Lee Mikles, a marketing expert who co-founded the Wilmington-based Archer Group marketing agency and taught marketing at the University of Delaware's Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, said the show's title is a tough blow for the city. This seems like the punchline is constantly that we're in Murder Town , whereas The Wire was the realities of living in a city.
Joe Mauro of Wilmington-based Miller Mauro Group marketing firm agreed, although he thinks a national public shaming, thanks to the program's title could spur change in Wilmington.
Oh my gosh, what a challenge for anybody in branding," said Mauro, a Wilmington native whose agency builds branding campaigns for corporations, small businesses and nonprofits. Delaware anti-violence advocate Rob Moore of the Delaware C. Foundation was stung by the show's title. That's crazy. That title is crazy. That's not how I want Wilmington to be portrayed. A report last spring by the task force, created by Markell to address rising violence in the city, issued many recommendations to change policing strategies in the city.
Many of which have not been acted on. The climactic wrestling match in the Oscar-nominated film The Wrestler was set at the Wilmington Rialto Theatre, which was the name of an old city movie house that closed in the early s. Good choice. The trio emerged from the woods into a snow-covered meadow. The Indian walked several steps ahead and, reaching the trees on the other side, turned around, aimed his gun, and fired. Washington was too stunned to move, and gaped in horror. Knowing that their tracks in the snow would betray their path to any pursuers, Washington and Gist kept on all day and another night until they reached the ice-choked Allegheny River.
Using the one blunt axe that they shared between them, the men cut down small trees until they had built a makeshift raft. They pushed off from shore, heading for an island in midstream.
Halfway across, ice floes began slamming into the raft. Washington, frankly terrified, stood up and tried to force the raft through the floes with a pole. Bad move. A huge block of ice slammed into the raft, hurling Washington head over heels overboard. Imagine the shock as he hit the icy water. Now, visualize Gist, whose hands were frostbitten but who was a large man and knew how to rescue a man overboard, hauling Washington out of the water and saving his life. Somehow they reached the island, where they spent the night huddled on frozen mud among reeds and scrub.
I like to imagine Washington hopping around naked next to a fire while his clothes dried, trying to warm up his rear end. In any event, they made it off the island and continued their journey the next day. From here on, though, challenges were to follow in quick succession. I have written several books on his life and career. Please share your email address below.
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Engraving, , Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division After just a few weeks for preparation, Washington and his small band of Indian traders and frontiersmen made their way from Williamsburg to Wills Creek, a settlement on the Potomac in western Maryland.
You rode in a London cab and walked all over the Tower of London. You know what to expect. Residents will tip their flat caps at you as they bicycle along cobblestone streets. It will be idyllic. Unless you end up in an English Murder Village. You may not know you are in a Murder Village, as they look like all other villages. Below is a list of sensible precautions you can take on any trip to an English village. Follow them and you may just live. They toss coconuts, judge cakes, drink tea, and whack toy rats with mallets.
The tea urn is filled with poison. The sponge cakes are full of glass. The coconuts are bombs. In English villages, vats only exist for drowning people—in beer, in pickling brine, in whiskey, in jam. This is doubly true if the vat was built by 14th century monks. If anyone offers to show you a vat, say you need to get something from your car, then start the engine and run them over. The police understand this sort of thing.
Tell them about the vat.
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