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|Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
Alan K. Frishman
Yet our students need to understand the fifties if they are to make any sense of the forty years since. After all, so much that informs their lives had its incubation in the fifties: civil rights, womenĺs liberation, the glorification of sport, the rise of teen culture, drugs, the Interstate, shopping malls, tract housing, urban decay, white flight, computers, modern medical techniques, television, and rock and roll.
Of course my students are attracted to explosions, crashes, loud noises and loud social movements. But they also need to understand the significance of social movements within times of seeming quiet, not to mention ôsocial quietö itself. Furthermore, it is extremely useful for me to teach my students an appreciation of historical subtlety. Einstein once said that he loved to sail on Lake Geneva in a calm because he could better understand the wind when it was still.
Another point: My students consider aspects of the fifties ôcornyö ˝ the music, the fashions, the hair styles, the attitudes. Yet as we who have been there well know one day they will look back upon their present music, fashion, hair styles, and attitudes the same way. Can I begin to impart to my students the type of thinking that will help them put current fads in perspective, that will reveal the transience of fashion, its origin by manipulation, and help to lead my students into the realm of critical reflection and historical perspective?
My unit will focus on the following films: ôAmerican Graffiti,ö (1973) ôDead Poets Society,ö (1987), and ôImitation of Life.ö(1959) All three films are set in the fifties, or immediately after. All three films deal with young people learning about relationship dyads, with all their tensions, insights, and possibilities: male/female, older/younger, teacher/student, black/white, rich/poor, good girl/bad girl, mother/daughter, father/son, brother/brother, life/death. These films also deal with four main themes that will be explored in the lesson plans at the end:
- 1. The search for identity
- 2. The tension between authority and autonomy.
- 3. The tension between choice and restriction.
- 4. The tension between community and ôthe territory aheadö (I borrow this phrase from Huck Finn Americaĺs most lovable good bad boy and the model for future generations of rebellious adolescents ˝ as he put it at the very end of his story: ôWell I reckon I got to light out for the territory ahead of the rest because Aunt Sally sheĺs going to adopt me and civilize me and I canĺt stand it. I been there before.ö)
If I could hear their music I would no doubt hear the same music listened to by their parents. I remember clearly ôOur Hit Paradeö ˝ a top TV show of that era with Snookie Lanson, Julius LaRosa, Giselle MacKenzie, and Dorothy Cullen. Parents and children would gather together in front of the old black-and-white Philco to listen to the same top songs, eagerly awaiting the showĺs climactic moment: the Number One Hit in the Nation (for everyone that is, young and old alike). Would it be ôHow Much Is that Doggie in the Windowö? ôA White Sport Coat and A Pink Carnationö? ôLove Letters in the Sandö? (Pat Boone was a particular favorite of mothers and daughters.) Or, perhaps, that hit among all age groups, a demonstration that Disney, even back then, knew all the right buttons to press: ôDavey Crockett: King of the Wild Frontierö?
Imagine such a show today, with Mom and Dad, Junior and Sis, all dressed alike, all listening to the same top hits. If we ever could return to such a homogeneous world, the marketers and ad people would no doubt gnash their teeth and cut off their ponytails. No, we are told today who we are through our possessions, whether we have them or merely want them. And the more niches there are, the more possibilities there are for sales. Clearly something happened between then and now to create this separation of subcultures. And, as Doherty pointed out, this separation started in the fifties and was indeed ôcarefully nurtured and vigorously reinforced.ö
We all like to know who we are, young and old. We all like to belong. We have these issues whether or not they are manipulated by Madison Avenue and Hollywood. Teenagers, however, are especially concerned with identity and belonging. As their bodies grow faster than their senses of identity, teenagers look in the mirror and around them to see who they are and with whom they belong. In ôImitation of Lifeö Sarah-Jane is confused. Whereas her mother Annie is dark-skinned African American, Sarah-Jane is so light-skinned that she can, as does, easily pass for white. In fact she spends almost the entire movie trying to reconcile this basic identity conflict. After Sarah-Jane and Annie are taken in by aspiring actress Lora (who employs the mother as a domestic and nanny) and her baby-doll daughter Susie, whom Annie rescues at the beach, there are a number of scenes that center on this conflict:
Six-year-old Susie shows Sarah-Jane her doll collection and, in all innocence, offers her the black one, Sarah-Jane throws it against the wall.
A few months later when Annie turns up at her school in a rainstorm to bring her a coat and umbrella, Sarah-Jane is mortified and violent.
Years later, as a teenager, Sarah-Jane is dating a white boy. When he finds out about her ôsecret,ö he not only dumps her, he beats her up.
While Sarah-Jane and Annie are playing out their mother-daughter game, Lora (Lana Turner) and Susie (Sandra Dee) have their own version. Lora, obsessed with fame, fails to notice that her own daughter has become a miniature doll version of herself. Sixteen-year old Susie wonĺt go to bed until sheĺs properly ôwedö to the saintly, pipe-smoking father figure and photographer, Steve Archer. In an ironic twist on the relationship between real life and its imitation, Susieĺs ôweddingö a few years later transforms itself into a graduation ceremony which just happens to take place at Lana Turnerĺs real-life daughterĺs exclusive private school.
There is an additional conflict in identity one that has more meaning in the fifties to women than men in ôImitation of Life.ö After all, that film is more a ôwomanĺs pictureö than either ôAmerican Graffitiö (guys picking up girls, drag racing, etc.) or ôDead Poets Societyö (set in all-male boarding school). That conflict in female identity is between motherhood and career. In ôImitation of Lifeö the director Sirk continually draws parallels between the ôgoodö mother, Annie, and the ôbadö mother, Lora, in their relationships with both their daughters and their careers. Like Lana Turner, Lora has an acting career and is frequently out of the house. Like Lana Turner, Lora also sends her daughter to a boarding school. And like Lana Turner as much as was allowed under the censorship of the Hays office there is the suggestion of relationships between the unmarried actress and men who cross her path. Annie, on the other hand, is the consummate housekeeper, and she is very concerned about her daughter. Did America in the fifties approve of a woman choosing a career over a man, especially one like Charlton Heston? Letĺs consider ôLucy Gallantö (1955). In this film Jane Wyman, playing the woman of the title, agrees to marry Charlon Heston. But on one condition: she wonĺt give up her store. In fact she wants to make her dress shop bigger and better. ôIĺm going to give them [the local women] an opportunity to celebrate the way they like to, buying clothes,ö she predicts.
Of course Charlton Heston, who, among other accomplishments during the fifties received the Ten Commandments on Mt. Sinai, would have none of that. When he asks the Lucy character whoĺs going to run her store after they get married, and she replies ôI am,ö he intones: ôI thought being married is a full-time job. What about kids? How are you going to manage that? Move the maternity ward into the store?ö
In 1955 there one was only one possible way for them to get married. Lucy had to come to her senses. Her store burns down, and Heston lends her the money she needs to pay off the bank. Wyman, older now and wiser ˝ recognizing he need of being rescued by a man ˝ finally tells Heston she wants to get married. This exchange follows:
Heston: Whoĺll mind the store?
Wyman: What store?
- ____(Kiss.)
Another film set in same time period that deals with relationships is ôAmerican Graffiti.ö The relationships in this film are all about teenagers ˝ their relationships with each other, and with the adults that hover on the periphery of their lives. ôAmerican Graffiti,ö made on a modest budget by a novice director, became
- ____(End of movie.)
