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Henry Berry Lowrie & The Lumbee
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Robin Hood Figure
Many locals remember him as a Robin Hood figure, particularly the Tuscarora and Lumbee people, who consider him one of their tribe and a pioneer in the fight for their civil rights, personal freedom, and tribal self-determination. At the height of his fame, Lowrie was described by George Alfred Townsend, a late 19th century New York Herald correspondent, as "one of those remarkable executive spirits that arises now and then in a raw community without advantages other than those given by nature.
Early life:
Lowrie was born in the Hopewell Community, Robeson County, North Carolina. Born to Allen and Mary (Polly) Cumbo Lowrie, Henry was one of twelve children born to Allen's two wives. As head of one of the most affluent non-white families in Robeson County, Allen Lowrie owned and operated a very successful 200 acre mixed-use farm in Robeson County.
Rise to power:
During the Civil War years, several Lowrie cousins, like many free men of color, had been forcibly conscripted to work on behalf of the Confederacy in building Fort Fisher, near Wilmington, North Carolina. Many resorted to "lying out" or hiding in Robeson County's swamps to avoid being harassed and rounded up by the Home Guard. Two of Henry Berry Lowrie's cousins were killed by James Harris after returning from their brothers' funeral. Henry Lowrie and his gang then killed Harris.
After Allen Lowrie's neighbor, James Barnes, accused the Lowries of stealing food and harboring escaped Union prisoners of war, the Lowrie gang killed him. The Confederate Home Guard convened a kangaroo court, and then executed Henry Berry's father and brother. The Lowrie gang then embarked on a series of robberies and murders with political overtones that continued on-and-off until 1872, a conflagration that would come to be known in North Carolina as the Lowry War.
Lowrie's gang continued its actions after the end of the war. Republican governor William Woods Holden outlawed them in 1869, and offered a large reward for their capture, dead or alive. The band responded with more revenge killings.
Henry Berry Lowrie's band of guerillas had become a powerful force opposing the Conservative Democratic power structure, who were pro-white supremacy. The Lowrie gang stole from, sabotaged, and killed many Conservatives. Moreover, they recognized the plight of the non-white population of Robeson County. Despite their best efforts, law enforcement was unable to stop, or even hinder the Lowrie gang, largely due to their popular support. However, shortly after one of his most daring raids, in which he robbed the local sheriff's safe for more than $28,000, Henry Berry Lowrie disappeared. Shortly thereafter, every member of his gang, save two, were captured and killed. Henry himself is reported to have been accidentally killed while cleaning his gun.
Henry Berry Lowrie's fame is unhindered by the relatively short amount of time he spent directly influencing the history of Robeson County. While there is no direct evidence that any member of the Lowrie gang self-identified as Indian there were numerous accounts describing Henry as being a mixed blood Tuscarora, there was one (listing nine witnesses) that stated that his grandfather claimed to be of Tuscarora heritage and another that went so far as to say that Pop Oxendine (another member of the gang) had the Tuscarora Indian blood in him just like the rest. As a consequence of these outsiders' descriptions of Lowrie as Indian, he has become one of the most notable figures in North Carolina Indian history. Paul Sant Cassia observed of Mediterranean bandits that they "are often romanticized afterward through nationalistic rhetoric and texts which circulate and have a life of their own, giving them a permanence and potency which transcends their localized domain and transitory nature. The same can be said of Henry Berry Lowrie.
Since 1976, Lowrie's legend has been presented every summer in the outdoor drama Strike at the Wind!. Set during the critical Civil War and Reconstruction years of Lowrie's career as outlaw-hero, the play portrays Lowrie as a Tuscarora culture hero who flouts the South's racialized power structure by fighting for his people's self-determination and allying with the county's downtrodden citizens, the blacks and poor whites.
The Lumbee:
The Lumbee are a Native American tribe of North Carolina, though their origins are disputed. While Lumbees today identify ethnically as Indians, according to documentary sources they are in origin a mixture of Native Americans, European Americans and African Americans. The name "Lumbee" is derived from the region near the Lumber River (or Lumbee River) that winds through Robeson County, North Carolina.
In 1885, the Lumbee were recognized by the State of North Carolina as Croatan Indians. They unsuccessfully sought federal recognition thereafter. In 1951, the Robeson County Commissioners conducted the first tribal election of a name. Tribal members voted for adoption of the name "Lumbee Indians of North Carolina". The Lumbee claim to be descendants of the Cheraw and related Siouan-speaking tribes of Native Americans originally inhabiting the coastal regions of the state of North Carolina.
In 1956, the United States Congress passed House Resolution 4656, known as the Lumbee Act, which recognized the Lumbee as American Indians. However, the Act also specifically prohibited the Lumbee from receiving federal services ordinarily provided to federally recognized tribes through the Bureau of Indian Affairs. As the only tribe in this circumstance, the Lumbee have sought full federal recognition through congressional legislation. Federal recognition through congressional legislation is generally opposed by some recognized tribes.
Origins and legends:
The area of North Carolina today occupied by the Lumbee is called Robeson County. Until 1787 it was part of Bladen County. When North Carolina Governor Matthew Rowan dispatched surveying parties in 1753 to count Indians in the state, the report stated there are "no Indians in the county."
Colonial tax records from 1768 to 1770 identified only one Indian in Bladen County, Thomas Britt, and Britt is not a name traditionally associated with Lumbee families. Inhabitants of Bladen County with characteristically Lumbee names were classified as "Mullato." Genealogical researcher Paul Heinegg traced the 35 Mullato families listed on the 1768-1770 Bladen County tax rolls and 24 "other free" families listed as Robeson County residents in the 1790-1800 censuses back to free persons referred to as "Negro" or "Mulatto" in Virginia or North Carolina.
A colonial proclamation in 1773 listed the names of Robeson County inhabitants who took part in a "Mob Railously Assembled together," apparently defying the efforts of colonial officials to collect taxes. The proclamation declared that "[t]he Above list of Rogus," which included many characteristically Lumbee names, "is all Free Negors and Mullatus living upon the Kings Land." A colonial military survey described, "50 families a mixt crew a lawless People possess the Lands without Patent or paying quit Rents."
In the first federal census of 1790, the ancestors of the Lumbee were among those enumerated as "free persons of color," a category used to describe free Negroes and Mullatos and meaning freed African slaves or products of mixed race unions. In subsequent censuses, they were counted in "all other free persons" or later "Mulatto." In the 1870 census, the first in which "Indian" was a separate category, almost all Robeson County residents with characteristically Lumbee names were classified as "Mulatto."
