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Mike and Frank head down to Mississippi in search of radical digs and forgotten honey holes.
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edited by Frank Otero
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Duration : 0:3:47
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South Florida property management, Broward, West Palm Beach, Miami, Dade counties.
Duration : 2 min 28 sec
The American Civil War (1861–1865), amongst other names also known as the War Between the States, was a civil war in the United States of America. Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America, also known as “the Confederacy”. Led by Jefferson Davis, they fought against the United States (the Union), which was supported by all the free states (where slavery was abolished) and by half the border slave states.
In the presidential election of 1860, the Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, had campaigned against the expansion of slavery beyond the states in which it already existed. In response to the Republican victory and the long-term threat it posed to slavery, seven states declaring their secession from the Union before Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861. Both the outgoing administration of President James Buchanan and Lincoln’s incoming administration rejected the legality of secession, considering it rebellion. The border states remained neutral at this point.
Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces attacked a US military installation at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. Lincoln responded by calling for a volunteer army from each state to recapture federal property. This led to declarations of secession by four more slave states and the war had begun. Both sides raised armies as the Union assumed control of the border states early in the war and established a naval blockade. In September 1862, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation made ending slavery in the South a war goal, and dissuaded the British from intervening.
Confederate commander Robert E. Lee won battles in the east, but in 1863 his northward advance was turned back with heavy casualties after the Battle of Gettysburg. To the west, the Union gained control of the Mississippi River after their capture of Vicksburg, Mississippi, thereby splitting the Confederacy in two. The Union was able to capitalize on its long-term advantages in men and material by 1864 when Ulysses S. Grant fought battles of attrition against Lee, while Union general William Tecumseh Sherman captured Atlanta, Georgia, and marched to the sea. Confederate resistance collapsed after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
The American Civil War was one of the earliest true industrial wars in human history. Railroads, steamships, mass-produced weapons, and various other military devices were employed extensively. The practices of total war, developed by Sherman in Georgia, and of trench warfare around Petersburg foreshadowed World War I in Europe. It remains the deadliest war in American history, resulting in the deaths of 620,000 soldiers and an undetermined number of civilian casualties. Ten percent of all Northern males 20–45 years of age died, as did 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18–40. Victory for the North meant the end of the Confederacy and of slavery in the United States, and strengthened the role of the federal government. The social, political, economic and racial issues of the war decisively shaped the reconstruction era that lasted to 1877.
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Built in 1927, renovated in 1998, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the 131-room Natchez Eola Hotel offers its guests the ambiance and charm of the Old South with the convenience of modern amenities. The Natchez Eola Hotel is graced with elegant interiors, arched doorways, crystal chandeliers, marble trim, stately columns, Mississippi River view balconies and a New Orleans courtyard with an original fire-and-water fountain.
Grand and stately, the Eola Hotel is furnished throughout with fine antiques, original oil paintings, statuary fountains and lush florals. Step out of the Eola’s courtyard into the heart of historic downtown Natchez, where you’ll discover Natchez Under-the-Hill, riverboat gambling, and the city’s renowned Antiques Row, all within walking distance of the Eola. Horse-drawn carriages will deliver you to the door of magnificent antebellum mansions graced with innumerable white columns, rich Italian marble and moss-laden trees.
Named “Eola” after the developer’s daughter, the Natchez Eola Hotel opened on July 1, 1927. Local newspapers hailed the hotel as a symbol of civic progress. Beginning in 1932, the Eola became headquarters for the annual Natchez Spring Pilgrimage.
The hotel enjoyed years of prosperity and celebrity visits, but by the 1960s, was showing its age. It quietly closed in 1974. Then, in 1978, under new ownership, a major restoration project commenced. Six and one-half million dollars later, the landmark hotel reopened. Elaborate chandeliers, columns, arched doorways, marble trim, and the famed “Peacock Alley” were returned to their original splendor.
Preservation efforts sensitive to the original architecture earned the Natchez Eola membership in the National Register of Historic Places. The premier historic hotel property in Natchez, Mississippi, the Eola once again is a command center to the annual antebellum home pilgrimages. The hotel hosts the annual Natchez Antiques Forum.
The tallest building in downtown Natchez, the seven-story Eola Hotel overlooks the city from the corner of Main and Pearl Streets. Just two blocks from the Mississippi River, and one block from the city’s new convention center, the hotel is within easy walking distance of most of the city’s attractions, restaurants, and nightlife.
