Archive for April 9th, 2011

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Great Dane Toodle – 4-09-2011

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Apr 09, 2011 in Featured, Reports

Breakfast, a Coat and a Calendar The first order of business on a weekend is to get some breakfast. So we headed out to take Connie’s winter coat in for its end of season cleaning. Afterwards we head over to the local Post Office to ship off two calendars I have made for my nephew [...]

Richard Ellis/Getty Images - Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston, S.C., is the resting place of more than 2,000 Confederate soldiers. Above, Civil War re-enactors mark Confederate Memorial Day last year at the cemetery. As the 150th anniversary of the start of the war approaches, there are fears that the commemorations will rekindle old hatreds.
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150 Years Later, America’s Civil War Still Divides

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Apr 09, 2011 in Race

by MELISSA BLOCK NPR April 8, 2011 On April 12, 1861, the first shots of the Civil War rang out in South Carolina. Confederate forces, firing on the Union garrison at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, helped launch a four-year war that would kill more than 620,000 soldiers. It’s been nearly 150 years since the [...]