ůa watershed of the modern American cinema, one of the most influential films of the 1970ĺs. The American film industry had suffered a serious identity crisis during the 1960ĺs, desperately trying to adapt to a more radical consciousness, particularly among younger audiences, and still remain in touch with the traditional values inherent in any large industry. There were indications as early as 1971 that the industry might do well to abandon its awkward struggle for ôrelevanceö and look instead to the past for filmic material. Historical settings, of course, had always been common in the movies, but most often in generic terms ˝ the distant past of the costume epic, for instance, or the stylized worlds of Westerns of gangster filmsůThe desire for a return to simpler times, when moral alternatives were clearer and life in general seemed (at least in hindsight) much better was supported by the national disillusionment over American involvement in Vietnam.(2)
In ôAmerican Graffitiö the kids get their identities from three sources: their cars, their music (Wolf Man Jack is the only sympathetic grown-up) and whom they hang around with. The movie opens with Bill Haley and the Cometsĺ ôRock around the Clockö blaring from a car radio. Rock music from various radios in various cars continues non-stop for the entire film. George Lucas, master American mythmaker, and only 23 when he directed this film, knew something about teens and music. The way he used music as an emblem of teen culture was a clear acknowledgment of the powerful new (in 1962) relationship between the newly exploited youth subculture and rock and roll. As Albert Auster and Leonard Quart put it:
ůthe fifties saw the development of a distinctive youth culture accompanied by a new (though derived from black rhythm and blues music) form of music: rock and roll. For many older Americans rock music was too loud and overtly sexual, and often sounded merely like aimless noise. However, at its best and most innovative (for example, the rock of Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley) the music had an energy, freedom, and earthiness that offered an undefined sense of a new life style, which vividly contrasted with 1950s conventionality. [In ôDead Poets Societyö two of the Welton students are careful to hide their home-built radio tuned to a nearby rock station from their housemaster. The fact they even have a radio is of immediate interest to the occasional girls who come into their lives.] Of course, by the late 1950s much of rock musicĺs class and regional identity had been bleached out and transformed into the mass-produced, bland sound of Frankie Avalon and his clones.(3)Indeed, rock and roll, by its very nature, was considered dangerous during its early days in the fifties. For the first time music crossed over racial boundaries, with integrated audiences listening to music taken from both black and white music traditions and performed by both black and white artists. Elvis Presleyĺs hip gyrations were considered so dangerous to the delicate sensibilities of the fifties adolescent that the TV censors would only show him from the waist up.
But there was a more serious, almost political, side to this new teenage music. True, most of the songs dealt with such teen concerns as love, sex, cars, dancing, and having a good time. Yet scattered among the good times we could see the early stages of a rebellion against mainstream, Organization Man, Man in the Grey Flannel Suit America. This rebellion might be subtle, with its emphasis on rhythm, or more overt like the refrain to the Coastersĺ ôYakety Yakö (1958), familiar to any teenager and his/her parents:
More seriously, the Robinsĺ ôRiot in Cell Block Number 9ö (1955) was a song describing poor conditions heading to a prison revolt. The Silhouttesĺ ôGet a Jobö (1958) reflected a mounting recession. (I remember Eisenhowerĺs wistful motto from the same year: ôYou Auto Buy Now.ö This was only three years after the famous ôWhatĺs good for General Motors is good for the U.S.A., parodied in the musical hit ôLĺil Abnerö with ôWhatĺs good for General Bullmoose is good for the U.S.A.) Similarly Bareet Strongĺs ôMoney (Thatĺs What I Want)ö (1959) became a classic depiction of the growing post-war obsession with consumer goods.
- Kid: Yakety yak, yakety yak.
- Grown-up: Donĺt talk back!ô
ôAmerican Grafittiö is more than just a sound track, however. It focuses on character development. The story takes place in a small Northern California town (from Lucasĺs own youth) in 1962, the day before two of its main characters ˝ high-school king Steve Bolander (Ron Howard) and honor student Curt Henderson (Richard Dryfuss) are scheduled to fly off to college. Other characters include John Milner (Paul LeMat), the local drag-racing champion; Terry Fields, or ôToadö (Charlie Martin Smith), Vespa-driving nerd and Milnerĺs friend; and Laurie (Cindy Wiliams), Steveĺs steady girlfriend and high school queen. While 1962 is not technically in the decade of the fifties, the life styles and values portrayed in ôAmerican Graffitiö are synchronistic with the 1959 dates of the other two films.
In California in1962 your identity is the car you drive. As the blond bards of California the Beach Boys suggest: ôSheĺs a hot-stepping hemi/with a four on the floor.ö Or perhaps: ôSheĺs my little deuce coupe/You donĺt know what Iĺve got.ö On the other side of the street: ôSheĺs got a competition engine/with a four on the floor.ö Without a doubt the car is the essential teen-age metaphor. Look, thereĺs Steve McQueen screeching through ôBullittö in a Mustang 305. Look again, and there are Tod and Buz blasting down ôRoute 66ö in their hot Corvette. (Although where they put their luggage ˝ they always wore cool clothes ˝ in a two-seater car with no truck is beyond me)
To define the characters in ôAmerican Graffiti,ö therefore, according to the laws of the day, I herewith present a list of the cars they drive (Please note that in keeping with 1962 California car mythology one of the drag racers has to drive a Ford, his rival a Chevy. It is certainly no accident that ôBullittö drives a Ford and Tod and Buz a Chevy. Compounding the climactic drag race at the end of ôAmerican Graffitiö was the fact that Laurie, temporarily upset at Steve, is riding shotgun in the ĺ55 Chevy.):
John Milner (insider tough guy with a heart of gold) ˝ is inadvertently saddled with the childish thirteen-year old Carol (Mackenzie Philips), whom he treats with grudging gallantry
Souped-up 1932 Ford, a ôdeuce coupeö
(ôSheĺs my little deuce coupe
You donĺt know what Iĺve got.ö Outsider (mean-spirited) tough
guy (Harrison Ford) Souped-up black 1955 Chevy Bel-Air
(ôSheĺs got a competition engine
With a four on the floor.ö)
Steve Bolander
(All-American boy) White 1958 Chevrolet Impala convertible
(ôSheĺs real fine
My four-oh-nine,
My four-speed, dual-quad, Positraction
Curt Henderson
(Smart kid)
Citroen 2CV, the French ôflivverö Juvenile delinquent gang member Candy apple red 1939 Mercury coupe
(All-American girl)
Nondescript American 4-door sedan Mysterious beautiful blonde
(Seems to whisper ôI love you at Curt through the window.ö) White 1955 Ford Thunderbird
(ôWeĺll have fun, fun, fun now
ĹTil daddy takes the T-Bird away.ö
Terry Fields, ôToadö
(Group nerd)
Vespa motor scooter Debbie unattached dumb blonde (Candy Clark)
No car There is more to life with teenagers than cars and music, however. Teenagers also find their identities in group affiliations, whether in 1962 California, 1959 Connecticut (ôDead Poets Society), 1959 New York City (ôImitation of Lifeö) or the Michigan, or South Africa, of today. Here, then, are the adapted results of a recent survey conducted by Ricardo Machine and Darin Martin where teenagers from two distant locations Troy, Michigan, and Florida, South Africa rate their own sense of youth subculture groups.4 The designations are the teenagersĺ own (Kids are always creative with their names). I have adapted the descriptions.
Florida, South Africa
The nerds: Shy, anti-social, aloof. Enjoy intellectual discussions. Like computers and the Internet.
The Jolly Jammers: The youngest end of the group (ages 12 and 13). Act younger than their age. Tend to show off. Donĺt know when to keep quiet.
Metalheads: Like heavy metal music. Dress in black. Divorced from reality. Isolated from other subcultures. Rebel against any form of authority.
Surfers: Laid-back. Go with the flow. A generally closed group, creating its own styles. Set apart with its own set of signs and codes. Acceptance based on physical appearance. Sports-minded.
Copycats: Imitate the styles of whoever is most popular.
Ravers: Like weird music. Into drugs, especially speed and ecstasy. Wear flashy clothes and like to show off.
Snobs: Feel superior to others. Connected by good looks and/or wealth.
Dreamers: Very laid back. Totally out of touch with reality, either with or without drugs.
Loners: Do not find acceptance among their peers.
Troy, Michigan
High-ons: Druggies.
Brains: Excel in academics.
Jocks: Athletic types, considered generally to be dumb. However, this group also has the most prestige.
Nerds (also called geeks): Dress in the fashion of the fifties.
Freaks: Identified by cosmetics and clothes. Body piercing, tattoos, weird hair, grungy clothing.
Preppies: The only group identified mostly by attitude.
The world of sports ˝ a clear reflection of out value system ˝ bears this out. Today we expect our star athletes to leave town for an extra million or two or three or ten. By todayĺs standards would Stan Musial remain a St. Louis Cardinal or Ernie Banks a Cub, especially considering that in 1959, the second year in a row the great shortstop won the MVP award, the Cubs paid him only $45,000?
