Mose Allison, a genre-defying pianist, singer and composer/lyricist whose wittily sardonic, blues-driven songs earned him the title of “The William Faulkner of Jazz,” has died. The news was confirmed ...
Soldiers reenact a battle at Fort Mose. Located just outside of St. Augustine, Fort Mose was the first free, Black settlement in what would become the United States of America. Florida Park Service It ...
Mose Allison was born in the Mississippi Delta on his grandfathers farm near the village of Tippo. At five he discovered he could play the piano by ear and began picking out blues and boogie tunes he ...
There now is a fort at Fort Mose Historic State Park in St. Augustine.In comparison to Castillo de San Marcos, the massive fort a few miles to the south, it’s a small structure. And it isn’t the ...
Our editors' top picks to read today. Fort Mose changed the international political landscape of 18th century America, which is one reason it is today a National Historic Landmark. This is Nancy ...
A wooden walkway now juts out over the marshy flats where Fort Mose was built in 1738 (Credit: Allen Creative/Steve Allen/Alamy) Nearly 200 years before slavery was abolished in the US, Black ...
It’s about time: Last week, the $6.6-billion MOSE project, started in 2003 (but envisioned all the way back in the ‘80s) to protect Venice from flooding, successfully raised its gates for the first ...
Though Jim, Pam, Michael, and Dwight are arguably The Office‘s most talked-about characters, it’s all of the show’s smaller parts that make the sitcom the huge fan success that it is. The attention to ...
MONTGOMERY, ALA. — Mose Tolliver, a folk artist whose self-portraits and vivid images of nature and the female form done in house paint on plywood made him a leader of the modern-day “outsider art” ...
The goal of most scenes on The Office is to make the audience laugh. But just because a scene is funny doesn’t mean it was easy to make. Michael Schur, who played Mose, said the role was brutal. Find ...
Piazza San Marco floods some 100 days per year. Though a barrier system is raised to prevent more extreme events (The Washington Post by Carolyn Van Houten) Three years ago, a historic rush of water ...