I was starting research for my book and i was able to go down to College Station to my grandfathers library and they have the archives there. My coauthor and i are like, we are here for a day and a half, lets do it. We walk in and mary finch who works at the library was like, where do you want to start . She opens the door and it is millions of different scrapbooks and videos and things. We are like, what . We only have a day and a half. We started in her scrapbook. My grandmother had kept scrapbooks from every part of their life together. While at the george h. W. Bush library and museum, director warren finch showed us one of Barbara Bushs scrapbooks containing mementos from their life together. We are here in the research room. We are going to take a look at one of about 120 scrapbooks that mrs. Bush began keeping shortly after she and president bush became engaged. She was an avid scrapbooker and documented their entire history and his political history and their lives together for
My middle name is elizabeth. Interviewer elizabeth. And then last name . Reid. I was born in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, 1927. April of 1927. Interviewer what date . Mary ninth. April 9, 1927. Tell me about your family when you were born . Mary we were very poor. My father was from tennessee. My mother was from pittsburgh. And when i was born, we lived in pittsburgh then. I had two older brothers and a sister. The oldest brother was 10 years older than i was. And so, i by the time i a little kid,nd they were already grown. So it seemed to me as if i was almost an only child. And i always missed not having somebody else. But we were poor. Lived in houses on a hill. I was never without friends, because we played on the street s and in the fields, on the hills. Pittsburgh is full of hills, so i was my mother would warn me when i would go out to play, not to go over the hill. And of course, i didnt until i andto the end of the row went around the row, until she couldnt see me. But then i wen
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BryanCollege Station, texas. The history of the neighboring cities sitting within three hours of houston, san antonio, and dallas. In about five minutes, we take you inside the george h. W. Bush president ial library and museum for our first ever look at newly discovered film footage of george and barbara bush on their honeymoon. Following that, the final resting place of the 41st president and the first lady on the grounds of the library. In about 20 minutes, the history of the area as we travel to the brass yoes Valley Museum of history and later a trip to the campus of texas a m university for the story of a core of cadets, the student military organization dating to 1876. We begin our special feature with the mayors of bryan and College Station as they talk about the history and special relationship between the two cities. One of the wonder fingers about bryanCollege Station, you have two cities, one community. The university started in the 1870s. The city of bryan started a couple
San antonio and dallas. In about five minutes, we take you inside the george h. W. Bush president ial library and museum for film footage of george bush and barbara bush on their honeymoon and the final resting place of the 41st president and the first lady on the grounds of the library. In about 20 minutes t history of the area as we travel to the Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History and later a trip to the campus of texas a m university for the story of cadets, a student military organization dating to 1876. We begin our special feature with the mayors of bryan and College Station as they talk about the history and special relationship between the two cities. One of the wonderful things about Bryan College station, youve got two cities, one community. The university started in the 1870s, the city of bryan started just a couple of years before, really right after the civil war. There was a railroad coming from houston that was marching its way here, stopped before the civil war, an