SEATTLE - An attractive blue and gray apartment building with views of the Space Needle saved taxpayers $4 million in one year - simply by giving hardcore homeless alcoholics a place to live. COURTNEY ...
More than 200 years ago, in January of 1811, a group of enslaved people on a plantation on the outskirts of New Orleans rose up, armed themselves and began a long march toward the city. Hundreds would ...
LAPLACE, La. — One of the largest slave revolt plantations in American history is Black-owned for the first time. Over 200 years ago, scores of slaves escaped a plantation in LaPlace and marched along ...
The Times-Picayune is marking the tricentennial of New Orleans with its ongoing 300 for 300 project, running through 2018 and highlighting the moments and people that connect and inspire us. Today, ...
Earlier this year, a group of organizers led by a daring performance artist donned 19th-century clothes and recreated the 1811 revolt Ted Scheinman; Photographs by Daniella Zalcman On the night of ...
Traffic through LaPlace down La. 628 passes an unassuming two-story white house with a tin roof and green-accented shutters. Surrounded by trees, and with an inviting front stairway and a porch big ...
At 2:15 a.m. on December 16, 1811, residents of the frontier town of New Madrid, in what is now Missouri, were jolted from their beds by a violent earthquake. The ground heaved and pitched, hurling ...
BRECKSVILLE, Ohio -- Just a couple doors down from the 1811 Specialty Shop that opened in September 2022 is the new 1811 Children’s Shop in Brecksville Town Center. The original shop had a small baby ...
Early Manhattan grew organically as inhabitants settled the southern tip of an island replete with hills, cliffs, streams, and wetlands. Individuals built streets around private land boundaries and ...
That is certainly the experience my husband and I had at the Bar Room recently. I figured that the only way I could write a convincing story was to sample one of the cocktails. Right? The only ...
There was plenty I didn’t know about Missouri before I moved to St. Louis in 2007, but one of the things I did know, or thought I knew, was that the state was the site of the largest continental ...
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