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hooked-on-elvis · 7 months

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ELVIS, ice cream and the long black limousine

PHOTO 1: Elvis Presley and leaving the Omni Coliseum in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 3, 1973. | PHOTO 2: Actress Sherry Boucher.

Billy Field, an instructor in the Honors College at the University of Alabama, traveled far from his hometown of Sylacauga, acting, writing and working in TV and film, before returning to his alma mater to teach screenwriting and film production. From days at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute (the method-acting school), he met actress Savannah Smith Boucher, who became a lifelong friend. He began to tell a story recounted by his friend's sister, Sherry Boucher, but then she called to re-tell it, first person. Boucher was once married to George Peppard, star from "Breakfast at Tiffany's" to "The A-Team," but her Elvis encounter preceded that.

Here it goes: In '73, while modeling for a car ad in Palm Springs, California, Sherry Boucher took an afternoon snack break from the desert heat. "... I was so excited about getting this ice cream," she said. As she walked, reveling in the cone, a man who she thinks was Elvis' longtime friend, Red "Sonny" West stepped up and spoke: "'There's a man in that car who wants to speak to you.'" But her folks back in Louisiana raised the kids right. She knew better than to approach strange men in cars, even if that vehicle was a star's long black limousine. She couldn't see through the windows. Possibly Red said: "You just have to walk on the sidewalk. Really, it's OK." "I'm licking this ice cream, and it's melting down my arm. I peep over, lean over, and look in the window; he rolls the window down. He went 'Hello, I'm Elvis Presley. You wanna sit down? Maybe we can get you something to help you with that'" overflowing ice cream. "I was thinking 'Oh my God.' Trying to be cool, trying to be not affected. He opens the door, and says 'You don't have to get in the car; we'll leave the door open.'" So instead of taking a seat with Elvis, Boucher sat on the edge of the limo's open door, both feet sensibly on the ground. As a young model and actress, she wasn't new to compliments, and comparisons: Depending on how her hair was styled, people would mention Natalie Wood, or Ann-Margret, though she didn't see the resemblances. But from her corona of long dark hair, Elvis pictured somebody else: The woman he was divorcing, mother of his only child. "He just had such a sad look on his face, and I said 'Are you all right?' He just looked at me, and I said 'You think I look her, don't you?' He said 'You do look like her.' And I said 'Well. I'm not her.'" She stuck out an ice-cream sticky hand, as if to shake, then had another thought. Asking for something to write on, she scribbled the phone number of her dad, Jesse Boucher. "I said, 'If you need anybody to talk to, my dad is unbelievable. He's great to talk to.' I said 'Mr. Presley,' and he looked at me and said 'Elvis.' I said, 'OK, Mr. Elvis, if you want to talk to my daddy, there's nobody better.' " "He was nothing but nice, but it was a very sad meeting," said Boucher, who after Hollywood days moved back to Louisiana. "I can't believe I was such a banana-head, to give him my dad's number." Source: https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/story/news/local/2017/08/13/readers-share-memories-of-elvis-king-of-rock-n-roll/19740202007/

PHOTO 1: Sherry Boucher (L) and George Peppard (C) attend the American Civil Liberties Union's tribute to Henry Fonda at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on June 1, 1974 | PHOTO 2: "THE F.B.I." TV show: Tom Skerritt, Sherry Boucher, 'Unknown Victim', (Season 6, aired Jan. 3, 1971), 1965-74

Elvis Presley smoking a cigar in the back seat of a station wagon at the Whiteman Air Park, Pacoima, CA on November 19, 1973.

#elvis presley #elvis #elvis the king #70s elvis #Hollywood tales #Hollywood #70s Hollywood

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queeryouthautonomy · 1 year

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State march masterpost (updated as information comes in!)

All times are local time unless otherwise specified. Reblogs are off because this is a living, regularly updated post; please see our website or send an ask for more information! Post you can reblog is here. Alabama: Florence—114 W Mobile St -> 200 S Court St, 3/31, 3:30pm (link) Montgomery—Alabama State House, 3/31, 1pm (link)

Alaska: Anchorage—Dimond Center -> Costco Wholesale, 3/31, 12pm

Arizona: Prescott—Prescott Courthouse, 3/31, 2pm Sierra Vista—Fry and Coronado -> City Hall, 3/31, 3pm (link) Tuscon—Tuscon City Hall, 3/31, 4pm (link)

Arkansas: Eureka Springs—Basin Spring Park, 3/31, 6pm (link) Little Rock—Lucie’s Place, 3/31, 6pm Marion—Brunetti Park -> Marion City Hall, 3/31, 5pm

California: Castro Valley—Castro Valley High School (non-students please join in once the protest has left school grounds) -> Corner of Redwood Rd and Castro Valley Blvd, 3/30, 3:35pm (link) Fresno—N Blackstone Ave & E Nees Ave, 3/31, 4pm (link) Hollywood—Corner of Sunset & Vine, 3/30, 4:15pm Merced—3055 Loughborough Dr -> Laura's Fountain -Applegate Park 1045 W 25th St, 3/31, 4:30pm (link) Pomona—Pomona Pride Center 836 S -> City Hall, 3/31, 4pm (link) Riverside—Back To The Grind Coffee Shop –> Riverside City Hall, 3/31, 4pm (link) Sacramento—Capitol Complex, 3/31, 12pm (link) San Diego—Balboa Park at the Bea Evenson Foundation -> El Prado, 3/31, 5pm San Francisco—Corner of Turk & Taylor -> City Hall, 3/25, 11am (link) | Patricia's Green -> City Hall, 3/31, 2:15pm (link) San Jose—San Jose City Hall, 3/31, 5:30pm (link) Santa Ana—Brad Brafford LGBT Center on 4th, 3/31, 6pm (link)

