#Hanover County

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Ephemera Collection

Snack Bar, Next to Post Office. Hanover County's Only 15 Cent All Meat Hamburger.

[archivlibrarianist]

"'You have bestowed upon me the greatest honor you could,' [Girl Scout Kate Lindley] said. 'Greater than that of any proclamation… in your censorship of my Gold Award project.'

"Her summary detailed her creation of 'Banned Book Nooks,' which granted kids across the county access to pieces of literature the school board removed from school shelves. Her work also involved the creation of a 'Free-To-Read' app, which educates users about banned books and where to find them. The board chose to leave out the word 'banned' and limited describing pieces of Lindley’s project, effectively, in Lindley’s words, censoring her award.

...Other community members — including troop leaders and former Girl Scouts — spoke out in support of Lindley."

The irony kills me here, but I admire the hell out of this young person. Congratulations to her, and to the Girl Scouts and other community members who came out to support her. Don't let the censors win. Kate Lindley and her supporters have shown you one way to fight them.

[secretvirginia]

Most Haunted Taverns in Virginia

For over three hundred years, Virginia’s taverns have accommodated weary travelers, from horseback riders of the distant past to modern commuters seeking a break from the gridlock. Some of these historic taverns dotting the highways and byways of the Old Dominion served storied figures like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Stepping into them is like stepping into the past, but be warned,…

[faguscarolinensis]

Azalea x 'Girard Pleasant White' / Girard Pleasant White Azalea at the New Hanover County Arboretum in Wilmington, NC

[geezerwench]

 Hi Hanover!! Your friendly town Witch here following a message from the Hanover Borough Police Chief to clarify something about our business practices.

All Tarot services are for entertainment purposes only! We have this posted at 3 locations around the Shoppe as well as on every single one of our online listings that one must read prior to booking your experience via our website. (Y se habla español si necesitas un traducción! 🇵🇷)

While I personally didn’t have “police activity surrounding my place of business on suspicions of witchcraft” on my 2023 bingo card, I suppose no one expects the (Hanover) Inquisition!

Not interested in 15th Century Playing Cards as a mode of entertainment? No worries! We have a trove of treasures from artisans galore in store, and a welcoming community to those who wish to grow together.

The Serpent’s Key Shoppe and Sanctuary is and always will be a safe space for those who seek to walk an alternative spiritual path.  We hope to continue to love our neighbors as ourselves while we welcome in Spooky Season and all of the upcoming winter holidays 🖤🐍🗝️✨

(Ps. Huge shout outs to the Mainstreet Hanover team for being the sweetest during all of this and all of the local business owners who came by today to show their support 🖤🖤 pls go support them and all of the events they work so hard to organize!) 

[conandaily2022]

Wilmington, North Carolina's Derek Hunson decisions Ray Cooper III at 2023 PFL World Championship in Washington, DC

Former Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter “The One” Derek Brunson, 39, is currently in Washington, D.C., United States. Fighting out of Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, USA, he has just earned his first Professional Fighters League victory. Brunson is 6’1″ tall. As a professional mixed martial artist, he competes in the middleweight division. On May 22, 2010, Brunson made his…

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Ephemera Collection

The Hanover Bank, Ashland, VA. Bank book belonging to L.B. Bagby, Ashland, VA., 1921

[whencyclopedia]

Dolley Madison

Dolley Madison (1768-1849), born Dolley Payne, was a prominent American First Lady, a function she held both during the presidency of her husband, James Madison, and for his predecessor, the widower Thomas Jefferson. Known for her elegance and charm, Madison acted as hostess of the White House, helping to define the role of the presidential spouse.

Early Life

Dolley Payne was born in the Quaker community of New Garden in Guilford County, North Carolina (present-day Greensboro), on 20 May 1768. She was one of eight children born to John Payne, a merchant, and his wife Mary Coles Payne, both of whom came from prominent Virginian families. Shortly after Dolley's birth, the family moved back to Virginia; although their reasons for moving are unclear, some historians have speculated that they had failed at business in North Carolina and wanted a fresh start, or that they were facing discrimination because of their Quaker religion. In any case, the family settled on a 176-acre farm in Hanover County, Virginia, where Dolley grew up. She spent her childhood working the land alongside her parents and siblings and was given a strict Quaker education.

Although John Payne had not been born into the Society of Friends – he had adopted the religion in 1765 to please his Quaker wife – he quickly proved a devoted Quaker himself. He stayed out of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783) to adhere to the Quaker doctrine of pacifism, and his family was not much affected by the fighting. Prior to his conversion, Payne had been a slaveholder, but now became "doubtful and afterwards conscientiously scrupulous about…holding slaves as property" (quoted in Feldman, 384). He desperately wanted to emancipate his slaves, but, since Virginia forbade voluntary manumission, Payne was forced to pack up his family and move them yet again. This time, they went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which was not only the second largest city in the newly independent United States but also a bastion of Quakerism. Here, Payne freed his slaves and moved his family into a house on North Third Street. Partnering with his oldest son, he opened a business to manufacture and sell starch.

