BELPRE The Belpre Rotary Club and Belpre Area Veterans will observe a Wreaths Across America memorial event at 11 a.m. Saturday at Cedarville Cemetery off C
BELPRE The Belpre Rotary Club and Belpre Area Veterans will observe a Wreaths Across America memorial event at 11 a.m. Saturday at Cedarville Cemetery off C
How a Nevada Town’s Racist “Sundown” Siren Became a Quaint Dinner Bell in the White Imagination
Every day, at 6:30 p.m. sharp, a siren blares through the town of Minden. For citizens of the Washoe nation, the sound carries a painful, violent memory.
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In Minden, Nevada, a cherry-red siren, perched atop the town’s volunteer fire department, sounds every evening at 6 p.m. on the dot. If you listen to town manager J.D. Frisby tell it, the siren is a symbolic gesture of gratitude for Minden’s emergency workers. Other residents consider it a charming dinner bell, signaling the call to home. In reality, though, the siren was, and still is, a warning an active relic of an early twentieth-century ordinance that ordered Native residents to exit the county’s borders by 6:30 p.m. The current split in the town over the siren’s purpose, which has stretched on for decades, is a reminder that Confederate monuments aren’t the only ways in which infrastruc