Colorado: Denver—Civic Center Park, 3/17, 8:30pm | West Steps of the Capitol, 3/24, 11am (link)

Connecticut: Bristol—131 N Main Street, 3/31, 1pm Fairfield—Upper Quad of Sacred Heart University, 3/31, 4pm New Haven—corner of Chaple and Church St, 3/31, 4pm

Delaware: Wilmington—Delaware Historical Society –> Rodney Square, 3/31, 6pm (link)

District of Colombia: Union Station -> US Capitol, 3/31, 3pm (link)

Florida: Altamonte Springs—3/31, 9am (link) Naples—Cambier Park, 3/31, 6pm (link) Ocala—Pine Plaza -> City Hall, 3/31, 3:30pm Orlando—Dr Philips Performing Arts Center, 3/31, 11am Port Orange—Corner of Yorktowne Blvd. and Dunlawton Ave -> Port Orange Regional Library, 3/31, 4:30pm Tallahassee—state Capitol building, 3/31, 2pm (link) Venice—Town Center -> Venice Beach, 3/31, 10:30am

Georgia: Atlanta—state Capitol building, 3/31, 12pm (link) Dalton—3/31, 11am (link) Gainesville—Gainesville Square –> Jesse Jewell Parkway (in front of CVS), 3/31, 5pm Savannah—Forsyth Park -> City Hall & back, 3/31, 6pm

Hawaii: Honolulu—state Capitol building, 3/31, 3:30pm

Idaho: Boise—TBD Shelley—Shelley City Park, 3/31, 2pm

Illinois: Champaign—McKinley Foundation Church Chapel, University of Illinois, 3/31, 5:30pm Chicago—Grant Park, 3/31, 5pm Rockford—1005 5th Ave, 3/31, 5pm (link) Streamwood—7 Augusta Dr –> 7 S Sutton Rd, 3/31, 8am (link)

Indiana: Fort Wayne—Boone Street Playlot -> Allen County Courthouse, 3/23, 3pm (link) | Allen County Courthouse, 3/31, 5pm (link) Hanover—Hanover College Quad, 3/31, 1pm Indianapolis—433 N Capital Ave -> 1 Monument Circle, 3/31, 3pm Terre Haute—Terre Haute Courthouse, 3/31, 5pm

Iowa: Des Moines—state Capitol building (West Capitol Terrace Stage), 3/31, 6pm (link) Dubuque—Dubuque Courthouse -> Washington Park, 3/31, 4pm (link) Iowa City—Pentacrest -> Wesley Center, 3/31, 6pm (link)

Kansas: Lenexa—Lenexa Rec Center -> City Hall, 3/31, 5pm Topeka—state Capitol building entrance, 3/31, 5pm (link) Wichita—121 E Douglas Ave, 3/31, 4pm (link)

Kentucky: Frankfort—front of Annex Building, 3/29, 9:30am (link) | Kentucky State Capitol, 4/8, 1pm (link) Lawrenceburg—Anderson County Courthouse -> 44 Anna Mac Clarke Ave, 4/3, 3pm (link) Lexington—Robert F. Stephens Courthouse Plaza, 3/31, 4:30pm | Outside of the Old Fayette County Courthouse, 3/31, 6pm

Louisiana: Lake Charles—Prein Lake Park, 3/31, 12pm New Orleans—Washington Square Park 700 Elysian Fields Ave, 3/31, 5pm (link)

Maine: Bangor—West Market Square, 3/31, 6pm Portland—456 Congress St, 3/31, 6pm (link) Rockland—Intersection of Main Street and Park Street (near Walgreens and Maine Sport) –> Chapman Park, 3/31, 5:30pm

Maryland: Baltimore—400 E Biddle St, 3/31, 5pm Oakland—32 Oak St –> 305 E Oak St, 3/31, 3pm (link)

Massachusetts: Boston—state house, 3/18, 11am (link) | state house, 3/28, 10am (link) Sunderland—North Star, 45 Amherst Road, 3/31, 12pm

Michigan: Detroit—Woodward-Warren Park, 3/31, 5pm (link) Fenton—Rackham Park, 3/31, 6pm (link) Grand Rapids—Downtown, 3/31, 5pm Lansing—state Capitol building, 3/31, 11am

Minnesota: Saint Paul—state Capitol building, 3/31, 9am (link)

Mississippi:

Missouri: Columbia—701 East Broadway Blvd, 3/31, 5:30pm (link) | Uptown Columbia –> Downtown Columbia, 4/15, 9am Jefferson City—Missouri State Capitol, 3/29, 2pm (link) St Louis—11911 Dorsett Rd –> 715 NW Plz Dr, 4/27, 1pm

Montana: Missoula—Missoula Courthouse, 3/31, 5pm (link)

Nebraska: Lincoln—state Capitol building, 3/31, 5:30pm

Nevada: Las Vegas—Las Vegas TransPride Center -> The LGBTQ Center of Southern Nevada, 3/31, 11am (link)

New Hampshire: Keene—Keene State College Campus Main Entrance -> Center Square, 3/31, 5pm (link)

New Jersey: Flemington—Flemington Historic Courthouse -> Flemington DIY, 3/31, 3:45pm (link) Trenton—State House, 3/31, 3pm (link)

New Mexico: Albuquerque—Civic Plaza, 3/31, 5pm Santa Fe—State Capitol -> the Attorney General's office, 3/31, 11am

