#Mississippi State University-Meridian

[lboogie1906]

Marjorie Judith Vincent (November 12, 1964) the fourth African American to be crowned Miss America, was born in Oak Park, Illinois. She was Miss America 1991. She is the daughter of Lucien and Florence Vincent of Cap Haitien, Haiti. Her parents migrated to the US and she was the first of their children to be born in America. She attended Chicago catholic schools and took piano and ballet lessons. She entered DePaul University as a music major, switching to business in her third year and graduating. The money she earned from beauty pageants enabled her to fund her education.

After failing to win as Miss North Carolina and as Miss Illinois, the third time was the charm as she became Miss Illinois in 1990. Winning at the state level allowed her to move on to the national competition in Atlantic City. She performed the Fantaisie-Impromptu (Op.66) by Chopin. She wowed the audience with her proficiency and went on to win the crown of Miss America. Her victory marked the first time there were back-to-back Black Miss Americas.

Several mainstream and African American publications stated that her victory signaled the first time that a Black woman with “classic” African features won the crown. They commented that at the time of her crowning, she was already in her final year of law school at Duke University. She returned to Duke but abandoned the pursuit of a law career and decided to go into television journalism. She became an anchor at WGBC in Meridian, Mississippi. She worked at television stations in Peoria, Illinois, and Columbus, Ohio.

Her platform during her reign as Miss America was addressing the plight of battered and abused women. She returned to law school to complete her JD at Florida Coastal Law School. She married Wesley Tripp (2006). The couple has one son. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #alphakappaalpha

[msstate]

Mississippi State University-Meridian Master of Physician Assistant Studies Program from Mississippi State University on Vimeo.

Located on the Riley Campus of Mississippi State University-Meridian, the program has access to two prominent Mississippi health care systems. The historic Rosenbaum Health Science building provides state-of-the-art educational technology in an atmosphere of historic elegance.

[timetravelauthor]

Reaching for the stars

If I have learned one thing as a parent, it is never to underestimate. Children with drive will find ways to succeed and shine. They will not only reach for the stars, but occasionally pull one from the sky.

My son, First Lieutenant Matthew E. Heldt, did that today in Meridian, Mississippi, where he received his wings as an aviator in the United States Marine Corps.

The winging ceremony at Naval Air Station Meridian capped a four-year, four-state journey that included Officer Candidates School; The Basic School; Naval Introductory Flight Evaluation; Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape; primary flight training; and intermediate and advanced jet training. It included tests and trials that most of us, particularly civilians, will never face, much less conquer.

Then again, Matthew, 26, has always been a striver. Long before he mastered the T-6B Texan II and T-45C Goshawk training aircraft, he earned a private pilot license and a mechanical engineering degree at the University of Louisiana. As a Marine aviator, he logged more than two hundred thirty hours of flying time.

Now, Matthew is off to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, where he will learn to fly the F-35B, an advanced fighter jet. A more permanent assignment will follow. Here's to hoping he reaches for the stars wherever he goes. I could not be more proud of him.

[mypositiveoutlooks]

Dad, son, and  daughter graduate together and earn their master's degrees in education

Dad, son, and  daughter graduate together and earn their master’s degrees in education

This graduation season is an extra special one for a Mississippi family because there are three of them graduating in the household. Commondre Cole, 45, and his two adult children, Ja’Coby Cole, 25, and Iesha Gully, 27, all received their master’s degrees in education from the Mississippi State University-Meridian. It’s definitely a proud moment that Mary Cole, Commondre’s mother, couldn’t help…

[humanismtoday]

On why doesn’t the Christian right-wing support the separation of church and state

The Christian right-wing (NOT all Christians) only care about the separation of church and state whenever they believe that Muslims or some other religious group that they hate are being favored by the government and then they are the BIGGEST supporters in the country.

They then make atheists  look like Pat Robertson in comparison. So they are perfectly fine in supporting church/state separation when it suits them.

But most of the time they want the government to promote and push THEIR religious beliefs. They want forced prayer in public schools to convert non Christian fundamentalists as which happened 60 years ago. 

Children can pray now but no, they need to convert the children of non Christian fundamentalists including moderate Christians.

They want military chaplains to use their officer rank to pressure soldiers to become Christian fundamentalists. Frankly they are not above using the government to further their theocratic beliefs. 

They want to ban gays form marrying, because of the Bible and just before that they even wanted to jail gay men for sex with other gay men.

They are our version of the Islamic theocrats in Iran, but fortunately, they do not have complete control, at least for now.

[1962dude420-blog]

Today we remember the passing of John Avery Lomax I who died January 26, 1948 in Greenville, Mississippi

John Avery Lomax I was an American teacher, a pioneering musicologist, and a folklorist who did much for the preservation of American folk music. He was the father of Alan Lomax (also a distinguished collector of folk music) and Bess Lomax Hawes.

The Lomax family originally came from England with William Lomax, who settled in Rockingham County in what was then "the colony of North Carolina." John Lomax was born in Goodman in Holmes County in central Mississippi, to James Avery Lomax and the former Susan Frances Cooper. In December 1869, the Lomax family traveled by ox cart from Mississippi to Texas. John Lomax grew up in central Texas, just north of Meridian in rural Bosque County. His father raised horses and cattle and grew cotton and corn on the 183 acres (0.74 km2) of bottomland that he had purchased near the Bosque River. He was exposed to cowboy songs as a child. At around nine he befriended Nat Blythe, a former slave hired as a farmhand by James Lomax. The friendship, he wrote later, "perhaps gave my life its bent." Lomax, whose own schooling was sporadic because of the heavy farmwork he was forced to do, taught Blythe to read and write, and Blythe taught Lomax songs including "Big Yam Potatoes on a Sandy Land" and dance steps such as "Juba". When Blythe was 21 years old, he took his savings and left. Lomax never saw him again and heard rumors that he had been murdered. For years afterward, he always looked for Nat when he traveled around the South

Through a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies, Lomax was able to set out in June 1933 on the first recording expedition under the Library's auspices, with Alan Lomax (then eighteen years old) in tow. As now, a disproportionate percentage of African American males were held as prisoners. Robert Winslow Gordon, Lomax's predecessor at the Library of Congress, had written (in an article in the New York Times, c. 1926) that, "Nearly every type of song is to be found in our prisons and penitentiaries" Folklorists Howard Odum and Guy Johnson also had observed that, "If one wishes to obtain anything like an accurate picture of the workaday Negro he will surely find his best setting in the chain gang, prison, or in the situation of the ever-fleeing fugitive." But what these folklorists had merely recommended John and Alan Lomax were able to put into practice. In their successful grant application they wrote, following Odum, Johnson and Gordon's hint, that prisoners, "Thrown on their own resources for entertainment ... still sing, especially the long-term prisoners who have been confined for years and who have not yet been influenced by jazz and the radio, the distinctive old-time Negro melodies." They toured Texas prison farms recording work songs, reels, ballads, and blues from prisoners such as James "Iron Head" Baker, Mose "Clear Rock" Platt, and Lightnin' Washington. By no means were all of those whom the Lomaxes recorded imprisoned, however: in other communities, they recorded K.C. Gallaway and Henry Truvillion.