Alarmed by the Nat Turner rebellion of 1831, North Carolina and other Southern states enacted laws known as the Free Negro Code, curtailing the rights of free persons of color. In 1835, North Carolina adopted a new constitution abolishing the right to vote granted to free people of color by the 1776 constitution. During the debate, Judge Gaston of Craven stated that the majority of free persons of color in North Carolina during the colonial period were the descendants of white women who had unions with blacks and were "therefore (because of the race of the mother) entitled to all the rights of free men." Craven's argument was rejected and free people of color were disfranchised, regardless of their maternal ancestry, property holdings or literacy.
Reference to the origins of the present-day Lumbee population was made in 1840 in a petition by 36 white Robeson County residents, complaining that Robeson County had been "cursed" by the presence of what they described as being a "free colored" population that migrated originally from the districts near the Roanoke and Neuse Rivers.
The first recorded instance of any reference to the Lumbee being Indian dates from 1867 after the Civil War. During a multiple murder investigation by Lieutenant Birney of the Freedmen's Bureau, two suspected men wrote a letter that stated the tradition that the Lowry gang had descended from Tuscarora Indians: "They are said to be descended from the Tuscarora Indians. They have always claimed to be Indian & disdained the idea that they are in any way connected with the African race." The Freedman's Bureau had jurisdiction over newly emancipated slaves, not Indians.
In the 1870 census, the first in which "Indian" was a separate category, almost all Robeson County residents with characteristically Lumbee names are classified as "Mulatto."
In 1872 George Alfred Townsend published "The Swamp Outlaws" about the famed Lowrie Gang. Townsend described Henry Berry Lowrie, the leader of the gang, as being of mixed Tuscarora, mulatto, and white blood: "The color of his skin is of a whitish yellow sort, with an admixture of copper—such a skin as, for the nature of its components, is in color indescribable, there being no negro blood in it except that of a far remote generation of mulatto, and the Indian still apparent." Townsend also stated in reference to Pop Oxendine that "Like the rest, he had the Tuscarora Indian blood in him...If I should describe the man by the words nearest my idea I should call him a negro-Indian gypsy." ,Townsend's statements were reiterated three years later in both the memoirs of General Jno C. Gorman and in Mary Norment's "The Lowrie History" (1895)
During Reconstruction, the ancestors of the Lumbee joined newly freed African slaves in voting Republican. After Reconstruction, when schools and society were segregated, they objected to being classified as "colored" and having their children required to attend schools with children of freed slaves. In 1885, Hamilton McMillan, a North Carolina Democrat who represented Robeson County in the legislature, put forward the theory that the Lumbees were actually "Croatan Indians" descended from survivors of England's "Lost Colony" who intermarried with the Hatteras, an Algonquian people. McMillan's theory was motivated by the desire to politically separate the Lumbee from the newly freed slaves and bring them over to the Democratic voting column.
Other authors subsequently repeated McMillan's speculation as fact. However, no extant evidence exists for "Lost Colony" origins and the theory has been discarded by scholars. Of the many characteristically Lumbee names, none is shared with members of England's failed colony.
McMillan introduced legislation declaring the Lumbee ancestors to be Croatan Indians and giving them their own schools, separate from the white and black schools. This was the first official effort to classify the Lumbee ancestors as Indians. McMillan's success created a three-caste society in Robeson County. Prior to 1885, surviving records described Lumbee ancestors as colored, free colored, other free, mullato, mustie, mustees, or mixt blood.
Despite the lack of direct genealogical proof, in the early decades of the 20th century, various Department of Interior representatives also described the Lumbees as having Native American origin, and assigned them variously to one tribe or another.
Skeptics of McMillan's theories argue that the North Carolina politician may have been motivated by a desire to court the votes of the Lumbee. Free people of color were enfranchised again after the Civil War by the 15th Amendment, which protected suffrage for all male citizens, regardless of race, at the same time protecting suffrage of the new citizens who were emancipated slaves. Reclassification as Indians of McMillan's colored Robeson County constituents gave them a social status above the newly emancipated slaves.
In 1936, Carl Seltzer, a physical anthropologist engaged by the federal Department of the Interior, conducted an anthropometric study of several hundred self-identified Indian individuals in Robeson County. He determined that twenty-two were of at least half-Indian blood descent. In 1972, Dr. William S. Pollitzer published a combined anthropometric and serologic study of the Lumbee population. He estimated that the Lumbees had 47% African ancestry, 40% white, and 13% Indian. Most contemporary scholars no longer consider such types of studies valid for determining racial or ethnic identities.
In the late 20th century, genealogist Paul Heinegg and historian Dr. Virginia E. DeMarce performed extensive research in primary source documents, such as deeds, land records, wills, tax lists and court records to develop detailed genealogies of free people of color in the Chesapeake Bay area during the colonial years and later. They were able to trace the migration of numerous primary Lumbee ancestral families from the Tidewater region of Virginia into northeastern North Carolina and then into present-day Robeson County, North Carolina. They found that 80% of those identified as free people of color (or other) in the Federal censuses in North Carolina from 1790-1810 were descended from African Americans free in Virginia during the colonial period. Most of those free African-American families in Virginia were descended from unions between white women (servant or free) and African or African-American men (servant, slave or free), reflecting the fluid nature of relationships among the working classes. From documenting family histories through original documents, Heinegg and DeMarce have traced most Lumbee ancestors and have been able to construct genealogies that show the migration of specific families and individuals from Virginia to North Carolina
Civil War
As the war progressed and the Confederacy began to experience increasing labor shortages, the Confederate South began to rely on conscription labor. A yellow fever epidemic in 1862-63 killed many slaves working on the construction of Fort Fisher near Wilmington, North Carolina, then considered to be the "Gibraltar of the South." North Carolina's slave owners resisted sending more enslaved African Americans to Fort Fisher. Robeson County, along with most eastern North Carolina counties, began to conscript young free men of color. A few were shot for attempting to evade conscription, and others attempted to escape from work at Fort Fisher. Others succumbed to starvation, disease and despair. Documentation of conscription among the Lumbee is difficult to locate and the practice may have been limited to a few specific areas of the county.
Several dozen Lumbee ancestors served in regular units in the Confederate army; many of these later drew Confederate pensions for their service. Others tried to avoid coerced labor by hiding in the swamps. While hiding in the swamps, some men from Robeson County operated as guerrillas for the Union Army, sabotaging the efforts of the Confederacy, and sought retribution against their Confederate neighbors.
Lowrie Gang War
Perhaps the most famous Lumbee ancestor is Henry Berry Lowrie, who organized an outlaw group. Most of the gang members were related, including two of Henry Lowrie's brothers, six cousins (two of whom were also his brothers-in-law), the brother-in-law of two of his cousins, in addition to a few others who were not related through kinship. The Lowrie gang included formerly free men of color and also freed slaves and whites.
