Evening, everybody. Welcome to the North Carolina museum of Natural Sciences. Thank you so much for coming out to tonights thank you for tuning in. If youre watching with us live online, weve a very special program for you tonight. We have just a whole stage full of brilliant people not including myself, of course. My name is chris smith. I work here at the museum of Natural Sciences as the coordinator for current programs that job title means that i get the pleasure and privilege of welcoming everybody into the museum. It also means that i get to really interesting people who are doing interesting out there in the realms of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, art as it relates to science, education, and even more. And so its always thrill to be here in the Museum Talking about science, nature, conservation, any of those great and fabulous topics that make this museum such a great resource and such a great to be, to my left, you can see these are the brilliant people that iv
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[laughter] so the next time we see it is 1888 and amy swisher harvey through the virginia agricultural tobacco exposition and with that antiquity section and by 1892 they look worked at the John Marshall house in those years previously and at this point they are back in the family home. They had a nephew that the call to the road was tucked away. Now at the space. Mrs. During the harvey sisters. And so its probably in there. And then in 1962 of doctor mason in the room with the enormous conservation effort over 600 hours of work. The Marshall House was transferred to the stewardship of the virginia antiquities and in 1913 the house was open to the public on that Opening Weekend the Star Attraction for the harvey sisters. When emily died in 1920 it was part of the permanent collection. What has been exhibited in various spots around the house generally shown in the mansion including the smithsonian 1967. For many years of display, exposure to late light and stress on the fibers by hangi
And let me tell you what dishonors our soldiers. Let me tell you what is a dishonor to their memory and their service. It is to fly that flag i want everybody to remember this, im talking to all of my colleagues who think we must keep it up there because of heritage. Oh how i wish how i wish robert e. Lee general lees portrait is in the senate, i wish he was here right now at this podium he would tell you all, it is an abomination for his flag to fly as a matter of fact his very flag was furled it was furled when they surrendered at appomattox and it has never been unfurled and to do so dishonors those who fought and died and it violates the terms of surrender. General lee, when it came time, and the cause was lost, he called everybody to come back work, be good citizens and build a country together. Many times he was called to start start a gorilla war. The flag is furled. Maintain your soldierly honor, go back and serve your country. Never, never, never let the flags fly again. And y
The u. S. Womens soccer team is here. I believe that we just won. The coasttocoast celebration of their victory continuing here in new york. Abby, carli, christine and the entire team, theyre the best of the best and before they make history one more time this morning, theyre joining us live on gma right now. And good morning america, you are looking live at the statehouse in Columbia South carolina where the Confederate Flag is come down. Welcome to our viewers he in the west. I want to pause for a moment to the rest of the country can enjoy a special report. Announcer this is an abc news special report. Now reporting, george stephanopoulos. And we are coming on the air right now for a moment of history. We are going to look live right now at the statehouse in Columbia South carolina where the Confederate Flag flying for more than 50 years at that statehouse is about to come down an honor guard will approach the flag poll, bring down the flag for the last time and be moved to a Milita