The Natchez Eola Hotel offers the finest convention and meeting facilities in the area. The greatest care has been taken to create functional spaces that do not sacrifice the elegant ambiance of this historic hotel. With +/- 3,995 square feet of meeting space, the Eola Hotel provides meeting spaces that range from small boardrooms that seat a dozen individuals to a grand ballroom, which can accommodate 400 guests.
Lé Grand Pré Ballroom, on the mezzanine, offers a beautiful space for private dinners and receptions. The Grand Pré seats up to 250 people for banquets and 400 people for receptions. The ballroom can be divided into four private rooms that will accommodate groups from 15 to 110 people.
Located two blocks from the Mississippi River, one block from the newly built Natchez Convention Center, this historic downtown Natchez hotel is both elegant and convenient.
Eola-At-A-Glance: 131 standard and premium rooms and suites with queen, double, and king-size bedding. Rooms are handicapped accessible along with smoking and non-smoking. Some rooms come furnished with refrigerators, microwaves, ice machines, and fireplaces, along with balconies and/or connecting balconies. The premium suite comes with a Jacuzzi and fireplace.
Other amenities include:
Data ports, voice mail, cable television, radio & alarm clocks, coffee makers, hair dryers, irons and ironing boards.
A deposit of $100,000 is required to bid on this property.
For this property, there may be an additional fee (to be determined) to the high bid for personal property conveying with the real estate.
For more information visit www.williamsauction.com
Duration : 0:1:41
The Guest House, an intimate hotel/bed and breakfast, has 16 exquisitely appointed and furnished guest rooms. Located in the heart of the oldest settlement on the Mississippi River and originally built in the 1840s, The Guest House offers visitors a unique and unforgettable Southern hospitality experience.
The Guest House was originally a one-and-a-half story, Greek Revival townhouse built for Samuel and Jane Newman in the mid-1840s. As originally built and documented in historic photographs, the Guest House resembled the nearby John Smith House, a smaller brick cottage at the corner of North Pearl and Jefferson Streets.
In 1902-03, the second story was completed, which is the reason for the difference of windows between the first and second floor. Since the Victorian Era renovation, many architectural features were changed from the original Greek Revival architecture. Fireplace mantels and door moldings were modernized into the Victorian style and the front pediment and four massive columns added. The enlarged and remodeled building also featured a swimming pool at the rear where the courtyard exists today.
The dedication to preserve the original architecture style and décor of the property, the Guest House is celebrating its 26th year as a fine hospitality establishment in the heart of historic downtown Natchez.
A bid deposit of $100,000 is required to bid on this property.
For more information visit www.williamsauction.com
Duration : 0:1:2
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LYRICS:
Dare’s an ol’ man cal’d de Mississipi
Dat’s de ol’ man dat I’d lek to be
Whot does he care
iv de world gets trauble
Whot does he care iv de land lev’s free.
Ol’ man river,
Dat ol’ man river
He mus’know sumpin’
But don’t say nuthin’,
He jes’keeps rollin’
He keeps on rollin’ along.
He don’ plant taters,
He don’t plant cotton,
An’ dem dat plants’em
is soon forgotten,
But ol’man river,
He jes keeps rollin’along.
You an’me, we sweat an’ strain,
Body all achin’ an’ racket wid pain,
Tote dat barge!
Lif’ dat bale!
Git a little drunk
An’ you land in jail.
Ah gits weary
An’ sick of tryin’
Ah’m tired of livin’
An’ skeered of dyin’,
But ol’ man river,
He jes’keeps rolling’ along.
[Colored folks work on de Mississippi,
Colored folks work while de white folks play,
Pullin’ dose boats from de dawn to sunset,
Gittin’ no rest till de judgement day.
Don’t look up
An’ don’t look down,
You don’ dast make
De white boss frown.
Bend your knees
An’bow your head,
An’ pull date rope
Until you’ dead.)
Let me go ‘way from the Mississippi,
Let me go ‘way from de white man boss;
Show me dat stream called de river Jordan,
Dat’s de ol’ stream dat I long to cross.
O’ man river,
Dat ol’ man river,
He mus’know sumpin’
But don’t say nuthin’
He jes’ keeps rollin’
He keeps on rollin’ along.
(Long ol’ river forever keeps rollin’ on…)
He don’ plant tater,
He don’ plant cotton,
An’ dem dat plants ‘em
Is soon forgotten,
but ol’ man river,
He jes’ keeps rollin’ along.
