After years of debate, the school is poised to drop its longtime moniker, which morphed from its 1950 Union origins to a more recent “Pride of the South” Confederate mascot.
The Mercury Theater production of this show, with its tragi-comic book by William Hauptman drawn straight from the Mark Twain classic and a wonderfully varied score by country music master Roger Miller, is ideally realized on every front.
Documentary of the life of Ben Ingram, ( 1876- 1946) an African American farmer in Mississippi, the son slaves, who was acquitted of murdering a white man in 1919 by an all white jury. He was an independent visionary, who lead a remarkable life in the post slavery South. During his lifetime he created a 1600 acre, self sufficient farm, never had debt, and sent all of children to college. The film tells his story through the eyes and stories of his children, grandchildren, neighbors, business associates, and against the backdrop of post Civil War South, and early 20th century events.
The Mars mission appears to be, for the mega-rich, a lucrative way of selling a day-trip into space as a boundless quest. The repair of Earth for Earthlings should be our next, true space mission, the author writes.