Breweries, maybe some of the smaller operations, and the Pearl Brewery kind of was born of that. The reason they came up with pearl was a german brewer saw in his beer the bubbles going up and said, those look like pearls, and so it became Pearl Brewery. Pearl brewery was in san antonio all the way until 2001, from the late 1800s until 2001, and then it fell into disrepair a little bit and was not around anymore and now it has been reborn. A billionaire named kit goldsbury who wanted to invest in his city came in and just revamped this entire place. One of the great things about it is it kind of represents a very interesting part of what san antonio has become, and that is a commitment to sustainability. When you look at some of the Different Things around here, just the items, the sculptures, all the different stuff, when they tore apart the old brewery and they did all the different kind of things they were doing to kind of build this place back up, they took a lot of those old widge
Many aspects of daily life. That includes food, socializing and science. The u. S. Capital Historical Society provided video of this event. Today is the inaugural scholar series. We thought we would start with our own. Hes really one of the nations finest scholars on the First Congress. And the early period in the development of our country. We have been fortunate to have chuck as part of the u. S. Cbs society team for five years prior. Prior to that he was working on the First Congress program. He has put together a very imaginative presentation using primary sources like letters of the times. Where people wrote to one another about the science, the food, the culture and the back and forth that made early days in washington. That being said, we invite you to stay with us for your questions and answers. Chuck will do his presentation and i will work through the questions. We have a couple of questions. We may be able to do a couple of questions during the presentation, but the majority
Working on the First Congress program. He has put together a very imaginative presentation using primary sources, letters of the time, where people wrote to one another about science, food, culture, and the back and forth that made early days in washington. We invite you to stay with us for questions and answers. Chuck will do his presentation and i will work through the questions. We have a couple of questions we may be able to do during the presentation. The majority of the questions will be at the conclusion of the presentation. Please put your questions in and i will try to work them through both at the end and as we move forward. Thank you very much for the work you have done to put this together and welcome to the platform. Chuck welcome, everyone. I am really happy to pull this off. Imaginative tell an story. So let your minds go. This is not a straightforward narrative. We will touch a lot of points. The point of departure for me came with the publication of my book. It is my b
Congress and that early period in the development of our country. We have been fortunate to have chuck as part of the uscs society team for five years, prior to that he was 27 years working on the First Congress program. And so he has put together a very imaginative presentation using primary sources, letters of the times, where people wrote to one another about the science, the food, the culture, and the back and forth that made early days in washington. That being said, we invite you to stay with us for your questions and answers. Chuck will do his presentation, and i will work through the questions and we have a couple of questions, we may be able to do a couple of questions during the presentation but the majority of our questions will be at the conclusion of the presentation. So please put your questions in and ill try to work them through both at the end and as we move forward. Thank you very much, chuck, for the work youve done to put this together and welcome to the platform. W
Feeling that this was unfinished business. Lbj deserves all the credit that he later claimed for piloting, navigating, guiding the civil rights bill to passage in july of 1964 when he signs it. But i think kennedy deserves credit as the kennedyjohnson bill. It had cleared the house of representatives by the day jfk was killed. Jfk had made alliance not with democrats but with midwestern republicans. He had reached out to them, and they were supporting it, particularly in the senate. He had gone to others. I think it would have gotten through. Eventually, it might have taken until 1965, kennedy would have gotten the civil rights act. But full credit to Lyndon Johnson for doing it the way he did, but i dont think he could have done it with the same success without the death of jfk. Thank you so much for joining us. The book is two days in june. It is a terrific read. I learned so much about it. By the way, it is beautifully written which is an extra bonus for people who like to read book