In the fifties the big threat was communism. At Coral Way Elementary School we would duck and cover under our desks, safe, no doubt, from any thermonuclear blast. My high school history class was called ôAmericanism vs. Communism,ö with its clear implication as to which was better. To work for the Dade County Parks Department picking up litter and animal droppings at Crandon Park at age sixteen I had to take an oath that I was not a member of the Communist Party. It seemed the thing to do. I read 1984 in class and, properly, derided Big Brother. After everyoneĺs grandfather Dwight David Eisenhower was met with an angry mob in Japan I wrote a letter to the editor of the Miami News decrying ôthose Nipponese radicals.ö After all, Big Brother was communism and in battling the Evil Empire we, the country of the little guy, were fighting against unauthorized hierarchy and authority.
This, then, becomes the place where the politics of the fifties and being a teenager of that era meet. Teenagers already suspect authority. So when communism finally imploded (just as my ninth-grade civics teacher predicted it would) it validated our suspicions about hierarchy and authority. We are talking about authority in all its forms: not just a shoe-wielding Nikita Kruschchev but ôFather Knows Bestö and the paddle-wielding (and probably sadistic) dean of boys of Shenandoah Junior High School, my alma mater, as well as the paddle-wielding (and probably sadistic) headmaster of Welton School in ôDead Poets Society.ö ôAll authority is equally illegitimate,ö the philosopher Robert Paul Wolff wrote in In Defense of Anarchy (1971). ôThe primary obligation of man is autonomy, the refusal to be ruled.ö
Wolff sounds like my teenage sons, ages fifteen and seventeen. Movies champion this theme, of course, as their primary audience are my sons. Let us consider ôDead Poetĺs Society.ö In this 1987 film Robin Williams stars as John Keating, an idealistic young prep school English teacher in 1959 who inadvertently challenges two heavy-duty authority figures, the schoolĺs headmaster and the father of its most talented drama student. The student commits suicide after the father orders him to give up acting and prepare for Harvard and a medical career. The headmaster fires Keating not only for, he believes, leading the boy astray but for encouraging his students to Carpe diem! seize the day. Several of his students heed his call and resurrect the Dead Poets Society, a long-dormant secret coterie of students who love art and literature and seek to study it outside the deadening rigidities of the schoolĺs official curriculum. The message of the movie is powerful: true community is a rare and fragile thing, and authority is its enemy. And the only way to achieve true community is to question authority ˝ to break the rules.
Whatĺs curious in view of American history after the 1959 setting of the movie is that the message of ôDead Poetĺs Societyö combines the ideology of left and right. It manages to blend (or foreshadow) the student left of the sixties and the Reagan conservatives of the eighties. The connection to the student left is clear in the pre-shocks of protest we can sense in these sensitive short-haired kids and in their suspension of reliance on tradition. The connection to the eighties Reagan conservatives flows from the very center of the movie itself ˝ in its distaste for arbitrary rules and commands, of tyrannical fathers, headmasters, anyone telling the kids what to do. Given a comfortable life-style such a distaste for rules from above get easily translated into distrust of Big Brother. Could there have a better motto that served both the protestors at Columbia in the spring of 1968 and the corporate raiders of the eighties than carpe diem?
Welton, the prep school in the movie (The movie was filmed at Connecticutĺs own Gunnery) looks on the surface like the model of calm decorum (or Yale of 1959): short-haired young white males with ties and blue blazers, compulsory chapel, imitation Gothic architecture. But looks are deceiving, and just under the surface bubble two important points: One, adolescents ˝ of any era ˝ are adolescents. And, two, 1959 is just one year away from the start of the sixties, when even Yale went co-ed. (I was in the last all-male class, 1968. Many of my peers, while anticipating the social advantages of admitting young women did not welcome the competition.) Just under its calm surface, then, the student body at Welton harbors a body of disaffected spirits just waiting for rebellious mobilization.
I must point out, however, that ôDead Poets Societyö does not lower itself as do so many movies whose core audience is composed of adolescents to exploit the lowest impulses of its audience. After all, there are no hairbrained pranks. No one wrecks a car, sets fire to the chemistry lab, or does anything more with a girl than make out.
Keating, speaking for the film, constantly returns to his main point: the business of education is not to gather facts but to find a ruling passion, something around which you can organize your life. This is a point that seems to elude most kids these days, probably because it is point that popular culture of 1998 rarely troubles to make to them.
The teenagers in these three movies are constantly caught in the tension between authority and autonomy. Should Sarah-Jane be a ôgood girlö or an exotic dancer? Should she accept her heritage or deny it? Should the troubled youth in ôDead Poets Societyö be a doctor of an actor? Should the hot-rodding (but lovable) John Milton in ôAmerican Graffitiö obey the law or flaunt authority. After all, he not only drag races on public highways but stuffs his glove compartment with unpaid tickets. Should our all-American hero stay at home or get on that plane? Is the allusion to the end of ôCasablancaö purely by chance?
In the fifties the divorce rate was one percent. In the fifties, for whatever reason, people stayed married. Corporations stayed married too ˝ to their communities. Let us consider one case: the Lennox Corporation, which features the ghost of its founder, David Lennox ˝ complete with his workmanĺs coveralls ˝ prominently in its TV ads.
In 1895 David Lennox invented and started making his new type of steel furnace in Marshalltown, Iowa. Through the years the Lennox Corporation prospered as a manufacturer of boilers and, later, air conditioners. Although the Lennox Corporation could have improved its profit margins in the fifties by moving to a location where labor was cheaper, the company stayed faithful to its hometown sweetheart, Marshalltown, Iowa. Finally, however, in the late seventies the Lennox Corporation, like so many of the rest of us realized that ôThe times, they are a changin.ĺö (Bob Dylan, 1961)
Accordingly, even as much of the country moved from the Rust to the Sun Belts, the Lennox Corporation moved its corporate headquarters to Dallas. However, the move was not complete: its production facilities stayed home in Marshalltown. Finally, though, in 1993, the Lennox Corporation tempted by ever-growing choices even as it made record profits threatened to move its factory out of the little town it grew up in. But there was a happy ending to this corporate domestic drama. Dear old Marshalltown somehow was able to ante up $20 million to keep its one industry from straying. And to celebrate the Lennox Corporation started using the ghost of its founder as its TV pitchman.
This explosion of choice, whether facing the Lennox Corporation or perpetual comic-book teenager Archie Andrews, is in large measure the function of technology that did not exist in the fifties. There were no birth control pills back then to lessen the consequences of back-seat romance. There was no instantaneous communication by computer. While some families had TVs, there might be only one or two channels you could watch. Technologically, anyway, life was simpler.
What choices were available to the teenagers in the three movies we are discussing? In ôDead Poets Societyö there is very little choice. Rather, the young men of Welton are expected to follow close, narrow career paths, even as their daily routines are highly structured. We need only compare the restrictions of the dark, wooden, imitation Gothic Welton campus with the noisy, colorful, diverse interior of the public high school on the other side of town.
In ôImitation of Lifeö both daughters, Sarah-Jane and Susie, have little choice as to their life paths, and both, in their own ways, rebel. In ôAmerican Graffitiö the subject of choice is the central dilemma for the two central characters: to go away to college (with all the possibilities for the future that entails) or to stay home (with all the certainty that entails).
Clearly, though, we donĺt want to replay the fifties. We want to edit them. We want to keep the safe streets, the friendly grocers, and the milk and cookies while blotting out the racism and segregation, the sexism, the jingoism, the political bosses, the tyrannical headmasters, the inflexible rules, and the lectures on Americanism and the sinfulness of dissent. But, as a history teacher I must ask my students this key question: Is there any way we can have an orderly world without somebody making the rules by which order is preserved? Is it realistic to expect to recreate a community without the establishment of some sort of authority?
These questions are particularly relevant today when there is much conversation about a return to ôcommunityö and ôfamily valuesö in the same time there is renewed suspicion of authority. Hillary Rodham Clinton is not the only one concerned about a return to community. That subject, or at least that word, has been championed by conservatives as well. There seems to be a connection between devotion to the free market and individual rights, the elimination of affirmative action, a concern about governmental interference and a longing for good old-fashioned community. We can see this clearly in Ronald Reaganĺs 1984 re-election campaign, which was built around a series of TV commercials called ôMorning Again in America.ö These commercials featured the kind of stage-set small-town mainstreets the Gipper himself might have strolled down in his Hollywood days.
