Thats facing all of the Museum Managers and people that are responsible for generating, producing, and collecting objects that would likely go into a museum sitting such as this is how much do we need to keep . How many things do we need to have to tell the american story and its the great conundrum of our protection. There are those who believe that maybe the time has come to start reducing the amounts of things we collect and be more judicious in how we collect them and what we collect. Is it inappropriate to use representative samples, say at an archaeological site, where things are left at the Vietnam Veterans memorial. Do we need to keep everything . And there are those in the professional field that think we need to keep everything and theres others who think sampling is the more judicious and longterm strategy. Because there is a point of diminishing return. It costs money. There is an inherent cost to storing all of these objects. In many cases the costs can be prohibitive and
Baiting suit. How to useful body contour makeup to get the look you crave. In india, just in the middle of the himalayan foot hills. What a day to spend the dayton river. The guys are listening to the guy when to paddle and when to stop. As they come in here you can see where the river narrows a bit. Notorious rapid. Its a grade three rapid. Keep your eye on the boat in front of us. Get down, get down now heading to the middle of the rapids. Everybody has been tossed out of the boat. The boat gets pushed together. This guy jumps from one boat to the other. Thats the nirngs. You got to captu rescue the people youll put into. So many moving parts. People in the water floating away. Padles all over the place. How do you recover . Its that confusion that causes this situation because the camera pans around and we see this person out in the water. The guys are there excuse me come towards me. We see why. He starts paddling but getting nowhere fast. Now hes caught in the river and heading to
Original ceremony was held on may 10, 1869. Included on this ties a list of the dignitaries from that company, including leland stanford, and the big four are all marked there. Another thing you can see on this site is a connection with the resources that would have the twoilable to companies building the railroad. We have mocked up everything to make it as authentic as possible. If you look on the west side, you will see the cut ties. The Central Pacific had they cut all of their ties and brought them down from the mountain. The Union Pacific from the east had to hand cut their ties wherever they could find wood. Not a lot available in the area so they would split them and you can see them mocked up, how they would cut them and bring them out when they could. The Transcontinental Railroad was happening at the end of the victorian age as you are going into the industrial age. It was a perfect time for the United States. When that Transcontinental Railroad was complete, it made a major
Shaped the civil war and reconstruction, and the u. S. Dency focuses on president s and first ladies to learn about their politics, policies and legacies. All this month on American History tv on cspan three. To mark the centennial of the National Park service American History tv is featuring natural and Historic Sites across the country as recorded by cspans cities tour staff. We look at the history of the National Parks. The names engraved on this rock near where i marked my name and the day of the month and year. This morning were going to walk up pompeys national monument, talks a little about the site. Why is this play so important but only to the history of the United States but the history of yellowstone county, montana as well as the west in general. As we ascend pompeiis pillar, i want people to think about what it was like 200 years ago. Clark and his party are heading down the list on river hoping in planning to meet up with lewis. As they are coming down the river theyre ha
Here to america when he was 10 years old with his father who was a very famous architect. He mainly had worked just with his father up to the point in time when an architectural competition was announced for what became the arch that you see behind me. The competition was for Jefferson National expansion memorial. Which was a National Park service site founded by a president ial proclamation in 1935 to commemorate st. Louis role in the westward expansion of the United States. So 12 years after the founding of the park, an architectural competition was held to decide what the memorial itself would look like. And basically, they had about 90 acreoffs land to work with. 40 city blocks had been torn down, completely razed of all their original buildings to make way for the memorial of the st. Louis riverfront. Each architec who submitted a design proposal could really do whatever he or she wanted. It could be a huge sculpture, it could be a series of museum buildings. They did want one cen