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Directed by J.J. Anderson and executive produced by Kelley L. Carter, Marc Jordan, and Jason Aidoo, this documentary is a must-watch. Synopsis: “Sacred Soil: The Piney Woods School Story” is a ...
The Piney Woods Incident – Cash–Landrum UFO Case; Texas UFO Encounters – Dayton, (Piney Woods) Texas; Collins, Curt. "Blue Blurry Lines – The Texas Piney Woods UFO (aka the Cash–Landrum UFO case)" Radio Interview of August 29, 2012, with John F. Schuessler, Former MUFON International Director (2000–2006)
The film discusses the origin of the band at the Piney Woods Country Life School in Mississippi in 1937, interspersed with archival footage of life at the time for African Americans in the rural South. Band members discuss the early touring years of the group, designed to raise awareness and funds for the Piney Woods School.
Piney Woods was where the International Sweethearts of Rhythm were formed, by Jones, in 1937. [4] The band included jazz musician Helen Jones, the daughter of the school's founder. Other bands associated with the school included the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi and the Cotton Blossom Singers. Beginning in the 1930s the school also sponsored ...
The original members of the band had met in Mississippi in 1938 at the Piney Woods Country Life School, a school for poor and African American children. [6] The majority who attended Piney Woods were orphans, including band member Helen Jones, who had been adopted by the school's principal and founder (also the Sweethearts' original bandleader), Laurence C. Jones. [6]
Laurence Clifton Jones (November 21, 1882 – July 13, 1975), [1] was the founder and long-time president of Piney Woods Country Life School in Rankin County, Mississippi. [2] A noted educational innovator, Jones spent his adult life supporting the educational advancement of rural African-American students in the segregated South .
The Piney Woods School was founded by Laurence C. Jones and the first classes were held outside in 1909. Similar to earlier ventures by blacks, the school had financial difficulties and the Cotton Blossom Singers was formed to raise money for the building.
Willie Robertson's children — Rebecca, John Luke, Sadie, Bella, Will and Rowdy — made his experience on Duck Dynasty one-of-a-kind.. When the reality TV show premiered in 2012, Willie and his ...