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More than a thousand bargain hunters and curiosity seekers showed up under a bright orange-and-white tent 10 miles outside Reno last week to watch the ultimate strip show at the legendary Mustang Ranch. The Internal Revenue Service put the 330-acre establishment, Nevada's oldest legal bordello, on the auction block when its previous owners failed to pay $13 million in back taxes. Going, going, gone -- for $1.5 million -- was the 104-room hot-sheet palace itself (actually two pink stucco buildings with a guard tower). Also gaveled off, for about $500,000 more, were such appointments...
Judging from all outward appearances, Follen St. could be any residential roadway in any suburban neighborhood in the U.S. But area residents say that they have had one constant reminder this year that Follen St. is not just anywhere, that it is right next-door to the nation's oldest institution of higher education...
...Cecil L. Murray preaches beneath the spectacular murals and stained glass of Los Angeles' First African Methodist Episcopal Church. The exclamations from the standing-room-only congregation of 2,000 come with each oratorical high note. It is a hymn of health, bespeaking the prosperity of the city's oldest (1872) black congregation, where every service is a vibrant demonstration of fervor and passion...
...contrast to such vibrancy, only a dozen graying worshipers attend the Silver Bluff Missionary Baptist Church in Beech Island, S.C., for a Wednesday night service. Founded in 1750, Silver Bluff is the oldest surviving black congregation in the U.S. Noting the total absence of younger Baptists at the service, head deacon Willie Sims utters an earnest prayer: "Father, come back to Silver Bluff one more time...
...denominations in the country. The biggest U.S. black organization of any type is the 7.5 million-member National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc. Like all Baptist groups, it gives individual congregations complete autonomy. The National Baptist Convention of America and the Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc. are kindred groups. The oldest black denominations are the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church and the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, founded after the Revolutionary War by free blacks influenced by John Wesley's revival movement. The closely related Christian Methodist Episcopal Church was formed by freed slaves after the Civil War. The seventh institution...