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The last American slave ship docked illegally in Mobile, Alabama in 1860, carrying about 160 West African captives. Among them was Cudjo Lewis, who recognized how his birth culture might be erased while toiling in this new land.

So when he was freed, he purchased two acres and started a self-sufficient community of survivors of the last slave ship. Known to outsiders as Africatown, Lewis' neighborhood was modeled on his West African home, where extended families lived together, members conversed in their regional languages, and partook in traditions that might otherwise be lost to them in America. Today, Africatown still exists and houses the descendants of the nation's last slave ship community.

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I am sitting on a park bench south of the town Bellagio, Lake Como Italy, relaxing and talking with my friend who I was traveling with. Many stories with this trip like getting last minute hotel reservations and not speaking Italian. I am glad I caught this scene with the solo boat.

More. At the Rosebowl football game. Did you see?

"Tournament of Roses Parade Officially Begins Era of Color Television in U.S." (1954) Printed from Newspaper.com

Bv Dick Turner plained NBC’s color coordinator ex-singer Barry Wood who flew out from New York to explain reds blues and greens to the local TV-ers “Nobody can buy a color set yet but the manufacturers have sent demonstration sets to those 21 cities and we hear there were many invitational previews to see the parade on them” Here NBC exhibited the parade on color TV to the local press and other guests who staggered out of bed at the crack of dawn on New Year's Day or ten days engineers have bustled about a street corner in Pasadena setting up wires and platforms for the big color cameras and rehearsing the commercials A crane was rented from a motion picture studio so one- camera could swing over the colorful floats made of thousands of bright flowers The show was received on existing sets in the standard black-and-white The white trucks will be familiar sights in many cities this year The crew of seven plans to televise the toy fair in Chicago the Mardi Gras in New Orleans cherry blossom time and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington and possibly the salmon run in Oregon “By the end of 1954 there should be many set owners" said Wood : “The first purchasers probably will be bars This may be like the beginning of black-and-white television — it will drive people i back to the saloons” ' Tournament of Roses Parade Officially Begins Era Of Color Television in 111 By ALINE MOSBY HOLLYWOOD (UK)— Two shiny white trucks drove 4000 miles to park at riday’s Pasadena Tournament of Roses parade — and to officially begin the era of color television with the new year The 20-ton NBC trucks are the only color-TV mobile units and they’ll trek around the country to televise events for the few lucky people including President Eisenhower who have color TV sets The first stop for the $600000 vehicles was the famous rose parade This program marked the first time color TV has been transmitted from the west coast and the first show since the government authorized’the new compatible system “Twenty -one cities- now are equipped to receive color TV" ex- o of if if of of be of of of the the of of D of I ig OL ftrfwW1 1. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-great-falls-leader-tournament-of-ro/137033150/

"Tournament of Roses Parade Officially Begins Era of Color Television in U.S." (1954) Clipping found in The Great Falls Leader published in Great Falls, Montana on 1/2/1954. "Tournament of Roses Parade Officially Begins Era of Color Television in U.S." (1954)

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"I asked an elderly woman once what it was like to be old and to know that the majority of her life was now behind her.

She told me that she has been the same age her entire life. She said the voice inside of her head had never aged. She has always just been the same girl. Her mother's daughter. She had always wondered when she would grow up and be an old woman.

She said she watched her body age and her faculties dull but the person she is inside never got tired. She never aged. She never changed.

Remember, our spirits are eternal. Our souls are forever. The next time you encounter an elderly person, look at them and know they are still a child, just as you are still a child and children will always need love, attention and purpose."

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