ôAmerican Graffitiö ends on a less optimistic note, however. A postscript to the movie suddenly broadens the scene from a bunch of confused kids in a northern California town to the country at large, with a foreshadowing of the loss of innocence that we know now is just around the corner from 1962. Curt, presumably to avoid the draft, is a writer living in Canada. Steve, the perennial home-town boy, has become an insurance agent. John, the undefeated drag-racing champion was, ironically, killed by a drunken driver. And Terry ˝ sweet, lovable Toad ˝ is missing in action in Vietnam. The innocent fifties are over.
Each student will research a U.S. subcultural group which lives a very different life from their own. Choosing from a variety of forms such as a diary or short story, each student will tell the story of one fictitious person in that group.
Objectives: The student will be able to:
Time frame: 8-12 class periods.
- 1. Demonstrate an awareness of what constitutes a subculture
- 2. Demonstrate an understanding of a hypothetical person from another subculture.
Recommended for: High school English and social studies classes
- 1. Students will research different U.S. subcultures in the library and/or the Internet.
- 2. Each student will decide on one particular subcultural group which lives a life very different from its own life (such as ethnic groups like the Navaho or Hmong, groups with strong cultural/ethnic backgrounds like the 3. Amish, or a group strongly impacted by their surrounding such as California surfers or Florida trailer-park retirees).
- 4. Each student will decide on a fictional format to present his/her project: a short story, diary, etc.
- 5. Students will work on their projects.
- 6. Students will present their projects in class.
Groups of three students will develop a survey to determine what subculture each of their fellow students identifies with. Each group will be asked to present its findings in a 3-5-page report.
. Objectives: The student will be able to:
Time frame: 8-12 class periods.
- 1. Demonstrate an awareness of what constitutes a subculture
- 2. Work collaboratively with other students
Recommended for: High school English and social studies classes
- 1. Students will review their findings from their previous lesson, ôStory of a Person from a Subculture.ö
- 2. The students will break into groups of 3.
- 3. The students will gather student attitudes and/or beliefs to determine 10 different topics.
- 4. The students will use a 1-6 Likert scale (1 = strongly agree, 3 = weakly agree, 4 = weekly disagree, and 6 = strongly disagree).
- 5. Each group will interview 25 other students (not in the class) using simple, clear, brief questions which are neutrally phrased.
- 6. Each article must include a chart of the results and an explanation of the results keyed to the chart.
Using songs from ôAmerican Graffiti,ö I ask my students to imagine scenes that might take place immediately before and after the events of the song. The students then develop these ideas into a script, rehearse, and perform it. Throughout the process the students work in groups and critique each other.
Objectives: The student will be able to:
Time frame: 8-12 class periods.
- 1. Demonstrate an appreciation for and an understanding of the music and values of the period (late fifties to 1962).
- 2. Write a coherent script based on characterization, theme, conflict, and emotional tone as found in the songsĺ lyrics.
Recommended for: High school English and social studies classes.
Suggested songs:
- 1. The students watch the movie with a copy of the lyrics from the songs in front of them.
- 2. The students break up into groups of 4-5
- 3. Each group selects one song.
- 4. Brainstorming. Each group compiles a list of ideas around which to write scenes. After one class period each group should have selected one unified idea.
- 5. Students write scene.
- 6. Students rehearse scene.
- 7. Students perform scene.
- ôSplish, Splashö by Bobby Darin (1958)
- ôMr. Sandmanö by the Chordettes (1954)
- ôRock Around the Clockö by Bill Haley and the Comets (1955)
- ôYakety Yakö by The Coasts (1958)
- ôGet a Jobö by The Silhouettes (1958)
Each student will prepare a debit and credit balance sheet of at least ten strengths and ten weaknesses of U.S. culture as depicted in the three movies, ôAmerican Graffiti,ĺ ôDead Poets Society,ö and ôImitation of Life.ö
Objectives: The student will be able to:
Time frame: 8-12 class periods.
- 1. Know beliefs, values, and behaviors important to a select group of Americans in the fifties.
- 2. Know how societyĺs beliefs, values, and behaviors have changed over the past forty years.
- 3. Recognize key influences on our changing culture.
- 4. Become aware of how our changing culture affects our lives in both positive and negative ways.
Recommended for: High school English and social studies classes
- 1. I will review what a balance sheet is for students, showing them examples from Nelke Saab, an automotive dealership I owned and ran in the eighties.
- 2. Students will break into groups of 3-4.
- 3. Each group will prepare a balance sheet of at least ten strengths and ten weaknesses of U.S. culture in the fifties compared to today, based specifically on the three movies mentioned above.
- 4. Each group will also prepare an outline keyed to its balance sheets predicting future trends with explanations.
- 5. Each group will present its findings to the class at large.
After watching, ôAmerican Graffitiö and ôDead Poets Society,ö each student will prepare a list of eight characters from the two movies. He/she will then list several salient aspects of those charactersĺ personalities and discuss which are determined by the time period and which would be true today. Each student will then decide on one student from the school today who fits those characteristics and explain why that is so.
Objectives: The student will be able to:
Time frame: 10-12 class periods.
- 1. Know beliefs, values, and behaviors important to a fictional character of the fifties.
- 2. Examine how societyĺs beliefs, values, and behaviors have changed over the past forty years.
Recommended for: High school English and social studies classes
- 1. I will show the films ôAmerican Graffitiö and ôDead Poets Societyö to the entire class. Students will break into groups of 3-4.
- 2. Each student will select four characters from each movie and describe the salient characteristics of those characters.
- 3. I will confer with each student about his/her choices and commentary.
- 4. Each student will decide which of those characteristics are determined by the time period and which would be true today.
- 5. Each student will then decide on one student from the school today who fits those characteristics and explain why that is so.
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3. Auster, Albert and Quart, Leonard, American Film and Society since 1945 (London: MacMillan) 1984, p. 42.
4. Martin, Darin and Machine, Ricardo, ôStudent Assignments on Youth Subculture Groupsö in ôContemporary Society,ö http://www.btc.coza1chap1a.htm.
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Doherty, Thomas, Teenagers and Teenpics: The Juvenilization of American Movies in the 1950s. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1988.
Magillĺs Survey of Cinema ô American Graffiti,ö June 15, 1995, http//www3.elibrary.com/getdoc.cgi?id
Monaco, James, How to Read a Film: The Art, Technology, Language, History and Theory of Film and Media. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.
Rosenstone, Robert A., Visions of the Past: The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Rogin, Michael Paul, Ronald Reagan, the Movie. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
Schickel Richard ôCinema: A Bothered School Spirit.,ö Time, June 5. 1989.
Sklar, Robert, Movie-Made America: A Social History of American Film. New York: Random House, 1975.
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ôDead Poets Societyö (1987), available on videotape.
ôImitation of Lifeö (1959), available on videotape.
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Monetary policy committee size and inflation volatility
Previous research on the optimal size of a monetary policy committee (MPC) focused on theoretical analyses and experimental studies. These studies suggest that the ideal monetary policy committee may not have many more than five members. In this paper we conduct an empirical cross-country study to explore whether there is a link between the size of an MPC and inflation volatility. The analysis for 75 countries which have adopted MPCs provides some support for the above suggestion: countries with less than five MPC members tend to have larger deviations from trend inflation than MPCs with five members; raising the number of MPC members above five does not contribute to a further reduction in volatility.
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uh, what exactly is that "Karl Marx" professor, a professor of?
They don't have to take the money.
What a badass Mr. Allison is. Every point he makes in the article is valid, and he's totally within his rights to request that his money go to something he believes in (it's called standing up for your values, folks...). I'd probably do the same thing. Deal with it, you whinning communist hippies: like everything else, universities are businesses, too.
In a perfect world, Ayn Rand's philosophy would already be required reading for young adults in any institution of higher learning. Mr. Allison should be applauded for his courageous decision...at lease he's doing his part to push America forward.