New York: Albany—Washington Square Park -> Capitol Park, 3/31, 1pm Canandaigua—7 Mill St, 3/31, 3pm Forest Hills—Forest Hills Station, 3/31, 2:30pm New Paltz—SUNY New Paltz Campus, 3/31, 3:30pm New York City—Union Square -> Washington Square Park, 3/31, 5pm (link) | Times Square, 3/31, 5pm Penn Yan—Yates County Courthouse, 3/31, 3pm (link) Plattsburgh—Hawkins Pond -> Samuel Champlain Monument Park, 3/23, 3pm Utica—Genesee-Parkway Intersection, 3/31, 5pm Westchester—SUNY Purchase College, 3/31, 5pm

North Carolina: Asheville—TBD Mooresville—Freedom Park -> Town Hall, 3/31, 2:30pm (link) Raleigh—John Chavis Memorial Park, 3/31, 1pm Wilmington—Historic Thalian Hall Steps, 3/31, 5pm (link)

North Dakota:

Ohio: Cleveland—Free Stamp @ Willard Park -> City Hall, 3/31, 4pm Cleveland Heights—City Hall, 3/31, 11am (link) Columbus—Goodale Park, 3/31, 5pm Dayton—Lily’s Dayton (329 E 5th St) –> Courthouse Square (23 N Main St), 3/31, 4pm Lakewood Park—Lakewood Park, 3/31, 4pm (link) Madison—Madison Village Square Park, 3/31, 4pm (link)

Oklahoma: Oklahoma City—Supreme Court of Oklahoma -> state Capitol building, 3/31, 5pm Tulsa—Central Library, 3/31, 4pm (link)

Oregon: Bend—Drake Park, 3/31, 5pm Hillsboro—Civic Center -> 145 NE 2nd Ave, 3/31, 5pm Medford—Vogel Plaza 200 E. Main Street, 3/31, 4pm Portland—Tom McCall Waterfront Park -> Pioneer Courthouse, 3/31, 2pm

Pennsylvania: Harrisburg—state Capitol building, 3/31, 1pm (link) Oil City—Oil City -> Franklin, 3/31, 8am Philadelphia—Temple University Bell Tower, 3/29, 1pm (link) | City Hall, 3/31, 6pm (link) Pittsburgh—City County Building, 3/31, 5pm (link)

Rhode Island: Providence—the Wheeler School -> state Capitol building, 3/31, 11:30am

South Carolina: Columbia—State House Grounds, 3/31, 2pm Greenville—300 S Main St, 3/31, 3pm (link)

South Dakota: Brookings—City Council Building, 3/31, 5pm (link) Rapid City—Main Street Square, 3/31, 5pm

Tennessee: Knoxville—Downtown Hilton, 3/31, 10:30am (link) | Gay Street & Market Square (where the water fountain markers are), 3/31, 2pm Memphis—Civic Center Plaza, 3/16, 4pm

Texas: Amarillo—Amarillo Chamber of Commerce -> Potter County Courthouse, 3/31, 5pm Austin—state Capitol building, 3/20, 9am (link) Dallas—Main St Garden Park 1902 Main St, 3/18, 12pm (link) | Pacific Plaza, 3/31, 3pm Houston—Discovery Green Park -> City Hall, 3/31, 11:30am Killeen—101 N College St -> 1114 N Fort Hood St, 3/31, 5:30pm Lubbock—Mahon Library parking lot -> county Courthouse, 3/31, 5pm San Antonio—San Antonio Courthouse, 3/31, 6:30pm (link)

Utah: Salt Lake City—state Capitol building, 3/31, 5pm (link)

Vermont: Montpelier—Montpelier State House, 3/31, 12pm (link)

Virginia: Richmond—Open High School -> state Capitol building, 3/31, 3pm

Washington: La Center—by the bridge into town, 3/31, 5pm Olympia—Heritage Park -> state Capitol building, 3/31, 3:30pm Seattle—SeaTac Airport Station, 3/31, 1pm | Volunteer Park -> Seattle Courthouse, 3/31, 4pm (link) Spokane—Cracker Building, 3/18, 12pm (link) Walla Walla—Pioneer Park -> Land Title Plaza, 3/31, 3:45pm (link) Wenatchee—Memorial Park, 3/31, 4pm

West Virginia: Charleston—3/31, 4:30pm

Wisconsin: Appleton—Houdini Plaza, 3/31, 10am (link) Janesville—Corner of East Court Street/Jackman Street -> Corner of West Court Street/South Locust Street, 3/31, 2pm Kenosha—Civic Center Park, 3/31, 12pm Madison—Library Mall, 3/18, 2:30pm (link) | 534 State St –> Wisconsin State Capitol, 3/31, 12pm Milwaukee—TBD

Wyoming:

CANADA: Toronto, Ontario 3/17, 3pm, US Consulate (link)

#queer youth assemble #march for queer and trans youth autonomy #queer youth #queer pride #queer #trans healthcare #trans rights #trans #trans day of visibility #transgender #activists #activism #youth rights #protest

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lboogie1906 · 14 days

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William A. “Bill” Hilliard (May 28, 1927 - January 16, 2017) was the first Black editor of the Portland Oregonian, the largest daily newspaper in Oregon, and the first Black president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

One of four children, he was born in Chicago to Ruth and Felix Hilliard. His parents divorced and his mother re-married St. Clair Little. The new family moved to Oregon in 1936 so they could work as a domestic and a laborer for a family. He was turned down for a paper route with the Portland Oregonian because managers believed white subscribers wouldn’t want a Black paper boy.

He graduated from Pacific University with a BA in journalism. He started a weekly Black newspaper, the Portland Challenger, while he worked as a redcap at Portland’s Union Station. He became the first Black employee in the Oregonian newsroom, where he landed a job as a “copy boy.” He earned promotions to sports clerk, sports reporter, and religion and general assignment reporter. The Oregonian offered him his first management job as assistant city editor. The paper became the first on the West Coast to cover the national meetings of the NAACP and the National Urban League. He earned successive promotions to city editor, executive editor, and editor.

