Manuel Andre News Today

Again. Some winds gusting up to 35 Miles Per Hour in some spots this morning, and windy today and breezy on monday and then less on tuesday. We are waking up to more clouds on philadelphia, and another gray day and we will see peeks of sunshine from time to time, and monday is going to be better than today. Coastal Flood Warnings in effect, and thats the dark green in new jersey and delaware until 6 00, and we have concerns for road flooding, and beach erosion. Keep that in mind, high tide aroun...

1811, the planters gathered. they cut open a king cake. was january 6, 12 night or epiphany. after cutting open the king cake, the slave serve coffee and the dancing began. the guests did dances, french dances. elegantly young men smoke an smoking gamble that table spread on the outside of iran. you never saw anything more brilliant wrote a french colonial official fresh from paris. at 3:00 in the morning slaves of bringing gumbo and turtle served on huge tables of 70 people each. afte...

1811, the planters gathered. they cut open a king cake. is january 6, 12th night or epiphany. after cutting opening the king cake they serve coffee and the dancing began. english dances and french danced and gambled at table spread out. you never saw anything more brilliant wrote a french colonial official. at 3:00 in the morning slaves would bring in gumbo and turtle, serve huge tables of 70 people each. after the initial party, many of the planters would go on to mixed-race bolts and...

and so im very excited to be here on january 8, the 200th anniversary for when they launched a revolution and try to conquer new orleans. you might be wondering, why did the slaves pic january 8, 1811, 200 years ago today? or three reasons the slaves chose january peak, 1811. let me describe to you a scene. 1811, the planters gathered, cut open a king cake. it was an epiphany. after cutting open the king cake, the dancing began. they danced english dances, french dances, men spoke to g...

i didnt know anything about this or about my grandfathers ideas, so that just sort of lodged in my head. then i read a book by margaret macmillan called paris 1919, which is about the framing of the treaty of versailles in which is quite a brilliant book and which brilliantly succeeds at teaching, but also at reaching an audience not composed of family members and graduate students, and i thought i would like to do something like that some day. and trying to think about what i could wr...