Palace. What you are looking at is actually the last visual remnants of the presidio. It was originally built in the 1720s and was the residence for the captain. What we are looking at today is a romanticized version of what this building would have been. Again, it was the military headquarters. During the days of who was one of our preservationists in worked verytonio hard when she recognized this building as being the original garrison and preserving it. On overtime ased well. So this is where it all began. A little oneroom house built for the captain. The original house was built with adobe bricks in 1722 based on a letter the governor wrote to the king in june of that year. Talked about 25,000 adobe bricks they needed to make and 40 additional laborers they needed to hire to build the compound. You can see behind the wall at the top there, the adobe brick. That is the original from 1722. The architect found this when they were doing the restoration and decided to open it up so peop
Railroad conductor, and union army scout during the civil war. Next, karen hill of the Harriet Tubman house talks about Harriet Tubmans lesserknown role as an activist in the Womens Suffrage Movement. The president Woodrow Wilson house hosts this conversation as part of a series commemorating the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote. Elizabeth welcome, good evening. My name is elizabeth carter, and i am the executive director at the Woodrow Wilson house. It is truly my pleasure to welcome you to the first of a series of speaking events that we are going to have on a suffrage series. The wilson house, if you have not been here before, is part of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Wilson and his wife edith lived in this house. They turned edith turned it over to the National Trust in 1961 on her death. And it has been lovingly cared for. And so we welcome you tonight. I wanted to tell you a little bit about how we started this speaker series. Our senior manager
[train sound] i have lived in this neighborhood for two years now. Im used to the sound of the elevated train. The kids play. Some people might think. Colorful. But when you live here, you call it something else. It does not look good, or feelgood, or smell good. Not when your body hurts. It is part of a new idea what is going on in other cities, all over the country. Here in the bronx, we call it the Neighborhood Health center. People from my neighborhood can come and have their sickness treated and their hurts made well. You are entering a new world of health care. It draws upon the same science and uses the same instruments and equipment that Health Services traditionally do. But yet in its philosophy and its practice, it is different in some startling and significant ways. , and itsew york counterparts in other American Cities and towns, this concept of care has profoundly affected both the Health Professional and the patient. Senior golardo never had a medical doctor before, at le
Of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Wilson and his wife edith lived in this house. They turned edith turned it over to the National Trust in 1961 on her death. And it has been lovingly cared for. And so we welcome you tonight. I wanted to tell you a little bit about how we started this suffrage speaker series. Our senior manager of collections and interpretation said to me this summer when i first started the job there is a commission on the suffrage, and i think we should go to that meeting. It is the womens Suffrage Centennial commission. And i said ok. I am going to go with you. We went down to the library of congress, and we sat at a big table. And they were about 20 women in the room, a big square table. There were another 20 women on the telephone. And everyone goes around and they are introducing themselves. And they are from the alice paul house, this commission and that commission. And, you know, from the National Portrait gallery. All these places. It comes aroun
Northern lights. Terry and the lives cookie scream restaurant has received its first miss last hour. And i see which is an exhibition on a house noir landscapes have inspired. People have been fascinated by the Northern Lights since well since people first saw them in the past the ghostly glow was regarded as mystical or even a sign of imminent disaster well lets hope thats not true because we know want to take a closer look at oral burrell its for that well take a trip to finland in fact to the north of the country to lapland this is an area of about one hundred thousand square kilometers and a good place to observe the Northern Lights were made up with for tug of war captures the. Magica celestial performances to do that he needs a bit of luck and a lot of patience. Northern lights a natural phenomenon that always casts a spell on people talking for marcus kili has spent countless nights in the ice cold finish region of lapland on his quest to capture them on camera. Northern lights