Native American Day: Education About Preservation of Sites and Culture
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date: Sat, Mar 13, 2010 09:00 AM to 03:00 PM
location: Jacksonville, AL 36265
On the Square in Jacksonville!
cost: $0 + This educational event is free to the public. Bring your kinds out for a day of fun!
more info: www.facebook.com/profile.php#!/group.php?gid=268415789931&ref=mf
Native American Day: Education About Preservation of Sites and Culture
education preservation native american sites culture day about
date: Sat, Mar 13, 2010 09:00 AM to 03:00 PM
location: Jacksonville, AL 36265
On the Square in Jacksonville!
cost: $0 + This educational event is free to the public. Bring your kinds out for a day of fun!
more info: www.facebook.com/profile.php#!/group.php?gid=268415789931&ref=mf
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“My advice is if anyone owns one of these vehicles stop driving it and take it to Toyota dealer because they believe they have a fix for it,” LaHood told a House committee.Rep. Tom Latham, R-Iowa, had asked if the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration should broadcast information about how to handle a sticky gas pedal — whether the driver should shift into neutral, brake or turn off the car.(…)
Shelby County Reporter | Environmental group opposes the quarry
Following is a copy of the Jan. 26 letter presented by the Alabama Rivers Alliance to the Town of Vincent regarding the proposed quarry. The letter was written by Program Director Mitch Reid. I find it very telling, don’t you?“The Alabama Rivers Alliance asks that the planning commission recommend that the city council reject the proposal to undertake rezoning which would allow White Rock Quarries to engage in mining activities within the town limits. If allowed, this Quarry will have adverse impacts on the Coosa River (including the structural integrity of the Logan Martin Dam), the Spring Creek Tributary of the Coosa River, the groundwater on which the citizens of Vincent and Shelby county rely, as well as the established property rights of the neighboring landowners.
Folks:
I choose my causes carefully — this is one I feel is important. Please, read the note below and let me know what you think. We need input on this issue.
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From FB Page:
“Movement for Protection of Mounds and Cultural Heritage in Alabama”
“Hi everyone,
Based on the suggestion of Rainey Welch (Thanks, Rainey), we have decided that we wanted to hold an awareness and preservation of Native American and prehistoric culture in Alabama day. We have spoken to Dr. Harry Holstein of Jacksonville State University and Sharon Jackson of The Creek Nation to start getting the ball rolling. We have an appointment with an official in Jacksonville, Alabama, Thursday to discuss holding this on the square or at the recreation center. We do not have a date set, but we hope to have a date on Thursday, and we will keep all of you posted.
Once we get the date set, we will need volunteers (Native American drummers, story tellers, any musicians, artists, dancers, craft and food venders, and anyone who cares about this cause and is willing to help other people care too). Anyone interested in helping please contact us @raidernationdna@yahoo.com , so that we can try to start organizing and planning. We are trying to do what we can because we truly believe in this cause. We will post something in the next couple of days concerning our background information and why we care so much. We just want to let you know who we are on a personal level. Preservation of the past is very important and close to our hearts. The people in the past are all of our ancestors because we would not be here without them. It is time to honor that, stand up, and give those people a voice.
Bowing Humbly,
Cora and Rob”
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Want to know more?
Contact Rob and Cora, me, or search for the “Oxford, Alabama Mound Site” using Google.
Thank you, for your time.
– Cathy Ann Abernathy
weavercat@gmail.com
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Friday, July 10, 2009
Oxford, Alabama Destroying A 1500-Year-Old Indian Mound To Build A Sam’s Club
After writing the post yesterday about how the city of Oxford is destroying a 1500-year-old Indian mound to use it as fill for the building of a Sam’s Club, I just had to go see it for myself.It towers over the shopping center “Oxford Exchange”:
Anniston Star – Buried in Oxford Secrecy is a damning trait
Of all the troubling aspects surrounding the ongoing saga of Native American sites in Oxford, one has bubbled to the top.It’s the secrecy.
