| | myLot Discussions| MLK streets traverse nation's past, future | | ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Four decades after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, the streets, avenues, boulevards and highways that bear his name remain crossroads of the nation's past and future.In Atlanta, not far from where King grew up and preached at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Martin Luther King Jr. Drive winds through the heart of the city. For 10 miles, the road dedicated in King's name in 1976 stretches past homes, schools, restaurants, liqu*r stores, strip malls, churches, barbershops, a roller-skating rink, boarded-up government flats and a gated apartment community, all the way to the city's downtown and its golden-domed Georgia Capitol building.
Pauline Moore, 84, moved with her family in 1940 into the first house built on the south side of what was then called Hunter Street. The family built a second and then a third house and raised chickens, hogs and other animals out back.
Blacks lived on one side of the nearby railroad tracks, whites on the other, said Moore, who still owns two of the houses.
Moore described a close-knit black community in the 1940s that sustained itself economically and socially. The area's blacks had their own churches,... | |
| | Washington scouts help wildlife festival run smoothly | | Where can I purchase a ticket? Can you direct me to the restrooms? What time does the duck calling competition begin? These questions — and others — were among those fielded by local Boy Scouts during the 12th annual East Carolina Wildlife Arts Festival & The North Carolina Decoy Carving Championships held over the weekend in Washington.The scouts and their leaders, from Troop 99, were on hand to assist visitors and to help the event run smoothly, according to Scoutmaster Dal Newbold.“I’ve been with the troop for four years and we’ve done this every year,” Newbold said Saturday morning as he looked over the day’s schedule. “We’re the meeters and greeters, we make sure everyone has their ticket and we direct them where they need to go.”The project calls for all hands on deck, he said.“We have at least four adults and six boys here at all times,” Newbold said. “This has pretty much taken all of our resources as a troop to cover both days. | |
| | ECU picks up its first victory of the season | | Jeff Ostrander turned in a solid pitching performance and East Carolina avoided its first 0-2 start since 1997. The Pirates (1-1) picked up their first victory of the season, taking a 7-4 win over the Liberty Flames (1-1) on a sunny, crisp Saturday afternoon in front of 2,777 fans at Clark-LeClair Stadium.“I thought our team was tested early to come out and not play like we wanted to (Friday),” ECU coach Billy Godwin said. “Today to come out and put a solid effort together says a lot about our club. I’ve said all along that I like this team. We didn’t push panic buttons with our lineup and we didn’t make wholesale changes.“We came out and we were aggressive on the bases. I was pleased with that, and we got some timely hits.”Ostrander (1-0), who missed last year after undergoing Tommy John surgery, picked up his first win in nearly two years.“Ostrander’s performance was outstanding,” Godwin said. “It was really special for me to watch that.” | |
| | Visitors flock to Wildlife Arts Festival | | As an exhibitor in the East Carolina Wildlife Arts Festival, one so intimately associated with the art of decoy carving, one exhibitor decided to take the road he says is less traveled among wildlife artists. “Everyone makes birds and ducks so I decided to carve fish,” Hunt said at the Friday night preview and opening night ceremony of the 2007 festival. “If I work seven to eight hours a day, I can finish a six-inch piece in about a week and a half. The thing about carving anything in wood is if you make a mistake, you throw it away. I may put 50 hours into a piece and drop it and have to start all over again.”The chisel- and knife-carved bass and trout Hunt has displayed at this year’s festival are so lifelike that they are almost indistinguishable from mounted fish. | |
| | Pirates drop season opener | | Cold days always seem a bit chillier when you’re on the losing end. It must have been downright frigid in the East Carolina locker room. The Pirates dropped their season opener on a sunny, chilly Friday afternoon in front 2,828 fans at Clark-LeClair Stadium, falling 6-2 to the Liberty Flames.For ECU (0-1), it was its first opening-day loss since suffering an 8-3 loss to North Carolina in 1999. Liberty (1-0) got a grand slam from Errol Hollinger that proved to be the difference.“We’re over the fact now that we’re not going to go undefeated,” ECU coach Billy Godwin said. “We’ll move on and tomorrow’s a different day.” | |
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