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Burden : a preacher, a klansman, and a true story of redemption in the modern South
\"A harrowing true story of the modern Ku Klux Klan and an act of grace that shook a community in the Deep South. In 1996, the town of Laurens, South Carolina, was thrust into the international spotlight when a white supremacist named Michael Burden opened a museum celebrating the Ku Klux Klan on the community's main square. Journalists and protestors flooded the town, and hate groups rallied to the establishment's defense, dredging up the long history of racial violence in this formerly prosperous mill town. What came next is the subject of an upcoming major motion picture starring Forest Whitaker, Garrett Hedlund, Tom Wilkinson, Andrea Riseborough, and Usher Raymond. Shortly after his museum opened, Michael Burden abruptly left the Klan at the urging of a woman he fell in love with. Broke and homeless, he was taken in by Reverend David Kennedy, an African American preacher and leader in the Laurens community, who plunged his church headlong in a quest to save their former enemy. In this spellbinding Southern epic, journalist Courtney Hargrave uncovers the complex events behind the story told in the film, exploring the choices that led to Kennedy and Burden's friendship, the social factors that drive young men to join hate groups, the intersection of poverty and racism in the divided South, and the difference one person can make in confronting America's oldest sin\"-Provided by publisher.
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Operatic geographies : the place of opera and the opera house
Since its origin, opera has been identified with the performance and negotiation of power. Once theaters specifically for opera were established, that connection was expressed in the design and situation of the buildings themselves, as much as through the content of operatic works. Yet the importance of the opera house's physical situation, and the ways in which opera and the opera house have shaped each other, have seldom been treated as topics worthy of examination.
Operatic Geographies invites us to reconsider the opera house's spatial production. Looking at opera through the lens of cultural geography, this anthology rethinks the opera house's landscape, not as a static backdrop, but as an expression of territoriality. The essays in this anthology consider moments across the history of the genre, and across a range of geographical contexts—from the urban to the suburban to the rural, and from the \"Old\" world to the \"New.\" One of the book's most novel approaches is to consider interactions between opera and its environments—that is, both in the domain of the traditional opera house and in less visible, more peripheral spaces, from girls' schools in late seventeenth-century England, to the temporary arrangements of touring operatic troupes in nineteenth-century Calcutta, to rural, open-air theaters in early twentieth-century France. The essays throughout Operatic Geographies powerfully illustrate how opera's spatial production informs the historical development of its social, cultural, and political functions.
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Cavalli's Erismena
On Jun 15, 2010, New College and Oxford play host to a one-day international conference entitled 'Cavalli, his circle, and Erismena' organized by Michael Burden and Suzanne Aspden and inspired by the Bodleian Library's recent purchase of the only surviving source of this opera in English. Michael Burden had previously led the quest to block the export of the manuscript long enough to successfully draw together the financial support required to facilitate the Bodleian's winning bid at auction. Likely dating from around the 1670s and almost certainly copied for use in London, it is a unique artefact in that it contains a fully underlaid English singing translation. This conference was the first detailed examination of the manuscript and it aimed not only to place this enigmatic source within its context in Italy, but also to explore its role in the story of continental opera's dissemination to England in the late 17th century.
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Images of Dancers on the London Stage, 1699-1800
Catalogue of images of English and foreign stage dancers who were seen in the London theaters during the eighteenth century. The images range from portraits by leading artists to illustrations for books and magazines and satirical prints. The major sources for the compilation have been the British Museum Department of Prints and Drawings, the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Garrick Club, the Harvard Theatre Collection, the National Portrait Gallery, Tate Britain and the Theatre Collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum. A brief description is given of each image, together with the medium, size and date, where known, and some of the locations where the image can be found.
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Rewards for lodgers with an independent streak
Having a rewards system is important, said Jan Freitag, vice president for global development at Smith Travel Research. \"All the chains have rewards programs, and they are in an arms race over points,\" he said. \"Independent hotels can now say that we've got what you're looking for, and there's also something in it for you, the traveler.\" Points drive business, said Yogi Hutsen, chief executive of the Coastal Hotel Group, who signed up his hotels for Stash Rewards. \"Not giving points has been a drawback for independent hotels,\" he said. \"We can now compete head to head.\" Online booking sites \"have a gigantic market,\" Mr. [Eric Horodas] said. \"But I think this independent effort will grow, and the cost of capturing customers will come at a significantly lower cost.\"
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Rewards for lodgers with an independent streak
Having a rewards system is important, said Jan Freitag, vice president for global development at Smith Travel Research. \"All the chains have rewards programs, and they are in an arms race over points,\" he said. \"Independent hotels can now say that we've got what you're looking for, and there's also something in it for you, the traveler.\" Points drive business, said Yogi Hutsen, chief executive of the Coastal Hotel Group, who signed up his hotels for Stash Rewards. \"Not giving points has been a drawback for independent hotels,\" he said. \"We can now compete head to head.\" Online booking sites \"have a gigantic market,\" Mr. [Eric Horodas] said. \"But I think this independent effort will grow, and the cost of capturing customers will come at a significantly lower cost.\"
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Ex-UMaine coach pleads not guilty to assault
Michael Burden's attorney entered the pleas for Burden in Bangor District Court on Thursday. Burden, Goldsboro, N.J., did not appear in court.
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Penitent Klan leader quits
Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in its South Carolina heartland and owner of the Redneck Shop - a well-known outlet for the sale of pointed white masks, pin-up pictures of negro-lynchings and cross-burnings, and neo-Confederate literature.
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Commissioners adopt plan for economic development
Yesterday, the commissioners officially adopted the Carroll County Economic Development Commission's economic development strategic plan. Commission members, led by Michael Burden, have been working on the 10-page plan for about a year. Committees should be formed in July after the new EDC board takes office, Mr. Burden said.
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Industrial growth plan approved Aim is to point agencies in county to shared goals
\"The demand for services is increasing each day, and we're moving in the direction of having to make some hard choices,\" Mr. [Michael Burden] said at yesterday's work session. \"We don't want that to happen. \"We need to identify what is marketable and preserve it,\" Mr. Burden said. \"I think that {the Air Business Center} would be a great project for a case study,\" Mr. Burden said. \"We think it is a great success, but the usage might not have been maximized as it should. It might come out that the project is not supporting itself.\"
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