The gang committed two murders during the Civil War and were suspected in several thefts and robberies. After an interrogation and informal trial, Robeson County's Home Guard killed Henry Berry Lowrie's father and brother as Union General Sherman's army entered Robeson County. Shortly thereafter, Henry Berry Lowrie and his band stole a large stockpile of rifles intended for use by the local militia from the Lumberton courthouse.
Lowrie's gang avenged the deaths of his father and brother by killing several of the men responsible, one of whom was the sheriff of the county. The band stole two safes (one of which belonged to the sheriff), plundered the plantation storage bins and smokehouses of local elites, and gave the spoils to the poor in Robeson County who had suffered at the hands of local elites.
In 1868, Lowrie and his band were outlawed. The reward for his capture climbed to $12,000, second only to that offered for Jefferson Davis. Robeson's elites and the governor of North Carolina requested the aid of Federal troops and federal detectives in the attempt to apprehend North Carolina's most famous outlaw. These efforts proved useless. Lowrie enjoyed wide support, and he and members of his band were seen at public events. Reports of the Lowrie band's derring-do received national coverage; their exploits were featured in the New York Times and in Harper's Magazine. Lowrie's last-known feat occurred on February 16, 187, when he and his band stole $20,000 worth of goods from a Lumberton store. They also managed to take the store's safe, which contained approximately $22,000 in cash.
Most observers believe that Henry Berry Lowrie accidentally killed himself while cleaning his gun. Some members of the community, however, claimed to have seen Lowrie in various town locales long after news of his death was broadcast. The true cause of his death remains controversial. All the members of the Lowrie band, save one, suffered violent deaths. One cousin and member of the gang, Henderson Oxendine, was publicly executed by the state of North Carolina.
The war that Lowrie gang waged against the Democrats in Robeson County had far-reaching consequences: the mulatto community developed a sense of itself as unique, possessed with a unique identity and history, while Henry Berry Lowrie became a culture hero to the Lumbee people.
Legends of North Carolina
Henry Berry Lowery Lives Forever: by Jefferson Currie*
On a hot June day in 1999, a young Lumbee Indian man, Randall Oxendine, stood on the banks of the old millpond at Bear Swamp and yelled, "I'm gonna get you, Henry Berry!" Gabrial Cummings looked at him and asked what Randall would do if Henry Berry came floating down that swamp in his flat-bottomed boat with his rifle across his knee. Randall, Gabrial, and I all laughed nervously, wondering if or when Henry Berry Lowry would come paddling down that swamp. We all looked to see if he was there. . . .
Henry Berry Lowry was the legend of Robeson County even before he vanished in February 1872. He disappeared after he stole the safes from Pope and McLeod's store and from the sheriff's office in Lumberton. He broke open the sheriff's safe and left it lying in the middle of a Lumberton street. In all, he stole $28,000. Three days later he vanished. The New York Herald published reports that Henry Berry Lowry had accidentally killed himself. An elderly Lumbee man, John Godwin, said that Henry Berry Lowry "had been trying to shoot the load off his gun for a long time. . . . The load went right up through here, my mother said, and blowed the top of his head off." This and other local legends were recorded by Lumbee historian and teacher Adolph Dial in the 1960s and 1970s. The many legends differ in their account of Lowry's disappearance. A ninety-six-year-old Lumbee man, Mabe Sampson, believed that Henry Berry Lowry escaped from the militia and the United States troops who were trying to track him down. Mr. Sampson said that "Henry Berry left here and was sent off by a white man, loaded right here at Moss Neck. He never was killed."
Henry Berry Lowry was one of twelve children in the family of Allen and Mary Lowry. The Lowrys struggled, as did other Indians in Robeson County, through the hard times that the Civil War brought them. During the war, the Confederacy forced Lumbees to work on building the earthen Fort Fisher near Wilmington. At home, the Home Guard accused Indians of harboring escaped Union prisoners and Confederate deserters, hiding guns, and stealing meat from smokehouses. The Home Guard supported the Confederacy and maintained law and order at home while the war was being fought. Indian men had to resort to "lying out"—or hiding—in the swamps to avoid being harassed and rounded up by the Home Guard.
Henry Berry Lowry had had enough of being controlled and pushed around by the local Home Guard authority, so he struck back. He killed James P. Barnes on December 21, 1864, and James Brantley "Brant" Harris on January 15, 1865. The Lowry family had had ongoing disputes with both men. The Home Guard avenged the deaths of James Barnes and Brant Harris by accusing Henry Berry Lowry's father, Allen, and brother William of various crimes. The Home Guard called an illegal court. They tried, convicted, and executed Allen and William in one day, March 3, 1865. Eighteen-year-old Henry Berry Lowry reportedly watched the executions from behind some bushes. He swore to take revenge for their deaths.
Henry Berry Lowry was a wanted man. He lay out in the swamps but was arrested (with no warrant) for murder by the Home Guard on December 7, 1865, at his wedding to Rhoda Strong. Mary Norment, author of The Lowrie History, says that after his arrest "he filed his way out of the grated iron window bars, escaped to the woods with handcuffs on, and made his way back to his wife in Scuffletown [Pembroke]."
Henry Berry Lowry had gathered around him other Indian men who had tired of taking the mistreatment of whites. Along with this group, two African Americans and one white "buckskin" Scot joined what became known as the Lowry band. The band robbed rich white landowners, and Henry Berry Lowry became the "Robin Hood" of Robeson County. The governor outlawed Henry Berry Lowry and the band in 1869, offering large rewards for them, dead or alive. The band responded with violence. In one ten-month stretch, ten Police Guard and Lowry band members died.
In 1871 Francis Marion Wishart became colonel of the Police Guard manhunt and had the wives of the Lowry band held hostage in prison. Henry Berry Lowry and other band members sent Wishart a letter demanding the release of their wives, or "the bloodiest times will be here than ever was before—the life of every man will be in jeopardy." The wives were released, and Colonel Wishart and the government began to work out an end to the conflict. The killing soon stopped, and in February 1872 Henry Berry Lowry vanished. Colonel Wishart called the reports of his death "ALL A HOAX." No one ever collected the $12,000 reward for his life.
Many years after he vanished, Henry Berry Lowry reportedly was seen in a church at a funeral for someone he knew. No one talked to him, and he talked to no one, but Robeson County resident Charlie McBryde says that "They said had you looked at his eyes good, you would have known it was Henry Berry." Today, reminders of Henry Berry Lowry are all around the area, with a road named after him and a play portraying his life. Henry Berry Lowry has lived on in the minds and hearts of the Lumbee. If you are ever in Robeson County, go down to the swamps and be still. You can feel him, and if you look real close, you might even see him.