They don't have to take the money. But if I were a professor there I would be extremely pissed off. Ayn Rand is to a university what a pacifist is to the Marine Corps. And I understand the Karl Marx room point quite well. Few universities would be up for building a room devoted to Marx's works given their ideological content, so why the fuck should there be a room for a lesser ideological thinker? Universities are free inquiry, not indoctrination.
And by "whinning," of course, I meant "whining."
#3: Case in point. See kids, this is what an fully indoctrinated person looks like.
I don't know what UNC is worried about. All they have to do is make Atlas Shrugged required reading in a course entitled "Money and its Effects in Academe." The final exam will have questions like "How much do you think it's worth to have to have read Atlas Shrugged?"
Simple - create a course called Doorstop Novels of the Twentieth Century. Serve it up right after Finnegan's Wake and before Musil's A Man Without Qualities.
But both Finnegan's Wake and A Man Without Qualities have their merits, and repay study. Not true with Rand. You'd learn a lot more reading Jackie Collins, who at least knows a thing or two about pacing and characterization.
"In a perfect world, Ayn Rand's philosophy would already be required reading for young adults in any institution of higher learning." Ayn Rand didn't have a philosophy; she had a mental disorder.
@1 - he's a professor of Rovian Theology.
"Indoctrinated"...you mean with common sense and reason? Guilty as charged.
Saying that Rand's values are counterintuitive to those of a university (which you implied with your 'pacifist/Marine' comment) is one of the least educated statements I've ever heard. Did you even think that statement through in your haste to click POST? It makes no sense whatsoever.
Interesting. I used to work at BB&T, which is a very conservative bank.
...Anyway, #4 is correct. UNC, which is in Chapel Hill, UNCC is in Charlotte.
@8 made me laugh. only problem is no one would sign up for the course.
@12: I don't know if you've read any of the other anti-Rand posts here, but if not, I'll let you know, its probably not worth wasting your time arguing about her on the Slog.
It's unclear if a lot of people here have ever read anything she wrote or condemn her out of hand, but either way save your time and your frustration for a venue that might actually listen.
Me! Me! I've read The Fountainhead. All the way thorough. I'll listen. Promise. Tell me why I should read Atlas Shrugged. Please?
So have I: I read The Fountainhead all the way through. One of the most painful (and longest) experiences of my life. The woman simply could not write; and she had about as much understanding of human relationships as your average LaRouchie. But seriously, it's the terrible writing that sticks in the mind.
just stick the book in a comparative lit class and read atlas shrugged and then read notes from the underground and let the students make up their own mind where they fall.
"It's going to make us look like a rinky-dink university," UNCC religious studies professor Richard Cohen said Thursday after UNCC Chancellor Phil Dubois told the faculty council about the gift. "It's like teaching the Bible as a requirement."
and i don't know what the hell that is about. just because you have to include a book on a list doesn't mean you have to agree with it. you could include the bible in a comparative religions class where you read the koran, the torah, and the bible and see how all three share a lot in common. heaven forbid!
it sounds to me more like these academics don't like having some rich guy say they should include a book in order to get millions of dollars.
if they were smart, they'd take the money, and then build a curriculum whereby any thinking student could make their own value judgment on the matter.
i mean... isn't that the whole point of education?
Education existed long before the university was invented. Teachers existed. You could go to school to learn a job or become a priest. The point of this new thing they called a "university" was that you got a bunch of professors together and didn't tell them what they had to teach. Outsiders didn't control them; they had academic freedom. That's a university.
So telling a professor that they have to include Ayn Rand does kind of miss the point of a university.
The "Ayn Rand School for Tots" - from parody to reality.
12: Rand is a hack, a poor philosopher and a shitty writer. To me, it's pretty easy to see why Rand doesn't belong in a University. Her novels read like a "how not to write a decent novel" manual, and her objectivist "philosophy" is simplistic narcissistic, sophistic and egotistical bullshit masquerading as common sense.
What value could an Ayn Rand reading room possibly have to a University, other than as a tool to indoctrinate students to Objectivist philosophy (which is pretty much a cult of personality)? If I professor wants to assign her novel for whatever crazed reason, that's perfectly fine. If I were teaching a course on 20th century political satires and allegories, I'd probably assign "Atlas Shrugged" myself, albeit contextualized by the gag reflex it inspires in me. But a reading room? Compulsory reading assignments? Fuck that shit. Is it really necessary to torture students with her writing?
Imposing books based on financial contributions stands against the very idea of universties. But of course most randroids don't really believe in anything outside the profit or power motive.
I've read Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Anthem, and We The Living.
The human product of her ideas is the most horrendous thing about writing -- people use her ideas to justify their own greed and selfishness (no, not the Rand version of selfish), instead of finding inspiration to be the best that they can possibly be as a conscious member of our society.
It's sad that so many greedy fucked up people have been provided a handbook to new and better justifications to screw over even more people.
"about *her* writing"
Typo in that in the second sentence there.
Fucked her.
If I was on the UNC Board of Regents,T the Atlas Shrugged course should be a three-quarter, year-long sequence. During Fall Quarter, the class would read the book in its entirety. For Winter Quarter, the class will be subjected to repeated listenings of Rush's Moving Pictures LP, at terrorist-torturing volume, non-stop for the entire ten weeks of the quarter. Spring Quarter, I'm not sure. Maybe we'll force the class to stare at a portrait of Ronald Reagan until they finally go insane? A little help here?
What would be great is if the university agreed to the deal but made the reading required in a class on critical thinking, etc., in a way that would be extremely critical of her ideas. I'm sure there's some way to have it both ways.
Ok, I know that I'm taking a risk even getting involved in this thread, given my open Ayn Rand-bashing and art-stabbing history here. But the real issue is this: no donor can mandate a professor's syllabus in a real university or college. Parallel: if some idiot from the Discovery Institute were to offer to donate a pile of cash provided the university getting it gave Intelligent Design its own course, that university would be a laughingstock if they were fool enough to take the money.
Moving Pictures is one of the ten best rock'n'roll albums ever. The first nine notes of "Limelight" are sublime.
Its no coincedence that someone who has a million dollars to donate to a University is a fan of Ayn Rand.
Maybe you guys could put a dollar at the tip jar at your counter culture coffee shop and they'll let you leave a copy of the Village Voice there.
This is a kind of adulteration, parallel to what Jonothan Golob describes. Parents want the prestige of a university education, but they don't like having their ideology undermined. So they send their kids to Bob Jones "University" or whatever. It looks like a number of schools took the money, and some agreed to put in Ayn Rand.
You can sell the fake university education for a while, but eventually the word becomes diluted and people look harder for the mark of a real university education.
One! Million! Dollars!
Wow! Altruism sees Objectivsim's one million and raises $24 million.
@29 - Yeah, it's not. Makes you wonder what her fans are doing right, no?
Your jealousy that this guy has that kind of money to give away is SO transparent. Go project somewhere else.
I always thought Rand was the atheist side (the Bible being the other) of the justification coin right-wing nut jobs use to screw over anyone who ain't them.
Really, the only difference in methods is instead of "Jebus says O-tay! Gimme gimme gimme!", Randites say "I thought of this myself! Gimme gimme gimme!"
That being said, if dude wants to toss his money at you, go ahead and take it. Like most religious texts, there are a few good points surrounded by a lot of craptacular homilies and narrative. Public universities have religion departments; offer the course as an elective, and offer it to the professor that hates her the most.
Before I step in it here, I'm wondering -- if a university accepts a donation that comes with a catch like this one, does the university have the power to dictate to a professor, "You *will* teach this course, whether you like it or not"?
Should that be the case, I can understand why a professor would balk at the idea.
And, really, in today's economy, is one million dollars such a tempting donation that a university would grab for it, even if it meant teaching a course in Intelligent Design, Homeopathy, or some other make believe?
How about a Jackie Collins Room? Or a Barbara Cartland Room?
And "Valley of the Dolls" would be a much more informative book with much more relevant life lessons.
required texts aren't uncommon. in recent years, some universities have had novels that all incoming freshmen are required to read. so the professors have to teach it.
i don't dig rand, but i would think that a smart prof could teach the course and include the rand text while making it interesting as a contrast to other novels.
so what's the big deal? the school can do a lot with a million dollars or whatever.
UNC Charlotte isn't a rinky-dink university?
Somewhere, Ayn Rand and L. Ron Hubbard are laughing their asses off.
