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Georgia is desperate - and Tennessee isn't the only neighbor it is poking. Last year Lake Lanier, Atlanta's primary water source, hit record lows and Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue took on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, demanding that the flow of water from the reservoir and the Chattahoochee River downstream to Florida and Alabama be restricted. The Corps politely disagreed and more recently a federal court ruled Georgia's access to Lake Lanier be curtailed...
BOSTON—As one of the students of the “Little Rock Nine” recounted her story under Faneuil Hall’s towering ceiling last night, her words were interrupted with short, poignant pauses. Fifty years ago last month, Carlotta W. LaNier and eight fellow students became the first blacks to integrated into Central High—a previously all-white Arkansas school—under the order of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and over the fierce objections of the state’s governor. Each day they passed a gauntlet of violent parents...
...Dvorak: Four Piano Trios The Lanier Trio (Gasparo). The Dvorak piano trios are four of the glories of the chamber-music literature; the sorrow and the pity is that they are not known to a wider audience. The Lanier Trio -- William Preucil, violin; Dorothy Lewis, cello; and Cary Lewis, piano -- lavish impeccable ensemble and golden tone on each piece...
...Shannon Lanier, who is black, had a very personal reason to accept the story all along. His mother had told him as a child that he was related to the third President. Descended from Hemings' son Madison, Lanier recalls standing up in his first-grade class in Atlanta and announcing his presidential heritage: "I said, 'Thomas Jefferson was my great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather.' The teacher told me to sit down and stop telling lies...
Despite the chilly reception at the Monticello Association reunions, one person Lanier met there has turned out to be not just a relative but also a good friend. Julia Westerinen, 69, looks white, but she is descended from Sally Hemings' youngest son, Eston. Growing up in Madison, Wis., in the 1930s and '40s, Westerinen was not allowed to play with black children. "My parents told me to stick to my own kind," she says. Even as an adult, she realized that her friendships with blacks had been superficial. "I thought we were friends, but I never had them over...