Staff would say put your shirt on and go back out and walk with people. So even today we have an annual mule day parade, the first saturday of the year in columbia, tennessee. There might be 100,000 people there. I wear my red and black shirt and walk in the parade. The rule of thumb is walk in parades. If its the mule day parade, walk in the front. It affected everything about my political career. I dont think i would have been elected without it. Because it gave me a personality or a story that people paid attention to. It also came after i had lost a race. It was kind of like a pennance. It really put me in touch with people. If you stay in homes with people, you eat dinner around their table, you sleep in their beds, you go to their sons or daughterss softball games. You are not just making things up. You know the people that you are going to serve. During my eight years as governor, so many times if an issue came up about where weather to have stricter standards against criminals
Throughout its history. Pennsylvania has a very different setup. It proves to be too radical to work. And its only going to last about 17 years. Theyll have to redo it and go to the traditional governor, two houses of legislature setup. In 1776, each of these states is going to start itself over. Now the problem is, being all a little bit different, and one of my colleagues loves to talk about that today. We still have differences from state to state as far as speed limits and little rules for driving are going to be different. And so we still have some of those vestiges there. Now what do we have in the way of government . State governments, very much hold the cards. There is our Continental Congress. Now the articles of confederation sets the rules for the Continental Congress. Thats an idea that comes into this room with Benjamin Franklin. At the very beginning of the war, its an idea he dusted off from the 1750s during the french and indian war. This idea of confederation between t
To mark the 150th anniversary of the surrender of lee to grant april 9th, 1965, the National Parks service invited hundreds of experts to camp at the National Historic park in virginia. American history tv visited the park the learn about a reconstructed traveling blacksmith forge. When we stopped by, the black smith was just starting ale fire. My name is john. I live in springville, new york. This is a replica of the traveling for rajs that the artillery and cavalry would have with them. The ferriers would use the forge to reshoe the horses. I would like to tell people that our job back here is is very similar to a nascar pit crew. We were the nascar pit crew of the 1860s. Working with us would be carpenters that would repair the sides of the wagons. The wheelwrights would take care of the wheels. The coopers would work on fixing and repairing barrels. We have the leather workers and harness makers. And then of course the blacksmiths primary job is to repair items. The biggest job the
With expertise were called in to assist. Around 1 00 p. M. , the man climbed down. Chp tweeted this picture of him hugging his girlfriend. Chp says hell receive a mental psych evaluation and could face charges. He could face anywhere from resisting arrest to delaying, blocking traffic. Reporter meantime drivers in san leandro were still caught in traffic after a big rig overturned on a connector from northbound highway 880 to southbound highway 238. Chp says the big rig spilled a Hazardous Material resulting in a shelter in place at a cal trans building. The driver had minor injuries. Chris blocked off a storm drain before righting the overturned vehicle so in case of the second spill they would limit the spread of the hazardous acid. In san leandro, melanie woodrow, abc7 news. Two children in a car in car seats escaped this accident in san ramon. In the meantime we want to show you our drive time traffic. You can see that area we are talking about in red. That is still being affected
Moving here, as well as construction was a huge economic boom. As we go from agricultural to suburbia, one of the big contributing factors of that are these machines right here. So you have cooling, which this would have filled up with water and air would have been blown through it because in the desert its so dry that the addition of humidity would cool he air down. But it didnt do as good a job. Then you have this, which was brought to arizona via motorola. But it then made its way not just from that industrial use but then every home started having its own air conditioning as well. This really caused was one of the major factors in folks now moving to arizona. Because before that, it was really the weather that prevented folks from being here yearround. But with the addition of air conditioning, you now had the ability to control your own climate and your house. Arizona is a state that is very much still finding itself. Its a new state. 1912. We just celebrated, a few years ago, cen