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Piney Woods was where the International Sweethearts of Rhythm were formed, by Jones, in 1937. [4] The band included jazz musician Helen Jones, the daughter of the school's founder. Other bands associated with the school included the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi and the Cotton Blossom Singers. Beginning in the 1930s the school also sponsored ...
The Piney Woods is a temperate coniferous forest terrestrial ecoregion in the Southern United States covering 54,400 square miles (141,000 km 2) of East Texas, southern Arkansas, western Louisiana, and southeastern Oklahoma. These coniferous forests are dominated by several species of pine as well as hardwoods including hickory and oak.
Laurence Clifton Jones (November 21, 1882 – July 13, 1975), [1] was the founder and long-time president of Piney Woods Country Life School in Rankin County, Mississippi. [2] A noted educational innovator, Jones spent his adult life supporting the educational advancement of rural African-American students in the segregated South .
Piney Woods—the oldest of four remaining historically Black U.S. boarding schools—provides something rare for its students: a safe space.
Much loved by the community, [3] Jones became known as 'The Sunshine Lady of the Piney Woods'. [6] The couple began married life in a one-room log cabin at Piney Woods, before moving into 'the corner room of a school building, another room in an academic building, an old mill house, and finally a comfortable cottage in 1922'. [3]
Pineywoods is a Pre-K through twelfth grade charter school. Students in Angelina County, Texas and surrounding areas are open for enrollment. [2] The student teacher ratio is 1 teacher per 15.86 students, [3] and the graduation rate is 100%. [4] Starting in the 2023–2024 school year students will only attend 4 days per week [5] [6]
Piney Woods may also refer to: Pine forests generally; A historic ecoregion in the US states of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, now known as the Sandhills and Inner Banks; Piney Woods Country Life School in Piney Woods, Mississippi, United States; Piney Woods, Michigan, an unincorporated community
Pinewoods Camp is a traditional dance and music camp located on 31 acres (13 ha) of woodland between Long Pond and Round Pond in Plymouth, Massachusetts. It is the oldest continuously run folk dance camp in the U.S., [ 2 ] and is arguably the most popular and well-known camp of its type.