The Finger Lakes region of New York is an important place in the history of struggles against oppression in the United States.
In 1848 the region hosted the nationâs first convention for womenâs rights, in Seneca Falls, at the northwestern end of Cayuga Lake.
Fifteen miles east is Auburn, which was a vital hub of the Underground Railroad, a network of escape routes for enslaved African Americans in the early to mid-19th century.
Auburn was the last home, and is the final resting place, of Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery and became known as âthe Moses of her peopleâ as a leader of the abolitionist movement generally and the Underground Railroad particularly.
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In 1925, substitute teacher John T. Scopes was indicted for teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution in a Tennessee high school.
In 1935, Babe Ruth hit the 714th and Final Home Run of His Career, for the Boston Braves, in a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates. It was his third home run in that game . . . setting the record that stood for 39 YEARS.
In 1968, the single “Jumping Jack Flash” by The Rolling Stones was released. It did not appear on an album until their greatest hits collection “Hot Rocks” four years later.
In 1969, “Midnight Cowboy” hit theaters . . . starring Dustin Hoffman and young Jon Voight. It was Rated X . . . but still won the Academy Award for Best Picture . . . the only X-rated movie to ever win an Oscar.
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AT THE END of the first episode of “The Underground Railroad”, Cora, a woman on the run from enslavement on a plantation in Georgia, stands in a railway tunnel reached through a secret hatch in a safe house. She crouches and feels the vibration of a rail. Then the blazing headlight of a train bears down on her miraculously through the darkness.
As in the Pulitzer-winning novel by Colson Whitehead from which the series is adapted, here the underground railroad a figurative term for the network of clandestine routes and sympathisers that, before America’s civil war, helped escaped slaves flee northwards is a physical reality, a metaphor made track and steam. It is an outlandish conceit. But, Barry Jenkins, the director of the series’ ten episodes, seems to ask, is it more outlandish, all things considered, than the grotesque historical reality that Cora yearns to leave behind? As Ridgeway, a slavecatcher played by Joel Edgerton, says of the fantastical railroad: “Nothing abo
Replies(4) The Good Nurse, a Netflix movie starring Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain, began filming scenes in various areas of Norwalk on Monday. (Shutterstock)
NORWALK, CT The Good Nurse, a new Netflix thriller starring Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain that recently filmed scenes in Stamford, began shooting in Norwalk this week and will continue filming in various areas of the city through early June.
Sabrina Church, the city s director of business development and tourism, said the production started filming Monday at Van Dyk Recycling Solutions, which is located on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
The production will continue shooting in Norwalk through June 4, and filming will take place in other areas of the city, including the Mechanic Street Lot near Wall Street and Richard C. Briggs High School on Main Avenue, Church said.