*Jefferson Currie is Lumbee. He is an assistant curator at the North Carolina Museum of History who worked on the Henry Berry Lowry portion of the exhibit North Carolina Legends.
Lowry Lives On
The legend of Henry Berry Lowry lives on in North Carolina's Lumbee communities. Residents claim that the spirit of Lowry emerged time and again in the struggles of Lumbee people throughout the twentieth century. To fight back when threatened and to unite for a common cause: these are the goals that endeared him to his people.
From Henry Berry Lowry College to an annual outdoor drama based on the Lowry legend, the Lumbee remember the Robin Hood of Robeson County. Baseball caps, T-shirts, and other items carry the message "Henry Berry Lowry Lives Forever."
Lowry Legends
Adolph L. Dial, a historian and teacher, recorded these stories from Lumbee community members from 1969 through 1971.
The Deeds of Henry Berry Lowry
Mabe Sampson: They tried to drive him [Henry Berry Lowry] to the batteries in the Civil War, and he refused to go. He was then an eighteen-year-old boy. He went for the woods. Then they got in behind him and tried to catch him. They couldn't catch him. He was too sharp for them. Old Brantley Harris, an old white man, got in behind him and tried to catch him, but they didn't catch him.
Henry Berry went there [Lumberton], took Andrew and Boss out of jail, and killed old Sheriff Cane [King]. They robbed the bank and took the safe and put in on a dray. Along in them times, they had a two-wheeled dray to horse up. Put that bank on that dray, come across the river, blowed it open, and got the money all out.
Adolph L. Dial: Where was that?
Sampson: Right there. Robbed the safe over to Stanley McCloud [McLeod]. Took his safe and got all the money there was in it. Walked across the river, dynamited it, blowed it open, and got all the money that was in it.
Dial: I take it that you have a great deal of respect for the Lowry gang in that they really did something for the Indian people.
Sampson: Yes, you know why Henry killed? They tried to send him down there, and you know why he killed that gang? They went there, old Brantley did, and killed his brother, Allen. I believe John was the other one. He made them dig their own graves and killed them, being they wouldn't tell where Henry was. He was in the bushes dodging, and he wouldn't go to Wilmington.
A Robin Hood
Dial: What is your view on Henry Berry? Do you look at him today as a man of respect and a justified cause?
Clifton Oxendine: I think of him as sort of a Robin Hood: he took the part of the underdog, the group that was underprivileged. He was trying to help the Indian people, who were discriminated against when it came to entering the Confederate army and helping to bear arms but were used as manual laborers the same as the slaves were. I think he was rendering a service there.
What Happened to Henry Berry Lowry?
Dial: Over the years, did anyone tell you what they thought happened to Henry Berry Lowry?
John W. Dial: Yes, my grandfather's wife told me that they took him up to Tom Lowry's and said the other boys was in the house. They heard a gun fire and said when they went out there, he was standing, he gone up that way looking around and aturning around, and he fell. Never spoke to none of them.
Willoughby Jones: My father, Phillip, said that he stayed with him some, that Henry Berry was a mighty respectable man, had a lot of respect for women and children and so on. Later on, as he disappeared, someone said that he was killed. My dad said that he was well acquainted with him, that he absolutely was not killed, that he was left from here. He remembered he absolutely knowed that he was shipped. He was shipped off in a large box. He just absolutely knew that he was not killed.
Dial: Mr. Godwin just arrived. Mr. Godwin, what do you think happened to Henry Berry Lowry?
John Godwin: He got accidentally killed. He had been trying to shoot the load off of his gun for a long time. Back then all of them had a hammer and a tube. If they didn't get powder in that tube and put the cap on it, it wouldn't fire. He forgot about it and didn't take the cap off. His gun loaded out with a rod with a hook on the end of it, and he slipped. His knee struck that hammer, it fell back and fired off. The load went right up through here, my mother said, and blowed the top of his head off.
Dial: Where do you think Henry Berry was buried?
Godwin: He was buried, she said, over there by Thunder Port. You don't know where that is, though. Back Swamp across the other side of Deep Branch Church. There used to be a bridge there. They called it the Sampson Bridge. You crossed the Back Swamp. He was buried above to the right of that road in a slew. That's where she said that the outlaws told where they buried it.
Dial: In a slew in Back Swamp.
Godwin: Where the water had run over it, nobody ever did find it.
Sampson: Uncle Sampson used to say, "Come on if you want to see him the last time." He told him he didn't want to see him. Go ahead.
Dial: Mr. Sampson feels and many people feel that Henry Berry Lowry was quite an outstanding man for the Indian people. What is your feeling?
Godwin: Yes sir, he was, according to the reports that my mother said about him.
Dial: You feel he was justified in doing what he did?
Godwin: That's right, yes. He didn't do anything unless you bothered him. He'd always send you word if you got in his business. He'd send you word not to do that anymore, and if you did, why he'd go hunt you.
Dial: All of us know that Henry Berry Lowry's death is still a mystery today. We're not sure what happened to him. What do you think happened to Henry Berry Lowry?
Sampson: Henry Berry left here and was sent off by a white man, loaded right here at Moss Neck. He never was killed.
Dial: Go ahead and tell that story.
Sampson: Thirty years afterward he was in Oklahoma. He run a toll booth there across that river.
Dial: Where did you get this story?
Sampson: From the old folks.
Dial: Mr. Oxendine, how old are you?
Charlie Oxendine: I'm eighty years old.
Dial: Did you ever know Rhoda Lowry, the widow?
Oxendine: We stayed right there, half a mile of her.
Dial: Can you remember her well?
Oxendine: Oh, yes.
Dial: Did you ever hear her talk any about Henry Berry Lowry?
Oxendine: Yes.
Dial: What are some of the things you remember she said?
Oxendine: He disappeared, and ain't none of them ever knowed what went with him.
Dial: Did she ever say what she thought happened to him?
Oxendine: No, she didn't say, but Henry Berry's sister, Aunt Pert, come up their home and married in that family. She said that the day before he disappeared—now this is what she told us—he come there at the house where her and her mother was and said that he shot robins all day. She said he got them up, robin birds, you know. "Well," he says, "I'm leaving now." He said, "I'm going away now," and she said they never did know another thing about him. She said he just disappeared. He said, "I'm leaving now."
Dial: Who said that?
Oxendine: Henry Berry said, "I'm leaving."
Dial: Do you think he died with his own gun or went away?
Oxendine: There's all kind of stories told about it. But there's one thing, nobody never did get the $10,000.
Agitating Women
Dial: His wife was put in jail once, was she not? Will you tell us about this?
George Ransom: Yes, they came out there, captured his wife and put her in jail. Along the way, she got contact with him.
Dial: Was she taken to Lumberton?
