Boone County

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County play versus the short story had many contrasts. Yet, there were characteristics that differed between the two media forms. The setting, theme, plot, characters, and conflict are each a bit different between the forms of the highly-recognized story. The setting of two stories contrast in a couple of ways. To begin with, the play opens right in the old west. The short story, on the contrary, begins at Angel’s Mining Camp. The time period between…

Los Angeles is a place where people of different social backgrounds lead increasingly separate, parallel lives. Individuals from all social backgrounds participate in routine activities in micro-spaces throughout the city such as purchasing a cup of coffee or riding the bus to work. These people can be a student going to school or a senior citizen out on a stroll. Even though they may cross paths and share certain spaces on a consistent basis, that does not mean that they live identical lives.…

theatre history, such as the conventions of the Greek, Roman, and Elizabethan eras. I will continue to discuss staging conventions by analyzing and comparing different plays to these eras including Trojan Women by Euripides, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by William Finn, and The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare. In the Ancient Greek era some of the most prominent aspects of staging conventions…

Lost in Lust The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, with music and lyrics by William Finn, book by Rachel Sheinkin, and conceived by Rebecca Feldman, explores a lighthearted event, as the play title suggests, a middle school spelling bee. I watched the production on February 7, 2016 at 2:00 PM at the University of Washington’s Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse. This production was directed by Brandon Ivie, musically directed by Jordyn Meeker, and choreographed by Steven Sofia. This musical…

girls’ soccer in the 2015 Tobacco Free ______. I felt immediate relief and excitement when he told me. I have always wanted an opportunity to join Voice and be apart of the athletes against tobacco. Three days later I attended the 2015 Tobacco Free Boone County Voice training session with eleven other athletes and got certified in ____. During the training session I learned about the harmful effects tobacco causes and how to…

Wesley’s Community Service Founded in 1992, Wesley Community Services (WCS) fosters and supports seniors seeking to remain in their home for as long as possible through the provision of essential home-based services including Meals-On-Wheels (MOW), specialized transportation and home/personal care. Wesley also has a Pet Portions Program (PPP) which offers free pet food for client’s pets and PetKare program (PKP) which offers vouchers for veterinary services for clients' pets. WCS provided…

ensure they weren't mishandled, KVUE and Austin American-Statesman reporter Tony Plohetski learned from Chief Eric Mendez Thursday. The decision comes after concerns from parents on the handling of an alleged sexual assault of a 4-year-old girl at Boone Elementary School. Police closed the investigation without reviewing medical reports that showed the girl suffered severe trauma that required surgery. Both cases up for review by the department were closed after initial investigations. The…

they found a few Indian trails, notable the Warrior Path that crossed the region from the Cumberland Gap to the Ohio River, and any number of game trails. Daniel Boone opened the famous packhorse trail to Bonne borough, and other trails were soon developed that led to new stations and forts. Kentucky’s General Assembly in 1797 gave the county courts authority to oversee road construction and repair. Costs were held down by use of corvee, unpaid labor required from “all male laboring person” over…

Marsha Norman Marsha Norman’s work shows a raw clarity that exhibits pain in all its various forms, a true to life depiction of the life that goes on around us. Through my research into her work, I have discovered that she is a playwright I truly love, I just hadn’t known it yet. Her talents span different styles of theatre and she creates a resounding truth in her works that reach out and grab the audience by the heart. It is through her skillfully constructed text and heart wrenching…

The Pope County Militia War was a conflict between the reconstruction government of the state and county partisans, some of them former confederates who opposed reconstruction. Pope County was lacking a large slave economy. In 1865 governor Isaac Murphy appointed Archibald Dodson Napier a former federal officer as a sheriff of Pope County. On October 25, 1865 he and his deputy Albert Parks were shot by an ambush while they were riding horseback along the old Springfield road. The man who…