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This issue features Washington State wines, from Seattle to Walla. Join Ron and Mary James on a tasty adventure in northwest wine country.
This issue features Washington State wines, from Seattle to Walla. Join Ron and Mary James on a tasty adventure in northwest wine country.
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Photo courtesey of Wikimedia Commons<br />
Festival, where the voices of lost generations<br />
come alive in the words "Remember<br />
not that we were sold, but that we were<br />
strong."<br />
In a city known today for its music, it<br />
should first be remembered that the<br />
hymn “Amazing Grace” was written by<br />
former Liverpool slave ship captain John<br />
Newton. He composed the stirring song<br />
after his career at sea when he became a<br />
minister and anti-slavery campaigner.<br />
Recognizing this past, the Liverpool City<br />
Council in 1999 passed a motion apologizing<br />
for the city’s role in the slave trade<br />
over three centuries and acknowledged<br />
the continuing impact of slavery on Liverpool’s<br />
black community.<br />
Liverpool’s prominence as a major port<br />
also gives the city a diversity unique in<br />
Europe. It has the oldest black African<br />
community in the United Kingdom, and<br />
Europe's oldest Chinese population.<br />
I stayed in the city's Commercial District<br />
at the modern Atlantic Tower Thistle<br />
Hotel, which offers commanding views<br />
of the nearby waterfront, the Mersey ferry<br />
dock and of the Three Graces — the<br />
Royal Liver Building; the Cunard Building,<br />
former headquarters of the shipping<br />
line; and the Port of Liverpool building.<br />
The Liver Building is "the nest" for the<br />
city's symbol, two Liver (pronounced leever)<br />
birds sculpted in metal that perch on<br />
separate clock towers.<br />
Nearby is Albion House, the former headquarters<br />
of the White Star Line, operator<br />
of the Titanic. Albion House recently was<br />
refurbished to become a smart, boutique<br />
hotel. Called 30 James Street, it features<br />
64 Titanic-themed rooms.<br />
A block from the Atlantic Tower Hotel is<br />
one of Britain's best-kept secrets from<br />
World War II, a museum simply called<br />
Western Approaches. From an underground<br />
warren deep in the bowels of a<br />
block of offices the Allies conducted the<br />
Battle of the Atlantic. The top-secret<br />
command post directed the tenuous sea<br />
link that kept Britain supplied during<br />
the war. A huge map room shows in<br />
detail where the cat-and-mouse game<br />
pitting naval convoys and their escorts<br />
against Nazi U-boats, warships and aircraft<br />
was played out in a prolonged bat-<br />
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