Tubman spoke later of her acute childhood homesickness, comparing herself to " the boy on the Swanee River ", an allusion to Stephen Foster's song " Old Folks at Home ".

*" Old Folks at Home " sung by chorus

* " The Old Folks at Home ( Swanee River )" ( 1851 )

Many of the productions featured demeaning racial caricatures of Black people, while a number of productions also featured songs by Stephen Foster ( including " My Old Kentucky Home ", " Old Folks at Home ", and " Massa's in the Cold Ground ").

The Old Folks Sociable is the traditional social event of the year.

The first Old Folks Sociable held in Grantsville was on January 6, 1884.

The Old Folks Sociable honors all residents and former residents who are 75 years and older.

Grantsville High School, home to the Old Folks Sociable, becomes a gathering place for high school class reunions and family reunions.

The Old Folks Sociable is held each year during the month of March.

" Midget ", whose etymology indicates a " small sandfly ," came into prominence in the mid-19th century after Harriet Beecher Stowe used it in her novels Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands and Old Town Folks where she described children and an extremely short man, respectively.

* Old Town Folks ( 1869 )

* Edwin Pearce Christy ( 1815 – 1862 ), minstrel, known for performing the Stephen Foster song " Old Folks at Home " ( aka " Swanee River ").

* " Old Folks At Home " ( w. m. Stephen Collins Foster )-Diamond Four on Berliner Gramophone

Susanna ", " Camptown Races ", " Old Folks at Home " (" Swanee River "), " Hard Times Come Again No More ", " My Old Kentucky Home ", " Old Black Joe ", " Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair ", and " Beautiful Dreamer "— remain popular more than 150 years after he composed them.

It was during this period that Foster would write most of his best-known songs: " Camptown Races " ( 1850 ), " Nelly Bly " ( 1850 ), " Old Folks at Home " ( known also as Swanee River, 1851 ), My Old Kentucky Home ( 1853 ), Old Dog Tray ( 1853 ), and Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair ( 1854 ), written for his wife Jane Denny McDowell.

" Old Folks at Home " is the official state song of Florida, designated in 1935, but has been replaced as state anthem by Florida ( Where the Sawgrass Meets the Sky )

but why did the Old Chinese postulate five elements, when the Ancient Near East -- which may have initiated the idea that natural elements exerted influence in human life and activities -- recognized only four??

The term baccalaureus is a pun combining the prosaic baccalarius with bacca lauri ' " laurel berry "— according to the American Heritage Dictionary, " bacca " is the Old Irish word for " farmer " + laureus, " laurel berry ," the idea being that a " baccalaureate " had farmed ( cultivated ) his mind.

Some scholars see in this five-part layout a deliberate plan to create a parallel to the first five books of the Old Testament ; others see a three-part structure based around the idea of Jesus as Messiah ; or a set of weekly readings spread out over the year ; or no plan at all.

Justin had, like others, the idea that the Greek philosophers had derived, if not borrowed, the most essential elements of truth found in their teaching from the Old Testament.

The idea of divine justice being exercised after death for wrongdoing during life is first encountered during the Old Kingdom, in a 6th dynasty tomb containing fragments of what would be described later as the Negative Confessions

In order to understand the Greek New Comedy of Menander and its similarities to Plautus, it is necessary to discuss, in juxtaposition with it, the idea of Greek Old Comedy and its evolution into New Comedy.

The idea that the time of Samhain in Old Irish literature is considered a time of unusual supernatural power, or particularly associated with the " Celtic Otherworld " is due to Jeffrey Gantz and others.

– The starting-point of the distance unit vika is the verb that in Old Scandinavian had the form víka ( Old Icelandic víkja ) ' to recede, turn to the side, give way, yield ', and the idea behind it seems to be that the tired rower moves aside for the rested rower on the thwart when he relieves him.

This idea directly challenges the Out of Africa model, which claims Homo sapiens evolved recently as a new species in Africa, and then dispersed throughout the Old World, replacing the existing human populations without mixing with them.

In 1987, Sergio Leone contacted his old collaborators Sergio Donati and Fulvio Morsella, pitching an idea for a TV miniseries about a Colt revolver that passed from owner to owner throughout the Old West, similar to Anthony Mann's film Winchester ' 73 ( 1950 ).

It has been argued that the name may instead come from the Old English brycg ( gang plank ) or Old Norse bryggja ( quay ), though this idea has been opposed on etymological grounds.

William Howard Shuster, Jr. came up with the idea of creating the effigy, also called Old Man Gloom, and ritual burning.

