At can send us a text 202 7488003. If you do please include your name and where you are from, otherwise catch up on social cspanwj and on facebook. Happy thanksgiving to you and your family. You can start calling in now. One statistic down how americans are spending their thanksgiving. Only 27 plan to have the traditional thanksgiving meal with people outside of their household. The New York Times with a map trying to break down that data from a survey of some 150,000 americans. That map showing the share of people eating thanksgiving dinner with people outside their homes the darker the color shading. As the map illustrates there is a substantial regional variation with some people much more likely together with others. 14 ofs of vermont, only households will be celebrating with people outside their household. In parts of missouri, more than half of the residents plan to. We ask you this morning about thanksgiving 2020. What you celebrating, what are you thankful for, some responses a
You sit across from your grandmother, you are in complete silence, it is a sacred space. Listen andtes you ask questions. It is just two microphones and you look each other in the eyes. As you know i microphone gives you the license to ask questions you do not normally get to ask. From the beginning of storycorps people thought if i had 40 bits left to live, what i say to this person . At the end of the 40 minutes you get a copy and another stays with us and goes to the American Folklife Center in the library of congress. Your great, great, Great Grandkids can know your grandmother through her voice and story. Because of the nature of what happens in these booths, it started in Grand Central then expanded across the country, we are collecting the wisdom of humanity. We have about 650,000 participate so far. It is the largest collection of human voices so far. We are a Public Service and nonprofit. We are here to serve people. One of the things we are encouraging a thanksgiving, and if
He was killed cutting logs in the woods. So that first five were very young and my dad ernest jones married my mama and has five more children, but my dad raised all ten of us because they was very, very young when their dad got killed. Basically they were very disciplined, had a seventh grade education. Mom had a seventh grade education but very bright, very brilliant people and one of the ambitions they had, they gave us as we were little kids, he two goals for us, he wanted all of us to be educated and he wanted to see all ten of us in heaven, so he wanted us to be committed to church, hard work and school, so i had the pleasure of going to school all the way through elementary, all the way through high school and i never missed a day. He was mean and tough on us going to school, so we had to get up 4 00 in the morning, milk the cows, feed the pigs and do all of this walk one mile from the house to the dirt road where the bus came by and gets the bus at 6 45. You to do that and appl
Georgia and her work to later organize unions. History, a in georgetown history professor talks about culture and society in the 1920s. So now, civil war fashion. Investigating the power of objects to be emblematic of Historic Events and to help us understand the past. As a historian at new york historical, i work alongside these treasures every day, and its my great privilege to use them in exhibitions as well. The inspiration for our program, civil war in 50 objects how do only 50 objects tell such a sweeping story . As the cover shows, we managed tactile objects and images. The hardest thing to preserve the civil war in 50 objects the hardest thing to preserve are textiles. The objects we discussed today, some are extraordinary in terms of how they survived. Absolutely, and without further ado, lets get to our four things. We have some military buttons, a footlocker, a drum, and a uniform. Ery interesting in aggregate, they do tell the story of uniform, outfitting a civil war soldie
Anxiety having some would not get to hire me. I felt my temperature increase. I could feel my sweat coming off the side of my face. Didnt have to ask joe what he was thinking. We looked at each other and of bus looked at the counter at the same time. We just started to walk toward the counter. Without a single word. That is how it happened. Guest thank you for having me three of them had met in high school. They had met before. They were not thinking about injustices, and how to push the movement along, but it was not until Joseph Mcneil is returning to school after christmas break in 1959 when he greyhound meal at a roof he is refused a meal at a greyhound terminal. Iss just trying to did he emboldened. He and his four friends decide theyre going to target the sit in ats and go segregated eating facilities in greensboro, North Carolina. What i find interesting is why woolworths . And dime. S was a five many people of a certain age probably still remember. It was a chain Discount Depar