And watch for of the authors in the near future on book tv on cspan2. Good evening everyone. The study of George Washington at mount vernon, and the washington leverage we have an annual event that were finally getting around to this year. We are going to have our annual lecture fostered by the foundation here. Were thrilled to have this opportunity to bring together some of this most important scholarships on the mother of George Washington. Mary ball washington. This popular event was set up some time ago. And understand the world, the times and the experiences the Martha Washington and other women of the 18th century. One of those of course Mary Ball Washington. They state womens History Month from the month of march. And because of the closure here we are tonight. One important thing i think everyone in the audience pretty much knows right nobody can say too many times, mount vernon, we have open to her to audiences to visitors i should say if you come to mount vernon and have an o
academic conference i ever attended was here on nantucket when susan beagle and west tiffany who used to be at the umass field station organized a steinbeck and the environment conference and i delivered a paper on steinbeck s last novel the winter of our discontent by that time steinbeck. we all associate him with california and great to breath had settled in sag harbor a whaling port. old whaling port in long island and the winter of discontent is about that town meeting the challenges of development of historic town, you know dealing with all that and it s it just resonated and i got into you know, steinbeck s connection to moby - steinbeck was on nantucket in 1951 for the centennial celebration of moby -. he wrote to his editor. i have never been in a place with so much energy. he would write a significant portion of east of eden while out at sanctity. he was good friends with a bench lease and you know, yeah all this kind of thing and so, you know, so when he was back an
Saratoga Historic National park consists of 3400 acres. It was established in 1948 as a park within the National Park service system. The british army had a plan in order to defeat the american rebellion. The plan was that they would have an army leave canada and move south and capture the city of albany. From there that army would be able to operate either in lower new york or throughout england throughout new england and attack American Forces that were fighting against them. The british set off from canada in june of 1777. They traveled hundreds of miles and eventually got here to saratoga battlefield, located 30 miles north of the city of albany. September 1777, the british army moved south in expectation of engaging the American Army commanded by Horatio Gates in battle. The two armies collided here at the battle of freemans farm. It was one of the longest battles of the revolutionary war. It began at about 11 30 in the morning very near to where we are standing in the world and l
Because it is the oldest sport in the country. Itself saw just about every racehorse that ever lived. Not all of them, but most of them. The New York Times magazine said that the battles for saratoga were the most important battles ever fought in the entire world in the last 1000 years because they resulted in surrender. It was the First Time Ever in World History that a british army surrendered. Welcome to Saratoga Springs, on American History tv. Healing mineral waters, revolutionary war battles, and worldrenowned horseracing are all part of the citys history. It is located about four hours north of new york city, and has a population of about 27,000. With the help of our spectrum Cable Partners, for the next 75 minutes we will learn about the citys history, including its connection to civil war and american president ulysses s. Grant. We begin our special feature on the battlefield that changed the tide in the revolutionary war. The New York Times magazine said the battles for sarat
States. We are founded in 1822. Collecting at this location since 1907 in portland. Historical city was in brunswick and moved to portland the 1870s, we moved from and c library to city hall once the society was donated, we library in 1907. In 2007, we underwent restoration and renovation and 13,000 square feet of archival Storage Space to the building. E that is what were in today, temperature and humidity control, climate controlled space, we store our collection. E have offsite Storage Space we use for larger collections and since weve outgrown our location. We connect on main, but have broader scope and reach back to the 15th century, terrible hat is not a amount of our collection, the bulk of our materials are from he 18th century and 19th century, from about the 17001900, although we have colonial and dating from the 1600s relating to canada and ime newsmakers. We are showing the treasures of society. Storical early in years we collected broadly on history, anything that had to d