In July 1933, they acquired a state-of-the-art, 315 pounds (143 kg) phonograph uncoated-aluminum disk recorder. Installing it in the trunk of his Ford sedan, Lomax soon used it to record, at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, a twelve-string guitar player by the name of Huddie Ledbetter, better known as "Lead Belly," whom they considered one of their most significant finds. During the next year and a half, father and son continued to make disc recordings of musicians throughout the South.

John A. Lomax's contribution to the documentation of American folk traditions extended beyond the Library of Congress Music Division through his involvement with two agencies of the Works Progress Administration. In 1936, he was assigned to serve as an advisor on folklore collecting for both the Historical Records Survey and the Federal Writers' Project. Lomax's biographer, Nolan Porterfield, notes that the outlines of the famed WPA State Guides resulting from this work resemble Lomax and Benedict's earlier Book of Texas.

Upon Lomax's departure this work was continued by Benjamin A. Botkin, who succeeded Lomax as the Project's folklore editor in 1938, and at the Library in 1939, resulting in the invaluable compendium of authentic slave narratives: Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery, edited by B. A. Botkin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945).

John A. Lomax served as president of the Texas Folklore Society for the years 1940��41, and 1941–42. In 1947 his autobiography Adventures of a Ballad Hunter (New York: Macmillan) was published and was awarded the Carr P. Collins prize as the best book of the year by the Texas Institute of Letters. The book was immediately optioned to be made into a Hollywood movie starring Bing Crosby as Lomax and Josh White as Lead Belly, but the project was never realized.

In 1932, Lomax met his friend, Henry Zweifel, a rancher and businessman then from Cleburne in Johnson County, while both were volunteers for Orville Bullington's Republican gubernatorial race against the Democrat Miriam Ferguson. Lomax's old enemy, James Ferguson, was virtually running his wife's comeback attempt at the governorship.

Lomax died of a stroke at the age of eighty in January 1948. On June 15 of that year, Lead Belly gave a concert at the University of Texas, performing children's songs such as "Skip to My Lou" and spirituals (performed with his wife Martha) that he had first sung years before for the late collector.

In 2010, John A. Lomax was inducted into the Western Music Hall of Fame for his contributions to the field of cowboy music.

[foxwide539]

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[bachelorstone]

BACHELOR INTRODUCTION.

( trevante rhodes, cis male, he/him/his ) bachelor stone just strolled through the quad, the thirty year old groundskeeper/maintenance has been at the university for one week. rumor has it they are hard-working & distant .i also hear they are bisexual and they’re pretty into rough sex & public sex.

BASIC INFORMATION:

Full Name: Bachelor Maurice Stone Nickname: Bach, B Birthday: October 18 Gender: Cis Male Pronouns: He/Him Sexual Orientation: Bisexual Romantic Orientation: Biromantic Occupation: Groundskeeper/Maintenance  Living Conditions: One bedroom apartment Hometown: Meridian, Mississippi

PHYSICAL:

Height: 6′1 Weight: 200 lbs. Eyes: Brown Hair: Black Distinguishing Features: his full beard, large, muscular body with curly black hair across his muscular chest, and smooth dark skin Face: Trevante Rhodes

MANNERISMS:

Speech Style: Uses slang. Shortens things like a true southerner.  Accent: Southern  Hobbies: Working out, spending time with family, drawing.  Nervous Ticks: He bounces his leg.  Motivations: To be happy. To be safe. To be content.  Fears: Death, failure, losing close family members, letting people down, going back to prison.  Positive: Hardworking, easygoing, friendly, caring.  Negative: Hard on himself, distant, closed-off.  Sense of Humor: He has a good one.  Do they curse often?: Very often. 

SEXUALITY:

Sexuality: Bisexual Preference: Dominant, Top Kinks: Public sex, threesomes, edging, dirty talk, car sex, anal Anit-Kinks: race play/fetishization, water sports, bondage, scat, blood play, vore, dd/lg/lb, age play

BIOGRAPHY:

All of his life, Bachelor Maurice Stone has been outside. From the time he could walk, he was playing in the backyard with his cousins, playing in the streets of the neighborhood with friends. Outside has always been one of Bachelor's favorite places to be. Just the feeling of freedom that encompasses you when you step outside of the house, no longer boxed in by the four walls that seem so suffocating close together, it was everything that Bachelor loved. He didn't know how much he would miss it until it was gone. He didn't know how much he hated being inside until he was trapped in his small five by seven cement room, with a cheap bed, a toilet and a sink, and no windows to see the blue or night sky. They say prison can change a person, and that's true, because Bachelor hasn't felt the same since they slammed and locked the door in his face.

Growing up, he always knew that he was athletic. He loved playing pickup basketball games in the street, flag football (that inevitably became tackle) in the front yard, racing down the street, and playing baseball. Sports were a place that Bachelor excelled in, the only part about school that he actually enjoyed -- and definitely the thing that kept him in school when he got old enough to drop out -- that and the constant threats from his momma, saying if he dropped out she'd make sure he dropped dead. Bachelor's parents were always encouraging, they saw his talent, especially on the football field, and they found the money to make sure he was in all of the right football camps, had the best gear that they could afford, and bought him a brand new football every year for Christmas (because he would always leave his in the yard and it'd get ruined). They saw the potential in Bachelor, as did everyone else, that boy was going to get out of this shit town, and he was going to make a big name for himself.

After getting plenty of scholarship offers, full-rides of course, the number one Quarterback in the state of Alabama for the year 2008 had accepted a full ride to Mississippi State. Bachelor, his parents, and the people from his neighborhood were excited for his future. He was a beacon of hope for them, a promise that there's more to life than what the "wrong side of the tracks" in Brinkley had to offer. Then Bachelor made one great mistake, that he still regrets to this very day.