Ransom: She was taken to Lumberton. She was put in jail there, and they kept her in there. He wrote a note and sent it over there, telling them he'd give them so long to get his wife back home, or he'd tear up the town.
Dial: I believe he said he would destroy Lumberton and put it in blood and ashes, something along that line.
Ransom: That's right. He said he would put it in blood and ashes, yes. The women of Lumberton got rough about it and they got out on the streets and got them to turn the woman out and let her go home.
Lowry's Fate
Willoughby Jones: My father Philip said that he stayed with him some, that Henry Berry was a mighty respectable man, had a lot of respect for women and children and so on. Later on, as he disappeared, someone said that he was killed. My dad said that he was well acquainted with him, that he absolutely was not killed, that he was left from here.
Adolph Dial: He seemed to think he left.
Jones: He remembered he absolutely knowed that he was shipped. He was shipped off in a large box. He just absolutely knew that he was not killed.
More Legends
Many legends about Lowry can be heard today in and around Robeson County.
Friend and Foe
Not everyone remembers Henry Berry Lowry with awe and respect. Some people consider him a common criminal. People debate his character and reputation through the legends they tell.
I think one of the stories that helped form my opinions and my impression of Henry Berry Lowry as a person and what he was doing was related to me when I was a young child. I was living in Pembroke, it was in the fifties, and there were two old maid sisters that were very close to my family, wonderful wonderful women. White women. Which is, you know, important only from the standpoint that it was their perspective. They were relating a story about him that had been passed down to them from their mother when she was a child.
And the story that stands out in my mind was when their mother was a young girl, Henry Berry Lowry and his band appeared on their farm and asked her grandmother if she would be kind enough to cook a meal for him and his men, because they were hungry and apparently they had been riding for quite some time, and she said that she would.
And she said that he was just as polite, that her mother said that nobody could be politer to anybody than he was to her and her mother and their family. I don't think her daddy was there at the time.
And the only thing he said, that he told her mother, that he hated to ask her to do it when she finished the meal, but would she take one bite from every dish that she cooked. And she said why of course, and she did. And they ate, and he thanked her profusely for feeding them and complemented her on what she had prepared, and told her that if she ever needed him for anything, all she had to do was get word to him, and that he would come and, you know, anything that she needed he would do it.—Charles McBryde, Lumberton, 1999
There is a story that the soldiers that were hunting him [Henry Berry Lowry] down were eating lunch out there at the swamp one day, and he walked up to them and just started talking to them. And they didn't know who he was, and they were hunting him. So he just walked up there, started talking to them, I don't know if he sat down and ate lunch with them or anything, but, you know, and just walked off. They realized who he was later.
And even stories that he would get on the train and have a drink or something on the train, and ride the train.
There's another story where he dressed up like a soldier and hunted himself.—Jefferson Currie, 1999
—Dr. Earl C. Lowry, grandnephew of Henry Berry Lowry, in the News and Observer (Raleigh), 1937
Henry Berry Lowry was an unusual character. He wore boots with the heels in front part of the time so that he could not easily be traced. He was always courteous to strangers. It was not unusual to see a company of soldiers marching along the road and Henry Berry and the commanding officer at the rear.
Escape Artist
They were having the wedding and the law came in, arrested him, and took him to Wilmington. They put him in jail, kept him there a while and he got out of there.
He said the jailer carried him his supper one night, he left the cell door unlocked. He come out of there, got a blanket, tore it up, and made a rope. He tied it around a musket and there was a hole in the chimney where someone else had gotten out of jail and he went down to the ground on that rope.—George Ransom, Robeson County, 1969
—Dr. Earl C. Lowry, in the News and Observer (Raleigh), 1937
[Henry Berry Lowry's] wife cooked a cake and carried [it to] him. Inside was concealed a small pistol. When the jailer next came in, Henry Berry surprised him with the pistol, took the keys, and unlocked the jail, escaping, throwing the keys in the river and swimming across.
The Killing of J. Brantley Harris
Regardless of the objections raised by the Indians, of having to go and work at Fort Fisher as slaves, the Confederate authorities drafted some of them, and used them to help build the immense sand fortifications at Fort Fisher. The work was hard; the Indians complained or murmured, but to no avail. George Lowry, his [Henry Berry Lowry's] brother, had several sons. Two of these sons were carried to Fort Fisher to work during the year of 1863. After remaining there about a year, they were granted furloughs for a few days. For some reason they never returned to Fort Fisher. Finally, J. Brantley Harris, a member of the Home Guard of Robeson County, arrested them as deserters. He put them aboard the train at Moss Neck Station, which was four or five miles away, to send them back to Fort Fisher. On the way to the station, Harris killed both of these boys—nobody knows why—instead of sending them back to Fort Fisher.—Clifton Oxendine, Robeson County, 1969
The Fate of Henry Berry Lowry
Henry Berry Lowry disappeared in 1872 after the robbery of the sheriff's office and Pope and McLeod's store in Lumberton. Since his disappearance, many stories have circulated in the Lumbee community to explain what happened to him. The stories often conflict, but no one disputes the fact that the reward for Henry Berry Lowry, dead or alive, was never paid.
I've probably heard all the stories that everybody's heard. I guess the stories that stick out in my mind that I've heard, of course, is the one where he accidentally killed himself, around Moss Neck somewhere, cleaning a gun. Another one is where he left deer blood and apparently some, you know, tissue, deer tissue, to make somebody think that, that he had been killed.—Charles McBryde, Lumberton, 1999
On May 8, 1937, Dr. Earl C. Lowry spoke at the Indian Normal School (now the University of North Carolina at Pembroke). The next day, the News and Observer (Raleigh) reported that Lowry had insisted Henry Berry Lowry did not die but faked his death with the help of family and band members.
Armed with two small pistols and dressed in a Federal soldier's uniform, Henry Berry Lowry boarded the train as it pulled out of Pates. His trusted bodyguard, Andrew Strong, stood guard at a box car 50 yards away. At Moss Neck another member of his gang waited at the station platform "in case he was needed." Henry Berry Lowry drew pay for 4 years from the army before his discharge.—Dr. Earl C. Lowry, in the News and Observer (Raleigh), 1937
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I already congratulated you on Twitter (xYazzox), but once more won't hurt I think?
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Even though I am a stranger, it really angers me when your work is plagiarized.
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The company has approached nine to 10 women who were fired more than a year ago because they did not meet strict weight criteria for staff working in the cabin.
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I'm not Pinoy myself but I've noticed that the majority of racist comments here are directed towards them.
What's with all the hate?
What's with all the hate?
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okay i think i understand what you mean by hating pinoys and not filipinos.
are you referring to a certain style that many filipino's have? (spiked hair, SB's and really baggy shirts)
so i guess most of the hate is towards the style rather than towards the filipinos? because i can understand this lol
I was just kidding, everyone on HB is Caucasian. We hate minorities, not just the Pinoys, if you don't resemble Richard Simmons than we don't like you.