The paper started suburban-zoned coverage, boosted circulation, nearly tripled its ethnic minority staff, endorsed a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time, and became the first paper in the Pacific Northwest to hire a full-time foreign correspondent. He traveled to colleges and newsrooms around the country to lecture about the benefits and importance of newsroom diversity.

He made the Oregonian the first mainstream newspaper to bar sports team names that are racial slurs. He implemented the policy after Native Americans protested the Atlanta Braves and Washington Redskins, who had played in the World Series and the Super Bowl.

He lived with his wife, Dian. He had three children from a previous marriage. His honors included a Distinguished Service Award from the University of Oregon and membership in the Oregon Newspaper Hall of Fame. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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20th-century-railroading · 2 years

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Atlantic Coast Line 884 (all are FP7s) stored on a side track in Union Station in Atlanta, GA Rich's Depertmant Store at far left on Aptil 12, 1963 by Marty Bernard Via Flickr: Photograph by Roger Puta

#acl #atlantic coast line #1963 #trains #passenger train #freight train #history #atlanta #georgia

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wuxiaphoenix · 2 years

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Stray Thoughts: Interstates

Okay, here’s an aspect of life that if you live in the U.S. you’re probably familiar with, and if you don’t, you may be very startled by. And that would be the interstate highway system.

The U.S. is a big place. Big. And most of it is relatively sparsely populated, compared to, say, Europe. Bus networks are local and of varying reliability; passenger trains, slim to none. We get around by foot, horse, and most recently automobile. Everywhere. And I mean everywhere. Someone’s driven up to the top of a volcano in Hawaii everywhere.

But being able to get around the country fast is relatively recent. Pre-WWII, if you weren’t going by river traffic or by what railroads there were, getting from one part of the country to another could take considerable time. Moving lots of troops around? Very, very tricky. Yet that’s what was needed for WWII, and was anticipated to be needed to face off with the Soviet Union and China afterwards. So, the interstate highway system was created. With the object of being able to move troop transports, tanks, and other logistical supplies... oh, and of course regular people could use it if there wasn’t an active war on.

Which, it turns out, is what we do. A lot. Freight is hauled where it can be by trains, and there’s still plenty moving on the Mississippi and coastal canals, but to get anywhere away from the main ports and railroad tracks, most cargo goes by tractor-trailers. Drive carefully near them, they’re usually some of the best drivers on the road but they are big. If you have a small car their passing pressure can flatten you like a Shinigami captain.

If you get lost somewhere in America, there’s probably an interstate in driving distance. If you get lost on an interstate (don’t laugh, if you’ve ever seen a tangled row of 6 different traffic arrows each to a different road you’d know it can happen), then remember that odd-numbered interstates go north-south, while even-numbered go east-west. And most exits are numbered not in numerical sequence order, but by how many miles they are from the “start” of the interstate at the state line. For example on I-10 in Florida heading west, the last exit is exit 5, about 5 miles before it crosses into Alabama. Going east, it’s 362 in Jacksonville. Exits will have signs marking where you can get food, gas, a hotel, a hospital. Gas stations are good to stop in if you have to orient yourself - most of them sell highway maps, and can give you an idea where you are in relation to where you’re going. Just be prepared to decipher the local accent.

Now a few important safety tips. First, interstates are fast. No, not Autobahn fast, but highway speed limits of 65+ are common, and that is usually considered a lower limit. On top of that a lot of people driving interstates instead of other roads are either used to heavy traffic and drive without fear, or shouldn’t be allowed behind the wheel and are anyway. Make sure you’re calm before you start driving, you won’t be after.

Second - do not ignore the speed limits on the exit ramps. Do not. There are far too many built in steep curves; if it says 25 MPH, do not go over that. No, no matter how much the people behind you are honking. Unless you want to be the latest casualty on the 5 PM news broadcast.

Third, if you get on an interstate near Atlanta... don’t. Just don’t. And if you must, have a separate person navigating because odds are you’ll have to cross through 6 lanes of traffic to find your exit. If you can.

...This post brought to you by navigating to get dog back and forth to the vet, which requires the interstate since I don’t trust the other available bridge there. Yikes.

