By Corbin Carson
Apr 12, 2021
Catalina Island is known for many things - its amazing beaches, the unparalleled snorkeling and of course, the bison who call it their home. But after health orders brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, people also lost out on learning about the island s rich and storied history.
Catalina Island Museum Executive Director Julie Perline-Lee says thankfully tourists are returning because COVID had been incredibly destructive to them. It was real touch-and-go there. Most of our community had lost their jobs because we are a tourist-based industry, Perline-Lee said. We had all our eggs in one basket.
Tom Cox
While preparing recently to teach a course about the history of the desegregation of Southern college sports, I had the good fortune to connect with ETSU basketball legend Tommy Woods. Mr. Woods, who was inducted last month into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame, enrolled at ETSU in 1963, becoming the schoolâs first black player â and probably the first African American to integrate a varsity team at any Tennessee public college. Now 77 and retired from a career in law enforcement in Louisville, Kentucky, he entertained and enlightened me with several stories about his experiences at ETSU.
Tommy Woods grew up in Alcoa, where he attended segregated all-black public schools. When he accepted ETSUâs scholarship offer, he was not even aware he would become a racial trailblazer. A talented and hard-working player (he still holds all the ETSU records for rebounding), neither his athletic talents nor his life experience had prepared Woods for what awaited him when h
The Conversation: Five words that don t mean what you think they do
10 Apr, 2021 11:18 PM
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You may be surprised to read how the meaning of common words have changed. Photo / 123rf
You may be surprised to read how the meaning of common words have changed. Photo / 123rf
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By: Simon Horobin
Articles of this kind usually assert that a word s correct meaning lies in its earliest uses, while later developments are corruptions. Disinterested doesn t mean not interested but impartial , they complain. Decimate must refer to the destruction of precisely one-tenth of something, they protest. Fulsome can only mean insincere rather than very full , they cry.