In Philadelphia, 15-year-old Dolley continued her Quaker education. Her father forbade her studies from including music or dancing, which most young ladies of her status were expected to know; indeed, Dolley's niece would later write that the Payne daughters were denied "the acquirement of those graceful and ornamental accomplishments which are too generally considered the most important parts of the female education" (quoted in Feldman, 384). Still, the teenage Dolley had no lack of suitors, all of whom she rejected so as to not "relinquish her girlhood" (ibid). But Dolley could not expect to remain a spinster forever, especially not once her family began to fall on hard times. John Payne's starch manufacturing business had never taken off and finally failed in 1789. He then decided to put the money saved from the sale of the Virginia farm into speculative land investments but soon lost this money as well. Payne suddenly found that his family was "reduced to poverty", although the biggest blow of all was when he found himself ostracized from Quaker meetings for his poor financial management.

Distraught and desperate, John Payne arranged for Dolley to marry John Todd, a young lawyer and a Quaker. Dolley accepted – whether there was any love between her and Todd, or whether she was just playing the dutiful daughter, is unknown. In any case, they were married in January 1790, although the Paynes were unable to provide a dowry. John Payne lived long enough to see his daughter married off before dying in October 1792, having never recovered from the stresses of his failures. In the shadow of her father's death, Dolley Payne Todd gave birth to two children of her own: her oldest son, John Payne Todd (called Payne) was born on 29 February 1792, while a second son, William Todd, was born on 4 July 1793. As Dolley was settling into her new life as a mother, little could she have known that it all would soon be upended by death and tragedy.

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[sca-nerd]

Im also in Wilmington NC how do I get into sca here??? I hadn't been able to find anything??? (Please help)

GASP!! HELLO!!

I'm not sure how much you know about the SCA, so I will include some explanations with my response.

You are in the Shire of Seareach (our local chapter made up of New Hanover, Brunswick, Pender, and other parts of surrounding counties) in the Kingdom of Atlantia (regional group made up on MD, VA, NC, SC, and a tiny part of GA)!

The easiest way to find out about our activities like practices or A&S nights (craft and project nights) is to be on Facebook, because that is where our official page and unofficial social group is located. The social group is called Seareach Social.

Otherwise, you would want to reach out to our Seneschal (branch President), as our Chatelaine (new comer representative) is still going through the warranting process (they're still new to the job). We just recently had a change in officers so things are a little wonky at the moment as transitions happen. I can give you their contact information in a message if you prefer - I'd rather not post someone else's personal info here.

Because of all the rain, we have postponed our fighter practices for a little while, but I know that there have been some A&S meetings going on, though right now everyone is preparing to go to a week long war (camping event with battles) called War of the Wings in a couple of weeks, so there's not a lot of group stuff happening at the moment. But we would love to welcome you and answer any questions you have!

Let me know if you need anything else, I am happy to help! And welcome to the dream!

[faguscarolinensis]

Iris x germanica / Bearded iris at the New Hanover County Arboretum in Wilmington, NC

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Alex Kaplan at Olivia Little at MMFA:

A Moms for Liberty chapter leader in North Carolina recently used a podcast affiliated with the dangerous QAnon conspiracy theory to promote the right-wing ”parental rights” group and her school board campaign, while also suggesting that she has been a viewer of the show. On June 7, Natosha Tew, who founded and now serves as the legislation chair of Moms for Liberty’s New Hanover County, North Carolina, chapter, appeared on the podcast RedPill78. Host Zak Paine is a supporter of the QAnon conspiracy theory and a host on a QAnon-affiliated Rumble channel. Paine has also claimed that he was outside the Capitol building on January 6.

The Southern Poverty Law Center previously reported that Tew has promoted antigovernment extremism on social media, such as the Three Percenter militia movement. Additionally, according to the Wilmington Star-News, Tew’s behavior at a 2022 New Hanover County school board meeting was so disruptive that a law enforcement officer had to escort her out of the building.  Tew appeared to wear a campaign pin during her appearance on RedPill78, while a caption across the bottom of the screen promoted her as a “candidate for New Hanover School Board” and showed the link for her campaign site. At the onset of the interview, Tew suggested to Paine that she had watched the show during the pandemic. After discussing her views and background, Tew urged viewers to “visit my website” and to “go and look up your local Moms for Liberty chapter,” claiming, “This movement can’t happen … without everyday people like me and like Zak and like you.” She also asked viewers to donate to her campaign if they “have extra cash and you want to throw it my way.” Additionally, Tew gave out her Moms for Liberty chapter’s email to viewers.

Natosha Tew, the New Hanover County, North Carolina chapter leader for right-wing extremist “parental rights” group Moms For Liberty, appeared on the QAnon-promoting RedPill78 podcast hosted by Zak Paine to campaign for her school board race.

