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News and Commentary by Tom Truex
This event gets my highest personal recommendation! K_Line Christian Online rates this event (out of 5 stars):
The Davie Historical Society will host the 12th Annual Generations of Taste from 6-8 p.m., on 03/20/2010, at the Old Davie School Historical Museum located at 6650 Griffin Road. This scrumptious tradition is a sampling of recipes from the Society’s four cookbooks and includes tastings of traditional Davie Pioneer dishes.
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Haiti has been in the news as my church and many others work to help a country in unimaginable need. I remembered a conversation with a Haitian guest.
A couple of years ago our Christian Men’s Breakfast group was honored with the visit from a Haitian minister, in the US, at the time, to raise funds for church building in Haiti. He relayed some remarks to us, in effect saying that Haiti was under a curse because of a voudou pact it’s leaders had made to get their independence a couple of centuries ago. I hadn’t thought too much about those remarks until recently, when I asked a friend who has some pretty direct connections to Haiti. He referred me to “Bois Caiman” and suggested a Google© search would shed some light on Haitian history, and the background of what our preacher guest had told us. I thought the matter is interesting—read this and judge for yourself.
According to http://www.haitianmedia.com/index.php/42 (the website calls itself, “the #1 Haitian Journalist”):
Bois Caiman is site of the voodoo ceremony presided over by Dutty Boukman on August 14 1791. It is widely accepted as the starting point for the Haitian Revolution. Some scholars, however, have deemphasized the role of the Bois Caiman ceremony in sparking the Haitian revolution or have even gone so far as to question whether the event even took place. Whatever the ultimate disposition of these claims, no one can deny that the historical memory Bois Caiman has political and spiritual resonance for many Haitians to the present day. Continue reading “Haitian history — the story of Bois Caiman”
Several cities in South Florida have feuded in recent years over invocations at government meetings. Davie Town Council meetings haven’t been preceded by an invocation in years. There was one exception. At the swearing in ceremony for the Mayor and Town Council, the individual being sworn in generally designated a member of the clergy to offer an invocation. There was no invocation at the swearing in ceremony of Mayor Judy Paul, and Councilman Brian Caletka on March 18, 2009.
