Black History Parade in Aiken Saturday at 2 p.m.
The Black Historical Committee marks its 12th annual Black History Parade in Aiken at 2 p.m. Today it will move to Sunday at 2 p.m. if weather requires. The procession begins on Florence Street by American Legion Post 212 and travels east on Hampton Avenue to Smith-Hazel Recreation Center.
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Black Historical Committee
Florence Street
American Legion
Hampton Avenue
Smith-Hazel Recreation Center
Red Box Rentals Top 10 DVDs Feb Four to Ten
Redbox kiosks list the week’s top ten rentals with Flight in first place and Here Comes the Room, Hotel Transylvania, House at the End of the Street, Alex Cross, Seven Psychopaths, Pitch Perfect, Paranormal Activity 4, Ted, and Hit and Run following. The ranking covers February 4 to February 10.
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Redbox
Alex Cross
Today in History highlights events on February 16
February 16 marks notable moments from 1804 Decatur raids Tripoli Harbor to burn Philadelphia to 1968 Haleyville Alabama first 911 call. Other entries include Fort Donelson surrender 1862 Elks 1868 Tutankhamen tomb 1923 nylon patent 1937 and Castro 1959.
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Haleyville
Alabama Horse
Rankin Fire
U.S
Tom Bevill
Stephen Decatur
Tripoli
Philadelphia
Fort Donelson
Tennessee
Ulysses S. Grant
Grant
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
New York City
King Tutankhamen
United States
Janani Luwum
Uganda
John Demjanjuk
Jerusalem
Ivan the Terrible
Treblinka
Demjanjuk
Supreme Court
Sunnyvale
Calif
Richard Farley
China Airlines
Taipei
Taiwan
Strets
San Francisco
Iraq
Michael Waltrip
Jimmie Johnson
Guthrie’s House of Earth unearthed after decades
Nora Guthrie describes reading Wood Guthrie’s late novel House of Earth, a 1946 to 1947 manuscript filled with nature, hardship, and a controversial graphic sex scene set in a cowshed. The work, published February 5 by Infinitum Nihil imprint Harpo, shows Guthrie’s leftist views and focus on a distressed couple, Ella May and Tike, amid a desert landscape.
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Chicago
Nora Guthrie
Wood Guthrie
Arts
Woody Guthrie Foundation & Archives
Woody Guthrie
New York City
Dust
Woody
Guthrie
Texas
Upper Plains
Als Isle
Bob ‘Dylan
John Lennon
Nick Cave
New York
House of Earth
Guth‘e
Coupe
Tike
Ella May Hamlin
Ella May
Blanche
Infinitum Nihil
Johnny Depp
Harprolins
Depp and
Hstoran
Douglas Brinkley
Cronkite
Hurricane Katrina
New Orleans
Mississippi Gulf Coast
House of Earth excerpt scene of decay and rage
In a tense scene from Woody Guthrie's House of Earth a man mocks a rickety shack then erupts in fury. He belittles the structure and its occupants and, flipping from grim amusement to violent anger, curses the building to rot and fall.
Ten Years Later book review notes life changing stories
Terr Schlichenmeyer reviews Hoda Kotb and Jane Lorenzini s Ten Years Later a collection of six profiles of people who faced adversity and reshaped their lives. The review highlights emotional honesty personal struggles and the author s hopeful message while noting accessible storytelling and relatable flaws.
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Hoda Kotb
Jane Lorenzini
Simon & Schuster
Canada
Kotb
Hind
Roxanne Quimby
Both
Lorenzini
Mater
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Aiken
RED Box Rentals
Sy Guthni
Beter
Amy Barnes
Bates
Hapines
Patrick
Diane van Doren
Ron Clifford
Terr Schlichenmeyer
Wisconsin
Hoda Kote
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