Good evening, everyone. This is where you say good evening back. That is good. I want to thank you for joining us this evening. I am the president of George Washington mount vernon. It is my pleasure to welcome you for this installment, we are honored to have flora fraser with us this evening, she will discuss her book the washingtons, george and martha joined by french yet, crowned by love. Is a fullscale portraits of the marriage of the father and mother of our country and of the struggle for independence that he lead. Already the book has been hailed as a major work on American History, an important contribution to understanding the julies, complexitie , comp, intricacies of the union, this bill is the anniversary of the lecture series. [applause] how about that . [applause] established in 2006, the eighteenth region of the mount vernon ladies association. Gay and her husband stanley are with us, many of you know gay well but i would like you to ask you to stand and be recognized. [
Good evening everyone this is where you say good evening back. Thats good. I want to thank you all for joining us this evening. Its my pleasure to welcome you all here for this installment of the lecture. We are honored to have flora flora fraser with us this evening. She will discuss her book, the washingtons, george and martha. Joined by friendship and crown by love. Its a portrait of the father and mother of our country and of the struggle for independence that he led. Already the book has been hailed as a major work on American History, an important contribution to understanding the joys, complexities and intricacies of the union of our greatest founding father and the nations very first lady. 2015 marks the tenth year of the lecture series. Established yeah, how about that [applause]. Established in 2006, the series honors her. Id like her to stand and be recognized. [applause]. They told me when i took the job that when you became came to america you might not hear everyone but i
Guy is a narrow scientist at umc who also is an advisor to the nfl getting the sensors used in professional football for a period of years now and just a couple weeks ago the nfl announced again that they are not going to use them. The reality is that they did use them they would lead up a lot of information about the amount of force and generated on the field and how many times people are hit in the head. Sort of a nobrainer. The league doesnt seem to want it and the players dont want it because they dont want the information to be used in contract negotiations. So where does that leave you if you want to get to the bottom. They took a college game two seasons ago and theres a presence of protein, a marker in the blood. And they found in a game with no concussions, no diagnose concussions, 70 of the players hit the marker, which is a precursor to longterm injury. It is a protein that gets on the brain. My name is roy foster and your just moved here from texas. I was an athletic traine
Particularly i began i was attracted to someone what a great influence on dickens. Author of thee french resolution revolution, etc. Here wasense that someone who was a victorian but inidences, a personal sort regard to the kind of authoritarian and commentary and take your he was. I just got entranced by the ministry of this man who was witty. A much more elaborate prose writer. Mort difficult to fathom. Someone who is basically out of fashion not only in the general reading world but the academic world. I thought he was someone who attracted me and i wanted to write narrative as opposed to writing analytic academic material. I wanted to reach a wider audience. There was no modern biography that i think represented him well. Cargileyear did you do carlyle . The divisions of my own life m any kind of 1970s. I have you a Charles Dickens in 1979. What really doing back then the . I was a professor at queens college. I was in very distantly now at the torilla nest, a recession in british
My comment was that i might have been better off if he was dead. The experience of interviewing him was very difficult. We had a bit of a falling out after the book was finished. I do not really mean that. That was gore vidal, of course. An eminent american. Not quite of the significance of mark twain or charles dickens. Still, distinctive american and a distinctive character. A man of of of deep and conflicting tendencies. He can be generous and loyal. He could be backbiting and demanding. A controlling personality. Watch a little of this. Lets give people a chance to see what he looks like. I had the distinct feeling that we live in a revolutionary time. The rich are becoming richer. The hatred of those inside the beltway for those outside is creating a true hatred on the part of the many for the few who govern or appear to do so. The decisionmakers and paymasters are beyond our reach in board rooms of the world. That was in 1991. What did you see there . I saw him at his witty and p