Every july for the past 25 years, the Gettysburg Anniversary Committee has hosted a civil war battle reenactment at history village depicting camp life. Next, we talk to reenactor is about Victorian Era marriage expectations and civil war brothels. My name is Cheryl Williams and i am portraying today at the reenactment, what it would have been like to be a victorian prostitute. At the time of the American Civil War which was smack in the middle of Victorian Era, there were very few choices for women. Women were, in essence, supposed to be the pillar of the household. The center of the family. Were talking about middle class women. Without any means of support, you have a few choices. You could be domestic servant, or you could work in a factory. At the time of the civil war, there was a spike in widowhood. All of a sudden, middle class women did not really have any means of support. We saw this more in the south than in the north because the war was fought mainly in the south. These wo
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Good morning; right . Good morning, everyone laughter thanks everybody for coming out it is not everyday that we get to no matter a new muni line let along a rail line on which the historic streetcars will be operating we couldnt be more excited to be out here we have a lot of folks without whom we wounded be here so a special day for muni and special day in the history of transit a great day for the city ill start by saying a lot of people have to work hard for a long time to make Something Like that happen but at the top of the lard is the mayor from the time he took office and really the decades in the city supporting infrastructure in supporting good Capital Planning the kinds of things to have p in place to get to a point like this the mayor is a supporter and couple of years ago we convened a task force that land to a 500 million bond that was approved last year this week he signed the city budget among many others great things that is bring to the city included service increase
Live every time we meet well start with a roll call and ill move around a couple of agenda items considering our attention because commissioner Vice President moshoyannis needs to leave earlier commissioner frost commissioner lee commissioner joseph commissioner Vice President moshoyannis commissioner caminong commissioner president tan we have quorum id like to move. Just ford al peps is absent 2450 weve heard hes planning on attending. Well note that in the interest of time were going to move item 5 and 6 up so item 6 will now become our second item after Public Comment this it is election of president and Vice President and after that item 5 which is hearing on permits will go ahead of the report from the executive director and our staff and then the approval of the minutes is four. Got you. All right. So ill start out with Public Comment any Public Comment on this item . This is your opportunity to speak on any business that related to the Entertainment Commission but that you do n
Investment Infrastructure Commission to the redevelopment agree for monday, august 4, 2015 welcome madam secretary call the first item the first order of business is item one roll call. Commissioners,. Please respond when your name is called commissioner mondejar commissioner singh is absent commissioner bustos madam chair rosales commissioner singh absent and all the other members are present the next order of business is item 2 announcements a the next regularly scheduled meeting of august 18th will be held at one p. M. At city hall in room 416 b announcements of the prohibitions of the sound providing phones please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room meeting room responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar soundproducing electronic devices. C announcement of time allocate for please be advised a members of the public has up to 3 minutes unless the commission adapts a shorter period on any item is it so strongly recomm