Definitely worth every penny. She is here today and afterwards she will answer it questions after the presentation. We even have a table setup for her here to answer more questions or even sign one of the books if you purchased one here today. All right, we are going to go ahead and get started here. Again, thank you for coming and thank you Charlotte Waisman for being here today. applause its great to be here with all of you and thank you for many of you who i know who are coming. Its good to have that smiling audience right in front of you. I was asked to talk about women of the west and i was told to top 45 minutes and take 15 minutes of questions. So i have a timer for myself and i will start it. I will stick to a script so that i can stick to time because those of you who know me know that i also could just talk forever and i dont want to do that now since you probably have other things to do as well today. We are having this filmed so it is very exciting. It will be on cspan thre
Welcome. We couldnt be more happy than you joining us here at the center and were happy there is a center for colorado womens history. Now im Michael Eriksson the Education Coordinator here and i love setting things up like this and we couldnt be more happy and honored to have charlotte waysman join us. Many of you know her and her partner here coauthor jill teigen wrote this book, beautiful book, that is worth every penny it is. Shes here and after shell answer all the questions after the presentation and have a table set up here to answer more questions or even sign one of the books if you purchase one here today. Were going to go ahead and get started here. Again, thank you for coming and thank you Charlotte Waisman for being here today. Thank you. Its great to be with all of you and thanks for many of you i know coming its good to have the smiling audience right in front of you. I was asked to talk about women of the west and i was told, you know, to talk 45 minutes and take 15 min
Here, and after, shell answer all of your questions after this presentation and well have a little table set up for her here to answer more questions or even sign one of the books if you purchase one here today. All right. Well, were going to go ahead and get started here. Again, thank you for coming and thank you, charlotte wasteman f for being here today. [ applause ] its great to be with all of you and thanks for many of you who nn coming. Its great to have that smiling audience right in front of you. I was asked to talk about women of the west and i was told, you know, to talk 45 minutes and take 15 minutes of questions. So i have a timer for myself, and i will start it. And i will stick to a script so that i can stick to time, because those of you who know me know that i also could just talk forever and i dont want to do that. Now, since you probably have other things to do as well today, we are having this filmed, so its very exciting. It will be on cspan3, i think. Yes, yes . Cs
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Later we visit downtown rapid city for a look at their collection of lifesize statues of our nations past president s. We begin our special feature with the story of Calvin Coolidge in the black hills. We are here in south dakotas black hills in Custer State Park and we are at the State Game Lodge which is a 1920s era building that was constructed can several years before Calvin Coolidge made his summer white house here in 1927 and he and the first lady stayed here for three months from june through september 1927 while they were on vacation. Calvin coolidge took office in 1923 when he was Vice President and Warren Harding died so he served as the last little bit of Warren Hardings term and was elected to his own term in 1924 and so he came to south dakota in 1927 when a lot of people were speculative would he or would he not run for another term in 1928 and it was widely expected that he would but he came here in 1927 because he was looking for a place to escape the oppressive summer