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Episodes tagged "Community": 1 through 4 of 4

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  1. Community: The Saving Grace of Slavery
    date 1822map KENT, Marylandtags Slavery, Community, fugitive slave

    Huddled beneath a large, decrepit tree in the woods, Isaac Mason was closer to freedom than ever before.  He had escaped his master, which seemingly should have been the hardest part of his journey.  However, Mason found himself desperately trying to convince his fellow fugitives that freedom was worth it—worth the wait and worth the nerves.  Mason’s whole future, and his freedom, was on the...

  2. Harry Coggins’ was exposed to a culture at the Woodside Mill in Greenville that helped educate and promote the growth of not just individual persons, but the growth of a community.
    date 1920 to 1943map Greenville, South Carolinatags Woodside Mill Village, Community, Mill Village, Greenville

    The Woodside Mill was the largest mill under a single roof in the country at one point. Charles Street, where Harry Coggins had lived, hosted various opportunities for sports, religion, and education. The Woodside Mill had a pool, refilled once every one to two weeks, and even a community building built and maintained by the YMCA. Many children who grew up in the mill village were extremely successful,...

  3. The quality of life in the community of the Union Bleachery Mill in Greenville will never be achievable again for former villagers.
    date 1915 to 1940map Greenville, South Carolinatags Union Bleachery, Greenville, Religion, Community, Mill Village

    Life in the village was dictated by the back-and-forth pangs of church bell and mill whistle. The mill village of Union Bleachery was home to workers and their families and known for an abounding sense of community.  The Bleachery began with 125 workers who would spin up to 100,000 yards of cloth a day. Imperative to the survival of the community, a tight routine was established and maintained. Monday...

  4. I Feel Like a Stranger Now
    date 1863 to 1885map NEW YORK, New Yorktags City Life, Urbanization, Community, Cultural Life

    As eighty-one-year old Mr. Paul reflects back on the seventy-four years he lived in Bronx, New York, he paints an image of the city he remembers as far different from the one in which he now lives after the surge of industrialism.  An avid gardener, Mr. Paul describes the old Bronx in terms of rose gardens, flowers, and cherry trees in stark contrast to the “bleak and stony” “shadows” that...