Archive for August 20th, 2021

SINGER-SONGWRITER DEAD AT 85

Shooting at Tom T. Hall's Home Leaves Two Injured
Thomas T. Hall (May 25, 1936 – August 20, 2021)


NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tom T. Hall, the singer-songwriter
who composed “Harper Valley P.T.A.” and sang about life’s
simple joys as country music’s consummate blue collar bard,
has died.

His son, Dean Hall, confirmed the musician’s death on Friday
at his home in Franklin, Tennessee. Hall, known as “The
storyteller” for his unadorned yet incisive lyrics, composed
hundreds of songs.

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SLAVERY IN NORTH AMERICA BEGAN IN 1619

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On August 20, 1619, “20 and odd” Angolans, kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrived in the British colony of Virginia and were then bought by English colonists. The arrival of the enslaved Africans
in the New World marked the beginning of two and a half centuries
of
slavery in North America.

 

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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CAMILLE BOHANNON

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Singer Robert Anthony Plant is 73 today.

Plant is best known as the lead singer and lyricist
of the English
rock
band Led Zeppelin.

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