Birmingham Museum highlights stories of city’s Black founders
George and Eliza Taylor, two of Birmingham’s first African American landowners, were recently found to be connected to other prominent local families dating back to the county’s wilderness settlement.
Photo provided by Leslie Pielack, The Birmingham Museum
Photo provided by Leslie Pielack, The Birmingham Museum
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BIRMINGHAM Last fall, local volunteers set out to raise funds to place markers at the graves of former slaves and early Birmingham residents George and Eliza Taylor, to give them a proper end to their story.
But where did their story begin?
The Birmingham Museum coordinated a successful campaign with the Daughters of the American Revolution Piety Hill Chapter and the Friends of the Birmingham Museum to honor the Taylors, who died six months apart in 1901 and 1902. Since then, Museum Director Leslie Pielack said, she and her staff have continued to scour documents and news articles to lea
by the Rev. Bill Somplatsky-Jarman | Special to Presbyterian News Service
The Rev. Dr. Robert L. Stivers died last month at age 80. (Contributed photo)
LOUISVILLE â The Rev. Dr. Robert L. Stivers, a renowned ethicist, died in Tacoma, Washington, on December 23, 2020, at age 80.
An ordained Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) minister, Stivers taught religion and ethics at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma for 37 years. Upon his retirement in 2009, he was appointed Professor Emeritus of Religion and Ethics.
Throughout his career, he explored the ethical dimensions of environmental and economic issues and advocated for a âsustainable society.â He encouraged everyone to have love and appreciation for the natural world and to live accordingly. He stands as one of a key group of Christian ethicists who helped bridge the gap between the church and the academy, deepening the churchâs social witness with their scholarship, activism, and concern for the General Assembly.
Filed in Breaking News, Leadership on January 18, 2021
The board of trustees of historically Black Knoxville College in Tennessee has named Leonard L. Adams Jr. as interim president following the resignation of Keith Lindsey, who has served as interim president for the past three years.
Knoxville College was founded in 1875 by the United Presbyterian Church of North America. At its peak in the 1960s, enrollments reached 1,200 students. The college lost its accreditation in 1997. By 2015, there were only 11 students enrolled for the spring semester. That spring, Knoxville College announced that it would not hold any classes for the 2015-16 academic year. In 2018, the college once again began to offer classes but only online.
Hospice of Washington County’s 26th annual soup supper fundraiser is less than a couple weeks away, and they are currently seeking donations for their themed basket online auction.
The non-profit organization that serves a seven-county region is seeking items or monetary donations for 14 themed basket ideas until January 19th which can either be dropped off at their office or arrangements can be made for the hospice staff to pick them up. Executive Director Katrina Altenhofen says instead of an in-person auction, this year it will be held on their Facebook page beginning on the evening of their soup supper, “Instead of coming into the building and looking at things and putting a bid on it we’ll have 15 baskets online that you can bid for such as a Hawkeye, Cyclone, baby boy basket, baby girl basket, I think the bloody mary basket was another one that was thrown out so that we have a variety of things.”