For #ThickTrunkTuesday I offer an unusual species. The first photo shows a large #Palmetto#Palm and two smaller specimens growing among #BaldCypress trees at Burden Museum & Gardens in #BatonRouge#Louisiana. The second shows the pond habit where these were growing. Some palms are visible on the shore. These are rather large and thick examples of Palmettos. I took these pictures Sunday while hiking on the trail system there.
The line for the show was so long but we made it. It was pretty good. Also I found out Degas’s family was in the cotton business and had to look it up. 😬
Corrected the #Wikipedia entry for Louisiana French #accordion pioneer Amédè Ardoin 🪗 to say he was Black #Creole rather than Cajun
Nobody had edited that page in years. But within a few hours somebody had gone and made him an “American” musician. With no mention of race or culture or division
Which may be better than mischaracterizing him. But I’m not sure if de-racializing people is the way forward 😞
It’s not my neighborhood so maybe I’ll let others go at it on there
Wikipedia has Black Creole accordionist Amédé Ardoin listed as a “Cajun accordionist” 😖
Buckwheat Zydeco had it written into his contracts that he’d get paid in full and not have to perform if any press materials referred to him or his music as “Cajun” anything
He was militant about defending his Creole identity
If #Indigenous people weren't aware, we here in the #IndigenousGulf are building a mf MOUND! A traditional Indigenous earthwork monument is coming to #Bulbancha (#NOLA) in 2024! Build days starting on Saturdays in January!
Also included in the project in the Lafitte Greenway in the Tremé neighborhood: a #stickball field, and #native plant gardens with all sorts of medicinal and practical herbs and plants for all to learn and use.
#OffshoreWind leases can and should bring revenue to states
"At the heart of the #RISEE act is a provision to send 37.5 percent of the revenue from any offshore wind development in federal waters to states adjacent to the project. That would be a change from current federal law, which — unlike offshore oil — requires offshore wind lease revenue generated in federal waters to be sent to the U.S. Treasury."
#Louisiana signs agreements to build first #OffshoreWind farms in state waters
"Diamond will pay the state just over $308,000 up-front and 1.5% of gross revenues. Vestas will pay almost $358,000 and 2.2% of gross revenues."
"Speaker of the House Mike Johnson wrote the foreword and publicly promoted a 2022 book that spread baseless and discredited conspiracy theories and used derogatory homophobic insults."
"Written by Scott McKay, a local Louisiana politics blogger, the book, 'The Revivalist Manifesto,' gives credence to unfounded conspiracy theories often embraced by the far-right – including the 'Pizzagate' hoax, which falsely claimed top Democratic officials were involved in a pedophile ring, among other conspiracies."
'Unlike public schools, formal homeschooling programs or traditional private schools, nearly 9,000 private schools in Louisiana don’t need state approval to grant degrees. Nearly every one of those unapproved schools was created to serve a single homeschooling family, but some have buildings, classrooms, teachers and dozens of students.'
Though no-fault divorce was first legalized more than 50 years ago, it has long been sneered at in conservative circles, who see it as a danger to the sanctity of marriage and the concept of the American family.
Dawn in the swamps is a magical time. The various creatures that live in the swamp create a symphony of sound that travels across the water and add to the mystery before the light comes up. https://www.rickberk.com/photo/rocky-mountain-monolith/
[Analysis] What is no-fault divorce, and why do some conservatives want to get rid of it? | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Though no-fault divorce was first legalized more than 50 years ago, it has long been sneered at in conservative circles, who see it as a danger to the sanctity of marriage and the concept of the American family.