#stray thoughts #interstate

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p1325 · 2 years

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#fanvidfeed #2022 #happynewyear #happynewyear2023 #tvshows #viddingisart #multifandom -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Here's the list of the shows I used: -Stranger Things, Wednesday Addams, Willow, The Devil's Hour, All Of Us Are Dead, The Summer I Turned Pretty, First Kill, Parallels, Young Royals, Archive 81 -The Essex Serpent, Heartstopper, Echoes, 1899, Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk: Attorney At Law, Bad Sister, Guillermo Del Toro's Cabin Of Curiosities, The Proud Family -Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, Shantaram, High School Musical: The Series, Bridgerton, Moon Knight, Becoming Elizabeth, Uncoupled, Anatomy of a Scandal, The Girl In The Mirror, Heartbreak High, Archive 81 -The Woman in the House Across the Street from Girl in the Window, The Sandman, Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Midnight Club, The Serpent Queen, Wolf Like Me, Servant, season 3 -We Crashed, Surface, Dahmer Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, Why Her, Boundless, Andor, Candy, Under the Banner of Heaven, Paper Girls, Rebelde, Elite, Girls5eva -From Scratch, High Water, The Marked Heart, Plus and Minus, KinnPorsche, Tales of the Jedi, Surviving Summer, This Is Going To Hurt, Rap Sh!t, Only Murders in the Building Season 2 -Made for Love, Abbott Elementary, Derry Girls Season 3, Atlanta Season 4, Better Things, Reservation Dogs, Severance, Better Call Saul Season 6, La Fortuna, 61st Street -Tierra Incognita, The Santa Clauses, Maggie, Blockbuster, Chloe, The Dropout, SAS Rogue Heroes, Superman and Lois, season 2, Blackish, Murderville, Emily in Paris -Barry, House of the Dragon, The Crown, Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 3, The Witcher: Blood Origin, Billy the Kid 2022, Doomlands, Chucky Season 2, Somebody Somewhere -That Dirty Black Bag, Swimming with Sharks, The Boys Presents: Diabolical, Killing Eve, Minx, From, The Cuphead Show!, State of the Union season 2, Hacks Season 2 -Inventing Anna, Snowdrop, Reacher, Pam & Tommy, The End Game, How I Met Your Father, The Cleaning Day, Pivoting, The Gilded Age, Halo, Peacemaker, Tokyo Vice, Slow Horses - MacGruber, Station Eleven, Reacher, Grand Crew, American Auto, Bel-Air "My Kingdom, The Afterparty, Pistol, American Horror Story: NYC, Physical, season 2, In From the Cold, El Deafo (Jan. 7) -Power Book IV: Force, Promised Land, The Book of Boba Fett, Never Have I Ever, Monarch, Naomi, Just Beyond, Legend of Vox Machina, The Time Traveler's Wife (May 15) -Marvel's Hawkeye, Ghosts, Euphoria, Bridgergton, Zootopia+, Raised by Wolves, Queen Charlotte, Andor, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, The White Lotus, The English -That 90s Show, Ozark season 4, The Afterparty, Summer Heat, Anxious People, Inside Job Part 2, Grownish, Gorditas, His Dark Materials Season 5, The Kids in the Hall -The Pentaverate, The Staircase, Gaslit, Russian Doll, season 2, Outer Range (April 15), Loot (June 24), Pachinko, Our Flag Means Death, This Fool -The Boys, season 3, Westworld Season 4, Black Bird (July 8), Life & Beth (March 18), The Walking Dead, season 11, part 2, Roar (2022 TV series), The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

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Song: 2022 RENAISSANCE

Artist: AdamMusic

#mashup #mash-up #end of the year #tv shows #tv show #happy new year #2022 #2023 #netflix

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Re: Ur Tags on that post about high speed rail for lesbians, do you have links or recommendations for stuff to read? Bc expanding train lines and better cities and stuff is something I am interested in too and am always down to read about.

I've mostly been reading about Amtrak's "Connects us" expansion plan. They're trying to improve current lines, open up new ones, and connect over a hundred cities by 2035. There's some skepticism towards the proposal, since it favors the east coast and is largely reliant on government support.

Personally, I will take a moderately improved transit system that can lead to further connections in the future. And last year, under the recent infrastructure bill, Amtrak has received $66 billion dollars in funding for passenger and freight rail programs over the next five years. There's definitely been progress made over the first half of 2022, but also been a few delays.

Here's the most recent info I could find by state:

New York & New Jersey | The Gateway Program - a new pair of one-track tunnels under the Hudson River between Penn Station and New Jersey, additional track, as well as a redesign of Penn station. Here is a New York Times Article about it as well.

Virginia | Roanoke Expanded Service - Expansion of Amtrak Northeast Regional service to and from Roanoke daily, with predicted local ridership to double to 10,000 monthly trips within a few years.

Georgia | The Gulch - Bid for Amtrak to expand its Atlanta presence in the Gulch area, located in downtown Atlanta. Also, two of GA's rail projects have received $9.14 million for Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvement this month.

Vermont | Burlington Expanded Service - Amtrak's Ethan Allen Express will begin offering service to New York City from downtown Burlington. "Very soon, we will be able to climb aboard a train in downtown Burlington, and arrive in New York City in time for dinner," said Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger.

Alabama | Stalled Expansion - There's been some disputes between Amtrak and The Southern Rail Commission over cost and work disruption. Several mayors have made pleas before the board on Amtrak’s behalf.

Illinois | Chicago Union Station Access Project - Upgrades to Chicago’s Union Station Announced this July. Amtrak is leading the application process with an $850 million federal grant to invest in passenger rail services.

Louisiana | Awaiting Expansion - Bid to expand passenger rail in the state with a Baton Rouge to New Orleans line. Right now $12 million appropriation is being dedicated to the Baton Rouge-New Orleans leg and $10 million toward the Interstate 20 corridor.

Washington | Cascade Expanded Services - Restoration of Amtrak Cascades service north of Seattle. “WSDOT and ODOT are pleased to share that train service between Seattle and Vancouver, BC now will resume in September 2022."

California | The High Speed Rail Project - Based at Diridon Station, with regional rail lines from San Francisco to Fresno, Bakersfield, and Los Angeles. The project has been widely described as troubled, far behind schedule and suffering from management turmoil.

Missouri | Restored Daily train - After an eight-month hiatus, a second cross-state train is returning to Amtrak’s Missouri River Runner service, providing twice-daily service to and from St. Louis.

Washington D.C | Washington Union Station - A redesign of the Current Union Station, which has come under some scrutiny.

#I am manifesting that rail line from atlanta to savannah #please i need it!!! i can't keep driving through that traffic it is hell #asks #current event #us politics #transit

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Robins Air Force Base

". . . if the button is pushed, there'll be no running away. . . ." -Berry McGyure, Eve of Destruction

There were once four nuclear missile bases defending Georgia. One might assume they were for the defense of Atlanta, one of America's most important cities, but one would be mistaken. The missiles were meant to protect Robins Air Force Base in Warner Robins, an invaluable Strategic Air Command (SAC) base during the hottest part of the Cold War. Many giant B-52 bombers were stationed at Robins, waiting for the word to reduce vast areas of the Soviet Union to radioactive slag.