The ride was supposed to just be back home. Bachelor had gotten into a car with some friends from school after a graduation party, they promised to drop him back off, but when they started taking the long way back to Bachelor's house, he didn't tell them to let him out. They had a bad reputation, Bachelor knew that, but they had all been cool, and Bachelor didn't feel threatened by them at all -- even though it was known that they were gang affiliated. When they took out the weed, an already intoxicated Bachelor didn't hesitate to smoke with them, he wasn't getting drug tested any time soon anyway. He didn't even realize the driver was speeding until there was a flash of blue lights behind them, and Bachelor's heart dropped into his stomach.

He can still remember the feeling of ice cold fear running through his veins when he was forced out of the car, pushed onto the hood, and handcuffed after guns, one of which had been used to shoot and kill someone earlier that night, and more weed than Bachelor had ever seen before had been found. He remembers the white hot tears rolling down his cheeks as he sat in the back of the police car. He remembers the sick feeling in his stomach when he and his father were told by the lawyer they'd been assigned that he could get a minimum of five years and only a weapons and drug possession charge if he took a plea deal. He still remembers the empty feeling that he had when he was stripped down, humiliated, and put in an orange jumpsuit and closed up in a cell, knowing that his bright future was now very, very dark.

Five long years he spent in jail. Five long years of wallowing in regret, depression, and five years of nights spent listening to the cries and screams of other inmates. Five long years of missing being outside, being free, just like when he was a child.

After five years, Bachelor was finally eligible for parole, and when he stepped outside once more and saw his father there to pick him up in a Stone & Sons Landscaping truck, Bachelor broke down in tears, wrapping his arms around his father and crying. He was finally free, but he had a long road ahead of him in rebuilding.

After five years of being on parole, working with his father, and trying to readjust to life again after being in prison, Bachelor was finally off parole. Bachelor didn’t make a lot of money working for his father, and remaining in his hometown -- not far from where he served his unfair sentence -- was haunting. So, Bachelor packed his bags, kissed his parents goodbye, and made his way up north. It was by strike of luck that he managed to land a job as a groundskeeper at Pinecrest University. The elitism and prestige of the school is what makes him keep his jail time a secret, carrying beneath dark skin stretched over bulging muscle. Bachelor is pretty quiet and reserved, so you might see him out and about on campus, mowing or working in the gardens, raking leaves and making sure the campus stays beautiful. Don’t let his stature scare you though, he’s essentially a giant teddy bear. 

As for his relationships with other faculty and students, well, pretty nonexistent so far -- he’s only been at Pinecrest for a week. But it’s Pinecrest we’re talking about, isn’t it? So it’s bound to happen. 

WANTED CONNECTIONS:

FRIENDS. people who will show him the ropes and around campus, introduce him to the town, help him acclimate to this new situation and area that he’s been in. keep in mind he’s a thirty year old man, but this is first true venture into complete adulthood. this is the first time he’s ever left home. 

HOOKUPS. this is Pinecrest, and bachelor is practically sex on legs, so who wouldn’t want to hookup with him? this can be students and faculty and staff a like. 

ETC. honestly, i’m down for any and everything! 

@pinecrestrb​ 

[bobmccullochny]

November History

November 1 1512 – Michelangelo’s paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, Italy were first exhibited. He started the work in 1508. 1570 – The All Saints��� Flood devastated the Dutch coast.

1604 – William Shakespeare’s tragedy The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice was first presented.

1611 – Shakespeare’s romantic comedy The Tempest was first presented

1755 (Earthquake & Tsunami) Lisbon, Portugal – an estimated 10,000-100,000 people were killed

1775 (Earthquake) Kashan, Iran -estimated 40,000 killed

1834 – First published reference to poker (as a Mississippi riverboat game) Originally 20 cards were used, and the 52 card deck appeared before 1850.

1867 – Harper’s Bazaar issue #1 was published. It was America’s first fashion-oriented magazine.

1879 – Thomas Edison signed the patent application for his electric lamp (approved on January 27 1880 Patent #223,898).

1884 – Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) was adopted universally at a meeting of the International Meridian Conference in Washington, DC.

1896 – Zulu groom and bride (a bare-breasted woman) appeared in National Geographic Magazine. The magazine began publication in October of 1888.

1924 – First US NHL franchise, Boston Bruins was founded. The Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs were the first to form and the addition of the Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, and New York Rangers made the Original Six teams.

1945 – First issue of Ebony magazine published by John H Johnson. The first magazine he started was ‘The Negro Digest’ (later called Black World) in 1942.

1951 – Jet magazine was founded by John H Johnson. In 1996, President Bill Clinton bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Johnson.

1952 – Operation Ivy – The United States successfully detonated the first large hydrogen bomb, codenamed “Mike” [“M” for megaton], in the Eniwetok atoll, located in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean.

1960 – While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announced his idea of the Peace Corps.

1967 – Cool Hand Luke starring Paul Newman, George Kennedy, and Strother Martin, was released. “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.”

1968 – The Motion Picture Association of America’s film rating system was officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X.

1977 – Chiron, the farthest known asteroid was discovered by Charles Kowal. Chiron is named after the wisest of the Centaurs of Greek mythology.

1979 – Federal (US) government made a $1.5 billion loan guarantee for Chrysler. The government basically ‘cosigned’ a loan to keep the company in business.

1981 – First Class US Mail raised from 18 cents to 20 cents. Prior to the use of stamps, postage was paid for by the receiver, not the sender.

1996- The original cartoon series of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles aired its final episode. Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird invented the TMNT in 1984 in comic book form.

2012 – Google’s Gmail became the world’s most popular email (Electronic mail) service. Microsoft’s Hotmail was the leader before that. Although Yahoo actually has the most registered users, it is/was not used as much as the others.

[smushpub]

If you choose to believe that all of these protests and uprisings, to demand equality and government employ to do their job, is "New" - here's a breakdown:

- Antebellum Violence

Cincinnati Riots, 1829

Anti-Abolition Riots, 1834 (sound familiar?)