[petervintonjr]

“I was born and raised in the North, and I knew that there was discrimination… but I had never seen that type of hatred on the face of anyone before. It forced me to work harder, to come back and work harder. It forced me to take a good look at people that I knew and what was going on in my own community.”

Today we study the achievements of social justice giant Constance Mitchell, someone who truly understood the intrinsic connection between poverty and racial inequality, and infused that into her every action.

Born in 1928 New Rochelle, New York, little is known of the childhood or coming-of-age years of Constance (“Connie”) Mae Jenkins, but in 1950 she married Louisianan John Mitchell (part of the Great Migration) and moved to Rochester, New York –-the city for which she would forever be associated, despite her initial impression of a place where “people here didn't know how to smile and they weren't friendly at all.”  Her first foray into Rochester community activism was as a volunteer with the Delta Ressics, a group of Baden Street Black activists who pushed for better housing and living conditions for migrant farm workers living in shacks near Sodus.  She also fought against deplorable living conditions at the Hanover Houses, Rochester’s first low-income apartment complex.  

In 1959 at the urging of a fellow Delta Rassick, Walter Cooper, Mitchell ran for --and lost-- a race for a seat on what is now the Monroe County legislature (Ward 3, then known as the Monroe County Board of Supervisors).  However she made another run in 1961 and was this time successful, and was then re-elected in 1964: the first woman and the first African-American to be elected to that body --though not without enduring resentment, routine insults and slurs, and even threats from her fellow legislators.  From this position she and her husband came into regular contact with such figures as Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, among many other civil rights leaders of the time --even entertaining visits from Malcolm and then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.  In the wake of the violent 1964 racial unrest in Rochester, Connie expressed in an interview for Life magazine, “I'm not telling you, I told you so. I'm saying please listen to us."  These two terms were the full extent of Connie’s political career but her commitment to civil rights was just getting started: in 1965, she walked alongside Dr. King from Selma to Montgomery, but while this heroic act itself disillusioned her, at the same time it reinvigorated her determination to improves lives and conditions in her own community. 

Perhaps one of Mitchell's enduring achievements was the founding of Action for a Better Community, a Rochester-based nonprofit devoted to helping people in low-income areas become more self-sufficient and lift themselves out of poverty.  She also worked closely with the United Way and the Urban League of Rochester, and created the Urban League Black Scholars program.  In later years (1978 to 1989), she became the Program Director for an initiative called PRISM (Program for Rochester to Interest Students in Science and Mathematics).  In 1993 Rochester Mayor Bill Johnson, the first elected Black mayor of that city, credited Connie with inspiring him to get into politics; and in 2013 mayor Lovely Warren, the first Black woman to be elected to that position, similarly credited Connie as a role model. 

In February 2017, Mitchell was awarded the Frederick Douglass Medal for outstanding civic engagement by the University of Rochester.  She died the following year (2018); today the Monroe Country Office Building bears her name at the Constance Mitchell Concourse.

Read a truly absorbing transcript of a lengthy 2008 interview with Constance and John Mitchell at: https://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/rbfs-CMitchell

[blueangeldreamland]

Palestine Protests: February 2024

updated: 2/10/2024 source 1 source 2 + extra links at bottom of post :)

Sunday, February 11

ITALY

GENOVA, ITALY – Sun Feb 11, 2 pm, Fanti d’Italia. Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/C2SZSc7IfAD/

Thursday, February 29

AUSTRALIA

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – Thurs Feb 29, 2 pm, State Library (Student Protest for Palestine). Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/C1JJpq6LShT/

February 10, 2024

Chicago, IL | 11:30AM Hanover Park Train Station

Chicago, IL | 1PM Chicago Tribune Center

CORVALLIS, OR | Noon Benton County Courthouse

LOS ANGELES, CA | 1PM LA City Hall

OAKLAND, CA | 11:30AM Lake Merritt Amphitheater

PETALUMA, CA | 12:30PM Petaluma Blvd and East Washington

RACINE, WI | 12:30PM 909 Dr. Martin Luther King Dr.

SANTA BARBARA, CA | 2PM Hollister & Storke

WASHINGTON, DC | 2PM Lafayette Square

February 11, 2024

REDONDO BEACH, CA | 11AM 1815 Hawthorne Blvd.

SACRAMENTO, CA | 12PM 601 McKinley Park

SAINT LOUIS, MO | 2:30 PM @ Kirkwood Park 111 So. Geyser Rd.

February 14, 2024

PHOENIX, AZ | 4pm. NE Corner of 7th St & McDowell Rd

February 15, 2024

Austin, TX | 10AM Austin City Hall, 301 2nd St

February 16, 2024

EAU CLAIRE, WI | 5:00PM Corner of Hwy 93 and Golf Rd (Outside Hardee’s)

February 18, 2024

NEW ORLEANS, LA | 11:30 AM ARMSTRONG PARK

February 19, 2024

Chicago, IL | 11AM Chicago History Museum, Children’s Fountain

February 25, 2024

SAINT PAUL, MN | 1 PM 1176 N Mississippi River Blvd, St. Paul, MN.

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