Comments on: Missouri’s Black History Tour

By: Dominique

Dominique — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 15:41:23 +0000

This reminds me of something that happened when I worked as a freelancer at a local newspaper in metro Detroit. We got a lot of info in about “Black History Month” that landed in my mailbox as the “Around Town” columnist. My editor said he figured I couldn’t use any of it because “our audience isn’t interested”. Talk about tossing a red flag in front of me
We ended up with a full page of features one week about a black history club forming in one of our area high school, some local community college programming, and a couple of side bars of resources from the local library and fun trivia because I wrote them all after the editor said I could “if you can find a local angle”.
For the rest of my time there, I seemed to end up with every story about ethnic/religious/cultural events/people/places that landed in the paper.
I also ended up with a slew of extra assignments for a recent regional encyclopedia I contributed entries to because I did some entries about one particular ethnic group (not anywhere near my own) and the editor thought I’d be interested in doing the rest of the entries they needed about various ethnic groups in our state.
I’m completely with you on the value of being interested in all facets of our heritage and that of others around us. I’ve found some of the most fascinating stories that way…and written a good number of them for my blog as well.

By: Kim

Kim — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:23:15 +0000

When I have traveled to our great national homes such as Jefferson’s Monticello or Washington’s Mount Vernon, I always take my kids on the overview tour and the slave tour so that they get a better perspective on how it tooks dozens of slaves to support the beauty and glory of one family and one home.

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By: Bijan C. Bayne

Bijan C. Bayne — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:03:47 +0000

“…Schooled us…” is right. Angela DaSilva is a state treasure in and of herself.

By: CajunMama

CajunMama — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:15:59 +0000

Thanks, Keith. I tried to use StoryTlr.com, but for some reason it just wouldn’t recognize my Flickr photos.

If anyone goes through this collection of photos on Flickr, there is a detailed description of each pic, for better identification and trip planning.

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:02:49 +0000

Have a look at http://www.slide.com; that will show your pictures automatically as a slide show, without any clicking.

I hear what you’re saying about specialist museums: I liked the Jorvik, in York, even though I’m not a Viking (at least, I don’t think so ) or the Royal Naval Museum, even though I was never in the Navy.

And, there was stuff in Sydney about the old convict days I found especially fascinating.