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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
I'm not Pinoy myself but I've noticed that the majority of racist comments here are directed towards them.
What's with all the hate?
pinoys have no identity and they try too hard.
Originally posted by Inactive UserI know this isn't school, but I thought you needed some help:
I really don't see anything wrong with SB's as I wear them from time to time, but pinoy's wear SB's that are obnoxious as fuck with colors that can be seen a mile away, and they top it off with a shirt, scarf, and hat in the same color.
But the worst thing about it is that they think they're the shit because they worship their SB's and think they're the cool when overmatching their lime green and orange outfits.
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The List Journal Project: Favorite Summer Fruits/
The List Journal Project is about writing lists in your journal. Hanna and I made each other stitched journals especially for the project, and we are opening our journals and sharing our lists with you each Saturday until we finish our journals.
We hope that you will play along! You can write a list on an index card, type a list in a funky font and print it and glue it into your art journal, hand write a list onto an art journal page, or add a list box to the corner of that day's to-do list. In any way you wish.
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Summer Fruits. I love so many fruits and Texas is ripe {excuse the pun} with fruit year-round. Growing up in Pennsylvania, we didn't see many mangoes, and now they are my ultimate, all-time favorite fruit.
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High school roundup: Fox Chapel comes from behind to beat Penn-Trafford
The Fox Chapel baseball team will make its first appearance in the WPIAL Class AAAA playoffs in seven years, and coach Michael Frank is pleased with the comeback victory the Foxes fought for Tuesday.
Down 4-0, Fox Chapel rallied in the second inning to beat Penn-Trafford, 7-4, in their nonsection season finale.
"We made some mistakes in the second inning to give them a chance to gain that four-run lead," Frank said. "We made some minor adjustments, and the kids battled the whole time and we just started chipping away."
Trailing, 4-2, in the bottom of the fifth, Taylor Huber, Bobby Killian and Joe Palumbo hit back-to-back-to-back triples, sparking a three-run inning that put the Foxes (12-7) ahead for good. Jacob Pilarski came on in relief in the fifth and pitched three scoreless innings to pick up the win.
Laurel Highlands 11, Mt. Pleasant 1 (5 inn.) — Colin McKee tossed a complete game and struck out nine to lead Laurel Highlands (6-12, 3-9) in Section 2-AAA.
Quaker Valley 10, Seton-La Salle 3 — Tyler Garbee struck out four in five innings and Christian Miller had two RBI and the No. 1 Quakers (17-0, 14-0) won in Section 1-AA.
Burrell 11, West Shamokin 0 (5 inn.) — Dustin Maloney's five-inning no-hitter helped Burrell (7-5, 7-8) clinch its 16th straight playoff berth in a Section 3-AA win. Maloney struck out seven and Justin Fleck doubled and had two RBI in the win for the Bucs.
Bishop Canevin 7, Monessen 1 — Bishop Canevin (7-4, 7-3) sent nine runners to the plate in the first inning and scored five runs en route to a Section 2-A victory. Monessen's loss allowed Frazier (7-9, 5-5) and the Greyhounds (6-10, 5-5) to qualify for the WPIAL playoffs.
Franklin Regional 12, Penn Hills 2 — Brandon Nania went 2 for 2 with a triple and a home run to lead Franklin Regional (15-3) in a nonsection game.
Latrobe 8, Derry 2 — Anthony Monteparte went 2 for 3 with three RBI and the Wildcats (8-9) won a nonsection game.
Riverview 2, Apollo-Ridge 0 — Anthony Malky pitched seven scoreless innings en route to a nonsection win for the Raiders (13-2). His 15-strikeout performance raised his season total to 101 strikeouts in 54 innings. Zach Aber and Kevin Gray each drove in runs in the fourth inning.
Blackhawk 6, Mohawk 1 — Cody Bain pitched a complete game and struck out seven for Blackhawk (9-6) in its nonsection win.
Hempfield 4, Pine-Richland 3 — Nolan Beresford scored on Luke Fox's bunt in the seventh for what proved to be the game-winning run for No. 4 Hempfield (15-3) in nonsection play.
Highlands 17, Ford City 6 (6 innings) — Gabby Miller went 4 for 4 with two homers, two singles and drove in six runs as Highlands (8-5) cruised in nonsection play. Miller also picked up the win, going all six innings and striking out eight. Cassidy Runyan drove in four runs, including a solo home run and a two-run triple.
Latrobe 8, Greensburg C.C. 0 — Shelby Noel had a three-run home run, and Kaity Simley went 3 for 4 with an RBI for the No. 2 Wildcats (14-3) in their nonsection win. Olivia Gumbita struck out 10 in the win.
South Park 12, Hampton 2 (6 inn.) — Meghan Pavlick had a double, triple and three RBI and the Eagles (13-5) won in nonsection action.
Seneca Valley 8, Mars 0 — Alyssa Panza went 4 for 4 with two RBI and scored three runs for the Raiders (9-7) in a nonsection game.
Hopewell 9, Moon 4 — Carmen Fisher and Terasa Crabtree each had three RBI for the Vikings (3-14) in their nonsection win.
Greensburg Salem 12, Indiana 2 (6 inn.) — Kelly Hutchinson went 2 for 4 and hit a three-run home run to lead No. 1 Greensburg Salem (17-1) in nonsection play. Jayne Oberdorf picked up the win.
Chartiers-Houston 7, South Fayette 4 — Toni Spoussey picked up the win after striking out six batters for No. 2 Chartiers-Houston (16-0) in its nonsection win. Ashley Iagnemma struck out eight for South Fayette (9-8).


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Coastal Change: The coastal system along southwest Washington and northwest Oregon has undergone significant change over the past several thousand years. Research components include analysis of past and present changes in geomorphic features like barrier evolution, shoreline behaviour, beach morphology, and bathymetric change. In addition, the Study is attempting to link observed coastal changes with environmental forcings, climatological events, sediment budgets, and human intervention.
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Management Support: Integrating the scientific research of the Study with the land use planning efforts of coastal communities is of paramount importance to encourage appropriate uses of coastal resources. The Study is generating a body of knowledge to support science-based planning and management. This section discusses efforts geared towards developing decision-support products for use by coastal communities in daily management and long-term planning. These efforts include mapping wetlands in the City of Westport, assessing and predicting shoreline change at two of Washington's state parks, and developing a framework to evaluate a community's susceptibility to coastal change through the integration of multi-disciplinary research results.


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Soil and Soil Preparation
Good soil drainage is essential for the production of a successful crop. Sweet potato cuttings should be planted on ridges. Height of the ridge is usually 8 - 14 inches, depending on soil drainage.
