Talk about what it mightve been like trying to start a church in the immediate aftermath of the american civil war. My wife and i drove up and we walked into the back of the sanctuary, and there was one lady sitting in the sanctuary, and she jumps up, runs to the back, shakes my hand, and says my family and i have something we think you may have an interest in. Would you come out to the car after the program . I said, sure. I go out to the car, she opens the trunk and tells me to hold my arms out. And shes in and out the truck, and the stack is growing taller and taller. And i say, what do we have here . And she says, these are my grandfather Thomas Wallace colleys seven volumes of handwritten journals of his service in the first virginia cavalry and his postwar life. I thought i was going to fall over in the parking lot. As a historian, you dream about things like that. I want to thank all of the colley family. They are the most wonderful people i have ever had the pleasure to work wi
Groups. Long story short, i was invited to speak at a church in Washington County in july 2016. The church was celebrating their 150th anniversary, and they invited me to come up and talk about what it mightve been like trying to start a church in the immediate aftermath of the american civil war. My wife and i drove up and we walked into the back of the sanctuary, and there was one lady sitting in the sanctuary, and she jumps up, runs to the back, shakes my hand, and says my family and i have something we think you may have an interest in. Would you come out to the car after the program . I said, sure. I go out to the car, she opens the trunk and tells me to hold my arms out. And shes in and out the truck, and the stack is growing taller and taller. And i say, what do we have here . And she says, these are my grandfather Thomas Wallace colleys seven volumes of handwritten journals of his service in the first virginia cavalry and his postwar life. I thought i was going to fall over in
Old dominion home. I want to take just a couple of seconds to thank two specific groups. Long story short, i was invited to speak at a church in Washington County in july of 2016. The church was celebrating their 150th anniversary, and they invited me to come up and talk about what it mightve been like trying to start a church in the immediate aftermath of the american civil war. My wife and i drove up and we walked into the back of the sanctuary, and there was one lady sitting in the sanctuary, and she jumps up, runs to the back, shakes my hand, and says my family and i have something we think you may have an interest in. Would you come out to the car after the program . I said sure. I go out of the car, she opens the trunk and tells me to hold my arms out. And she empties out the truck, and the stack is growing taller and taller. And i say, what do we have here . And she says, these are my grandfathers seven volumes of handwritten journals of his service in the first virginia cavalry
The church was celebrating their 150th anniversary, and they invited me to come up and talk about what it mightve been like trying to start a church in the immediate aftermath of the american civil war. And we and i drove up walked into the back of the sanctuary, and there was one ,ady sitting in the sanctuary and she jumps up, runs to the back, shakes my hand, and says my family and i have something we think you may have an interest in. Would you come out to the car after the program . I said sure. Opensut of the car, she the trunk and tells me to hold my arms out. Out the truck, and the stack is growing taller and taller. And she says what do we and i say, what do we have here . And she says, these are my grandfathers seven volumes of handwritten journals of his service in the first virginia cavalry and his postwar life. I thought i was going to fall over in the parking lot. As a historian, you dream about things like that. I want to thank all of the kelly ley family. Aw they are the
Of being responsible for saving daylight. Its time for daylight to learn to save itself. Thats right. [ cheers and applause ] yes, we got an extra hour of sleep, but we also got an extra hour of donald trump being president of the united states. Id like to set my calendar ahead a year. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] as of today were one day short of a year from the next president ial election. Interesting fact. At this point in 2015 a year ahead of the election you know who the republican frontrunner was . For real. Dr. Ben carson. [ laughter ] and then he woke up and it was all just a dream and then he went back to sleep. But at the white house today the president played host to the world series champion washington nationals. It was a little bit confusing. He was under the impression he was hosting white nationalists, not the nationals. [ laughter ] oh, its a baseball team. Thats nice. As players have been known to odo the nationals brought the president a jerzy. But not the usu