Cincinnati Race Riots, 1836

The Pennsylvania Hall Fire, 1838

Christina (Pennsylvania) Riot, 1851

- Civil War, Reconstruction, & Post-Reconstruction Era Violence

Detroit Race Riot, 1863

New York City Draft Riots, 1863

Memphis Riot, 1866

New Orleans Massacre, 1866

Pulaski Race Riot, 1868

Camilla Massacre, 1868

Opelousas Massacre, 1868

The Meridian Race Riot, 1871

Chicot County Race War, 1871

The Colfax Massacre, 1873

Clinton (Mississippi) Riot, 1875

Hamburg Massacre, 1876

Carroll County Courthouse Massacre, 1886

Thibodaux Massacre, 1887

New Orleans Dockworkers’ Riot, 1894-1895

Virden, Illinois Race Riot, 1898

Wilmington Race Riot, 1898

Newburg, New York Race Riot, 1899

- Race Riots, 1900-1960

Robert Charles Riot (New Orleans), 1900

New York City Race Riot, 1900

Atlanta Race Riot, 1906

Springfield, Illinois Race Riot, 1908

East St. Louis Race Riot, 1917

Chester, Pennsylvania Race Riot, 1917

Houston Mutiny and Race Riot, 1917

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Race Riot, 1918

Charleston (South Carolina) Riot, 1919

Washington, D.C. Riot, 1919

Chicago Race Riot, 1919

Knoxville Race Riot, 1919

Elaine, Arkansas Riot, 1919

Tulsa Race Riot, 1921

Rosewood Massacre, 1923

Harlem Race Riot, 1935

Beaumont Race Riot, 1943

Detroit Race Riot, 1943

Columbia Race Riot, 1946

- Urban Uprisings, 1960-2000

Cambridge, Maryland Riot, 1963

The Harlem Race Riot, 1964

Rochester Rebellion, 1964

Jersey City Uprising, 1964

Paterson, New Jersey Uprising, 1964

Elizabeth, New Jersey Uprising, 1964

Chicago (Dixmoor) Riots, 1964

Philadelphia Race Riot, 1964

Watts Rebellion (Los Angeles), 1965

Cleveland’s Hough Riots, 1966

Chicago, Illinois Uprising, 1966

The Dayton, Ohio Uprising, 1966

Hunter’s Point, San Francisco Uprising, 1966

The Nashville Race Riot, 1967

Newark Race Riot, 1967

Plainfield, New Jersey Riot, 1967

Detroit Race Riot, 1967

Flint, Michigan Riot, 1967

Tuscon Race Riot, 1967

Grand Rapids, Michigan Uprising, 1967

The King Assassination Riots, 1968

Hartford, Connecticut Riot, 1969

Asbury Park Race Riot, 1970

Camden, New Jersey Riots, 1969 and 1971

Miami (Liberty City) Riot, 1980

Crown Heights (Brooklyn) New York Riot, 1991

Rodney King Riot, 1992

West Las Vegas Riot, 1992

St. Petersburg, Florida Riot, 1996

- College Campus Violence

University of Georgia Desegregation Riot, 1961

Ole Miss Riot, 1962

Houston (Texas Southern University) Riot, 1967

Orangeburg Massacre, 1968

Jackson State Killings, 1970

- 21st Century Racial Violence

Cincinnati Riot, 2001

Oscar Grant Oakland Protests, 2009-2011

Ferguson Riot and Ferguson Unrest, 2014-2015

Baltimore Protests and Riots, 2015

Charleston Church Massacre, 2015

Milwaukee Riot, 2016

Charlotte Riot, 2016

Jackson State Killings, 1970

And in case you thought that slavery "just ended"- there were plenty of uprisings of both slaves AND Good white folk who saw it as being against God's will:

Revolts of the Enslaved:

New York City Slave Uprising, 1712

The Stono Rebellion, 1739

New York City Slave Conspiracy, 1741

Gabriel Prosser Revolt, 1800

Igbo Landing Mass Suicide, 1803

Andry’s Rebellion, 1811

Denmark Vesey Conspiracy, 1822

Nat Turner Revolt, 1831

Amistad Mutiny, 1839

Creole Case, 1841

Slave Revolt in the Cherokee Nation, 1842

[lboogie1906]

Campbell College, a now-defunct college in Mississippi, was founded in 1890 by the AME Church and named in honor of Bishop Jabez Pitt Campbell. The college was located near Vicksburg, Mississippi in Bethel Church, until it moved in 1899 across the street from Jackson State College.

It was established as a grammar school and junior college with the main purpose of educating Black youth in the state of Mississippi. Although the school accepted all, regardless of denomination, it considered itself a “Christian institution of learning” and imposed strict standards of behavior on its students based on Christian principles. In addition to daily class prayers, the bible was a required textbook used for daily classwork mandatory church service, and Sunday school.

The school was quite active in the civil rights movement. It was able to support the civil rights movement without fear of state retaliation because the private college did not rely on state funds and the AME doctrine supported full social equality for everyone.

It became a center of political activism in the state of Mississippi. On April 8, 1960, Mississippi’s field secretary of the NAACP and civil rights activist Medgar Evers held a press conference at Campbell College to announce a boycott that targeted white-owned businesses in downtown Jackson. The Easter boycott was organized by students of the college and led by Dean of Students Charles Jones and student body president Alfred Cook. Student Johnny Barbour, Jr. was arrested and charged with ‘breach of peace’ for sitting in the whites-only section of a city bus during a bus sit-in in April of the following year. In October of 1961, college President Robert Stevens allowed Black students from Burgland High School in Meridian, who were expelled for peaceful protests of police brutality, to enroll and complete their school term when no other local schools would. This did not sit well with white state officials.

By 1964, it was in deep debt and the campus was seized by the state. The college closed its campus and was absorbed into what is now Jackson State University. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #hbcu

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John Lewis spent the weeks of June 13-20, 1964, in Oxford, Ohio, helping to train hundreds of college-age volunteers who were heading to Mississippi for Freedom Summer. A bulletin in the lobby of the training headquarters at the Western College for Women underscored the danger of the assignment: “Before you leave Oxford, write your Congressmen asking them to act to insure your safety. Contact should be established with them before you reach Mississippi.”

Among those present were Mickey Schwerner, twenty-four, a graduate student in social work at Columbia University; Andrew Goodman, twenty, an anthropology major at Queens College; and James Chaney, twenty-one, a volunteer with CORE from Meridian, Mississippi. Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner left the training early to investigate a fire at Mount Zion Methodist Church near Philadelphia, Mississippi, forty miles from Chaney’s hometown. He and Schwerner had spoken there over Memorial Day, urging local blacks to start a Freedom School and register to vote.

On the night of June 21, while attending a relative’s funeral in Alabama, Lewis received a call that the three civil rights workers were missing. They’d been arrested on the way to the church, had been taken to the Neshoba County jail in Philadelphia, and hadn’t been heard from since. The Freedom Summer project hadn’t even started yet—half the trainees were still in Ohio—and already three workers had disappeared.

