Thank you its an amazing accomplishment and it came out around the same time as thisbook which we will discuss today. Im just curious. Youve been working in Lowndes County now for 20 years or so and what made now the right time for this book and what made you want to write it . Its very interesting, ive always wanted to write a book. Those that have known me for a long time know that ive been talking aboutwriting since i was in high school. But this book, it just felt right for me to do it. I started writing it last year and had no idea of the events that were going to happen in 2020. But i felt like 20 20 was the year this book needed to be out there and i had no idea that the historical gods would be in my favor in terms of making it more receptive to audiences than it may have been in another time. So i just felt like it was time to write it and tell the story. And whats the key message you wanted to convey and who is the key audience you have in mind as you were writing . I have th
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Catherine flower the first thing i would like to say is a huge congratulations on your Macarthur Grab announced recently. Thank you, thank you. Yes and an amazing accomplishment and it has come out around the same time as this book which we are going to discuss today. Just curious, youve been working in Blount County for 20 years or so and what made now the right time for this book and what made you want to ride it . Its very interesting. Ive always wanted to write a look and those who have known me for a very long time now that ive been talking about writing since i was in high school but this book just felt right for me to do it. Actually i started writing it last year and had no idea of the events that were going to happen in 2020. I felt like 2020 was the year that this book needed to be out there and i had no idea that the historical gods would be in my favor in terms of making them receptive to audiences that may have been in another time. So i just felt that it was time to write
And actually they got started about maybe five or six years prior to that when one of our africanamerican City Councilman took a trip to boston on City Business and while he was there he saw a sign that said africanamerican Heritage Trail. He thought that sounded interesting because it was kind of a novelty it was prior to most of the museums that we see today in the trails and he took the tour and he enjoyed it and he got to thinking on his way back to mobiles close to 300 years old and he had heard his family discuss about a lot of the contributions that africanamerican said made and he said i think this is something that we could do in mobile and do it very well. So hes taught her looking around the city for someone that would take on the opportunity of the challenge just depending upon the perspective that they looked at it from after nine months of surgeon. He finally found a young lady that said i will take on the opportunity. Her name was Dora Franklin Finley and dora was my dou
The nations first treasury secretary. Historians discuss his economic policies and his military experience. Watch Tuesday Night beginning at 8 00 eastern here on cspan3. The day after our africanamerican Heritage Tour with eric finley, we return to the mobile County Training School in africatown to record parts of the spirit of our Ancestors Festival. The spirit of our Ancestors Festival is a day set aside to commemorate the descendants of the clowe tilda. There were festivals that started back in the 80s from the original founders of the descendants association, and i guess it stopped for a while. So i decided to start it up again. And i was reading dr. Natalie robinsons book the Slave Ship clotilda, spirit of our ancestors. Thats how i came up with the title. I was looking for a title. A lot of things werent ringing a bell. But when i was reading her book, i was like, oh, spirit of our ancestors just jumped at me. You greeted everyone, and then theres a point where you had descendant