Travis County

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…

people free. At 25 years old, he escaped from his master's farm, but about a month after, he returned back to his master and said “The Holy Spirit” is the reason for his return. Although Joseph Travis, a farmer, was a kind person, him and his family were Nats first victim. They caught him next to Travis’ farm. He claimed that his mind was restless and observant, and wa devoted to fasting and praying. Turner began to talk to 4 slaves about “killing all whites”. He said that god gave him a…

Executing an Innocent Man " Death row” , this quotation remind me of a story that happened in Texas in 1991 for Todd Willingham, as detailed by the Travis County District Court of Texas. The latter was executed as he was found guilty of the murder of this three children in a fire that took place at their home. The official document also emphasizes that the wrongful execution of Willingham is a tragedy and must never happen again. Thus there are two objectives to this document. The first is the…

defend, but it isn’t not enough to save his life… Travis Alexander, a thirty years old salesman for PPL-Legal Services (a legal services company), had not been heard from by his friends or co-workers in five days.…

Working for the Travis County Constables office was an amazing experience. There are five different precincts in Travis County, but the particular office that I worked for was Precinct Two. The main things that they handle are civil matters such as property evictions and unpaid child support. There are three different departments warrant, civil, and civil/juvenile court. On average they see 4,000 warrants a year and make about $1,000,000. They process 5,700 civil papers a year and the average…

illness was called dust pneumonia. Dust pneumonia caused death if it got too severe. This illness caused death in many people of various ages. One of the stories told in “The Dust Bowl’ by Ken Burns was a story told by Dale Coen. Dale Coen, from Morton County, had a lot of siblings. Despite having many siblings, it was a long time before Dale Coen had a sister. After his mother gave birth to his only sister, they were all very happy. Then, tragedy struck and a few of Dale’s siblings contracted…

The room was still and quite, the guy was trapped to the device. It was a slow and dark night when a man was walking home from work and stopped to the sound of a loud scream from the building beside him, he quickly dialed 911. “Constantine County Sheriff’s Office, how may I help you?” “Yes ma’am I’m walking home from work and I heard a really loud scream coming from the old warehouse on Windmill Dr., I think you need to get to some cops out here to check it out, NOW!” The cops rushed to the…

Edward P. Jones’s The Know World deals with the subject of the free black class in Virginia. His story focuses on the county of Manchester and the circumscribed world of the free blacks in Antebellum Virginia. The story starts off at Henry Townsend's Plantation. Henry is a free black born into slavery. Throughout his life he has risen in status through his connection with William Robbins, the Townsend Plantation, and the teachings of Fern Elston. By examining the events before, during, and…

Slavery in Southampton County, Virginia was different. The slave owners there treated their slaves kindly and allowed them unheard of freedoms. Their slaves were content and had no reason to revolt. However, one slave had a reason, a divine purpose, he led a slave rebellion, with dozens of bodies in its wake, and instilled a raging fear into the hearts of slave owners across the south. In the book Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner’s Fierce Rebellion author Stephen B. Oates provides a non-fictional…

“You have asked me to give a history of the motives which induced me to undertake the late insurrection, as you called it- To do so I must go back to the days of my infancy, and even before I was born”. Born on October 2, 1800, in Southampton County, Virginia, Nat Turner was the leader of one of the most bloodiest rebellion in America. The Rebellion of Nat Turner is a historical day where we can remember the bloody massacre that lead to the death of 55 whites and over 200 blacks. Turner…