Lewis caught the first flight to Mississippi and immediately began searching for the bodies when he and a small group of SNCC workers arrived in Philadelphia, a town of 8,000 in rural central Mississippi, two hundred miles west of Selma. They scoured the flat, stubby landscape where Schwerner’s charred blue station wagon had been found, clearing through brush and digging through dirt. “It was so dangerous,” Lewis said. “It was so ill advised.” It was hardly a secret that the White Citizens’ Council and the Klan controlled Neshoba County. Not a single African-American, out of a black population of 2,565, had been allowed to register to vote.

Forty-four days after the disappearance, the bodies of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner were found in an earthen dam that the owner, Olen Burrage, bragged could hold a hundred civil rights workers. The church fire and been set by Klansmen to lure the civil rights activists to Neshoba County, where they were arrested and abducted according to plan. They’d killed Goodman and Schwerner, both white, with single shots, then mutilated Chaney, who was African-American, beyond recognition. It was the first interracial lynching in U.S. history.

The bodies were discovered just a few miles from the site of the Neshoba County Fair, one of the state’s preeminent social and political gatherings, known as “Mississippi’s giant house party.” The fair had begun in 1889, a year before the Mississippi Constitutional Convention ratified the Mississippi Plan that disenfranchised nearly every one of the state’s black voters through the poll tax and literacy test. The first major politician to speak at the fair in the early 1900s was Governor James K. Vardaman, the “Great White Chief,” who once said, “If it is necessary every Negro in the state will be lynched; it will be done to maintain white supremacy.”

Since then, the Neshoba County Fair had been a hotbed of resistance to desegregation and a required stop for any politician hoping to win higher office in the state. In August 1964, despite the discovery of Chaney’s, Goodman’s, and Schwerner’s remains just days earlier, the fair proceeded as planned. The invited speakers included George Wallace, Barry Goldwater, Jr., and the state’s staunchly segregationist governor, Josh Barnett. The only blacks at the fair were there to clean the cabins.

On August 3, 1980, nearly sixteen years to the day when the bodies of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner were discovered, Ronald Reagan kicked off his general election campaign for president at the Neshoba County Fair. He spoke at the grandstand of the red clay horse track, surrounded by six hundred cabins with names like Fox Den and Ye Old King’s Castle, colorfully decorated in pastels and often flying Confederate flags.

Reagan, the first presidential candidate to ever speak at the fair, received a thunderous welcome from the nearly all-white audience. “We want Reagan!” the crowd of ten thousand chanted. The year before, the Mississippi Republican chairman, Michael Retzer, told the Republican National Committee (RNC) that the fair would be a good place to court “George Wallace-inclined voters.”

“I believe in states’ rights,” Reagan told the crowd. “I believe in people doing as much as they can for themselves at the community level and at the private level. And I believe that we’ve distorted the balance of our government today by giving powers that were never intended in the Constitution to the federal establishment. And if I do get the job I’m looking for, I’m going to devote myself to trying to reorder those priorities and to restore to the states and local communities those functions which properly belong there.”

The phrase “states’ rights,” which had long been the rallying cry of southern segregationists, had not been part of the candidate’s usual stump speech, nor had reporters heard him use it before on the campaign trail in 1980… Reagan’s talk to states’ rights might have gone unnoticed had it not been said in a place like Neshoba County, by a candidate who had opposed every major civil rights law of the 1960s, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968.

— Ari Berman, from Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America

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Matthew T. Coker, MD stands out at carrying out laparoscopic and robotic enucleations, which provide lots of advantages to patients, consisting of smaller lacerations and a faster recovery. Robotics gives a much better operating atmosphere for the medical doctor & enables them to execute at an even higher degree.

Dr. Coker takes immense satisfaction and obligation in his care for patients. He understands the vulnerable position that clients and their households are in, and it is very important to him that clients and their family members understand their diagnosis and treatment alternatives.  Visit us at https://www.medicalartssg.com/our-surgeons/matthew-t-coker-md/

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Hans H. Tulip, MD is a trusted & board-certified General Surgeon based in Meridian, Mississippi. His area of proficiency in the application of minimally invasive surgical strategies for abdominal surgical treatment. He concentrates on hiatal hernia repair/reflux surgery, abdominal hernia repair service, and also colon/rectal surgical procedure.

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Moving To St. Paul, Minnesota

Saint Paul Regional Water Services supplies reliable, quality water and services at a reasonable cost to the city of Saint Paul and neighboring communities. Lake Agassiz, which was up to 600-700 feet (~200 m) deep, and at various times covered areas totaling over 110,000 square miles (~300,000 km2),  was formed from the meltwaters of the Laurentide Ice Sheet during the Wisconsonian glaciation of the last ice age The enormous outflow from this lake carved a wide valley now occupied by the much smaller Minnesota River and the Upper Mississippi River below its confluence with the Minnesota.

Blocked by an ice sheet to the north, the lake water rose until about 9,700 years Before Present (BP), when it overtopped the Big Stone Moraine , a ridge of glacial drift left by the receding glacier, at the location of Browns Valley, Minnesota The lake's outflow was catastrophic at times, 15 creating a wide valley to Saint Paul, where the massive River Warren Falls once graced the landscape.

Sioux and Ojibwa peoples were early inhabitants of the area. In 1680 the Franciscan missionary Louis Hennepin passed the site, and in 1766 explorer Jonathan Carver probed a nearby cavern (since known as Carver’s Cave). In 1805 Lieutenant Zebulon Montgomery Pike, leader of an American expedition to explore the headwaters of the Mississippi River, made a treaty there (never officially ratified) with the Sioux for possession of the region, including the site on which the military outpost Fort Snelling (now a state park) was later built. The first land claim was made in 1838 by tavern owner Pierre (“Pig’s Eye”) Parrant; he was closely followed by Abraham Perry. The settlement was known as Pig’s Eye Landing until 1841, when Roman Catholic missionary Lucien Galtier built a log chapel dedicated to the apostle Paul. In 1849 St. Paul became the capital of the newly formed Minnesota Territory, and it was made the state capital when Minnesota was admitted to the Union in 1858.

Saint Paul, east of the Mississippi River, was originally surveyed into 6x6 mile squares called townships. This survey was done by James M. Marsh in October of 1847. The townships were then surveyed into 1x1 mile squares called sections by Issac Higbee, Deputy Surveyor, during the months of October & November of 1847. Saint Paul, west of the Mississippi River, was surveyed into sections by Jesse T. Jarrett in September of 1853. The area now covered by Saint Paul was surveyed off the 4th Principal Meridian which runs through Wisconsin. Saint Paul covers parts of Townships 28 & 29 North and Ranges 22 & 23 West of the 4th Principal Meridian.

