🎄 "Into this climate of fear and apprehension, Christmas enters, Streaming lights of joy, ringing bells of hope, And singing carols of forgiveness high up in the bright air." – Dr. Maya Angelou. Wishing you light, hope, and joy this Christmas. 🌟#MayaAngelou#AmazingPeace
Happy #4thofJuly! Dr. Maya Angelou said, “We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads are equal in value.” Let’s celebrate freedom and unity. #IndependenceDay#MayaAngelou
Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know. But this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself. Between someone who tells the truth; who knows right from wrong and will give it to the American people straight — and someone who lies through his teeth for his own benefit. Last night didn’t change that, and it’s why so much is at stake in November. https://t.co/Tn2TQu5Djo
Happy #FathersDay! 🌟 Dr. Maya Angelou said, “I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity, is daring to dare.” Thank you to all the fathers who inspire us with courage and creativity. ❤️ #MayaAngelou#Inspiration
Footprints make memories, they make judgements, they make desires for the future, and in the end they will make you reincarnate. This is the continuity of 'samsara', the never-ending cycle of birth and death.
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Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.” This quote captures the resilience and grace survivors embody in the journey after sexual assault. Maya Angelou, sharing her own experience, reflects the enduring strength of survivors. #MayaAngelou#SexualAssaultAwarenessMonth
National Poetry Month celebrates poets like Maya Angelou, preserving a literary legacy that inspires readers. 'You may shoot me with your words, cut me with your eyes, kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise.' #MayaAngelou#NationalPoetryMonth
In 2000 at the age of 72, Angelou penned a series of two-sentence sentiments for the iconic greeting card company, Hallmark, that adorned cards and serving dishes. “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
So who taught a young Jack Daniel how to distill what would become the world’s best-selling whiskey?
Nathan "Nearest" Green, an enslaved Black master distiller, taught distilling techniques to Jack Daniel, founder of the Jack Daniel Tennessee whiskey.
—Uncle Nearest, as he was fondly called by family and friends grew up in Lynchburg, Tennessee, and began working on the farm of a country preacher and distiller in Lincoln County around the mid-1800s. It was there that he learned the skill of distilling and specialized in a process of distillation known as sugar maple charcoal filtering which was also called the Lincoln County Process.
Nearest was such a skilled distiller in the process he specialized in but he kept working with the preacher in the Lincoln County and fortunately it was there that Jack Daniels met him.
In the mid-1850s, Jack Daniels who was just a young white boy from a large family and who also lost his mother to a sudden illness at the age of four months began working as a chore boy for the preacher whom Uncle Nearest worked for.
It is said that Jack Daniels was a curious young boy who kept asking about the smoke coming up through the hollow on the 338-acre property and why men kept hurrying back and forth from that area which he was never allowed to go with mules and wagons.
He never stopped asking, until the preacher whim he worked for decided to give in to his curiosity took him to the area on the property where the smoke came from.
As later described in the boy’s biography, it is said that the preacher introduced the young boy to a “coal-black negro” which was uncle Nearest.
He introduced Uncle Nearest by saying “This is Uncle Nearest. He’s the best whiskey maker I know of”. The preacher went further to ask Nearest to teach the young (Jack Daniels) everything he knew about distilling and also the process of sugar maple charcoal filtering. A request Nearest obliged and taught the young boy the special filtration process of the Tennessee whiskey.
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