Newsroom of the commemoration of the 9 11 terror attacks. It is still unbelievable. I was living in atlanta that morning and remember driving into work as we were all scrambling in on our lives looking for your Loved Ones, trying to make sure everybody is okay and your responsibilities are taken Care Of. And i heard it on the radio at that moment when the South Tower went down and i thought to myself, how many thousands of New Yorkers could there be on a sidewalk in new York City at that moment . Thankfully my thought was wrong. We lost so many inside the towers themselves and came to new york on that friday, September 14th and i was stationed at 6 00 a. M. At the corner the 34th Street and 10th avenue. It was the Gathering Center for the media. As far south as they would allow us to go and where all the volunteers would show up and they would go in trucks down the westside highway and spend 14 hours a day and come back with nothing. All the bodies were crushed in that debris. They tri
Tom keene is away and no doubt he would like to talk about this, the redhead blind across the bloomberg with continuing eu trade talks year coming from a spokesperson. Lisa, you asked about deadlines. According to the lease latest deadlines, what do we do about trade talks . Lisa i love that you say the tomo want to talk about this, the implication being that you will not. Thats a very, very not subtle subtext here as you talk about what is a deadline, after all. Jonathan he is of course are chief exit correspondent and he will be interested in the headlines, as will many in the u. K. They are rolling up continuing trade talks next year with the Prime Minister engaging with a phone call with the Commission President later on today. Thats the story for the markets. Otherwise not paying much attention to this whatsoever. The rest of the world has been focused on the headlines around the pandemic. Its a record high in the s p right now. Record high and the nasdaq. In the nasdaq we had eig
Of the Newyork Historical Society top of the articles in the joint publication. A civil war in 50. Objects they risks they discuss objects civil war technicality, includings will secret war codes. The new york Historical Society provided the video. So harold, weve been talking in the series about the power of objects being touchstones and historical event, being conduits to understanding the past. Its a thrill and extort a experience being historian in new york historian and working along these treasures and using them in my exhibitions. Lets talk about a second for the inspiration for this program a civil war in 50 objects. I can 50 objects tells such a sweeping . Story we so after cells that question often when we were whittling down the list and it was so much to choose from. I guess the way we did it as i recall, his first we discussed the medium of the object. We wanted, photographs paintings, objects, relics and then we wanted to represent every year of the civil war. First year
They said mr. President , what do you think, and he said, well, it reminds me of the story of the young woman who put on her stockings and she looked up and said, i think theres something in it. I dont know if they got this, you know, theres something in it, but they went to work immediately. They took that to be a yes. Yeah, thats a go, but its a good thing because the confederates are, you know, building this ship, so they rushed back to new york with a model, and they get to work on the actual ship. The image that sort of shows the launch of the monitor . Yeah. And its, you know, i feel a certain kinship to the monitor because it was built in my mothers ancestral home of green point. Theres still an Erickson Park there, my mother went to the monitor school when she was in 1921, its still there. Built in the 1890s, so its very much their town, but there was a big shed where ships were made, and it all converted today and night, 24 7 production of this ship with a very crew of workers
Technology. This conversation took place on line due to the coronavirus pandemic and the New York Historical society provided the video. Harold, weve been talking in this series about the power of objects to be touchstones of historical events, to be con duties for understanding the past. Its a thrill and an extraordinary experience to be a historian at New York Historical where i work alongside these treasures and use them in my exhibitions. Lets talk for a second about the inspiration for this program, the book civil war in 50 objects. How can 50 objects tell such a sweeping story . We used to ask ourselves that question often when we were whittling down the list and there was so much to choose from. The way we did it, as i recall, is first we discussed the medium of the object, we wanted photographs, paintings, documents, relics, and then we wanted to represent every year of the civil war. First the year leading up to it and then 1861, 2, 3, 4, 5. By the time we shifted through the