These bases housed Nike Hercules rockets measuring forty-one feet in length and two feet in diameter. The solid propellant missiles could reach a height of twenty-five miles at 3.65 Mach and had a range of seventy-five miles. Each carried nuclear of fragmentation warheads to swat formation of incoming enemy bombers out of the sky and counter jamming mechanisms. There were thirty-three missiles at each site, with twelve mounted on launching pads for immediate use. The bases, manned by 160 technicians and guards, operated between 1960 and 1966. Their highest state of alert occurred in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The best-preserved missile site is found just north of Byron on Boy Scout Road, where substantial remains of Battery B, 4th Missile Battalion, 61st Air Defense Artillery survive. Among encroaching pine trees is the fire-control facility, consisting of three tall towers that mounted radar devices, portions of the original eleven buildings that housed operations and personnel, a large water tank, and even electrical poles still strung with wire.

Boy Scout Road passes the guard shack and other buildings, which are behind a security fence. Another mile down the road and to the left is a heavily guarded pyrotechnics facility. On the ground are massive 1.5.-foot-thick concrete launching pads. The imposing earthworks were meant to protect surrounding residents from accidental missile explosions and later were a shield against exploding munitions manufactured there.

Battery A is located in rural Twiggs County at the intersection of I-16 and GA 96. The administration building was once used by the Twiggs County Board of Education and then by the Twiggs County Rescue Squad. Community leaders hope the old missile base will become an industrial park sometime soon.

West of Sylvester, near U.S. 82, are the remains of Sylvester Nike base. The site is occupied by a nursing home and Midway Auto Parts, but the distinctive radar towers are still prominent.

More Nike missile bases were located at Turner Field in Albany. Today a Miller brewery facility operates on the area (405 Cordele Road). A chain-link fence retains rusted WARNING signs.

Nuclear annihilation may be okay, but poor TV reception is another thing entirely. The public really didn't pay much attention to what was happening at Robins Air Force in Warner Robins until the air force television reception. The new system, called PAVE PAWS (Position and Velocity Extraction; Phased Array Warning System), was a ninety-million-dollar system with two faces, pointed southeast and northeast, to cover the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic Ocean. The structure-at ten stories high, the tallest in Houston County-resembles an enormous stereo speaker. Four security guards protected the enclosure with a 1,000-foot-long, barbed-wire-topped fence, which kept people and animals at a safe distance from the powerful microwave emissions.

The system consumed enormous amounts of electricity-its monthly power hill was about $45,000, based on the value of the dollar in the 1980s. Free electronic filters to head off television problems were offered to residents-though only one citizen complained-before the radar went into effect.

Operations began on November 10, 1986. Just two years later, the air force was required to reduce the power of PAVE PAWS because the system was found to be so strong that it could accidentally detonate bombs, missiles, and external fuel tanks of both military and civilian airplanes operating nearby-not to mention that it could screw up television reception.

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EXCLUSIVE: Trump's Viral Hug At Chick-fil-A Was With a MAGA Operative

Michaelah Montgomery is a "political consultant" and former Georgia GOP intern

J.D. Wolf Meidas Touch Network

A video of a Trump supporter who hugged the presumptive Republican nominee and shouted out support during a visit to an Atlanta Chick-fil-A turned out to be a Republican operative according to social media posts reviewed by MeidasTouch.

Nothing about Trump or his campaign is authentic. Every event is careful set up ahead of time and staged. They all fit into the same pattern every single time. On every road trip to an event or rally, the campaign sets up an excursion to a fast food restaurant either before or after his speech.

The campaign always has law enforcement officers waiting on the airport tarmac when he arrives. His advance team has throngs of cheering supporters waiting for him so they can get the photo and video clips for social media, Fox and Newsmax. It is all supposed to craft the image that there is a groundswell of spontaneous support for Trump from the grassroots.

But it's all staged.

He wears the same clothes. Gives the same speech. Repeats the same thing in backstage interviews. Follows the same script every single time. All to give off a "Man of the People" veneer before the pampered fraudster from New York City flies on his private jet back to Palm Beach where an army of people wait on his every need. If you watch all of his rallies and appearances, you can pretty much tell someone ahead of time exactly what he going to do and say every step of the way.

He has people in 'Blacks for Trump' tee shirts stationed directly behind him for the cameras at every rally, as if they are following him around the country on their own dime and just happen to get those seats randomly. They staged a fake union rally in Michigan where they had non-union people, many of whom were not even auto workers, holding up "Union Workers for Trump" signs.

The campaign used a staged sojourn to a local Chick-fil-A to create a three-days news cycle that there is a groundswell of black, working class Georgians who showed up to greet them. They posted photos that went viral on media and social media.

MAGA Republicans have been using the viral video and photo of Montgomery's hug to claim that Trump has overwhelming support from Black voters due to what appeared to be an organic outpouring of support from someone who just happened to be in the same place at the same time.

Trump seized on the moment posting a Fox News clip to his Truth Social account of Montgomery. Montgomery was introduced as the founder of a conservative themed group, Conserve the Culture. During the interview, Montgomery admitted to visiting the location with her students knowing that Trump would be there.

Regular people don't have pre-knowledge of Trump's visitations to a particular past food location for obvious reasons. As it turns out, on top of being having her own conservative group, Montgomery has worked as a Republican Party of Georgia intern for years, according to a LinkedIn profile and posts reviewed by MeidasTouch.

Montgomery describes herself as a "political consultant" and a "director of outreach and engagement" on LinkedIn. According to her bio, Montgomery worked for Blexit, which was founded by Candace Owens to recruit Black voters into voting for Trump and joining the Republican Party.