The City of Saint Paul was originally established as the "The Town of St. Paul" by an act of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Minnesota in November of 1849. Saint Paul remained a town until March of 1854 when it became the "City of Saint Paul, Minnesota Territory". In May of 1858 when Minnesota became a state the city became known as "The City of Saint Paul, State of Minnesota".

Large parts of the city of Minneapolis was developed around the turn of the 20th century and much of the empty space was mostly filled in by the 1950s, with postwar housing built mostly in less desirable neighborhoods in the far south and north of Minneapolis.

For sports enthusiasts, the Twin Cities area plays host to numerous professional sports teams, including the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball's Saint Paul Saints, Major League Baseball's (MLB) Minnesota Twins, the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves, the National Football League's (NFL) Minnesota Vikings, the National Hockey League's (NHL) Minnesota Wild, the United Soccer League's (USL) USL First Division Minnesota Thunder and USL W-League Minnesota Lightning, and the WNBA's Minnesota Lynx.

Visit any church service, Roman Catholic , Protestant or Greek Orthodox , and it is the apostle Paul and his ideas that are central - in the hymns , the creeds , the sermons , the invocation and benediction , and of course, the rituals of baptism and the Holy Communion or Mass.

Primitive Christianity was a closely knit fellowship with the common meal and the Eucharist (thanksgiving for the sacrificial death of Christ) at the heart of it. But the Jewish purity rules made Jews reluctant to eat with Gentiles for fear of transgressing the Law.

Concordia University (1893) was founded by the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod It is part of the 10-member Concordia University System It was founded to provide a Christian learning environment to high school students planning to go into professional ministries with the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.

New, modern housing, condos and apartments are available, especially in the fashionable parts of town, but if you want something contemporary the best places to look is in the old industrial districts around downtown Minneapolis for a refurbished warehouse apartment.

St. Paul and the Twin Cities metropolitan area traditionally votes for liberal, progressive politicians, but there are plenty of conservative areas for Republican folks, mainly in the Highland Park neighborhood, to feel at home in. St. Paul city government follows the trend with the current major, Chris Coleman , being a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party , affiliated with the national Democratic Party.

As America's third most literate city , Minneapolis is also home to a stunning library and Open Book , the largest literary and book arts center in the US. For avid readers, this means that a good book or helpful recommendation is never far from reach.

Every major cuisine is represented is restaurants all over the city, with many on Grand Avenue, an Italian district in the northeast of the city, the District del Sol on the Eastside, and the best Asian food in the Twin Cities on University Avenue, just outside downtown St.

The city's notable recreation locations include Indian Mounds Park , Battle Creek Regional Park, Harriet Island Regional Park, Highland Park , the Wabasha Street Caves , Lake Como , Lake Phalen , and Rice Park , as well as several areas abutting the Mississippi River The Irish Fair of Minnesota is also held annually at the Harriet Island Pavilion area.

A Minnesota Department of Transportation study found that increased daily service to Chicago should be economically viable, especially if it originates in Saint Paul and does not experience delays from the rest of the western route of the Empire Builder.

St Paul Minnesota  is a beautiful city that offers all the benefits of big city wants with that small town feel. If your considering relocating to St Paul consider it during the spring and summer months when Discount Moving Companies offer their best rates due to good weather. 

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Bucket Full of Memories, Theme Parks around the United States

I love going to theme parks so here is a list of all the theme parks from around the United States