An 1878 publication, Old and New London: Volume 4, mentions the idea that the area was named after a village called " Lomesbury " which formerly stood where Bloomsbury Square is now ,< ref >< cite >' Bloomsbury ', Old and New London: Volume 4 ( 1878 ), pp. 480 – 89 Date accessed: 8 March 2007 </ ref > though this piece of folk etymology is now discredited.

Each has a definite idea that one or the other of the roads mentioned above is the Old Trace and is eager, at the drop of a hat, to defend his position obstinately, profanely, and at great length.

The etymology is connected with the idea of breakage, from Old English sceard, related to Old Norse skarth, " notch ", and Middle High German scharte, " notch ".

The idea of an artificial river running, as the Old Bedford River does, from Earith to Denver was not a new idea ; it had been proposed as early as 1604 by the engineer John Hunt.

A fundamental idea for Aasen was that the fundamental dialect should be Modern Norwegian, not Old Norse.

After killing five of the participants and arresting 47 others, Legrasse interrogated the prisoners and learned " the central idea of their loathsome faith ": " They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men ... and ... formed a cult which had never died ... hidden in distant wastes and dark places all over the world until the time when the great priest Cthulhu, from his dark house in the mighty city of R ' lyeh under the waters, should rise and bring the earth again beneath his sway.

Old Commodore Forsythe, who had once lost a fifty-dollar bet on whether he could get both motors started and turn on the running lights without accidentally turning on something else first.

The first news stories had it that this blaze was started by a bolt of lightning, as though Miriam could call down fire from heaven like a prophet of the Old Testament.

After the first two matches ended in stalemate and the Third Test at Old Trafford never started due to rain.

In Old English the sequence of derivation started as " cirice " ( Ki-ri-keh ), then " churche " ( kerke ), and eventually " church " in its traditional pronunciation.

The trial started in 2010, with the four defendants convicted on the 31st of March 2010 by Mr Justice Treacy at the Old Bailey.

Richardson enrolled at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where she studied alongside Daniel Day-Lewis, having started out with juvenile performances in Cinderella and Lord Arthur Savile's Crime at the Southport Dramatic Club.

In 1979, This Old House, starring Bob Vila, premiered on PBS and started the DIY television revolution.

For that purpose, Cyril and his brother Methodius started to translate religious literature to Old Church Slavonic, allegedly based on Slavic dialects spoken in the hinterland of their home-town, Thessaloniki, in the region of Macedonia.

* Old St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, is started to be built ( approximate date ).

The Helicopter Division started out at the main Bristol Aeroplane Company site in Filton, but from 1955 it was moved to the Old Mixton factory in Weston-Super-Mare, which had been used to build Blenheims during the War.

In 1819, military architect Jan Bernhard planned and started the construction of Aleja Najświętszej Panny Marii-the Holy Virgin Mary Avenue, which is currently the main arterial road of the modern city, and which connected Old Częstochowa with New Częstochowa.

* c. 2700 BC: Old Kingdom started in Ancient Egypt.

From 1920, Michelson started planning a definitive measurement from the Mount Wilson Observatory, using a baseline to Lookout Mountain, a prominent bump on the south ridge of Mount San Antonio ( Old Baldy ), some 22 miles distant.

Chingford's oldest football club is Egbertian FC, formerly Old Egbertian FC which was started by former pupils of the St Egberts College, Chingford.

They first started in Vallecito, which was known as " Murphys Old Diggings ," before moving to another location in 1848 which became " Murphys New Diggings ," " Murphy's Camp ," and eventually just " Murphys.

The European history of Mammoth Lakes started in 1877, when four prospectors staked a claim on Mineral Hill, south of the current town, along Old Mammoth Road.

Construction of the Old Church ( on the property ) was started in 1743 and was designed by Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg, a Lutheran minister who had immigrated to the colony in 1742 and who founded many congregations in the area.

The Old Tappan First Aid Corps ( OTFAC ) was started in 1939, and is located at 4 Russell Avenue.

Protests it organised included the Halloween 2002 anti-war protest in London, and the Old Street Roundabout protest that occurred the day after the War in Iraq started.

The Dr Challoner's schools share a common foundation dating back to 1624 when the grammar school ( then for boys only ) started in Old Amersham.

It started with the English Suite No. 1, Doctor Merryheart, and Fantastic Variations on an Old Rhyme.

The Old Gaol redevelopment has started: the first stage was demolishing the 1970s additions and swimming pool extension.

In 2009, Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. started to carry the " Alan Jackson Collection " which included a special release CD available exclusively at Cracker Barrel, cowboy style shirts and t-shirts, baseball caps, home goods ( candles, kitchen goods ) including an old-fashion wooden rocking chair that has a metal plate of Alan's autograph on the headrest ; toys, spices and BBQ sauces / rubs and a replica of his own personal cowboy hat.