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KERSHAW – For the second time in six months, asbestos removal has become an issue for the town of Kershaw.
Asbestos has been found in the flooring of the charred remains of the two burned-out buildings on East Marion Street. The buildings burned March 1, 2015.
The cleanup contract was originally bid in February, but was rebid in mid-April because of the asbestos. Those new bids were due Thursday.
Lancaster County Building and Zoning has been assisting with the bid process, since Kershaw has no building standards department.
In theory, getting the old Barr Street High School campus on East Meeting Street placed on the National Register of Historic Places is a fitting gesture, considering its place in Lancaster County education.
Members of Lancaster City Council think so and unanimously approved a $3,000 request at their April 26 meeting to fund 120 hours of extensive research required for the application process.
Most of us who are still blessed to have our mothers will likely buy a card this weekend and maybe take our moms to lunch.
Bobbie Johnston can't do that and hasn't been able to since Mother's Day 2008. This year she put pen to paper, wrote a letter and tucked it in the door of The Lancaster News. She wanted to share her mom's story with someone.
From release
WASHINGTON – Sen. Tim Scott this week introduced the Investing in Opportunity Act, a bipartisan bill proposing a new solution to encourage economic growth and job creation in economically distressed communities.
The South Carolina Republican was joined by Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Reps. Pat Tiberi (R-Ohio) and Ron Kind (D-Wis.) in introducing the bill, which offers a temporary capital gains deferral in exchange for reinvesting those dollars into distressed communities.
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I get the same problem when i pretty much do anything else, even if I publish a post. The thing is that the post will be published even tho I get the blank page after pushing the button.
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It will get worse after market .lets team up on them lets push this higher in two weeks
Sentiment: Strong Sell
Breakout alert was issued on BOSC for Wednesday that baby has like zero float left it should soar
Funny how people hang on, hoping it'll be ok. This stock is a good lesson on self delusion. That's why it works. People see that 52wk high and think, Wow. Can't go much lower. Except that it will go lower because that's the it's designed. It takes a few big losses to figure it out. Too bad...g
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Celebrating 250 Years of Salem
Illuminate Salem
In celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the founding of Salem, NC, enjoy a concert each night on Salem Square followed by a magical light show that tells the story of Salem. Bring your family and a picnic blanket and experience the story of Salem in a most unique way.
These evenings are presented with support from Flow Automotive Companies.
Musical performances (made possible by generous support from Salemtowne Retirement Community):
- Thursday, August 11: Giannini Brass
- Friday, August 12: Bob Moody and Friends
- Saturday, August 13: the Salem Band
Following each musical performance, a light show created by Norman Coates of the Winston Salem Light Project will be projected on the Single Brother's House. The twenty-minute show, which utilizes photos, video, words, and music, will tell the story of the town of Salem beginning with its founding and continuing through its 250-year history in a unique and visually stunning way.
Illuminate Salem is FREE and open to the public, but the donation of nonperishable food items for Sunnyside Ministry is encouraged.
This event is being held in conjunction with our 250th Anniversary Community Day on August 13.
Where Salem's founders came from
Source: Records of the Moravians In North Carolina, Volume I, Adelaide L. Fries, M.A., Ed., 1920
Keeping time in Old Salem an act of 'constancy'
Dozens become American citizens in Old Salem
Salem NC - July 4, 1783
The Revolutionary War ended with the Preliminary Treaty of Peace signed in Paris on January 20, 1783. North Carolina Governor, Alexander Martin, made the official announcement to the North Carolina General Assembly on April 19 and the Assembly instructed the Governor to designate July 4th as a day of public thanksgiving. Only the Moravians heeded this directive and thus, their celebration of peace on July 4, 1783, is the earliest documented celebration of Independence Day in the United States.
The Moravian towns in Wachovia all celebrated the day in various ways, which included church services, lovefeasts, prayers, instrumental music, hymns of thanksgiving, and ringing of bells.
Salem had the most extensive celebration and the Salem Diary for Friday, July 4, 1783, described it well. In part it says:
According to the order of the government of this State we celebrated a day of thanksgiving for the restoration of peace. The congregation was awakened by the trombonists. At the beginning of the preaching service the Te Deum was sung… At two o'clock there was a happy Lovefeast, during which a Psalm of Joy was sung with thankful hearts…In the evening…the congregation again assembled in the Saal, and the choir sang…Then the congregation formed a circle in front of the GemeinHaus, and from there passed in procession through the main street of town, with music and the antiphonal song of two choirs…Hearts were filled with the peace of God, evident during the entire day and especially during the procession, and all around there was silence, even the wind being still.
Pictured is artist John Clymer's painting of the original 4th of July celebration in America, which took place here in Salem in 1783. The painting was commissioned by the American Cyanamid Company as a tribute to Winston-Salem on its 200th anniversary in 1966.
A special thank you to John Foltz for sharing with us your program from the 1966 celebration, which included this piece featuring the Single Brothers House.
Archaeology Interns Unearth Pieces of History at Old Salem
Grateful for a wonderful team of archeologists who have put in a tremendous amount of effort (in intense summer heat) to help us uncover more information on the early innovators of Salem, NC.
It will be the sixth year that Old Salem has held a Naturalization Ceremony on the same spot where the first official July 4th celebration in the U.S. took place in Salem in 1783. Each year, dozens of people from 27 different countries have become new American citizens during the annual Naturalization Ceremony on July 4 in Salem Square.
The Ceremony is conducted by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services staff and begins at 10 a.m. with special music, the Pledge of Allegiance, and speeches by several dignitaries. This year the keynote speaker will be Kay Hagan, former United States Senator for North Carolina. Perhaps the most moving and inspiring part of the event is the administration of the Oath of Allegiance and the presentation of certificates to the new citizens.
Admission to the Naturalization Ceremony is free. Streets around Salem Square will be temporarily closed to vehicles during the event.
From Relish (Winston-Salem Journal)
Photo credit: David Rolfe/Journal
Archaeologists digging for answers in Old Salem
By Kathy Norcross Watts Special Correspondent
Two 5 foot by 10 foot excavation units being dug on Lot 38 in Old Salem hold artifacts that further document the innovative and artistic heritage of Moravians — and it is this heritage that forms the foundation for today's "City of Arts and Innovation."
The work is meticulous. Archaeologists carefully remove the dark dirt with trowels and shovels, snipping roots along the way. Shovels full of dirt are sifted through screens to capture bits and pieces of history.
"People think treasure is gold doubloons and things like that," said M. O. Hartley, director of archaeology at Old Salem Museums & Gardens. "For an archaeologist, the treasure is in the broken fragments; the meaning is in all of those fragments and their relationship to one another. That's why we take the ground apart so carefully. It's in the relationships that the story is.
"The reason we want to look at Lot 38 is because that's where (Rudolph) Christ built his experimental kiln," Hartley said. "He built several kilns over there. We've seen a part of one of them partially exposed in 1975 when they were reconstructing the Van Vleck house."
Early test excavations found kiln furniture, Hartley said. Part of the technology includes "setting tiles" which are flat tiles that have been ribbed so that the pots don't adhere to the kiln during firing.
"In the mix above where we think the floor is, they found a setting tile that has been salt glazed: salt glazing means stoneware," Hartley said.
Finding stoneware is important because records indicate one of Christ's innovations in pottery was toward stoneware, Hartley said. But Moravian pottery before and after his time is lead-glazed earthenware. Hartley said that they hope Lot 38 will answer what Christ was doing…
Read the complete story at journalnow.com
Town Builder Nils Petersen
Born April 3, 1717, in Danish Holstein, Nils Petersen lived more than 87 years, and was the last of the Town Builders to die. In his old age he loved to tell the rising generation stories of the founding of Salem. He was the Town Builders' cook and Diary writer back then in 1766, and together with Gottfried Praezel he held morning and evening prayers for the company.
Petersen never married, but passed his days in the Brothers House, which he had helped to build, superintending the distillery, one of the industries carried on for the support of the house. When Salem Congregation was organized he was elected to the Aufseher Collegium (board of trustees) and "by the choice of his Brethren and of the whole congregation" he remained a member for 30 years. During the same period he was by turn business manager and spiritual leader of the Single Brethren, and "his industry, faithfulness, and punctuality" won for him the love and high esteem of all.
