Pearl River, Louisiana, is outside of New Orleans and has a population of 2606. It is also the city where a Catholic priest and two women were arrested for public obscenity for having sex in a church on the altar.

Public obscenity is illegal in Louisiana. While no one was in Saints Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church where the “public obscenity” occurred, the police said it could be seen from the street.

So, how were the police notified? “Peering inside to investigate, the witness reportedly saw a half-naked Clark having sex with the two women, who were dressed in…

Plimoth Plantation, a Smithsonian-Affiliate living history museum, takes you back in time.

You can participate in the harvest celebration (it was not called Thanksgiving until the mid-1800s) 17th-century meal. Centuries-old psalms and songs will entertain you, and you will be encouraged to join in singing. The Settlers and the Natives’ first harvest celebration together lasted four days.

You will not have a fork during the feast because they were not that common during this period.

There was likely turkey during this time, but that would not have been the only fowl. There were ducks, geese, passenger pigeons, quail, and there…

Two years ago, the race for Senator between Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke became the closest in Texas in 40 years. 220,000 votes short out of 8.3 million, losing by less than 3 percent. Beto came closer to winning a statewide office than any Texas Democrat in a generation and helped Texas Democrats pick up two U.S. House seats, two state Senate seats, and a dozen state House seats.

The GOP has controlled the Texas Senate since 1997 and the Texas House since 2003. Many Democrats gave up hope. In the 2016 election, Texas ranked 47th in voter turnout. …

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• Whitney Plantation

Whitney Plantation is on River Road and is about an hour away from New Orleans. Even though sugarcane is still grown on parts of the land, the plantation is a museum dedicated to slavery. The site is where a sugar plantation was operated, and three hundred fifty slaves lived. It is those slaves’ stories that are told at the Whitney Plantation. There is a “Wall of Honor” listing the people enslaved at the Whitney Plantation and another memorial dedicated to one hundred seven thousand slaves in Louisiana. A bronze sculpture of a black angel carrying a baby to…

The first horror movie was a silent movie premiered one hundred and twelve years ago. The 1908 film, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, is not available for viewing today. There are no known copies. The Werewolf is another horror movie created during this time with no copies. Edison Studios released Frankenstein in 1910:

During the 1920s, more silent horror films were made, such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Nosferatu (1922), and Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) and Blackmail (1929).

Adaptations of the silent films Frankenstein (1931), The Mummy (1932), and Dr. Jeckyl…

Growing up, when the air getting started getting older, you know it was almost time to watch The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, and to go trick or treating. Growing older horror movies were the thing in October, especially in the 80s, with Wes Craven movies. Unfortunately, everyone that is willing to watch movies with me is not willing to watch horror movies. But that is okay because I love to watch the not so horrified movies too.

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Two thousand years ago, Celts in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France celebrated the new year on November 1st.

On October 31st, Celts would participate in a pagan spiritual celebration known as Samhain. During Samhain, families burned hearth fires in their homes while they gathered the harvest. When the harvest was completed, families and Druid priests would light a community fire: families would then take a flame back home to relight their hearths. This ritual was supposed to help them during the harsh winter days. During the celebrations, Celts wore costumes made of animal heads and skins.

They believed…

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I say stupid things at times. Sometimes the silly stuff I say slip out, sometimes they make no sense. Sometimes I blurt out random thoughts or say something I do not exactly mean. I accept this about myself.

It is not worth my time being friends with someone who is always offended by something I say. I am not a mean or malicious person. I would not say something to hurt you.

You know the ones. And you know it isn’t just you that offends them. Because you hear about the countless minor infractions others have…