Only possible criticism is that they scheduled me right up against mr. Gwyn next door. I used to teach civil war history. Lots of books come out on the civil war but not many of them are as good as his book rebel yell. Of all of possible people to be scheduled up against i find that a little daunting coin. Thank you for being here. Is event must be full. Second i thank my host j. Ford was my host last night, took me to a wonderful dinner, the only possible qualm i have with that is took me after the authors reception, it was very late and was the pink house. They brought me a piece of fish that is bigger than a plate, the tailstock out on one end and there was so much food that i am stuff and i figure i have to speak. The only wise than i did was liquor too. I turned down the wine and liquor and dime stuff from that food. I was not so lucky at lunch. I had a wonderful pleasure of you probably know him. A wonderful daughter and couldnt restrain on of liquor, not being there with sunny.
I remember a senator to rows behind me miss lynch, i dont want to get in the way of your confirmation. Ill talk to dr. Holder. The senator about three rows behind me said, reverend al also moment. I said, yes, it is. He said, for he is present to put his hand on lincolns bible and dr. Kings bible, he said its an aweinspiring moment. I said, yes, it is. I said, dont be confused. He said, what do you mean . I said, they are two identical bibles. Same amount of books, same amount of verses, same amount of chapters. There wasnt no difference in the bibles. The difference was lincolns bible had been on the mental place in the white house. Heads of states and captains of industry and men of military used to look at that bible, but dr. Kings bible didnt come that way. Dr. Kings bible came through the backwoods of georgia through the buying you bayous of mississippi. If you open up the inside, when he went to jail, they would check his bible and then send it through the necessary institutional
Ill give you a brief history of the canal. Its the chesapeake and ohio canal. Does not reached to the Chesapeake Bay or go up to the ohio river, which was the intention of the canal when we started billing it in july 1828. We wanted to try to connect the Eastern Shore with what was considered the west back then. The west was ohio and pennsylvania, that area. We wanted to connect pittsburgh to the Chesapeake Bay. The eakpeak of the canal and the 1870s, if you were waiting at a loch, in 30 minutes there were 15 or 20 boats waiting. It was not a very reliable usage. A did not actually have a long time use. It was kind of broken. Did not work very well. So we went ahead and took his dream and build a canal next to the Potomac River so we could use that water source but have something that is more controlled and reliable compared to the Potomac River, because you took a boat over the falls you would not last very long. Well use this canal and ran it from georgetown all the way up to cumberl
Outlines the development of the intercoastal waterway. It was originally built for anybody and everybody; sailors a lot of sailboats, barges steamers. There were four principal investors in the waterway, and they were all key businessmen in st. Augustine. They included dr. John westcott who was a medical doctor, a minnologist a surveyor. He was everything. And, in fact, in 1855 he was surveyor general of whole state of florida. So when it came to picking out where the best parcels of land would be in florida dr. Westcott would know. They needed about 100,000 in capital. Dr. Westcott put in 49,000 which in 1881 was a huge sum of money, and the other three put in the balance 51,000. Back then in order to get a corporation or to get permission to do something, to do almost anything, you had to get a charter, a corporate charter from the state legislature. And in 1881 dr. Westcott was well known. It had always been his dream especially after having been surveyor general it had always been
Great falls tavern Visitors Center where we will take a boat ride to learn more about the chesapeake and the ohio canal. [foghorn] i would like to introduce myself. My name is cassondra and im a seasonal park ranger here at the chesapeake and ohio canal. I think we will cast off shortly. We are going to go ahead and start their start and start and give you a brief history here on the canal. All right, it is called the chesapeake and ohio canal, but it definitely starts at the Chesapeake Bay and rose up to the mouth of the ohio canal. When we told it, we wanted to connect to the Eastern Shore with what was considered the west back then. The west was up in ohio, pennsylvania, that area. We wanted to connect pittsburgh to the Chesapeake Bay. It was George Washingtons dream to use the Potomac River to transport goods and it was seen as a reasonable thing to do. He had any canal system go by using that you have any canal system built by using he had a canal system built while using a system