The discovery of human remains at the Davis Farm site strengthens the concerns of those who have long felt the city’s Native American sites could be burial grounds. Today, that’s no longer supposition.
Where there’s one grave, there may be others.
But it’s impossible to defend the secrecy (by some) and the convenient indifference (by others) that has kept the public in the dark about the activities and findings at the Oxford sites.
It’s appropriate that University of Alabama archeologists monitored the construction of Oxford’s sports park at the Davis Farm location. It’s also comforting to know that city officials are expecting soon a “full report” from the archeologists, The Star reported last week.
But it’s incomprehensible that the UA team told the Alabama Historical Commission that human remains were found and reburied — and Oxford officials weren’t told beforehand.
RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: Susan’s Extended Family, Calhoun County, AL and Beyond
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Anniston — Funeral services for William Spruill, 87, of Anniston will b e Saturday at 2 p.m. at Anniston Memorial Funeral Home with the Rev. Wi lliam P. Nelson, the Rev. Alan Jones and the Rev. Jeffrey Jones, offici ating. Burial will be in Anniston Memorial Gardens. The family will rec eive friends Saturday from 12:30 until service time at the funeral home . Mr. Spruill died Thursday at his home.
Survivors include his wife, Mary Francis Spruill; his daughter, Patrici a Gail Lusk and her husband, William H. of Glencoe; two grandsons, Marc us Lusk and his wife, Rachel, of Southside and Kristin Lusk and his wif e, Sandra, of Adamsville, TN; four great-grandchildren, Jonah Lusk, Abi gail Lusk, Ethan Lusk and Benjamin Lusk; his sister, Alliece Webb of La Grange, Ga.; two sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law, Gloria and Carl Jo nes and Maynard and Imogene Windom.
Pallbearers will be Willie Grant, Carl Jones, Marcus Lusk, Kris Lusk, R andy Lusk, Michael Bannister, Larry Webb, Terry Jones, Smith Wilkins an d Bobby Reed. Honorary pallbearers will be Mike Bailey, Morris Turner a nd Kenneth Fields. Mr. Spruill was a former member of Northside Baptist C hurch and a member of Anniston First Baptist Church at McClellan. He wa s a Veteran of the Navy and served during World War II. He was a retire d Fireman at Anniston Army Depot and other military bases. He also had o perated Food Mart #2. Anniston Memorial Funeral Home 3865 US Hwy 431 No rth Anniston, AL 36206 820-0024
Johnny Depp is Dead; Long Live ‘Dead Man’ Johnny Depp – Associated Content – associatedcontent.com
I was sorry to see that acting great Johnny Depp had been found dead again Sunday. It seems that the guy can’t go anywhere without getting killed — at home, on the road, in Manhattan… It is difficult to say exactly when Johnny Depp first died, but he’s been dying pretty regularly
Johnny Depp is Dead; Long Live ‘Dead Man’ Johnny Depp
Date: January 24, 2010
over the years, only to be resurrected by time and a reliable publicist. But a quick search through the internet suffices to find several stories of his tragic deaths — and the fact that he has not died at all.But such are wages of traveling the information highway — death, that is. It isn’t uncommon to wake up and find just about any celebrity dead, although some seem to be killed or found dead far more frequently than others.
US to lift 21-year ban on haggis | UK news | The Guardian
Smuggled and bootlegged, it has been the cause of transatlantic tensions for more than two decades. But after 21 years in exile, the haggis is to be allowed back into the United States.The “great chieftan o’ the puddin-race” was one of earliest casualties of the BSE crisis of the 1980s-90s, banned on health grounds by the US authorities in 1989 because they feared its main ingredient ‑ minced sheep offal ‑ could prove lethal.
Some refined foodies might insist it always has been and always will be: in the words of Robert Burns, in his Ode to a Haggis, looking “down wi’ sneering, scornfu’ view on sic a dinner”. But now, as millions of Scots around the world prepare to celebrate Burns’s legacy tonight with an elaborate, whisky-fuelled pageant to a boiled bag of sheep innards, oatmeal, suet and pepper, its reputation has been restored, on health grounds at least.
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