Yield can be increased by 30% with timely irrigation. Generally, sweet potatoes require less water than most vegetable crops. Irrigate moderately to get new planting established. When tuber formation starts at about the 7 - 9 week stage, avoid prolong water stress up till about the 14th week. Irrigation after a prolong period of late season water stress may cause tubers to crack. Irrigation should be stopped about a month before harvest.
Done at about five weeks after planting. Usually the remaining half of the recommended fertilizers are applied just before hilling (assuming half was applied preplant). Soil is pulled up from both sides of each ridge increasing the width and height of e ach ridge by 1 - 3 inches. Hilling may aid in reducing damage by weevils.
Soil pH
Optimum range 5.1 to 6.8.
Soil Amendment and Fertilization
Rely on soil test for lime and fertilizer applications. If soil pH is below 5.0 and/or the available calcium content is below 1,000 lbs. per acre, apply agricultural lime at the rate of 2,000 lbs./acre (4.5 lbs. per 100 square feet) 4 - 8 weeks before pl anting with adequate moisture in the soil. For a soil test with moderate levels of available phosphorus and potassium, a total of 650 lbs./acre (1.5 lbs./100 square feet) of 10-10-10 plus 130 lbs./acre (0.3 lb./100 square feet) of 0-0-61 (murate of potas h) fertilizer should be applied per crop.
If 15-15-15 is used, apply 425 lbs./acre (1.0 lb./100 square feet) plus 130 lbs./acre (0.5 lb./100 square feet) 0-0-61 (murate of potash) fertilizer. Approximately half of the fertilizers should be applied at planting (with the treblesuperphosphate) and the remainder about five weeks later as a side-dress just before rehilling. For soils very low in available phosphate, 1,000 lbs./acre (2.25 lbs./100 square feet) of treblesuperphosphate (047-0) should be applied preplant broadcast in 12 - 15 inch bands in the plant rows and incorporated into the soil 8 - 12 inches.
Sweet potato is a crop that requires not only nitrogen and phosphorus but especially adequate potassium for optimum production of tubers. High nitrogen fertilizers will cause excessive vine growth and deeper ridged tubers. Manures should be avoided beca use it renders the tubers to become more susceptible to scurf infection.
Estimated Yield= 11,000 lbs. per acre
Planting to Harvest= Four to six months.
Most varieties are harvested at 4-1/2 to 5-1/2 months. If plants are left to grow longer, there may be greater percentage of "jumbos" which are marketed for less than Hawaii #1. Also, leaving the crop in the field longer may increase weevil in festation and disease infection.
The tubers should be dug with care to prevent bruise and cuts when the soil is dry. The vines are usually cut at the base and either removed or rolled into adjacent rows before digging with a middlebuster or potato harvester. If the digging must be done in wet soil, do not wash the tubers. Permit the wet adhering soil to dry in a shaded area until the soil dries and could be flaked off by gently rubbing with the hands.
After curing, keep at 55 - 60 degrees F with 85 to 90% relative humidity.
|Agrius cingulatus (Fabricius)
|sweetpotato hornworm
|Agrotis ipsilon (Hufnagel)
|black cutworm
|Amorbia emigratella Busck
|Mexican leafroller
|Bedellia orchilella Walsingham
|sweetpotato leafminer
|Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius)
|sweetpotato whitefly
|Chaetanaphothrips orchidii (Moulton)
|Chaetocnema confinis Crotch
|sweetpotato flea beetle
|Chrysodeixis chalcites (Esper)
|green garden looper
|Conoderes amplicollis (Gyllenhal)
|gulf wireworm
|Cylas formicarius elegantulus (Summers)
|sweetpotato weevil
|Euscepes postfasciatus (Fairmaire)
|West Indian sweetpotato weevil
|Hyperomyza lactucae (Linnaeus)
|an aphid
|Macrosiphum euphorbiae (Thomas)
|potato aphid
|Melanaphis sacchari (Zehntner)
|sugarcane aphid
|Myzus persicae (Sulzer)
|green peach aphid
|Omphisa anastomosalis (Guenee)
|sweetpotato vine borer
|Pulvinaria urbicola Cockerell
|cottony sweetpotato scale
|Pycnoderes quadrimaculatus
|Guerin-Mene.bean caspid
|Spodoptera exigua (Hubner)
|beet armyworm
|Tetranychus tumidus Banks
|tumid spider mite
|Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Westwood)
|greenhouse whitefly
Propagation Method
Vine terminal cuttings or sprouts from tubers.
Amount of Cuttings
Spacing of 10 inches by 4 feet requires 13,068 cuttings per acre.
Spacing of 12 inches by 4 feet requires 10,890 cuttings per acre.
Planting Space
Four feet between rows and 10 to 12 inches between plants.
Selection of Cuttings
Select 12 - 14 inch vigorous, large vine terminals with many short internodes. Cuttings which have more internodes along a given length are considered to be more productive. (8 nodes per foot is good). Tubers will develop from the buried nodes.
Best Planting Period
Generally March, April, May are best. Poorest are October, November, December.
Planting Method
If irrigation is unlimited, horizontal planting is recommended because this method produces a greater number of uniform tubers. If irrigation is limited, vertical or slant planting is recommended. This method will usually yield larger tubers on nodes closer to the soil surface and smaller ones from deeper nodes. Generally, horizontal planting gives better yields than vertical or slant plantings. When planting vine cuttings, bury at least 3 - 4 nodes.
Planting Depth
Four to nine inches below the soil surface. Generally, horizontal plantings are 4 - 5 inches deep and vertical planting goes down to 9 inches. Too deep planting may reduce yields.
Turn over vines only if necessary. The main purpose of vine-turning is to prevent roots from growing from the nodes of vines in contact with the soil surface and to discourage formation of small irregular roots, once formed, it will check the growth of the normal tubers. Usually, on moist fertile soil 2 - 3 vine-turnings may be necessary several days after irrigation or if there is vigorous vine growth.
The following are reasons for curing sweet potato tubers.


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Leiden, birthplace of Rembrandt and known as the Sleutelstad ("the key city") in reference to the keys in its coat of arms, is home to 120.000 people. Located at the confluence of the Old and New Rhine rivers in the province of South Holland, Leiden is a picturesque university town with many canals, almshouses and museums.
Formed on an artificial hill around 860 AD, Leiden grew steadily and by the late 15th century was home to an important textile industry. In the 16th century the reformation led to mass persecution of Protestants by the Spanish, driving Leiden to join the Dutch resistance against Spain's oppression in 1572.
