Supreme Court’s infamous 1857 decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford extended Southern racist ideology into the North.
He addressed the consequences of slavery on America’s democracy and warned that “a house divided against itself cannot stand.” “This government cannot endure,” he said, “permanently half slave and half free.
It will become all one thing, or all the other.

The Civil War was supposed to end slavery and the white supremacist ideology that underpinned it.
The 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, known as the Reconstruction amendments, made equality explicit in the Constitution, extending civil and political rights to newly freed African Americans.

Democracies in peril

In his State of the Union address on Jan. 6, 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sounded a new alarm.
His “Four Freedoms” speech was an updated version of Lincoln’s and further defined freedom within a democracy.
The immediate issue was whether the U.S. should help England and other European allies defend against the fascist regimes of German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
Biden called out Trump for his “big lie” about the 2020 election that Trump has repeatedly claim was “rigged” against him.

Joseph Patrick Kelly volunteers for the Charleston County (SC) Democratic Party.

US Supreme Court decision on Trump-Colorado ballot case 'monumental' for democracy itself, not just 2024 presidential election

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Saturday, January 6, 2024

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Momentous questions for the U.S. Supreme Court and momentous consequences for the country are likely now that the court has announced it will decide whether former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump is eligible to appear on the Colorado ballot.

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Momentous questions for the U.S. Supreme Court and momentous consequences for the country are likely now that the court has announced it will decide whether former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump is eligible to appear on the Colorado ballot.
The court’s decision to consider the issue comes in the wake of Colorado’s highest court ruling that Trump had engaged in insurrection and therefore was barred from appearing on the state’s GOP primary ballot by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Maine’s secretary of state also barred Trump from the state’s primary ballot, and more than a dozen other states are also considering similar moves.

It’s the first time it has kept a presidential candidate off the ballot, much less a former one and the apparent frontrunner for the Republican Party nomination.
This was an extraordinary major decision from the Colorado Supreme Court.
I think the decision to grant only Trump’s case is a decision to make this as streamlined a process as possible.
Will whatever decision the court makes put to rest the ballot access questions in all the other states?
Those are months when the court is in recess, and they would have to come back from their summer vacation early.
They’ve scheduled oral argument on Feb. 8, 2024 so they want to move on as quickly as possible to put this to rest.

The two general points are that I think states have the power to judge the qualifications of presidential candidates and keep them off the ballot.
And states have done that over the years to say if you were born in Nicaragua, or you’re 27 years old, we’re going to keep you off the ballot.
You can look throughout history, going back to the 1890s, where ineligible candidates’ names have been printed and put on the ballot.
And we know that there’s Super Tuesday the first Tuesday of March when a significant number of states hold presidential primaries.

I filed an amicus brief on my own behalf in support of neither party in the Colorado Supreme Court.

Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area Announces FY24 Mini-Grant Awards

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Tuesday, December 19, 2023

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FREDERICK, Md. , Dec. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area (HCWHA), a certified heritage area encompassing parts of Carroll, Frederick and Washington counties, announces $23,728.00 in mini-grant awards to seven local nonprofit organizations:

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, Dec. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area (HCWHA), a certified heritage area encompassing parts of Carroll, Frederick and Washington counties, announces $23,728.00 in mini-grant awards to seven local nonprofit organizations:
The Catoctin Furnace Historical Society: $2,028 to acquire an historically accurate marquee tent.
Washington County Historical Society: $5,000 to fund work and improvements to ensure the appropriate long-term care, storage, and display of the WCHS's Civil War artifacts.
National Road Heritage Foundation: $5,000 to support the setup of the reception area for the National Road Museum and Boonsboro Welcome Center.
Emily Huebner, Director of Operations and Programs, Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area, (240) 608-5177, [email protected] , https://www.heartofthecivilwar.org/stakeholders/mini-grants

3M Production Plant Specifies Penetron Admixture for Durable Concrete Structures

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Tuesday, December 12, 2023

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EAST SETAUKET, N.Y., Dec. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The December 2023 completion of the expansion and upgrade of the 3M Materials and Film Plants in Decatur, Alabama, enhances the plant's workplace safety and production throughput. PENETRON ADMIX SB, a crystalline concrete waterproofing admixture, was chosen as a permanent concrete waterproofing solution.

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PENETRON ADMIX SB, a crystalline concrete waterproofing admixture, was chosen as a permanent concrete waterproofing solution.
PENETRON ADMIX SB , a crystalline concrete waterproofing admixture, was chosen as a permanent concrete waterproofing solution.
Waterproofing and protecting concrete with PENETRON ADMIX SB enhances the durability and service life of any concrete structure.
However, Moon Concrete Services, the project's ready-mix concrete supplier, submitted PENETRON ADMIX SB , a crystalline waterproofing admixture, as an alternative solution.

Sight & Sound Films Partners With Pinnacle Peak Pictures and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment For the Home Entertainment Release Of Its Debut Feature Film

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Tuesday, November 7, 2023

LANCASTER, Pa., Nov. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Following nearly five decades of producing spectacular, faith-based entertainment experiences live on stage, Sight & Sound partners with Pinnacle Peak Pictures and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment to release their debut feature film, I HEARD THE BELLS, for the first time on Digital and DVD on November 14, 2023. The release will contain bonus features delving deeper into the filmmaking and historical figures that inspired the film.

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The release will contain bonus features delving deeper into the filmmaking and historical figures that inspired the film.
With a nation divided by Civil War and his family torn apart, Longfellow puts down his pen, silenced by grief.
As the first Sight & Sound film ever produced, I HEARD THE BELLS far exceeded expectations, garnering a 98% Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes.
The partnership between Pinnacle Peak Pictures, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment and Sight & Sound opens the door for the ministry to reach audiences in a whole new way.