Blexit is now controlled by Turning Point USA and Charlie Kirk. Blexit director Pierre Wilson recently went on Charlie Kirk's show and indicated he approved Kirk's attack on MLK. During that interview, Wilson came out against Black History Month and Black movie categories on Netflix and Hulu, comparing them to segregated water fountains. "

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If you visit the Herndon Home museum in Vine City, check out the awesome 1890 photo of Downtown Atlanta in the lobby, pictured here. It appears to have been taken from the Capitol Building facing west/northwest.

For the second image, I used Google Earth to line up the view as it looks today, using the parking deck that now sits where the Kimball House was + the parking deck that now sits where Union Station was as guides. It's not pixel perfect but it's pretty darn close.

The overall built environment of 1890 is nicer in that it lacks the gruesome number of parking decks that the modern view has, and the streets are designed for walking.

But we're doing better now with pollution in this district. The smoke in the 1890 photo is awful. And even on that count we can do better -- seems like there's room for a lot more street trees in this section of Downtown.

(BTW one reason it's hard to line things up perfectly between these shots is that many of the streets in this part of Downtown are, today, viaducts that are raised up above the ground in order to put the roadways above the train tracks. In the 1890 photo the viaducts weren't yet built.)

#atlanta #urbanism #downtown atlanta

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Cris Kusner

Professor Hyslop

PCON 111

20 February 2018

John C. Turner: Civil War Heavy Artillery Officer

John C. Turner, the grandfather of my own grandmother, was an enlisted member of Company K of the Minnesota First Regiment of Heavy Artillery during the American Civil War. His wartime story has been passed down through each generation of my family, and his personal transcribed 1865 diary includes detailed documentation of every aspect of his one-year life in the army. The Minnesota First Regiment was an important support network for Union-controlled forts over the course of the last two years of the war (1863-1865), centered especially within the Western Theater. In January of 1865, the regiment had begun its recruitment by printing handbills that read:

“Volunteers for Heavy Artillery, 150 Recruits Wanted for Co. K , 1st Reg. Minn. Heavy Art. The undersigned is now ready to muster in all volunteers offering for this popular arm of the Service. Transportation to Fort Snelling will be furnished to recruits as fast as mustered in. Now is the time to secure a place in this Reg. and avoid the draft. All drafted men will be assigned to the old organizations. This regiment is only for One year’s Service-Government pays $100 bounty. Volunteers can be credited to any town they choose, the men must be raised in the next twenty days, or the Draft will take them, Come on then and Volunteer (Monday, January 16th, 1865).”

Turner, born in 1834, was a small store owner in the town of Faribault, MN and he, like many of his fellow enlisted men, were in their late twenties during the Civil War: perfect candidates for the war’s draft. The appeal to receive $100 to volunteer and serve rather than be subject to compulsory recruitment without much incentive was an obvious choice. Company K had quickly reached its desired population of one hundred forty strong, farm-raised men, and began its trek from Fort Snelling, MN down to Chattanooga, Tennessee to take control over the existing forts and provide additional ammunition for heavy artillery (mostly cannons). Prior to the regiment’s arrival to the established forts, however, was an important victory for the Union. Only months earlier, in 1863, the Chattanooga Campaign took place during which Union Major General William Tecumseh Sherman launched a surprise attack to gain key high ground surrounding Chattanooga from Confederate General Braxton Bragg (Woodworth, 2012). This victory pushed Confederate forces south and ultimately allowed for Sherman’s notorious March to the Sea, an infamous implementation of psychological warfare in which 67,000 soldiers marched from Atlanta, GA and into the Carolinas, terrorizing civilians and living off the southern farmland (Cox, 1994).

Company K’s arrival a year later proved to fortify Union defenses in the case of a potential northward Confederate invasion. Turner’s diary describes the hardships of being stationed in Chattanooga, with forced food rations and constant anxiety of having to see real warfare: “Captain went to making out requisitions, for arms ammunition and uniform jackets, and other things preparatory to marching order for we are anxious to get out of this place as soon as possible, as it is a very poor place for the men, I think if this is soldering I have a poor taste for it (Tuesday, March 7th, 1865).” The regiment provided a variety of services during its journey southward, ranging from ditch-digging and burying dead soldiers to capturing loose rebel army men. However, some of the most interesting aspects of Turner’s story are the recounts of his downtime in the evenings. In Chattanooga, groups of former slaves and current African American Union soldiers had performed for the regiment, providing “good violin music and good dancing” while enlisted men sat around campfires drinking alcohol and smoking tobacco through their pipes (Thursday, June 8th, 1865). This insight provides a unique perspective on war, one in which soldiers are thought of as more human than as killing machines, that soldiers, just like civilians, perform their day’s tasks and subsequently wind down in the evening with substances and entertainment to remove themselves with slight bliss. Because so many army men experience incredible trauma during war (even from solely seeing dead bodies on the battlefield), it is only rational to think that at the end of each day, an altered state of mind and body are reached in order to cope. Even further so, it is incredibly intriguing to see how the absorption of African Americans into the army was categorically accepted (by the Union) and even appreciated. Because of the nature of the Civil War (which was fought primarily over the question of slavery in the United States), it is only fitting for soldiers to not only fight for the cause, but at the same rate take the time to experience African Americans (Minnesota at the time most likely didn’t have a prominent African American population) as the United States’ culture begins to shift towards the end of the war. In fact, Minnesota was one of the very first states to recruit African Americans: “at the outbreak of war in 1861, Minnesota with a population of about 180,000 was the newest state in the union and the first to volunteer troops in its defense. The 24,000 Minnesota soldiers (including 100 free black men, scores of American Indians, and at least one woman) often found themselves on the frontlines or the last to leave the field in many battles and campaigns of the war, from the Dakota Territory, south along the Mississippi River, to the deep south and east all the way to Washington D.C. (Minnesota Board, 1890).” With an overwhelmingly motivated population, Minnesota served as a pivotal state in both the formation of the Union Army and through the course of the four-year war, as it recruited volunteers of all backgrounds and motives. Furthermore, Dred Scott, a former slave, was even held at Fort Snelling (where Turner was based), and the Supreme Court’s initial decision to not grant Scott freedom (though he resided in a free state) sparked controversy across the United States, and scholars even say that this decision might have contributed to the initialization of the Civil War (Alexander, 2007).