The Spanish nearly conquered the city, but were successfully expelled on October 3, 1574. This day, known as Leidens Ontzet or the Relief of Leyden, continues to be commemorated each year, with a huge celebration whose fair, parade, fireworks, musical performances, and many parties attract hundreds of thousands of people to this small city.
William I of Orange was so impressed with Leiden's heroic resistance, he rewarded them with the foundation of the University of Leiden in 1575. Leiden remains a university city to this day.
During the Dutch Golden Era of the 16th and 17th centuries, Leiden became the second largest city in the Netherlands after Amsterdam, as weaving, printing, and publishing grew into major local industries.
The city then experienced an extended economic decline from the late 17th to early 20th centuries. As a result, much of the city centre's historic architecture has been preserved, and Leiden reportedly has the second largest 17th century centre in the Netherlands.
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REGULARLY SCHEDULED MEETING CANCELED AND RESCHEDULED TO MAY 15, 2014 at 6PM
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Note that the Sausalito Sustainability Commission may, at its discretion, consider agenda items out of the order in which they are listed. The public may comment on any item on the agenda that has not previously been subject to public comment. To give everyone an opportunity to be heard and to ensure the presentation of different points of view, the Commission requests that members of the audience who speak:
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GETTYSBURG (AP) Ś For every soldier who fought in the Civil War, there was a mother, sister, wife or daughter who suddenly became the head of the household, said Gettysburg re-enactor Joy Melcher.
People often forget the bravery those women showed in the 1860s, she said, because theyÆre more interested in the lives of soldiers. But women, too, had their own battles to fight on the home front, Melcher said.
ōWe teach people an appreciation for what our foremothers went through,ö Melcher said of her work at the Civil War Lady, a historical outfitting boutique. ōWhen things got really tough, women were left to rely on their own resources.ö
Re-enactor Patty Ewers said she often thinks of women of the Civil War as the first ōRosie the Riveters,ö a reference to a poplar home-front icon during World War II.
Women could be found working the fields, serving as nurses, sewing uniforms in army depots and laboring in the Christian Commission, Ewers said. And all of this was in addition to running a household, raising children and managing finances, she added.
ōThey had to have been amazing,ö Ewers said, reflecting on the era of women she was representing at the 151st Battle of Gettysburg. ōI canÆt even imagine. They were a lot stronger and a lot smarter than we are now.ö
Modern women have it easier, agreed Teri Coe, who played a mourning widow during the re-enactment events, because they have more support than was common during the Civil War. There is now a better understand and availability of resources for a family trying to continue at home when a loved one is deployed, she said.
ōEveryone thinks about the men who go off to war, but I prefer to think about the civilian families that are left behind,ö Coe said. ōIt was a difficult life for women in the 1800s, but they were sturdier and used to the challenge.ö
Southern belle re-enactor Emilie Baylies said she has a deep respect for women at the home front because her father served as an Army medic and her brother as a paratrooper. Thankfully, the family lived on a military post when BayliesÆ father was deployed, so her mom had a lot of help, she said.
ōI understand that itÆs similar, but we have things a lot easier,ö Baylies said. ōI canÆt imagine suddenly losing contact and not knowing if they are alive. Now, we can just make a phone call, but then youÆd have to wait months to know anything.ö
But for either women of the Civil War or women of the 21st century, strength is found in numbers, said merchant re-enactor Susan Saum-Wicklein. Historically, women always come together to support each other in times of great conflict, she said.
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(CNSNews.com) - Saying that "all companies contribute to climate change," an environmental think tank is urging people who work in office buildings to introduce energy-saving measures that can "significantly impact climate change," supposedly for the better.
The World Resources Institute, which lists former Vice President Al Gore on its board of directors, has released a "how-to guidebook" for companies interested in greenhouse gas management.
"If you're a building or operations manager at a bank, an insurance company or a retail chain, this guide lays out steps to measure greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and implement solutions," said Samantha Putt del Pino, who co-authored the guide entitled, "Hot Climate, Cool Commerce: A Service Sector Guide to Greenhouse Gas Management."
"Because the potential impacts of climate change are likely to escalate over time as gases continue to accumulate in the atmosphere, it is crucial that steps to reduce emissions begin immediately," Putt del Pino added.
Industrial polluters aren't the only problem, the World Resources Institute argues. The think tank says its guide includes case studies showing how companies such as Citigroup, General Electric, IKEA and Staples have implemented programs "to measure and manage their emissions and achieve energy savings."
"Climate change is becoming a mainstream issue and is increasingly important to our employees and our customers," the WRI press release quoted Mark Buckley, vice president of environmental affairs at Staples, as saying. Buckley said the WRI guidelines have helped his company "manage our GHG emissions in a cost-effective manner."
Among other things, the guide to greenhouse gas management addresses electricity usage for office lighting, cooling, computers, building equipment, and appliances, as well as fuel for heating, business travel, and the distribution (transportation) of products.
"Electricity and heat (46 percent) and transportation (31 percent) are the two largest U.S. sources of carbon dioxide, which is the most common GHG," the World Resources Institute said.
Emma Wendt, described as a "footprint officer" at the International Finance Corporation, the private-sector arm of the World Bank Group, said the WRI guidebook "will prove an invaluable resource for companies who want to take action on climate change."
The World Resources Institute says reducing energy usage and managing greenhouse gas emissions not only benefits the environment, but also helps companies financially.
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In the "Ecomagination" section of its website, General Electric states its "commitment to develop products and solutions that help our customers, shareholders and the public."
GE says that as a "global leader in energy, technology, manufacturing and infrastructure," it is "uniquely suited to help solve environmental dilemmas - today and for generations to come." The website says "Ecomagination" is based on GE's belief that solving environmental problems is good business - and "constitutes a significant growth strategy for the company."
Environmental activists - Al Gore among them - have blasted President George W. Bush for refusing to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty that seeks to limit developed nations' greenhouse gas emissions.
President Bush has said that government-imposed limits on greenhouse gases would be too expensive to implement, harming the U.S. economy - and costing some American workers their jobs.
President Bush also argued against the treaty for failing to place emission-reduction demands on developing countries, even though some -- such as China and India -- are among the world's heaviest polluters.
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While many environmentalist activists accept "global warming" as a lamentable fact of modern life, some scientists believe it's nothing more than an alarmist response to natural climate fluctuations.
The World Resources Institute describes itself as an independent, non-partisan organization that is dedicated to "developing and promoting policies that will help protect the Earth and improve people's lives."
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Union, Environmentalists Form 'Blue-Green Alliance' (8 June 2006)
German Minister Links Katrina to Global Warming, Bush Policies (31 Aug. 2005)
Podesta, Clergy Label 'Global Warming' a 'Religious Issue'(3 May 2006)
Gore Uses Religion to Attract 'Global Warming' Converts (26 May 2006)
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