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American History here... "there can be no justice on stolen land"

Iko and Eko twin albino brothers.

Have U Ever Heard of the “Muse Brothers”???

George and Willie Muse, albino brothers living in the rural South during the late 1800s, is stirring. According to accounts, the brothers were kidnapped as boys, sold off to a local carnival sideshow and paraded around the country. The brothers were tricked by a bounty hunter working for a sideshow promoter and taken away from their mother. The man told the brothers that their mother was dead.

The brothers learned to play guitar and mandolin, which became a feature of their act. Amazingly, they were never paid for their work and it was rumored they were sold among other promoters like slaves.

Lew Graham, a manager for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, marketed them as Eko and Iko, the “Ambassadors from Mars” discovered by spaceship wreckage in California’s Mojave Desert. The name would remain with them until they retired. In 1927, the brothers were reunited with their mother, Harriet. The Ringling circus came to Roanoke and Mrs. Muse tracked down her boys. The reunion was bittersweet, however, as she couldn’t keep her sons from returning to the circus. Mrs. Muse fought for her sons and their freedom, enlisting the help of a local attorney to sue Ringling for back pay and for keeping the brothers in bondage. Ultimately the lawyer won a settlement for the Muse brothers and from then on they were paid by the circus. Missing the road, the Muse brothers rejoined Ringling and were able to earn enough money to buy their mother a home. Mrs. Muse died in 1943. The Muse brothers continued to perform and as they reached towards the tail end of their performing life, they were reportedly happy.

The brothers, who never married, retired in 1961 and lived the rest of their lives in Roanoke, Va. George, the eldest of the brothers, died in 1971. Willie lived until the age of 108, passing in 2001.

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Entry #16 - Grant's Farm, MO

Grant's Farm gets its name from U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant, who owned and farmed 80 acres of the land alongside a number of slaves he owned in the 1850s after receiving it as a wedding gift from his father-law Frederick Dent who acquire the land in 1821. August Busch of Anheuser-Busch later purchased the land in 1903, where he developed it into a country estate, bringing deer, horses and cattle to the land. Grant's Farm, still owned and operated by Anheuser-Busch, Inc.,

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One of my favorite spots in #NYC #Inwood #park Not all of it is a #ConcreteJungle #exploreNYC #PhotoToaster

Why I've always have avoided love; the world is not ready for the truth. Open up and get ready to be hurt. Goodbye beautiful. #fucklove #love #poetry

Nelson Mandela lands a playful punch on the chin of former world champion boxer Muhammad Ali. The two were in Dublin to attend the 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games. (Ray McManus/Reuters)

GALLERY: Nelson Mandela and Sports

Entry #7 - "Our Town" by Thorton Wilder

Question #1

Does Grover’s Corners have to be a New Hampshire or a New England town, or would any are do just as well?

Question #2

In what ways is the play still relevant to our urbanized, globalized, and multicultural society? Do its village pieties avoid the pressing problems of our era? Is its vision of people finding meaningful places in family and community too simplistic?

Question #3

What do you make of Wilder’s depictions of women’s and men’s emotional lives and values?

    A.      With the following answer, I intend to address all three questions above, and hope it does make sense to the reader.

  In my opinion, Grover’s Corners would fit anywhere in the United States, be it the south, California where the author studied, or the Midwest where he was born, and at any given point in history. The social issues addressed in this play, war, death natural or otherwise, indifference to what really matters due to immaturity, the overprotective parents, as well as those who would give in a little more to their children’s decisions, and the escape young people find in what is prohibited (alcohol, cigarettes, etc…) and even in marriage, are all the effects of our values which have not changed much since this play was written in the 1930’s. Though our community is much larger now than in the late 30’s, and we as a country are more accepting of those who live far from us and their customs, our core values do remain the same… We highly respect our parents, and our parents continue to do their best at protecting us, in many cases to extreme levels. While this is not true for all parents and children today, it was not so back then either, when the rate of crime and pregnancies outside of marriage were as high as perhaps they are now.

Another point I find still relevant today, is Wilder’s depiction of women and men’s values. As mentioned above, I think this remains an unchanged matter, with women still with much power over the decisions made by every family, whether men choose to accept for this to be displayed in public or not. Meanwhile, men continue to fall head over heels for women, doing as they command until he is mature enough to think for himself, and at which point the only thing left to do on an attempt to claim his freedom, is to buy the convertible.

  This is not to bash women for having the sort of power and control over men they do have, but in my eyes is an inevitable fact of life. We come out of a woman’s womb, and live at least half of our lives being fed, clothed, and following the ideas and rules of that woman. Again, while this might not be the law of the land, most of us cannot wait to run away from home and find another woman to continue guiding us through life. Simply put, I do not think our society will change much from what we see in this play until human beings, men particularly stops our dependency on women, which I find biologically impossible… Our Town will always be relevant in my opinion, hence its popularity, generation after generation, and after watching it again, in a bright room, I have to say I like it much more than the first time.