Charleston

In the novel “The Invention of Wings” Sue Monk Kidd takes us back in time to nineteenth century Charleston, when the world was ruled by only the white men. This book focuses on two strong hearted and determined women: Hetty “Handful” and Sarah Grimke. Both girls have very different stories but want the same thing, to be free. For Hetty it is a little harder since she was both a female and a slave, unlike Sarah who was a child of privilege. These girls had their own obstacles that they tried so…

Britain had a few goals when it switched focus of the American Revolutionary War from focusing on the north to moving down south. The strategy was to defend the West Indies and capture the tobacco and rice growing areas in Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia. Another strategy was to raise for loyalist troops to help fight the Patriots. At the time this may have seemed like a good idea, but with the French becoming a more important role in the war Britain underestimated the Patriot French…

When I graduate from Logan Senior High School, I intend to apply and take classes at BridgeValley Community and Technical College. To get into the nursing program at BridgeValley, a student must first be a high school graduate or have a General Educational Development (GED). They will also have had to achieve a 3.0 or above grade point average (GPA) in their high school courses. The student will then have to take a pre-nursing admission exam. They will need to make at least a composite score of…

Fort Sumter was originally constructed as a coastal garrison. The U.S. Army had Fort Moultrie but decided to build other forts around the harbor. In 1827, plans to build the forts began. In December 1860, after 32 years of construction, Fort Sumter was still not finished. Of the 135 guns planned for the fort, only 15 were in place. The fort’s outer walls were 8-12 feet thick and 50 feet tall. It had five walls, and on four of these walls there were two levels with guns that could defend the fort…

For years, Howardsville was a peaceful town, located near the foot of Putney Mountain forty miles southwest of Charleston, West Virginia in the Allegheny Mountains, with coal mines employing many workers, the town grew and the people prospered. After a negligent accident in which fifty four men were killed, the mines were closed, many people relocated and the mountain became a ghost town. One day, Bert Bishop, manager of The Eastern Auto Parts store was walking across the street from the Star…

pale yellows and a collection of reds scatter throughout the town’s mountains and city streets from August until late November. Hunt for waterfalls, snap loads of pictures, and stay at the Grove Park Inn for an unforgettable fall finale. 2.) Charleston…

Before the Lindy-Hop was popular and long before tap dance was established in the United States, Black Bottom dance was popular among both Blacks and Whites in Harlem, New York. The dance craze, appropriated from the blacks in Harlem’s nightclubs, became a big rage when brought to the white community and put on stage for the first time in 1926. Black Bottom dance, also known as “Swanee Bottom” was a popular dance among lower class African Americans in the early 1900s, but later was modified and…

Robert Pringle Informed his brother of the impending arrival of 30 barrels of illicit gunpowder immediately after informing him about the location of a naval patrol with a “strong squadron and a great number of troops on board.” Henry Laurens was quick to suggest illicit trade to a few of his trusted business relations, albeit in far more cautious terms. In a letter to Captain Thomas Osborne of the schooner Jolly Batchelor, Laurens stated that “ you and I both know that some branches of…

Fort Sumter is a fortification of an island located in Charleston Port, South Carolina. Originally constructed as a coastal garrison in 1829. Fort Sumter is most famed for being the location of the first shots of the Civil War (1861-65). U.S. Major Robert Anderson occupied the fort in December 1860 despite the fact that the fort was still under construction. Following South Carolina’s withdrawal from the Union, initiating a standoff with the state’s militia army. When President Abraham Lincoln…

gives us hope that things have and will change. Angelina Grimke along with her sister were the only white Southern women to be apart of the abolition movement. Birth/Early life Angelina Grimke was born february 20 1805 in Charleston South…