@jhv@noplasticshower@Dr_Bombay@shovemedia@SazeracLA@rossgrady@culturednyc It’s a pretty simple drink. Just find a rum you like, then there’s lemon juice and… the syrup. I use a 1:1 mix of passionfruit puree and rich simple syrup, but apparently it’s meant to be “fassionola” which is similar but not quite the same. Start with https://bgreynolds.com/products/red-fassionolabur there are recipes to make your own floating about; search r/cocktails or r/tiki on Reddit.
Daimler Truck Workers Reach Deal and Avert Threatened Strike in #NorthCarolina
The United Automobile Workers reached an agreement involving workers who make Freightliner trucks and Thomas Built buses. The deal comes as the union seeks to expand its membership in southern states. #UnionStrong#UAW
Untitled photo, possibly related to: Tobacco sharecropper's daughter getting eggs from hen's nest in the henhouse. Enclosure for the pig is just beyond under the pine trees. Person County, North Carolina
Untitled photo, possibly related to: Zollie Lyons, sharecropper, home from the field for dinner at noontime, and part of his family. Upchurch, North Carolina. He has thirteen acres of tobacco and a labor force of five
Father of sharecropper family. He is sixty-nine years old, has six acres of tobacco, has a large family. Heard in conversation on his porch, "Land is like folks. It gets tired and needs a rest." Person County, North Carolina
Country filling station owned and operated by tobacco farmer. Such small independent stations have become meeting places and loafing spots for neighborhood farmers in their off times. Granville County, North Carolina
Country filling station owned and operated by tobacco farmer. Such small independent stations have become meeting places (community center) and loading spots for neighborhood farmers in their off times. Granville County, North Carolina
Tobacco sharecropper's wife disposing of dishwater after washing breakfast dishes. She put on white shoes for the photograph. Person County, North Carolina
Recently in Alabama, the Republican legislature refused to comply with a federal judge’s order to create fair voting maps that better represented Black voters. It had to be enforced by court order.
Single tobacco flower. The tobacco plant is "topped" before it blooms in the field, with exception of a few plants which are saved out for seed. Shoofly, Granville County, North Carolina
It's very sad that Liberation Station, the first and only black-owned children's bookstore in #NorthCarolina, is closing because they can't take the chance that the people threatening violence against the store, its owners and their family will act on those threats.
You can help them wind down. The linked story at Wonkette contains a link to Liberation Station's website.
BLACK-OWNED CHILDREN'S BOOKSTORE IN RALEIGH MOVING AFTER THREATS, OWNER SAYS
Liberation Station Bookstore, North Carolina's first Black-owned children's bookstore, is moving out of downtown Raleigh less than a year after it opened.
Geez. I think to myself "of course it's North Carolina..."
"Since September, we’ve faced numerous threats following the opening of our store," Scott-Miller wrote.
After two days of Sam Adams varieties that were nice, decided to get slightly more exotic with my cerveza choice tonight because compared to the months of cold before I got back home this seems nearly tropical #NorthCarolina#beer#alcohol
Girls running warping machines in Loray mill, Gastonia, N.C. Many boys and girls much younger. Boss carefully avoided them, and when I tried to get a photo which would include a mite of a boy working at a machine, he was quickly swept out of range. "He isn't working here, just came in to help a little." Location: Gastonia, North Carolina.