Alabama Alabama Splash Adventure, Bessemer Southern Adventures, Huntsville Spring Park, Tuscumbia Waterville USA, Gulf Shores Alaska Roadrunner Amusement Park, Anchorage ArizonaEdit Castles N' Coasters, Phoenix Enchanted Island, Phoenix Funtasticks Family Fun Park, Tucson Golf n' Stuff, Tucson Golfland Sunsplash, Mesa Schnepf Farms, Queen Creek Wildlife World, Litchfield Park Arkansas Fast Lane Entertainment, Lowell Funland Amusement Park, North Little Rock Magic Springs and Crystal Falls, Hot Springs California Northern California Blackbeard's Family Entertainment Center, Fresno Boomers, Fresno Funderland, Sacramento Fun Town at Micke Grove, Lodi Gilroy Gardens, Gilroy Golfland, Castro Valley, Milpitas, Roseville, San Jose, and Sunnyvale Kiwanis Kiddieland, Merced Roseville Golfland Sunsplash, Roseville Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, Santa Cruz Scandia Amusements, Rohnert Park and Sacramento Sonoma TrainTown Railroad, Sonoma San Francisco California's Great America, Santa Clara Children's Fairyland, Oakland Happy Hollow Park and Zoo, San Jose Pixieland Amusement Park, Concord Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Vallejo Los Angeles Golf 'N' Stuff, Norwalk Mountasia Family Fun Center, Valencia Pacific Park, Santa Monica Six Flags Magic Mountain, Valencia SpeedZone Los Angeles Universal Studios Hollywood, Universal City Orange County Adventure City, Anaheim Boomers, Fountain Valley Disneyland Resort Disney California Adventure, Anaheim Disneyland, Anaheim Golfland, Anaheim Knott's Berry Farm, Buena Park Riverside County Castle Park, Riverside San Bernardino County Alpine Slide at Magic Mountain, Big Bear Lake Boomers, Upland Fiesta Village Family Fun Park, Colton Scandia Amusement Park, Ontario and Victorville San Diego Belmont Park, San Diego Boomers, El Cajon Frasier's Frontier, El Cajon Legoland California, Carlsbad SeaWorld San Diego ColoradoEdit Elitch Gardens, Denver Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park, Glenwood Springs Heritage Square, Golden Lakeside Amusement Park, Lakeside Mile High Flea Market, Henderson City Park, Pueblo Santa's Workshop, Cascade ConnecticutEdit Lake Compounce, Bristol Quassy Amusement Park, Middlebury Delaware Funland, Rehoboth Beach Jungle Jim's Adventure World, Rehoboth Beach Florida North Florida Adventure Landing, Jacksonville Beach Big Kahuna's, Destin Cobra Adventure Park, Panama City Beach Fast Eddies Fun Center, Pensacola Race City PCB, Panama City Beach Sam's Fun City & Sam's Surf City, Pensacola Shipwreck Island, Panama City Beach Wild Willy's Adventure Zone, Fort Walton Beach Central Florida Andretti Thrill Park, Melbourne Boardwalk Amusements, Daytona Beach Busch Gardens Tampa, Tampa Celebration Station, Clearwater Daytona Lagoon, Daytona Beach Dinosaur World, Plant City Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Merritt Island Legoland Florida, Winter Haven Weeki Wachee Springs, Weeki Wachee Greater Orlando Fun Spot America - Kissimmee, Kissimmee Fun Spot America - Orlando, Orlando Gatorland, Orlando Give Kids the World Village, Kissimmee Holy Land Experience, Orlando Magical Midway, Orlando Old Town, Kissimmee SeaWorld Orlando Discovery Cove, Orlando SeaWorld Orlando, Orlando Universal Orlando Universal Studios Florida, Orlando Universal's Islands of Adventure, Orlando Walt Disney World Disney's Animal Kingdom, Bay Lake Disney's Hollywood Studios, Bay Lake Epcot, Bay Lake Magic Kingdom, Bay Lake South Florida Kidstar Park, Port Charlotte Santa's Enchanted Forest, Miami Uncle Bernie's Amusement Park, Fort Lauderdale Zoomers Family Amusement Park, Fort Myers Beach Georgia Adventure Crossing, Augusta All American Fun Park, Albany Alpine Park, Helen Black Mountain Alpine Coaster, Helen Fun Spot Atlanta, Fayetteville Lake Winnepesaukah, Rossville Six Flags Over Georgia, Austell Wild Adventures, Valdosta Hawaii Maui Golf and Sports Park, Wailuku Sea Life Park Hawaii, Oahu IdahoEdit Silverwood Theme Park, Athol Wahooz Family Fun Zone, Meridian Yellowstone Bear World, Rexburg Illinois Donley's Wild West Town, Union Enchanted Castle, Lombard Go Bananas, Norridge Grady's Family Fun Park, Bloomington Grizzly Jack's Grand Bear Resort, Utica Haunted Trails, Burbank and Joliet Knight's Action Park, Springfield Odyssey Fun World, Tinley Park Pirates Cove, Elk Grove Village Safari Land, Villa Park Santa's Village AZoosment Park, Dundee Six Flags Great America, Gurnee Six Flags Hurricane Harbor, Gurnee Indiana Team Combat, Tactical Laser Tag for Adults, Teens & 8-12 Year Olds, Hobart Holiday World & Splashin' Safari, Santa Claus Indiana Beach, Monticello Iowa Adventureland, Altoona Arnolds Park, Arnolds Park Lost Island Amusement Park, Waterloo Kansas All Star Adventures, Wichita Kiddieland, Pittsburg Kentucky Beech Bend Park, Bowling Green Kentucky Kingdom, Louisville Malibu Jack’s Indoor Theme Park, Lexington Louisiana Blue Bayou and Dixie Landin', Baton Rouge Carousel Gardens Amusement Park, New Orleans Celebration Station, Baton Rouge Maine Funtown Splashtown USA, Saco Palace Playland, Old Orchard Beach York's Wild Kingdom, York Beach Maryland Adventure Park USA, New Market Baja Amusements, Ocean City Jolly Roger Amusement Park, Ocean City Jolly Roger at the Pier, Ocean City Laugh Out Loud Stations, Greenbelt Six Flags America, Upper Marlboro Trimper's Rides, Ocean City Wisp Resort, McHenry Massachusetts Edaville USA, Carver Salem Willows, Salem Six Flags New England, Agawam Michigan A-Maze-N Mirrors, Mackinaw City Adventure Island Family Fun Park, Cadillac Arzo Sports & Fun Park, Alpena Cedar Valley's Wild Frontier Fun Park, Comins CJ Barrymore's Family Entertainment Center, Clinton Township Deer Acres Storybook Amusement Park, Pinconning Full Blast, Battle Creek Funland Amusement Park, Houghton Lake Jeepers, Sterling Heights Kokomo's Family Fun Center, Saginaw Michigan's Adventure, Muskegon Nelis' Dutch Village, Holland Minnesota Como Town, St. Paul Nickelodeon Universe, Bloomington Paul Bunyan Land, Brainerd Spirit Mountain, Duluth Valleyfair, Shakopee Mississippi Brookhaven Exchange Club Park, Brookhaven Missouri Branson Coaster, Branson Branson Tracks, Branson Branson Mountain Adventure Park, Branson Hydro Adventures, Poplar Bluff Miner Mike's Adventure Town, Osage Beach Mountain Adventure Resort, Branson Silver Dollar City, Branson Six Flags St. Louis, Eureka Worlds of Fun, Kansas City MontanaEdit Amusement Park Drive In, Laurel Big Sky Water Park, Columbia Falls NebraskaEdit Fun-Plex, Omaha SkateDaze, Omaha Nevada Adventuredome, Las Vegas Akita Plaza, Las Vegas Buffalo Bill's, Primm Las Vegas Mini Gran Prix, Las Vegas Playland Park, Reno New York-New York Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas Stratosphere Las Vegas, Las