#Hanover County

[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.

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Ephemera Collection

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

[chenaultthevirginian]

“Only surviving gravestone from the burying ground at New Castle, Eighteenth Century tobacco port on the Pamunkey River near this place. Removed from eroding riverbank during the 1940s by Haddon Christopher Alexander.” The stone is in the cemetery at Immanuel Episcopal Church, in Old Church (Hanover County), Virginia.

[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…

[todieforimages]

Gregory Congregational United Church of Christ-Wilmington, North Carolina

Gregory Congregational United Church of Christ-Wilmington, North Carolina

The Gothic Revival Church was completed in 1881. Built by S. B. Weston, this church was funded by philanthropist by Samuel Williston for the American Missionary Association’s efforts. The organization sent school teachers to teach Black students to become teachers. At one point, there was a school next to the church.

[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

[faguscarolinensis]

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

[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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[janewilsonrva]

Rollin' Thru Town

Town of Ashland

Hanover County, Virginia (USA)

Based on a photo from April 2, 2023.

A fine Spring day in an old railroad town. 🚂

[weimarhaus]

Kurt Schwitters, Untitled (One Hundred Thousand Marks) (c. 1925; collage on paper, 12 x 9 cm; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art).

László Moholy-Nagy (Bácsborsód, 1895 Chicago, 1946) and Kurt Schwitters (Hanover, 1887 - Ambleside, 1948), between 1922 and 1923 found themselves sharing the same studio in Berlin’s Spichernstrasse: the two artists worked without turning on the heat because they could not afford it. But that was not the only thing their earnings could not support: “We had no money to buy paints or canvases,” Moholy-Nagy would later recall, “so Kurt urged me to follow his example and use the money as an everyday material for collages.”