In 1774 he was considered for ordination, but he lacked two skills essential for Moravian ministers at the time, for Br. Petersen had "no gift either for singing or speaking." And so he remained a "silent, priestly Brother."
Though increasing deafness finally forced him to resign his official positions his general health remained good, and he rarely missed a church service, saying that though he could hear little "he could still feel the presence of the Savior, and could rejoice to be with the assembled congregation." His last months were a gentle slipping away. "If weakness is illness then am I indeed ill" he often said with a smile, as he eagerly awaited the summons home, which came November 4, 1804.
Pictured above: Gravestone of Nils Petersen in Salem God's Acre
Source: 250th Day By Day (Moravian Archives)
After spending the weekend in church services at Bethabara June 7 and 8, 1766, our Town Builders are back in Salem laying the foundation of the First House, and cutting timbers and sending them to the saw mill in Bethabara to be cut into boards and returned to Salem for the next stage in construction. It's a slow, slow process. You can't just email the local lumber yard for a shipment this afternoon when you must rely on horse-drawn wagons to deliver your supplies.250th Day By Day (Moravian Archives)
Experience early American history in the unique Moravian settlement of Salem. Original structures, gardens, tours, artifacts, hands-on workshops, fun family events and shopping.
Upcoming Events
- July 25, 2016Summer Adventures Camp: Grades 3-5
- July 26, 2016Summer Adventures Camp: Grades 3-5
- July 26, 2016All-American Summer Tours
- July 27, 2016Summer Adventures Camp: Grades 3-5
Stroll through award-winning restorations that create a landscape reminiscent of early Salem where utility, practicality and beauty united. Tours, workshops and plants for your garden.
For our Boy and Girl Scout leaders, save the date for our fall Scout Day on November 5, 2016. Take advantage of discounted admission (if booked in advance) for a wonderful day filled with hands-on activities and demonstrations. Bring your troop to celebrate 250 years of Salem, NC!
Details: www.oldsalem.org/events/event/scout-day/ ...
So many wonderful places to get out and explore in Winston-Salem, NC! ...
Heading outdoors this weekend? Check out these four unexpected hikes for you and your four-legged friend!
Fresh from Winkler Bakery's brick oven, sugar cake and onion bread to are ready to perk up your Wednesday ...
Tomorrow night we welcome back classical guitarist Michael Root to the West Street Patio (adjacent to The Flour Box Tea Room and Cafe) for Thursday Night Music in Old Salem!
Thursday Night Music in Old Salem, which takes place each week from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., is free to attend. Food and drinks are available for purchase from the Flour Box Tea Room and Café and patio seating is reserved for their customers. Lawn chairs are welcome. No outside alcohol permitted. Full schedule at: www.oldsalem.org/events/event/thursday-night-music-in-old-salem/ ...
Mark your calendars for the 250th Anniversary Community Day in Old Salem on August 13! Enjoy FREE admission to Old Salem Museums & Gardens for this special day.
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Old Salem 250 Celebration | Visit Winston Salem
Originally settling the area in 1753, the German-speaking Moravians, a devout religious group from Eastern Europe, brought with them skilled craftsmanship, strategic patterned gardening and practical hearth cooking practices. The area settled just outside of Winston-Salem, originally called Wachovia...
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Experience early American history in the unique Moravian settlement of Salem. Original structures, gardens, tours, artifacts, hands-on workshops, fun family events and shopping.
Stroll through award-winning restorations that create a landscape reminiscent of early Salem where utility, practicality and beauty united. Tours, workshops and plants for your garden.
View history through objects and material culture. Tour a wide range of early southern artistry, craftsmanship and stories found in the world class collection of decorative arts from the early American South, 1660-1860.


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PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) - An indictment alleges two Alabama men conspired to defraud the federal government out of thousands of dollars in assistance by filing multiple fraudulent claims on Mississippi Gulf Coast property destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
The indictment handed up by a federal grand jury also alleges that James Kelly Knowles and James C. Daughdrill falsely claimed to have rented space in their Mobile, home to a Jackson County, Mississippi, resident who fled the 2005 hurricane.
Knowles also is accused of making a fraudulent claim and then filing an appeal when the Federal Emergency Management Agency denied it.
The indictment alleges the conspiracy produced fake rental receipts, bogus contracts and other documentation.
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Endurance exercise and metabolism are linked to transcriptional activation of human telomeres, researchers propose.
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I should start by saying this: I am grateful to be writing this post today---not just because of the lunch of rainbow root vegetables or afternoon of hours spent photographing them that it represents, but because, about a week or so ago, pacing the floors at 2 AM while alternating between holding my sides and massaging my temples, the idea of writing a food blog post---or really, cooking or caring about cooking---seemed like something I might never be able to do again. I can tell you now that the pain was from a kidney infection, developed from a UTI, and it came complete with stones and intense throbbing and a weakening of my desire to live, to be honest with you. I've never experienced anything like this. I joked to some friends in passing this weekend, how can someone have that much pain and not get a baby at the end of it! But really, it was bad. I would look at pictures of me and Tim in the office, on our honeymoon or baking a cake last summer, and I would think, who is … [Read more...]
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CLEVELAND -- Pole-sitter Paul Tracy was able to skirt around
trouble and won Champ Car's Grand Prix of Cleveland on Sunday, one
year after a first turn crash knocked him out.
Tracy, who hadn't won on the Burke Lakefront Airport track since
1993, finished 3.113 seconds ahead of A.J. Allmendinger, who was
carried from the track on a stretcher on Saturday after a nasty
wreck during qualifying.
Oriel Servia finished third, 3.913 seconds behind Tracy, who won
for the 30th time in his career. It was also Tracy's second win
this season and gave him the lead in the series points championship
with 128, one more than two-time defending Cleveland champion
Sebastien Bourdais, who finished fifth -- 13.262 seconds back.
In brutally hot conditions, Tracy made it cleanly through the
course's treacherous Turn 1, where several Cleveland races have
been won or lost in the past, and avoided several other trouble
spots on the bumpy 2.106-mile layout.
A year ago, Tracy started on the pole but was rear-ended in the
first turn and sent to the garage.
"It was tough out there," Tracy said. "I never had a chance
where I could set my own pace. I was just chasing, chasing,
Tracy led the first 29 laps before going to the pits for the
first time. He didn't retake the lead until the 86th lap when Alex
Tagliani was forced to stop for fuel and new tires. Tagliani
finished fourth.
Tracy then led the final five laps of the race, which was
shortened to 91 laps from 94 to accommodate TV coverage.
Cristiano da Matta, who won his first race in three years last
week at the Grand Prix of Portland, was leading the race by more
than 5 seconds on the 51st lap before making contact while trying
to pass rookie Marcus Marshall and was knocked out.
Da Matta has returned to racing in Champ Car this season after
two winless years driving in Formula One.
"We were pulling away from everyone and it looked like we would
have a shot to win, so it's very, very disappointing," da Matta
For the fifth time in six years a car was knocked out after a
crash in the course's famed first turn.
This time, Ryan Hunter-Reay was the unlucky driver after the
back of the field got tangled up trying to negotiate the hairpin.
On Saturday, race officials said they would place an orange
construction barrel in the opening turn to help eliminate drivers
from diving to the inside at the end of the opening straightaway to
get to the turn first.
However, the barrel wasn't used as race director Tony Cotman
decided to trust the drivers to behave.
"Standard starting procedures are in effect," Cotman said in a
prerace memo to drivers. "Line up in two columns as usual and do
not move out of the line until the green flag is thrown. I trust
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A sensational all-round performance by Nottinghamshire Outlaws' Samit Patel narrowly failed to topple holders Durham Dynamos in their Friends Provident Trophy quarter-final at Chester-le-Street.
Patel's brilliant maiden one-day century lifted the visitors from 102 for eight to 188 all out, and he then sparked Durham's collapse from 127 for one to 177 for nine.
For the second successive year against Nottinghamshire in this competition it was Gareth Breese who secured Durham's one-wicket win.
Last year the Jamaican all-rounder hit 68 not out and this time he was unbeaten on 34 after driving the last ball of the 49th over for the winning six off Darren Pattinson.