Vegas Wild Island, Sparks New Hampshire Attitash Mountain Resort, Bartlett Candia Springs Adventure Park, Candia Canobie Lake Park, Salem Cranmore Mountain Adventure Park, North Conway Clark's Trading Post, Lincoln Fort Jefferson Fun Park, Jefferson Fun-World, Nashua Santa's Village, Jefferson Story Land, Glen New Jersey Action Park, Vernon Blackbeard's Cave, Bayville Bowcraft Playland, Scotch Plains Casino Pier, Seaside Heights Central Pier Arcade & Speedway, Atlantic City Clementon Amusement Park, Clementon Fantasy Island, Beach Haven Funplex, Mount Laurel Gillian's Wonderland Pier, Ocean City iPlay America, Freehold Jenkinson's Boardwalk, Point Pleasant Beach Keansburg Amusement Park, Keansburg Land of Make Believe, Hope Morey's Piers, Wildwood Playland's Castaway Cove, Ocean City Six Flags Great Adventure, Jackson Steel Pier, Atlantic City Wild West City [1], Byram Township, New Jersey Storybook Land, Egg Harbor Township New Mexico Cliff's Amusement Park, Albuquerque Western Playland, Sunland Park New York Downstate New York Adventureland, Farmingdale Adventurers Family Entertainment Center, Brooklyn Country Fair Entertainment Park, Medford Boomer's Family Fun Center, Medford Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park, Brooklyn Fantasy Forest at the Flushing Meadows Carousel, Flushing Fantasy Shore Amusement Park, Staten Island Kids 'N Action, Brooklyn Luna Park, Coney Island, Brooklyn Playland, Rye Victorian Gardens, New York City Upstate New York Darien Lake, Darien Enchanted Forest Water Safari, Old Forge Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom, Lake George Greek Peak Mountain Resort, Cortland Hoffman's Playland, Latham Holiday Valley, Ellicottville Huck Finn's Playland, Albany Magic Forest Park, Lake George Fantasy Island, Grand Island Midway State Park, Maple Springs Legoland New York, Goshen (starting construction in 2017, planned to open in 2019)[1] Party Zone USA, Middletown Santa's Workshop, Wilmington Seabreeze Amusement Park, Rochester Sylvan Beach Amusement Park, Sylvan Beach North Carolina Carolina Beach Boardwalk Amusement Park, Carolina Beach Carowinds, Charlotte Deadwood, Williamston Ghost Town Village, Maggie Valley Great Wolf Lodge, Concord NASCAR Speedpark, Concord Santa's Land, Cherokee Tweetsie Railroad, Boone North Dakota Grand Forks Theme Park, Grand Forks[citation needed](Scheduled) Super Slide Amusement Park, Bismarck Ohio The Beach at Adventure Landing, Mason Cedar Point, Sandusky Cherry Valley Lodge, Newark Comfort Inn Splash Harbor, Bellville Coney Island, Cincinnati Coshocton Lake Park Recreational Complex, Coshocton Erieview Park, Geneva FunTimes Fun Park, Alliance Howard's Apples Farm Market, Bainbridge Jungle Jack's Landing, Powell Kings Island, Mason Lincoln Park Family Aquatic Center, Marion Long's Retreat Family Resort, Latham Memphis Kiddie Park, Brooklyn Pioneer Waterland & Dry Fun Park, Chardon Richland Carrosuel Park, Mansfield Sluggers & Putters, Canal Fulton Stricker's Grove, Ross Swings-N-Things Family Fun Park, Olmsted Township Tuscora Park, New Philadelphia Oklahoma Bell's Kiddieland, Tulsa Eagle Park, Cache Frontier City, Oklahoma City Kiddy Park, Bartlesville Oregon Enchanted Forest, Turner Oaks Amusement Park, Portland Pennsylvania Brandywine Picnic Park, West Chester Carousel Village at Indian Walk, Wrightstown Camelback Mountain Resort, Tannersville Conneaut Lake Park, Conneaut Lake DelGrosso's Amusement Park, Tipton Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom, Allentown (Dorneyville) Dutch Wonderland, Lancaster Fun Fore All, Cranberry Township Hersheypark, Hershey Idlewild and Soak Zone, Ligonier Kennywood, West Mifflin Knoebels Amusement Resort, Elysburg Lakemont Park, Altoona Pocono Play Park, East Stroudsburg Sesame Place, Langhorne Split Rock Resort, Lake Harmony Waldameer Park, Erie Rhode Island Adventureland, Narragansett Atlantic Beach Park, Westerly South Carolina Broadway Grand Prix, Myrtle Beach Carowinds, Fort Mill Family Kingdom Amusement Park, Myrtle Beach O.D. Pavilion Amusement Park, North Myrtle Beach Pavilion Park, Myrtle Beach Pedroland, Dillon South Dakota Evan's Plunge, Hot Springs Flags & Wheels Indoor Racing, Rapid City Rush Mountain Adventure Park, Keystone Storybook Island, Rapid City Thunder Road Family Fun Park, Aberdeen Tennessee Anakeesta Gatlinburg Goats on the Roof, Pigeon Forge Dollywood, Pigeon Forge Fun Stop, Pigeon Forge Gatlinburg Mountain Coaster, Gatlinburg Incredible Pizza Company, Cordova The Island in Pigeon Forge, Pigeon Forge NASCAR Speedpark, Sevierville Ober Gatlinburg, Gatlinburg Rockin' Raceway, Pigeon Forge Rowdy Bear Mountain Gatlinburg Sir Goony's Fun Zone, Chattanooga Smoky Mountain Alpine Coaster, Pigeon Forge Wilderness at the Smokies, Sevierville Texas Adventure Kingdom, Lumberton Aquatica, San Antonio Austin's Park N Pizza, Pflugerville Downtown Aquarium, Houston Elise's Family Fun Center, Winnie Funtrackers, Corpus Christi Funplex, Houston Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier, Galveston Grand Texas Theme Park, New Caney (planned, opening April 2020) Joyland Amusement Park, Lubbock Kemah Boardwalk, Kemah Kiddie Park Of San Antonio, San Antonio Morgan's Wonderland, San Antonio NRH2O, North Richland Hills Sandy Lake Amusement Park, Carrollton SeaWorld San Antonio, San Antonio Six Flags Fiesta Texas, San Antonio Six Flags Over Texas, Arlington Tilt Studio, Katy (inside Katy Mills) Wonderland Park, Amarillo YesterLand Farm, Canton ZDT's Amusement Park, Seguin Zuma Fun Center, Houston Utah Boondocks Fun Center, Kaysville-Draper Cherry Hill Resort, Kaysville Lagoon Amusement Park, Farmington Vermont Bromley, Vermont's Summer Adventure, Peru Killington Resort, Killington Virginia Atlantic Fun Park, Virginia Beach Busch Gardens Williamsburg, Williamsburg Central Park Fun-Land, Fredericksburg Go-Karts Plus, Williamsburg Kings Dominion, Doswell Motor World, Virginia Beach Washington Pier 57, Seattle Remlinger Farms, Carnation Riverfront Park, Spokane Washington State Fair, Puyallup Wild Waves Theme Park, Federal Way West VirginiaEdit Camden Park, Huntington Wisconsin Bay Beach Amusement Park, Green Bay Knucklehead's Bowling & Family Entertainment, Wisconsin Dells Little Amerricka, Marshall Mt. Olympus Water & Theme Park, Wisconsin Dells Paul Bunyan's Adventure Golf, Wisconsin Dells Riverside Amusement Park, La Crosse Riverview Park & Waterworld, Wisconsin Dells Timbavatvi Wildlife Park/Storybook Gardens, Wisconsin Dells Timber Falls Adventure Park, Wisconsin Dells Wyoming Cowboy Carousel Center, Buffalo Puerto Rico Cayo Lobos Marine Park, Cayo Lobos Children's Dream Park, Añasco Fun Valley Park, Arecibo Jungle Park PR, Bayamón Parque de las Ciencias, Bayamón Villa Campestre, Guaynabo