The only thing. I also have this one poem i would like to read. [laughter] i will say this. It is such a gift. We are thinkers. What i loved about this panel is the opportunity to think, to think beyond black and white, we are living a life more dramatic, dynamic, i was sitting here, brenda green and i went to college together, who is raising their hands . Did you hear these people talk about we were in the 19th none of your business. I will tell you that some of these conversations about what it meant to be black, and what you believe, i wrote a poem saying i wish i knew how it feels to be black, not act like or be like but be black, no strings attached, without trying to prove black. Dont have to kick ass to prove, oranges dont have to follow behavioral patterns of orange, no conscientious, this is what they say. Cleanliness and godliness behind them, they say so. How it feels to be black. Bald and silent and be black because i am. So black i can be i was black for real and real black. How it really feels to be me. Cspan created by americas Cable Television companies and brought to you as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. During the tvs recent visit to San Bernardino we visited mark landis, author of Arrowhead Spring, california, to discuss the role in the growth of the city. Where we are standing now is the entrance of the Arrowhead Spring hotel. This is relatively modern with respect to the entire history of the hotel. The original entrance was a few hundred feet south of here and behind me, our friend, one of the most famous landmarks of the area, pointing for Arrowhead Spring. As long as he has been in existence he has been there to point this way to Arrowhead Spring. As american settlers coming to the San Bernardino valley and settle the area they found the hot spring that had long been discovered by indians but they came up. Started to explore and saw the value of the spring but it was too ragged and dense for them to make good use of the property. In 1851 the mormons arrived in Southern California and began to settle in San Bernardino valley and they established a town, wellestablished town in 1857. They were called to salt lake by Brigham Young and in 1857 the same year they were called back a gentleman by the name of david smith arrived and originally arrived with the intention of selling goods and things to the mormons as they were departing, going back to salt lake city. So smith began to come up and explore the area was a devout spiritualist who believed in the Healing Properties of water and so forth. And so he had grown up with the disease of tuberculosis throughout his family and the disease killed many people in his family and throughout his young life he made up his mind, and when he was here he thought this would be an ideal spot to start as a spa to developer place for san antonio sanitarium. He worked with john brown senior. Actually the sanitarium, first open to the public in 1864. 2014, 150th anniversary of the commercial use of Arrowhead Spring. One of the interesting things about the area, there was a huge arrowhead landmark on the side of the mountain, 1400 feet tall in the shape of an indian arrowhead, the tip of the arrowhead pointing downward points to where hot and cold springs were in the shape of a National Natural arrowhead the springs at the foot of the arrowhead took the name Arrowhead Springs. And a major promotional feature of the area, all the advertising made extensive use of that landmark and they have a landmark in the background. It was a major piece of local tradition to the arrowhead landmark. When smith developed the springs, a set of crude shacks, very rudimentary, a bathhouse facility, a couple elongated buildings, he lost control of the property, because of financial troubles, and when they owned the property at Arrowhead Springs, first hotel on the property built in 1883, they opened it, pretty big success, they used smith pond which he already built in the hotel. And the water treatments, it was fed by a hot spring. Like the subsequent hotel, it burned in 1885 so los angeles businessmen and donors, quickly rebuilt the hotel and rebuilt an even better hotel bigger and better hotel at the same location as the first hotel so we had the second hotel on the property, that was even more successful because it was bigger and better. The boom of the 1880s was relatively shortlived, didnt last too long. Toward the last part of the 1880s it started to fizzle out and times were not so good but people came up and visited Arrowhead Spring. By that time the resort was promoted less as a Health Resort and more as recuperation and rest resort. People would come appear to rest and recuperate but they always had a full medical staff. The second Arrowhead Spring hotel got bigger and better. In 1895 the second hotel burned down. It was due to mishandled fireworks on july 4, 1895. After the second hotel burned in 1895, the great room era of the 1880s was over and Economic Times were difficult when the second hotel burned. After the second hotel burned, its that basically idle for ten years but a lot of folks in the San Bernardino valley knew of the Arrowhead Springs and its worth and they were not happy that their resort was gone. There was nothing here to put folks back up here but in 1904 in that timeframe a group of San Bernardino businessmen got together, form the corporation and bought the property and decided to rebuild a brandnew hotel, they built a bigger better hotel, a three story hotel that was opened in 1905, that hotel was designed by an architect named arthur benton, who is very famous for the Mission Style architecture through Southern California so the third hotel had some famous architecture involved. It was the third and biggest hotel, the most elegant and by far the largest and most successful of any of the hotels that had been there by far to date. In 1905 the owners began to promote the hotel as a place of rest and recuperation, they built all sorts of new facilities around the hotel, vast facilities, additional facilities. In that third hotel, the guests would be drawn by the water. They still advertise the water here, come to Arrowhead Springs and different types of water here, very healthy for you, so come and be healed by the water. It drew a lot of folks to that third hotel. Finally after so many folks came to the hotel and said we would like to take this water home the hotel would package it up and send it home for them to their relatives and so forth in the other state in Eastern States and finally somebody got the bright idea, this would be a good product to bottle commercially because it was so available and popular. In 1909 the first major bottling facility came to be here at Arrowhead Springs. The third hotel that was built in 1805 caught on with a hollywood movie star. Hollywood was just evolving at that time. The Motion Picture industry was just taking hold in hollywood in the early 1900s. They found Southern California because of the great weather and yearround filming ability of the location and all the geography so the Film Industry was starting to take hold around 1905, 1910, that type of timeframe. The folks that were there in hollywood wanted a place they could get away from town. They found Arrowhead Springs in 1905, brandnew facility, beautiful, Luxurious Hotel and was just far enough away from hollywood, a 2 hour drive along the foothills to Arrowhead Springs. The third hotel was the most successful of all the hotels. In 1938 like the previous two hotels the third hotel was destroyed by a wildfire that burned through the area driven in part by santa ana windss. A group of hollywood moguls formed a consortium to build the current and forth hotel. When it was built and the new pool was built they took a completely new school, beautiful art deco school, it was built along with the new hotel that was opened in 1939 and it was really a landmark piece of the whole resort. It began seriously to decline in the late night it is late 1950s. By that time there was extensive travel. You could get on an airplane and fly anywhere you want. The highways and roads were improving and just up the road from where we are is las vegas and las vegas was really beginning to take hold in the 1950s and 60s and so folks could get on route 66 and go through the pass and travel to las vegas so they had a lot more travel opportunities and vacation opportunities and so the folks that used to come to Arrowhead Springs had so many different opportunities available to them, the business really declined and they werent able to maintain the facility anymore