Archivist at the hoover president ial library museum. Talk will be travels with dad, lous 1921 crosscountry trip. Craig thank you for that wonderful introduction. I am going to thank step everyone for tuning in and checking out this video. I am here to talk about lou henry hoover, one of my favorite ladies in history. I started learning about her 16 years ago when i began working at the hoover president ial library. Quite a woman before her time. Was born in waterloo, iowa, 1874. She was very close to her father, who was a bookkeeper at the First National bank. For most of her young life, she was hoping she could go into banking as well. They were extremely close until he passed away in 1928. She had a younger sister who was 1882. N june 30, her mother, florence, developed chronic bronchitis, which caused the family to move around, looking for an environment that was more conducive to her mothers health. First, they moved to shuttle rock, iowa. That did not work out and they moved back
Our first guest tonight is from the lincolns cottage, where Abraham Lincoln resided for over a quarter of his presidency. Situated on a hilltop in northwest washington, d. C. , president lincoln made some of his most critical decisions at lincolns cottage. Lincoln visited with winded Wounded Soldiers, spent time with self emancipated men, women and children and drafted the emancipation proclamation. Joan cummins is a public historian, artist and educator. She supports their public facing programming, particularly for students and teachers. She also works closely with one of their programs called students opposing slavery for young abolitionist working to combat human trafficking. She is the cohost of a podcast, called q and abe. Welcome to history happy hour. Joan thanks so much for having me. Im excited to be here and to share you all about lincolns experience during the summer of his presidency. He lived at the cottage for three summers while he was president. The summer of 1862, 186
Jerry welcome to our Third Thursday Program series. I am the president and ceo of the hoover president ial foundation. We are glad you are here with us today. Our partners for the Third Thursday Program are the hoover president ial library museum, hoover historic site, West Branch Public Library and the hoover president ial foundation. Todays speaker is craig wright. Craig is the supervising archivist at the hoover president ial library museum. Craigs talk will be travels with dad, lous 1921 crosscountry trip. Craig thank you for that wonderful introduction. Thank you to everyone for tuning in and checking out this video. I am here to talk about lou henry hoover, one of my favorite ladies in history. I started learning about her 16 years ago when i began working at the hoover president ial library. Quite a woman before her time. Lou henry was born in waterloo, iowa march 29, 1874. She was very close to her father, who was a bookkeeper at the First National bank. For most of her young l
The world is watching whats happening to them. What is next for the passengers who left the grand princess cruise ship and those still stuck on board at the port of oakland. And more campuses are closing as new cases of the virus surface. A lot happening and a lot changing tonight. We begin with the drastic measures in the bay areas most populated county. Its all about public safety, but its also about money. Small and big businesses and their employees will be feeling the pinch immediate. Terry mcsweeney is at the s. A. P. Center in san jose where the lights will be on but no fans will be allowed inside the arena, terry. Reporter yeah. County officials banning crowds larger than 1,000. They say the more tests they put out, the more positive results they got coming back in, the more cases theyre fighting, and they expect that to continue. This is going to really hurt businesses, big and small. Weve seen a rapid increase in cases not linked to travel or to known confirmed cases of covid
First there are 86 confirm cases of coronavirus across the bay area. Santa clara county still with the most cases at 43 people and the county is now confirming the first death in the bay area. And around the world the virus infected more than 113,000 people and more than 4,000 people have died. Much more ahead with you for Live Team Coverage. But first a live look outside for San Francisco and san jose. Meteorologist kari hall has been tracking the forecast. Its starting out nice and cool. Nice and cool. We are seeing rain getting close to the bay area but check out all the downpours happening around l. A. And san diego and were seeing some of that moisture coming far enough north to possibly bring us a few sprinkles but its still to the south of us now occurring around mon at that ray and approaching santa cruz. The potential of spotty, light showers coming at least into the south bay as we go into this afternoon and the evening hours. I think the south bay will have the highest chanc