Kentucky university, as well as several years in the history departments Bates College and ucla. She finished her phd at ucla std she has spoken here on a numerous occasion, and spoke about euleulysses s. Grant. And now, fiona has written a book about thomas mast, the author of political cartoons published in 2013. It is my pleasure to welcome fiona. [ applause ] hi. I want to thank peter for invitinging me here, and ashley for all of the help she provided as i prepared to come and spend this hour with you. Im here to talk about thomas nas and what i want to do is to introduce him to you broadly at first and then talk a little bit more specifically about what the civil war did for thomas nast, because i think that it refined him in ways which were essential to his success later in life. So we will begin with the introduction and then move into three things that i think that the war really did for him. At lunchtime, i had a conversation with the attendee who observed that he found that
Kentucky university, as well as several years in the history departments Bates College and ucla. She finished her phd at ucla std she has spoken here on a numerous occasion, and spoke about euleulysses s. Grant. And now, fiona has written a book about thomas mast, the author of political cartoons published in 2013. It is my pleasure to welcome fiona. [ applause ] hi. I want to thank peter for invitinging me here, and ashley for all of the help she provided as i prepared to come and spend this hour with you. Im here to talk about thomas nas and what i want to do is to introduce him to you broadly at first and then talk a little bit more specifically about what the civil war did for thomas nast, because i think that it refined him in ways which were essential to his success later in life. So we will begin with the introduction and then move into three things that i think that the war really did for him. At lunchtime, i had a conversation with the attendee who observed that he found that
And cant blame the weather. We have high, thin clouds out there now ahead of a lot more rainfall across the new orleans and mississippi area. That will be moving closer to us tomorrow. We have all of election day where its comfortable. 65 in pinellas park, these temperatures are slightly cooler than yesterday but still really nice. 60 in dade city, 60 in north port. Afternoon high 82 degrees just above the average of Day Temperature Trend letting now when its going to get cooler. Its already early fortunately on the southbound side most of the traffic moves northbound for your morning commute. Now, were up to 9 minutes. Doesnt seem too bad thats just a few more minutes than it would typically take you to cross the bridge im going to zoom in. You can see where its orange thats where the crash is by the hump. By. Only the right lane is blocked, so 2 left lanes are open. You can see theyre working out there and thats got you kind of at a standstill just creeping by. Well keep an eye on th
Massachusetts say he impersonated an f. B. I. Agent to try to get into a couples home. Cherise leclerc is live in nashua and police dont think this was a ran doll act . A random act . No. Police believe that Gannon Leblanc targeted that couple finding out about them through his job, but they dont think the general public was in danger in this case. Last night a couple reporting to police that leblanc knocked on ei f. B. I. Agent looking for a wanted fugitive and then said he had to use their bathroom and asked to come inside. The couple then refused, they called police, officers say this wasnt a random crime. Police say besides the gun, knife, stun gun, rope, restraints and other items found in leblancs backpack, they also found the names and addresses of four credit union clients. Police were able to track court today. Thats what they said alerted them to the fact that it was strange, like why would an f. B. I. Person show up and ask to use the bathroom, like maybe you want to use the
To say since im not a can you synopsize your life in two sentences . I wanted you to just in some very brief way tell the audience what this book covers, and then i will delve in and well start through going into specifics, and then build from there. Well, thank you very much. First of all, its a great pleasure to be here with you, and to be here at the public library. So thank you very much. Youre welcome. I guess what i would say, my autobiography is really the strand of my life story because i was born in 1933 in the depression. My father was a Life Insurance salesman with i was the second of two boys in atlanta, but nobody was buying Life Insurance. So my father left atlanta, went to southwest georgia, and established the first black funeral home in blakely, georgia. But beyond that my father was the social activist because this is during the period of legally enforced segregation. And in southwest georgia in those years for blacks was not a very happy place, but my father was an a