You know, you wouldnt want to have your chimney catch on fire. So the cooks was done outside. Youll see chests in there filled with we have one filled with tools an just other odds and ends. Youll see a crosscut saw on the wall which would have been an essential tool to have. Here on the settlement. The large logs that we have set up over there arebad, to demone how someone would split wood. By aprocess of using either an iron wedge or a big wooden wedge and they have made it would have looked like a giant wooden hammer. They are actually pretty heft beyond and they are called beatles, which means to strike or to hit. So you would use the beetle, drive it into the iron wedge, would which eventually split the log by length. And you could keep continue splitting it and splitting it to where you could get sizes big enough for a splitrail fence or the shakes or the shingles on the house. So it was an easier way of splitting your wood up. Weve got chunking in between. So and i believe it i
Otherwise, it would crack. And then you would have to continue to repair it. So you would want to do it in cooler weather. Thanks for visit Frontier Cultural Museum. We are open 362 days a year. Please come and visit us in stanton, virginia. This is the first of a twopart series on the Frontier Culture Museum. Part 2 explores life on the early american frontier. You can watch this and other american artifacts programs any time by visiting our website at cspan. Org history. Each week, american artifacts takes you to museums and Historic Places to learn what artifacts reveal about American History. Located in stanford, virginia, the Frontier Cultural Museum tells the story of the early american frontier. We visit early 19th century on houses in the Shenandoah Valley and hear interpreters study early life. We visit two farm houses and a school house. And learn how National Politics impacted this area from the civil war. This is the second of a twopart series. My name is joe herget. Im mar
Peter . Reporter hey, melissa. I like to look at this the way Silicon Valley looks at new entrants, they cull them disruptors in the technology space. Well we have a couple of disruptors out here in the political space in iowa, in the form of donald trump and Bernie Sanders, both trying to disrupt their parties, taking on more establishment candidates and establishment organizations. Trump in particular without a Big Organization here or a big ground game as they call it. So both sanders and trump in their closing hours here have been exhorting their followers, their supporters to get out and caucus tonight. It is critical for their victories here for them to get victories here in iowa. Here was trump today earlier in waterloo, iowa. We all say more people go out the better were going to do. I dont say me, i say we. Its a movement. It is we. You have got to go out. I kid when i say in bed, youre sick, doctor says you can to the leave, i dont care, get out of bed and caucus. Reporter we
Quorum call is quorum call quorum call quorum call quorum call the presiding officer tropical storm. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be terminated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent that we now proceed to a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for ten minutes each. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to h. R. 2366. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk h. R. 2366, an act to require the secretary of the treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the centennial of world war i. The presiding officer is there objection to proceeding to the measure . Without objection. Mr. Reid thank you, mr. President. I ask consent the bill be read a third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be laid on the table and that any statements relating to this bill appear at the appropriate place in the record. The presiding officer wit
From colorado heres bret baier. There was a famous saying in the 1800s, go west, young man. Millions took that advice hoping to find opportunity in the vast openness the west represented. A place they could build their lives in a way they saw fit and live the American Dream which is why we came out to colorado where many of those travelers ended up. Were here at the Capitol Building in denver. For a while the American Dream may be something that each citizen must discover in the 21st century. What the government does can have quite an effect on how easy or how hard it is to reach that dream. And with a close as can be senate race between democratic incumbent mark udal and challenger corey many are focused on an election that could strongly affect their future. American dream to me is have the opportunity and promise if you do the right things, you succeed and go. As a child robert gray, now 58, had the classic wish that millions of American Kids had before him. It was my dream to be a