This was a true labor of love. I researched my topic for three years and spent a yearplus writing it. It is hummabling and gratifying to see it so well received, and to be following walter isakson, robert caro, and tony. [applause] i came to develop a strong interest in Paul Jennings when i was director of education at James Madisons month peelier in virginia. I was familiar with jennings memoir considered by the White House Historical association to be the first memoir of life in the white house. It was titled a colored mans rem innocences of James Madison, and as the title implies, its really more about the socalled great man than it was about the author himself. My interest was in Paul Jennings. I set out to discover elements of his own biography to uncover the circumstances behind the original publication of the memoir in 1865 and to find an interview living direct descendents. A slave in the white house, Paul Jennings and the madisons is the story of Paul Jennings unique journey f
Would have had to spare the burden of athlete ever every expense you would have to incur. This is the first mill that skinner had in skinnerville. Incredibly, it went up six months to the day of the flood. And holyoke . This is in holyoke, yes. And ultimately skinners mill turned into that. This was the largest silk mill under one roof in the world. In 1874, success of this scope was impossible to imagine. As was what it would take to achieve it. In 1874, skinner thought he was at the head of his game. He was 49, he had a wife and seven children, he had a village of about 200 people. This village had grown up around his silk mill that was named after him called skinnerville. He was at the head of the american silk trade at the time. He was bullish on the future, and he believed that silk in this country would become big business, which it did, but in 1874 he was thinking how can i expand my Business Today . How can i make it better today . And he uses it was the biggest room in the wor
That is true. He was the godfather for a whole new generation of 12 lawyers. And also tony of course went on to defend them and other things, when they were subjected to one police raid after the next. [inaudible] thats a good testament to tonys skills. And by the way, thats michael adjusted up, another great hero from seven cisco. A great photographer. Michael s. Bennett longtime photographer for the 49ers went back to the first days with joe walsh and montana. Made were beginning to see them again. So thank you, michael. [applause] i think we have time for a couple more. I just wanted to follow up on michels story about, michels companion and a group of lawyers. Michels companion terence hallahan organized most of the freedom riders, and i would come home at night. I had never heard anything like that and that was the first time i got the idea of segregated health care, and we would go over to their office at and there was vincent. Also willie brown. So one of the many positive thing
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