Land. She also talks about her research on the Point Reyes National seashore which used to be a Ranch Community before designated a National Park in 1960s. Her class is about an hour and ten minutes. So today, were going to be talking ant landscapes and preservation and sort of how we change the places your intention is not only understand the history of these protected spaces, but to make the process of preservation more visible. To make it more easier to understand the history of parks and how they have changed over time and sort of more importantly, why they have changed over time. Most of us when we think about preservation, we think about something saying the same. Yet perreservation changes thin. In the context of space here in the u. S. , theres this p presumption that Public Ownership is the best way to protect a landscape. We even see the miniseries by ken burns from a ways back on National Parks. It was called americas best idea, which is taken from a quote from wallace stign
Availability of the webbs to be able to travel as they wished, to go to their summer home, the to go to their summer home and down to new york city mayor , and to other areas around of the country. It was billed for shelburne, however, and is served Passenger Rail service up until 1953. When that stopped at that point, Passenger Rail service in this region. And it was then given to the museum for posteritys sake, to allow people to be able to see it. It is exhibited with much of the Railroad Memorabilia that is seen in these stations. Of the founders collection at the time. It was moved overland from shelburne here to the museum, which is not far away. It is probably a little less than a mile, one of the shortest moves for the building of the shelburne museum. This is a traveling Passenger Rail car at the grand isle, built in 1899 by the palace wagner car company just before it changed ownership to the Pullman Company at that time. The president of the Rutland Railroad, dr. William sew
And in introducing him i would like to repeat something that he said at the First National Republican Convention that he attended as a young man in 1884. He was part of a reform wing of the Republican Party, and they had an insurgent candidate to be temporary chair of the convention, taking on the candidacy of the Republican National committee. That candidate happened to be the africanamerican congressman from mississippi, john r. Lynch. Here is some of what our speaker said. It is now less than a quarter of a century since in this city, chicago, the Great Republican Party organized for victory and nominated Abraham Lincoln of illinois who broke the fetors of the slaves and rent them asunder forever. It is a fitting thing for us to choose to preside over this convention one of that race whose right to sit within these walls is due to the blood and the treasures so lavishly spent by the founders of the Republican Party. So, it is a great honor and pleasure to introduce the 26th presiden
Bands of some heavier snow across parts of south jersey where you can see kind of that pinkish color near hammonton, near medford lakes, Atlantic City, lbi, this is where were getting more moderate snow. Generally were looking at one to 3 inches of snow. So, its not a lot of snow, its the timing during the evening commute. Its affecting visibilities. You can see philadelphia and trenton visibility less than a mile. Atlantic city airport visibility less than a mile and a half but you can see how things are really clearing out. Reading visibility up to 8 miles so this is a very quick hit. The problem, though, temperatures have been stuck in the 20s all day long, so any flake is sticking on the roads. Its 25 in philadelphia. Trenton 23. Reading 22 and the north and west suburbs, temperatures will be dropping down into the teens tonight. So, do be careful with icy spots on the roads even after the snow ends. So, this is what to expect tonight. That snow will that continue clearing from the
Icy patches on the sidewalks and the roads. First alert chief meteorologist tammie souza is tracking the frigid conditions out there right now and the rebound in temperatures later. Tammie. We are going to have a nice rebound and it is bitterly cold out there. Were in the teens and 20s across the area. Live look across the city. We do have clear skies. Its cold though. Its pretty, but it is cold. Lets take a look at the wide map. Im not showing you omaha and rapid city for no reason at all, the reason im showing you is all of the warmth. Look 40 right now in omaha. 38 in denver. You know when its warmer out there and colder where we are all of that warmth is coming our way. Thats what were looking forward to. So as we scoot to the east, you can see right now 21 in philadelphia, 31 in pittsburgh. We do have a nice warmup on the way. And that warm weather is going to stay with us for much of the week ahead. So were going to get up above freezing and stay there i think all the way until t