Produce sh although she is not showing symptoms remains confined to the house until august 23rd. Now earlier this week, the county set up a makeshift Health Clinic in order to offer vaccines to anyone who needed it. Now quarantine orders are often put in place in cases of communicable diseases, and if you break those quarantine orders, you can be found guilty and serve up to two years jail. Linda, gerald. Now julia, how much longer do they have to stay in quarantine . Well, its the 12th and theyve got until august 23rd,ed daughter in the home. Got you. Julia sims in our newsroom. Thank you. Make sure you stay hydrated this weekend. Were going to see temperatures in the mid90s. Mike maze is in the Weather Center with a look at what we can expect. Temperatures are well into the 90s across the area, 93 here in raleigh, 96 fayetteville, 93 in goldsboro, drier air aloft come down. They dropped into the upper 60s to low 70s. That hasnt been the case this afternoon. Check out the heat index v
Youre looking at a live picture of arlington house, the robert e. Lee memorial. This is the National Park services most visited historic home and it was on this day in 1916 that president Woodrow Wilson signed the legislation that created the park service. Were here this evening at arlington house to talk about the park service and its history. We will also learn more about this special house and the people who lived here and how its being preserved and interpreted by the National Park service. Were joined tonight by robert stanton, former National Park service director, and brandon bies, the former site manager here at arlington house, and obviously, park Service Employee who is also overseeing a yearlong rehabilitation of the estate. Let me start with the story of how the National Park service began. As the National Park service was authorized by an act of congress, signed into law by president Woodrow Wilson, august 25, 1916. Therefore, we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Nati
Cspan. Org history. Each week, american artifacts takes you to museums and Historic Places to learn what artifacts reveal about history. Next, the arlington house to hear from descendants of one of the families. In about ten minutes, well hear from craig syphax who describes the story of freedmans village, a community established on the former plantation grounds to transition slaves into independent and free lives. But first, stephen hammond. Natural hazards dealt with earthquakes, landslides a variety of hazards that affected the united states. My connection with the syphax family is an interesting one. My third grade grandmother was a slave at the cater house in washington, d. C. , and her brother is Charles Syphax who actually was a slave here on Arlington National cemetery property. And we go way back in terms of their connections to mt. Vernon and the local area here. Charles was actually a dower slave in mt. Vernon. We believe he was born about 1791. He basically became a support
Me just emphasize that we are at the Wilson Center, the nations nations memorial to 28th president and one of the nations key now Public Policy form here at washington dc. You are add to the washington history seminar, and activity since 2010 we have ten we have jointly sponsored with the National History center. Its represented here by date kennedy comments director and the associate director. Amanda along with pete in the back help us get organized for the sessions sessions that we hope will provide a forum for bringing Historical Context to Public Policy and to invite historical perspectives on international and national affairs. As always we want to acknowledge the society of historians of American Foreign relations for sponsoring, cosponsoring the series as well as George Washington University History department and several others. Other named donors that allow us to make this on a weekly basis. Im supposed to point out that you can look at videos of this in past sessions on both
[inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] i think well get started. Welcome everyone im christian, i direct the history and Public Policy Program Policy program here at the Wilson Center. I am delighted to welcome all of you to this session with jennifer metal set also on behalf my cochair from George Washington university. Since were on cspan today let me just emphasize that we are at the Wilson Center, the nations nations memorial to 28th president and one of the nations key now Public Policy form here at washington dc. You are add to the washington history seminar, and activity since 2010 we have ten we have jointly sponsored with the National History center. Its represented here by date kennedy comments director and the associate director. Amanda along with pete in the back help us get o