(Long ol’ river keeps hearing dat song).
You an’ me, we sweat an’ strain,
Body all achin an’ racked wid pain.
Tote dat barge!
Lif’ dat bale!
Git a little drunk
An’ you land in jail.
Ah, gits weary
An’ sick of tryin’
Ah’m tired of livin’
An’ skeered of dyin’,
But ol’ man river,
He jes’keeps rollin’ along!
Duration : 0:4:30
Centuries of mistreatment at the hands of Washington have left most native Americans living on isolated reservations.
According to the latest government figures, there are nearly three million native Americans living in the US. The vast majority live west of the Mississippi River.
The Sioux nation in the state of South Dakota is America’s fourth largest tribe. And now they’re fighting to take back land which they say the US stole from them more than a century ago.
Tom Ackerman has more from the Black Hills in the US state of South Dakota.
Duration : 0:3:2
New Orleans (pronounced /nuːˈɔliənz, nuːˈɔlənz/ locally and often pronounced /nuːɔrˈliːnz/ in most other US dialects French: La Nouvelle-Orléans is a major United States port city and the largest city in Louisiana. New Orleans is the center of the Greater New Orleans metropolitan area, the largest metro area in the state.
New Orleans is located in southeastern Louisiana, straddling the Mississippi River. It is coextensive with Orleans Parish, meaning that the boundaries of the city and the parish are the same. It is bounded by the parishes of St. Tammany (north), St. Bernard (east), Plaquemines (south), and Jefferson (south and west). Lake Pontchartrain, part of which is included in the city limits, lies to the north, and Lake Borgne lies to the east.
The city is named after Philippe II, Duc d’Orléans, Regent of France, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. It is well known for its multicultural and multilingual heritage, cuisine, architecture, music (particularly as the birthplace of jazz), and its annual Mardi Gras and other celebrations and festivals. The city is often referred to as the “most unique” city in America
La Nouvelle-Orléans (New Orleans) was founded May 7, 1718, by the French Mississippi Company, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville on land inhabited by the Chitimacha. It was named for Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, who was Regent of France at the time; his title came from the French city of Orléans. The French colony was ceded to the Spanish Empire in the Treaty of Paris (1763) and remained under Spanish control until 1801, when it reverted to French control. Most of the surviving architecture of the Vieux Carré (French Quarter) dates from this Spanish period. Napoleon sold the territory to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. The city grew rapidly with influxes of Americans, French, and Creole French. Major commodity crops of sugar and cotton were cultivated with slave labor on large plantations outside the city.
The Haitian Revolution of 1804 established the second republic in the Western Hemisphere and the first led by blacks. Haitian refugees both white and free people of color (affranchis) arrived in New Orleans, often bringing slaves with them. While Governor Claiborne and other officials wanted to keep out more free black men, French Creoles wanted to increase the French-speaking population. As more refugees were allowed in Louisiana, Haitian émigrés who had gone to Cuba also arrived. Nearly 90 percent of the new immigrants settled in New Orleans. The 1809 migration brought 2,731 whites; 3,102 free persons of African descent; and 3,226 enslaved refugees to the city, doubling its French-speaking population.
During the War of 1812, the British sent a force to conquer the city. The Americans decisively defeated the British troops, led by Sir Edward Pakenham, in the Battle of New Orleans on January 8, 1815.
As a principal port, New Orleans had the major role of any city during the antebellum era in the slave trade. Its port handled huge quantities of goods for export from the interior and import from other countries to be traded up the Mississippi River. The river was filled with steamboats, flatboats, and sailing ships. At the same time, it had the most prosperous community of free persons of color in the South, who were often educated and middle-class property owners.
The population of the city doubled in the 1830s, and by 1840 New Orleans had become the wealthiest and third-most populous city in the nation. It had the largest slave market. Two-thirds of the more than one million slaves brought to the Deep South arrived via the forced migration of the internal slave trade. The money generated by sales of slaves in the Upper South has been estimated at fifteen percent of the value of the staple crop economy. The slaves represented half a billion dollars in property, and an ancillary economy grew up around the trade in slaves – for transportation, housing and clothing, fees, etc., estimated at 13.5 percent of the price per person. All this amounted to tens of billions of dollars during the antebellum period, with New Orleans as a prime beneficiary.
The Union captured New Orleans early in the American Civil War, sparing the city the destruction suffered by many other cities of the American South.
Duration : 0:3:25