With them. There is nothing he can do about that except to tell you what they are and how he got here. He started with charles dickens. He wrote a hypnotic book about dickens and mesmerism. A little joke there. [laughter] thank you. You will wake up eventually when fred comes out. In he wrote a biography of 1983, Thomas Carlyle. That was a finalist in the National Book critics circle. And for the pulitzer. He has written biographies of dickens, henry james, which would have been Interesting Research mark twain, john quincy , adams, abraham lincoln, and this great book he will be talking about tonight, lincoln and the abolitionists. Historians want to tell you what happened in the world and why it is important. Literary critics tell you about the power of words and how the great poets and rhetoricians did their best, they do it as well. For instance this is from the carlyle biography. One of the most famous librarians in history used to be the British Library in, and Thomas Carlyle woul
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
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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