American Folklore Is More Than Just Scary Stories; It Carries a Value System - DONEGAL, Pennsylvania — It is 6:14 p.m. on a Thursday. You’re hiking along the Forbes Trail, nestled deep in the Appalachian Mountains somewhere along the Westmoreland-Somerset County lines. It is 19 minutes until sunset, and you have just over a mile to go, mostly uphill, before you are out of the deep forest and in […]
News From Around the South 10/20 to 10/27 - SOUTH CAROLINA: Sword swap: Statue of general who died after Battle of Camden briefly disarmed for repair A statue in Maryland’s capital honoring Maj. Gen. Baron Johann DeKalb is looking a little different lately. The 139-year-old bronze statue on the south side of the State House grounds is missing the blade of DeKalb’s sword. Instead […]
A Trumpian Headache - President Donald Trump’s use of the U.S. military to kill persons on speed boats in international waters, or in territorial waters claimed by other sovereign nations — all 1,500 miles from the U.S. — has posed grave issues of due process. The Constitution’s guarantee of due process requires it for every person, not just Americans. […]
Fallen Confederate Statues Take Center Stage in the Year’s Boldest Show - “Monuments,” a group exhibition in Los Angeles, led by Kara Walker, places contemporary art face to face with statuary removed in the last decade. A centaur is an uncanny thing, part-man, part-horse, that lives in a cave but trots through the city. In classical Athens — at the Parthenon, say — you often saw centaurs […]
Peace Isn’t A Deal - House Speaker Mike Johnson, a quick study in the art of laying it on thick, announced that he was teaming up with Israel’s Knesset speaker to invite parliamentary leaders from around the world to jointly nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize — and for nothing less than inaugurating “a new golden age.” Though refraining […]
