Take a tour of moons rare books to see Brigham Youngs copy of the book of mormon as well as an original copy of Thomas Paines common sense. I think like ive been collecting rare books for the past 30 years. I decided to relocate to provo after selling my bookshop in dallas which also sold new books and in the past 10 to 15 years sales of books have suffered with the abandoned ebooks and everything Going Digital but what i found is the interest in rare books has increased. In my shop right now there are about 1000 books but in my inventory there about 5000 books. I wrote two books through here and i specialize in four different areas. I specialized in rare bibles, bibles from the past 500 years. Being in your tie specialize in early mormon books, classics in literature and Early American History. One of the items i enjoy collecting our bibles or really just text that belong to wellknown historical figures and being from utah one of the more popular items that i like to show people his B
Mormons taking it. Thought it could be isolated from other mac and settlers so they wouldnt run other american settlers so they wouldnt run into the ideas of the east. Only does the gold rush bring 30,000 nonmormons through utah in the first three years of settlement, first five years of settlement, but 20,000 or so , theseamericans here stories became as difficult as the ones the mormons had experienced before. Misunderstanding, cultural alienation, violent conflict. Case, native americans are pushed out of their historical homeland. It becomes a difficult story to tell. Human beings have been here for a very long time. Provo wins when the first angloamerican settlers arrived with the intent to stay in 1849, there were already lots of people here. Native americans called this area home for hundreds, even thousands of years. The site of the largest concentration of native americans in what is now utah,. N fact the tip and get band of the utes were not far from where we are. They made t
Mr. Ambassador, in the run up to the recent u. S. China strategic and economic dialogue, there were a lot of press reports of the several issues that would be on the table. One of those included the ongoing solar panel dispute and resulting poly silicone tariffs from china. However in the fact sheets that came out, theres emphasis on steel and some of the other issues. But i saw no mention of the solar issue. I was just wondering if you could give us a status report on where that stands. Thank you. We did discuss it while i was there. Weve continued to discuss the issue. Its a long standing outstanding dispute. Its something we would like to try to find a way of settling and our discussions will continue. And ill see him in shanghai in a couple of weeks. A question over here in the back and then well take the one in the front. Hi. Ken biddler. This week president obama is going for the summit. Canada has not taken a position on the tpp. Its the only of 12 countries to have not stated w
With help from our Comcast Cable partners we will ask for the history of the city. Visit the Brigham Young University Museum of paleontology the hear about how one man changed the way dinosaur skeletal remains are displayed in museums. Mr. Fluhman the metal rods the support of the animal are hidden within the bounds. When you can hide the armature in the steel supports, the animal looks more alive. Later, see artifacts recovered from one of provos early structures in the story they tell about the lives of the towns first settlers. Mr. Scheetz when we look back at how our ancestors lived, the little bits and pieces that we uncovered tell that story. We begin the hour i taking a look at the settlement of provo and how it is changed over the years. Mr. Fluhman provo has a difficult early story. Of the big narrative of mormon settlement of the region is about coming into this place in aching at work even though earlier american and even british and other explorers never chose to settle her
Mr. Chairman, my fellow americans, my fellow democrats, i proudly accept the nomination of our party. [applause] Hubert Humphrey this moment, this moment is one of personal pride and gratification, yet one cannot help but reflect the deep sadness that we feel over the troubles which have erupted and the violence which have erupted regrettably and tragically in the streets of this great city. And for the personal injuries which have occurred. [applause] Hubert Humphrey surely, we have now learned the lessons that violence breeds counter violence , and it cannot be condoned of whatever the source. [applause] Hubert Humphrey i know that every delegate to this Convention Shares tonight my sorrow and my distress over these incidents. For just one moment in sober reflection and serious purpose, may we just quietly and , each in our own way, pray for our country and may we just share for a of those immortal words of the prayer of st. Francis, words which i think may help heal the wounds, ease