With 12 needed off two overs, only two runs had come off the first four balls, but Breese drove a full toss wide of mid-off for four before his winning hit.
Patel, 23, took three wickets with his left-arm spin, with the first one a return catch to get rid of former team-mate Will Smith following a second-wicket stand 107 with Michael Di Venuto.
In the next over Di Venuto fell for 70 when he drove Pattinson to extra cover then skipper Dale Benkenstein looked aghast when he was adjudged to have edged Patel to Chris Read.
With Neil McKenzie hitting Pattinson straight to midwicket, Durham lost five wickets for 12 runs after needing 62 off 20 overs with nine wickets standing.
Breese joined Ben Harmison at that point and they put on 24 before Harmison holed out to deep midwicket.
Mark Ealham then weighed in with two wickets, but Mark Davies, who had been off the field through illness, kept Breese company while the last 12 runs were scored.
Nottinghamshire chose to bat in sunny conditions, but their innings was a one-man show as Patel hit 17 fours and two sixes in scoring 114 off 113 balls.
His innings began quietly with his side on 34 for four before exploding in thrilling fashion as his second 50 came off 30 balls. He put on 86 for the last two wickets with Pattinson and Charlie Shreck, who contributed nine between them.
With Davies off the field and unable to bowl his last two overs, Durham turned to Ben Harmison to bowl the 48th over and after his first ball disappeared for four the next was a straight yorker, which Patel tried to paddle to fine leg and missed.
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mhmmm, it's monday and I added few:
And OMG! I couldn't stop playing this one today...
Bombs Over Baghdad (BOB) by Outkast is great, high energy
Mine is a little... um wierd. I'm a gamer and a story writer (sometimes lol) so I end up listening to fast pace Video game soundtracks with a few other songs. Basiclly anything that will put me in my "zone" and get lost in the music or whatever story I was thinking of.
Before the race: Damien Fernandez: Drive (Urban remix)
The race itself: Warriors Orochi 2, Blazblue: Calamity Trigger, Mass Effect 2
The end push: Brutha: Turn it up (Louder)
The walk off: "Hero" by Naz
Where's the INXS love? Aside from the obvious upbeat hits (New Sensation, Devil Inside, What You Need, Pretty Vegas, etc.) there are a few lesser known gems that keep me going strong, especially Bang The Drum. Love it.
Other favorites on my lengthy playlist include:
Panama - Van Halen
Sabotage - Beastie Boys
Chugga Chugga Choo Choo - Choo Choo Soul (sure it's a kids' song, but my 2 y/o nephew loves it and it really will keep your feet moving!)
Too Funky - George Michael
Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
And We Danced - The Hooters
Celebration - Kool and the Gang
A Straight Line - Michael Hutchence (from his solo album)
West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
Starry Eyed Surprised - Paul Oakenfold
Theme from Superman - John Williams
Tha Shiznit - Snoop Doggy Dogg
And then for some reason I really like my run mixes to have a few TV themes thrown in, with my favorites being Land of the Lost, The Fall Guy, Tales of the Gold Monkey and the all-time best, Jonny Quest.
My favorite topic in the whole world, since it involves my two most important passions: running and music...
1. Fell in love with a girl- The White Stripes
2. Death to Los Campesinos - Los Campesinos!
3. Helicopter - Bloc Party
4. Viva La Vida - Coldplay
5. Sometimes in the fall - Phoenix
6.- Almost every song of Led Zep, but specially Whole Lotta Love
7. A-Punk - Vampire Weekend
8. Irresponsables - Babasonicos (great great great rock band from Argentina)
Just a few choices...although running silent is also enyojable...
Warm up...Bright Side of the Road~Van Morrison, American Girl~Tom Petty
Running...Build me up Buttercup~?, Come on Eileen~Dexies Midnight Runners, Follow you Down~Gin Blossoms, Santeria~Sublime, Unskinny Bop~Poison, Welcome to the Jungle~GNR
Foul Weather...Full Force Gale~Van Morrison
I'm enjoying checking out everyone's lists...I've been thinking of updating my playlist
On my MP3 player...
AC/DC greatest hits (live)
Everclear greatest hits
Nelly Furtado's Promiscuous
Rihanna Good Girl Gone Bad
When AC/DC comes on, I usually run faster.
5/8/10 Grand Valley Half Marathon 2:31:31 - first race...just getting started!
I have an electic playlist on my ipod for running, but am always looking for new stuff. I'm a new runner and old (43)
Right Round by Flo Rida (I love this song...great beat!)
Accidently in Love by Counting Crows
The Climb by Miley Cyrus (no judging...I like the words)
Lots of stuff from the television series "Glee"...they do a lot of upbeat music and I love the show.
For any lovers of eighties music, I recommend the soundtrack from the Broadway show "Rock of Ages". All eighties. Great stuff.
Put a Ring on It by Beyonce (not a fan of hers really but love that song)
Some MJ stuff like "Black and White" and "The Way You Make Me Feel".
I even have some upbeat contemporary Christian stuff like "My Deliverer" by Mandisa and "All Things are Possible" by Darlene Zschech
Alright already....now I'm gonna have to break down and get an Ipod....you all convinced me!
5K Races:
Earth Day 5K - Houston - 4/3/10 (39.07)
Yuri's Night 5K Fun Run - 4/10/10 (36.50)
so I'm going to seem like a nerd but here is my typical play list:
Soundtracks to : Rocky,
Top Gun,
Pretty in Pink,
then I add in some:
Cypress Hill,
Sir Mix Alot,
Vanilla Ice,
Michael Jackson (favorite being Man in the Mirror),
Bon Jovi (esp Its My Life)
Guns n Roses
3 Doors Down
Garth Brooks
Daruis Rucker
and when I'm not in the mood for music audio books are good too, currently The murder of King Tut previously For One More Day and The 5 People You Meet in Heaven
I know I'm forgetting some but I think you get a good idea
2009: Opperation Troop Appreciation 5k oct 29:44 (first race), Greensburg Turkey Trot 5k nove 31:09
2010: On Deck for the Cure sprint 1mi 1-4 9:00, Race for Grace 5k 3-20 32:11, Yough River Council 1/2 marathon 4-10 2:16:39 (goal for 1st 1/2 2:25) 3rd in AG, Pittsburgh Komen Race for the Cure 5k 5-9 30:08, Jerry Mahar Jr Parkinsons Awareness 5k 6-5-10 29:28 6th in AG
Las Vegas Rock N Roll Marathon 12-5 5:01:?? FIRST FULL MARATHON (with calf tear)
2011: Race for Grace 5k 3-19 30:56, Alpha Fitness 5k 4-9 28:57 8th in AG, Pittsburgh Half Marathon 5-14 2:17:52, 9/11 Heroes Run 5k 9-11 27:34 (PR) 5th in AG, Pittsburgh ZooZilla 5k 10-2 28:03, Greenburg 5k Turkey Trot 11-24 28:35
NEXT PLANNED EVENT: Race for Grace 5k 3-31-2012, Pittsburgh Marathon 5-6-2012, Great Race 10K 9-30-2012
I'm always a fan of adding new songs to my running mix. One that always remains:
"Don't Stop Believing" - Journey
Keeps me going and going, like the energizer bunny
Running to 80's songs never gets old for me...Journey, Aha, and Cheap Trick all bring a smile to my face mid-run!
Gotta throw the Lady Gaga in there too, and if you like instrumental stuff try Riverdance themes or the Boondock Saints theme song. Those are good long songs that keep you going.
Reindeer Run 5k - Dec 09
St. Malachi 5M - Mar 10
Cleveland 10-Miler - Apr 10
Cleveland Rite-Aid Half Marathon (May 10) - I made it!
"...you can call on the road whenever you feel like it. Whether it's been a day or even a couple of hours since your last date.
The only thing the road cares about, is that you pay it a visit once in a while..."
Love listening to music while I train. Here are some favorites of mine in no particular order....
Eminem - Lose Yourself
Eminem - 8 mile
One Day as A Lion - Wild International
One Day as A Lion - If You Fear Dying
Silversun Pickups - Rusted Wheel
Coldplay - Lost
Christopher Cross - Sailing
New Radicals - Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
Jay-Z - Empire State of Mind
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