Manns Medium

                                                                   Introduction       In the days following the Civil War and Reconstruction, the South would endure a change that was welcomed by some but despised by many.   Many former masters or plantation owners were left in a quandary when the backbone of what made their fields profitable and their status elevated was free to now leave and search out a place in the world for them and their families.   Some owners decided that they would make former slaves an offer that they could not refuse.   They offered them a share of what they grew on the farm and along with mo...

According to an Associated Press article titled Chunk of Calif. coastal highway falls into Pacific “ Engineers on Thursday were working to figure out when they'll be able to reopen a stretch of California coastal highway that collapsed into the ocean, blocking traffic to the scenic Big Sur region.”   “A 40-foot section of Highway 1 crumbled just after 5 p.m. Wednesday following several days of rainy weather. The entire southbound lane is gone, and the soil under the northbound lane also was giving way.”   It should be well known that things like this happen over a number of years and nothing this dramatic occurs within a blink of an eye but it should also be known that there were indications long before the road collapsed.   Each individual with this knowledge passed it on and too no action which could have avoided this.   The real crime would have been if there had been lives lost because of it.   There is such a charge as negligence and every elected officia...