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How Juneteenth Became Black Independence Day
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoRobert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, which all but ended the Civil War, a U.S. Army officer arrived in Galveston, Texas, with two...
Blythewood man dies in I-26 crash with tractor-trailer
WACH FOX 57· 8 hours agoThe Lexington County Coroner's Office has identified the victim of Tuesday's fatal collision on...
Molly Bloomsday, Yes Festival: a celebration of Joyce’s Ulysses heroine as teeming as the book
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 days ago“Yes” is the word of acquiescence, affirmation and ecstasy that Molly Bloom repeatedly uses in the...
Reimagining Bloomsday for Molly, and All Women
New York Times· 3 days agoTo help honor 100 years of James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” an all-women Irish festival refocuses the annual re-enactment of the novel’s wanderings around the...
Man dead following crash in Lexington County
WIS News 10 Columbia· 1 hour agoOne man is dead following a crash in Lexington County.
Celebrating the first ever ‘Molly Bloomsday’ - What is Ireland’s YES Festival?
Euronews via Yahoo News· 6 days agoIreland’s first all-female festival takes place at various locations across the north west for the...
Pa. state Sen. Nikil Saval plans to finally read 'Ulysses' on Bloomsday
WHYY· 4 days agoSince well before he became a state senator three years ago, Saval has been a lover of books....
Juneteenth is a second Independence Day for America
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoAn approximation, since it would take 2½½ more years of carnage unparalleled in U.S. history. And even when Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his sword to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ...
Is Juneteenth a holiday in Florida? What is closed on Juneteenth 2024?
Tallahassee Democrat· 1 day agoOn June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, with 2,000 Union troops...
Review | The American women who created an art haven in Paris
Washington Post· 7 hours agoOne well-known saga of Americans in Paris in those years is exactly what curator Robyn Asleson intends to counterbalance. Bookseller Sylvia Beach published James Joyce’s “Ulysses< ...