The family story of my great-great-grandfather is one that I would have never thought to have such an abundance of connections and contributions to my understanding of the Civil War as a whole. The efforts of non-combat enlisted men (like heavy artillery soldiers), in my experience, seem to go unnoticed when considering both the backgrounds and results of historical wars, even though these men and women constantly form the supportive basis for the front lines of the battlefield. Being able to research the different aspects of Turner’s story has allowed me to gain a more holistic perspective on the concept of war, moving away from solely studying war’s causes and effects to discovering the many psychological and “behind-the-scenes” features of soldier life. I, like my parents and grandparents, believe that it is important to keep the experiences of our elders alive, and will continue to pass down this story to future generations with the intention of discovering our incredibly fascinating family genealogy.

Applicable Photographs:

First Minnesota Regiment of Heavy Artillery outside Chattanooga

Credit: http://stoltzfamily.us/2017/04/28/first-minnesota-regiment-of-heavy-artillery/

Fort Snelling, MN

Civil war cannon covering the high ground over Chattanooga, TN

Works Cited

Alexander, Roberta. "Dred Scott: The Decision that Sparked a Civil War." Northern Kentucky

Law Review, vol. 34, no. 4, 2007, pp. 643.

Cox, Jacob D. Sherman's March to the Sea: Hood's Tennessee Campaign & the Carolina

Campaigns of 1865. Da Capo Press, New York, 1994.

Minnesota. Board of commissioners on publication of history of Minnesota in civil and Indian

wars. Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars 1861-1865. , United States, 1890.

Woodworth, Steven E., and Charles D. Grear. The Chattanooga Campaign. Southern Illinois

University Press, Carbondale, 2012.

(Please see attached documents for John C. Turner’s handwritten and transcribed diary versions)

Cited Diary Pages:

Monday, January 16th, 1865 (Recruitment Handbill)

Thursday, June 8th, 1865 (African American Entertainment)

1865 Newspaper Articles Compiled by John C. Turner to Support His Diary

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Atlanta, Georgia's Ahmir Lavon Merrell arrested near US Capitol in Washington DC

Ahmir Lavon Merrell, 21, of Atlanta, Georgia, United States is in Washington, D.C., United States. At around 12:40 p.m. on November 7, 2023, he was allegedly armed with a rifle while walking in the park across from Union Station in Washington, D.C.

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By • Olalekan Fagbade BREAKING; President Tinubu arrives New York first UN General Assembly outing New York, Sept. 18, 2023 (NAN) President Bola Tinubu on Sunday arrived in New York for the high-level meetings of the 78th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly. The UN correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Tinubu arrived at the JF Kennedy International Airport in New York at about 6:45pm local time. The President is leading the Nigerian delegation to attend the scheduled events of the general assembly from Sept. 18 to 26 in what is his first outing in his capacity as the President of Nigeria. The president was received by the Minister of Foreign of Affairs, Amb. Yusuf Tuggar, the Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the UN, Amb.Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, and Maj.-Gen. Dangana Allu, Nigeria’s Defence Attache, Washington D.C. NAN reports that Tinubu’s reception was a departure from the usual tradition where officials would line up at the airport to welcome the president. This time, only three officials were there at the airport to receive the President with the other Nigerian officials stationed at the UN Plaza Millenium Hilton Hotel to welcome him. Those at the hotel to welcome him were Nigeria’s Ambassador to the United States, Amb. Uzoma Emenike; Consul General of Nigeria in New York, Amb. Lot Egopija; and Consul General in Atlanta, Amb. Amina Samaila. Others are Akwa Ibom State Governor, Umo Eno; Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo; Gov. Uba Sani of Kaduna; Gov. Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe; and Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRasaq of Kwara, among others. Tinubu, in his inaugural statement to the Assembly, will be addressing world leaders in the evening of Tuesday at about 6pm local time. The Nigerian leader will be the fifth African leader to speak on day one of the gathering and 14th speaker out of 20 leaders slated to speak in Tuesday. Tinubu’s address will encompass several issues such as sustainable development, climate change, global cooperation, and the imperative to address inequalities and global humanitarian crises. On Wednesday, the Nigerian President is slated to participate in the high-level dialogue on financing for development. He will attend a high-level meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response. On Thursday, he will be participating in the UN Secretary General’s Climate Ambition Summit and attend a high-level meeting on Universal Health Coverage. He is also expected to join another high-level panel on reform of the global financial architecture. On Friday, he will be attending the high-level meeting on the fight against tuberculosis. During the week, Tinubu is scheduled to hold several bilateral meetings with world leaders including the presidents of the European Union Commission, Brazil, and South Africa, among others. Tinubu will also advance his economic development agenda for aggressive investments attraction in meetings with the global leadership of transnational firms. Among such firms are Microsoft, Meta Technologies, Exxon Mobil, General Electric, and a few others. The theme of the UNGA is: “Rebuilding Trust and Reigniting Global Solidarity: Accelerating Action on the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals towards peace, prosperity, progress, and sustainability for all. (NAN) CIA/YEE #TinubuarrivesNewYorkforUNGA

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