Foundation and enough to say the taxpayers Washington State as part of the building for the arts project. I looked all of our funders but especially of public funding for the arts. Im hoping this might be returned to town hall for some of you are familiar with this building but havent been back for a couple of years. During the time weve been renovating, this is still a soft launch for the space, different elements like signage and bar and cafe service have yet to come online so bear with us. September is the real formal launch of townhall with a big festival of programs we recently announced the you can see on our website town hall seattle. Org. Check us out. We are really happy to reopen and get going with the program especially in the sure which is a new space for us. Thank you for being our guinea pigs. I do know and a couple gifts that this is a little cold in here, we have adjusted the thermostats and are trying to make it more comfortable. Im sorry about that. In the meantime as
74 degrees here. Your wake up or catch shows mid 70s early, near 90 degrees this afternoon. If you see any rain today, it is before 9 00 or 10 00 a. M. , and after 6 00 p. M. , sandwiched in between dry air. Matt salemme is in news chopper 12. Matt we got a shot of the orange sunrise coming up over the lake, just about to peak out over some clouds as the sun makes its way into the sky right now. Still dry. We are still along highway 41 here, and things are looking good. Your travel times are in great shape. No delays across right now. Things are moving smoothly. If you are getting ready to leave the house, nothing to worry about, 10 minutes 94 eastbound into downtown. That is a look at the morning commute. Back to you. Ben breaking news now from overnight in milwaukee. A shooting downtown near old world third street. Man was shot on the street after an argument around 3 00 this morning. The victim is only identified as a 34yearold man. He flagged down an officer for help. He is now rec
Next, astoria by author john jacob. This an is hour and 14 minutes. Thank you powells books and thank you for being here. Normally i have a more formal presentation. I have a reading i show at readings. But tonight is a special night so i am going to do something different. And i want to tell stories a little bit more and, of course, i will do some readings. It is special we are at powells books, we are in oregon, astoria is nearby and we are also here with cspan so we have a national and oregon audience. I will tell stories and you may know some of them and may not some of the others. But i will start with how i came to this story. And actually, what is surprising about it is how this story was verywell known in its day. In 1836, when Washington Irving was commissioned by john John Jacob Astor to write these, irvings book also called astoria was a best seller in 1926. They have been forgotten now. I think some of you know about them. But in the National Consciousness they are largely
Why did he not give his a story in party . He did. He had essentially in what amounted to a blank check, like a blank check book. One of the things i write about is the irony. In the bottom of hells canyon in the winter starving. It brings to mind, you know, what money can do in certain circumstances or not do. Haunted have a blank check. This was, you know, another segment of this whole story. When he eventually got to a story he went off, the second supply ship finally arrived, a ship called the beaver three months after hunter arrived. Hundt went off on the beaver to etch rate up the coast of british you know, vancouver island. That ended up being its own fiasco. And he and the captain had the choice of returning to a story at in the winter when it was stormy are going to hawaii to fix is shipped. The captain convinced and to go to hawaii to fix the ship. And then he ended up in the South Pacific after that. He just wanders all over the place. And, you know, he finally shows up 15 m
Layed with 20 tons of goods and equipped with ors, sand and tow ropes the party left from winter camp on april 21, 1811 with sails set in a favorable wind. They hoped to reach the pacific in late summer or autumn. The second passage i am reading takes place as they are going up the river from their winter camp which was about 400 miles up river from st. Louis. And as i mentioned, they were to follow the lewis and clark trail that is going up the missouri, over the rockies and down the columbia. Thaws went up the missouri, the father they went the worse the stories got about the indians at the head water. The overland leader was a young new Jersey Business man named wilson price hunt who was known as a nice guy, serious minded, conscious, and liked to lead by c concensus but he had never been in the wilderness before. Astor knew that hunt would remain loyal to astor. But astor hired a lot of other scottish fur traders, french canadian voyagers. He was looking for the best and that happe