Legislative affair here in washington. We really appreciate you taking time out of your busy schedule to listen to this great lineup of speakers. Weve convened this group today to talk about a specter of issues critically important to do 5g and broadband deployment. We will move to an expert panel. Its my pleasure to introduce matthew polka of aca knex steven berry of welcome everybody my name is matthew polka president and ceo of aca knex americas communication association, formerly known as the american cable association. We are very pleased to be here today along with our partner charter at to cca talk about this important issue that certainly affects all of our members except there are members of in aca knex every state providing phone, Broadband Services in remote areas, hard to reach areas. Doing a great job on delivering that broadband promise. Today we are also very happy to talk about our 5g plus plan because we think that the proceeding thats on the way the is very important
And and an historian at the adams county Historical Society. He is the coauthor of numerous articles and books of history on the civil war. He is lucky that civil war roundtables has appeared on Television Documentaries including the popular pcn battle walk series. Integralon, he was an part of our storyline here. Lets give a warm welcome to tim smith. [applause] you have my book. [laughter] i was waiting to show it later. Dr. Today, i am going to talk about some of the farms around the battlefield of gettysburg. I did do a book called the farms of gettysburg. I have always been interested in the people who lived here at the time of the civil war. A lot of people who read about the battle and understand the general story when you start reading deeper into it, you come across the names of the people who lived in the area. When i moved to gettysburg and became a licensed battlefield guide instead of working at the adams county Historical Society, i had the Resources Available to learn a
Tim smith talks about the subject of his book, farms at gettysburg. He talks about how families were affected by the battle. This talk is hosted by the gettysburg heritage center. Onto our program. Many of you are probably familiar with tim smith because he has been in gettysburg for a number of years. He is a native to baltimore maryland, a battlefield guide here at the Military Park, and they historian at the adams county Historical Society. Coauthor ofhor or numerous articles and dozens of books on local history and the civil war. He has lectured at civil war roundtables and seminars and has appeared on television documentaries, including the popular battle walk series. Ouras an integral part of storyline here. Give a warm welcome to tim smith. [applause] you have my book. [laughter] thank you. Today i am going to talk a little about some of the farms around gettysburg. Years ago i did a book called farms of gettysburg. I have always been interested in people who lived here at the t
Battlefield trusts. Without any further introduction, i now present to you my friend, gary adelman. Leave your book here . Gary yeah, sure, i might need it. Hello, everybody. This isnt easy doing the whole civil war in such a short period of time. Well see if it takes 56 minutes or whatever. I am committed to get this done. Im already wasting time for good luck for those of you who like to take notes. The seeds of the civil war are sewn in the constitution and then you have north and south starting to look at each other differently. You have southerners look to the north and although they speak the same language, worship the same god, everything like that but you see increasingly southerners looking north and seeing greedy. People that care about money and business and dont care about family. The northerners are looking south and seeing people who are cruel and lazy slave holders and whatnot. Really this is a war of perception as much as anything else. They did not trust each other and
They should have called you the founding director. As we say around here. Her first book a fragile freedom African American women and emancipation published by yale extremely well regarded and important study of an understudied topic up to that point and so the perfect person to take on the challenge to recover the story of owna judge lets give erica a big round of applause. [applause] theres no other place i should be giving this talk. Good evening, everyone. Happy black history month. Here i am. So, first, let me make offer a few thank you. Of course to Dunn Bradford who invite saidd invited. Meechlt i think there is invited me. I think there is no better place to give this talk. I would like to thank emily for helping me with arrangements. It has been a very, very busy week. This book just came out on tuesday of last week. And so as an academic, doug said my first book was published with Yale University press and this book is more of a set of crossover trade books for a larger, more