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Michael Stamper, a.k.a. Nick Stump, performs in Lexington, Kentucky. (Photo via Nick Stump Band Facebook page)
In 1987 the Metropolitan Blues All Stars were headliners for an Appalachian cultural gala in Chicago. It was a celebration of Appalshop that featured Roadside Theater, Fiddle King of the South Marion Sumner, renowned banjo player Lee Sexton, and screenings of Appalshop films. Met Blues was fronted by three guys who’d led their own bands earlier. (Hence All Stars.) Two of them, Rodney Hatfield and Mike Stamper, grew up in different East Kentucky coal towns and both came to the blues listening to the ubiquitous WLAC Nashville. (The band’s third vocalist, Frank Schaap, grew up in the Hamptons with a swimming pool. Played folk music.) Because it took a certain kind of boldness or tunnel vision to bring a white blues band from Kentucky to Chicago, the event’s producer kept urging Mike, stage name Nick Stump, to share what it was like coming up hardscrabble i
New Social Justice Public Art Mural Unveiled In Glenn Heights
February 11, 2021
Glenn Heights recently revealed a new social justice mural in Heritage Park Photo courtesy City of Glenn Heights
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Glenn Heights Celebrates Black History Month With Unveiling of Mural
GLENN HEIGHTS – A social justice public mural was unveiled last week in the City of Glenn Heights. The Black Lives Matter realism portrait was presented to the public on February 5 at Heritage Community Park on E. Bear Creek Road.
The unveiling coincided with February’s Black History Month according to a press release.
After previewing the completed project Glenn Heights Mayor Harry Garrett stated, “This will serve as a constant reminder to all of us that we are better when we live together in peace and harmony.”
Competitive Power Ventures Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary of Keenan II Wind Farm 152-MW Project Delivers Clean, Renewable Energy to Northwest Oklahoma
December 21, 2020 09:00 ET | Source: Competitive Power Ventures Competitive Power Ventures Braintree, Massachusetts, UNITED STATES
Silver Spring, MD, Dec. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) today commemorates 10 years of commercial operation for its Keenan II Wind Farm (Keenan II) in Woodward, Oklahoma. Keenan II went into commercial operation in December 2010 and features 66 Siemens 2.3 MW turbines. The project generates enough electricity to power approximately 45,000 Oklahoma homes and avoids approximately 500,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year, the equivalent of taking around 90,000 cars off the road for a year. Keenan II has a power purchase agreement with Oklahoma Gas & Electric Company.
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