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☆ The Strange Omission of Slavery from a Charleston Ghost Tour - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Colin Dickey | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
(The church discourages these stories; a plaque on the grounds reads: “The only ghost at St. Philip’s is the Holy Ghost.”)Leaving race out of any history is a striking blind spot — even in a ghost tour. Born into slavery, Vesey had purchased his freedom in 1799 after winning a lottery, and became a prosperous carpenter. Some websites will tell you to look for Vesey’s ghost at the Old Charleston Jail, a structure that’s stood since 1802. Long after my own tour, I tracked down two longtime ghost tour guides, Joy Watson and Randy Johnson, who regularly take visitors up to the old jail. They told me that they had never heard of any Vesey ghost sightings there.
Persons: Stede Bonnet, Harriet Mackie, Sue Howard, Philip’s, Denmark Vesey, Vesey, Emanuel ”, Long, Joy Watson, Randy Johnson Organizations: Old, Philip’s, African Methodist Episcopal Church Locations: Holy, St, Charleston, Denmark, Haiti
☆ Suspecting Clandestine Plots Behind Every Door
  + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Elizabeth Williamson | More About Elizabeth Williamson | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
UNDER THE EYE OF POWER: ​How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy, by Colin DickeyThe Memorial Day pancake breakfast in Blue Hill, Maine, is hosted by the Oddfellows, an 18th-century craftsmen’s guild turned community service organization, related to the Freemasons. While there this spring, I pondered the elderly members pouring coffee and selling raffle tickets to fund college scholarships. How bizarre, even funny, that this group was once perceived as a threat to America. History bristles with examples of citizens and their elected leaders hijacking public discourse by tarring — sometimes literally — perceived enemies of the American project. Unfortunately, we have willfully forgotten most of this warped history, rendering us constantly surprised by the next imagined peril.
Persons: Colin Dickey The, ” Colin Dickey, Ben Franklin, —, ” Dickey, tarring —, McCarthy, zealotry Organizations: American, Freemasons Locations: Blue Hill , Maine, America
☆ From George Washington to Donald Trump, America’s obsession with secret societies is a mainstay of our democracy — and it resurfaces whenever there’s a renewed push for civil rights, author of new boo
  + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +11 min
Multiple presidents, from George Washington to Donald Trump, have endorsed conspiracy theories. George Washington and Abraham Lincoln both openly espoused conspiracy theories of various kinds. It was important for me early on to make a distinction between actual conspiracies and conspiracy theories. And those tend to be a specific cover-up around specific things, there's an identifiable group of actors and once you start doing basic journalism, these things tend to unravel pretty quickly. So I think that's, unfortunately, where we're heading.
Persons: Colin Dickey's, George Washington, Donald Trump, —, Colin Dickey, Dickey, Trump, Abraham Lincoln, Hillary Clinton, Jeffrey Epstein Organizations: Freemasons, Service, American, United, Civil Rights Movement, People Locations: United States, —, America, Iran, Salem
☆ Chaos erupts at JFK after British Airways flights were grounded en-masse due to technical issues
  + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Chaos erupted at JFK on Monday after British Airways grounded its flights out of the US. The airline told Insider the disruption was due to "a technical issue." In a statement to Insider, British Airways said: "We're experiencing delays to some of our flights due to a technical issue with our flight planning." British Airways also told Insider that the technical issue did not affect any flights that have already departed, and is not a safety issue. In a separate statement to the BBC, British Airways said the technical issue affected flights due to depart the US on Monday night.
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