A boarding house near the legislature building. And putnam came to him. Putnam was old enough to have been his father, came up to his room and said youve got to get up out of bed because were going to cast the vote today. And he said i cant. He said youve got to. So he did. Some people say he was carried in on a stretcher. I found no proof of that. In any event, he got to the legislature. He gave a powerful speech, and he voted. And the measure to introduce slavery into ohio and thus the whole Northwest Territory was defeated by one vote. [applause] and yet nobody has ever heard of his name. [applause] people have said to me, if you had put this in a novel, your editor would say no, this would never happen in real life. It did happen in real life. And we should know about that and know about him and hes the one who did more than anybody else to get education passed by the Legislature Later on providing School Public schooling public learning all the way through the university of ohio.
When i want to give up, he helps me go on. I know that nothing can be done perfectly at the first trial, he once wrote. I also know each day brings its middle quota of experiences, which, with honest intentions, will lead to perfection after a while. So thats just a little bit about how this remarkable structure came to be built all those years ago. A structure that has endured with some but notmuch alteration from that day to this. I thought id read you also a little bit from the book. As i mentioned in my talk, Emily Roebling washingtons wife was a truly remarkable woman. When he became very ill in the 1870s, the episode i just read to you was the beginning of his sickness. He got much, much sicker after that. In 1973 and 1875, he really thought that he would die. He didnt die. He remained in control of the bridge but emily was his extraordinary mn events is, helping him, going down to the Bridge Consulting with the other engineers, truck talking to the trustees, doing all the compli
And august, the next is pay pourhouse arena power house arena. A little bit about this book and erica wagner. As you can tell just from the backdrop here, this is a great topic for this setting in Brooklyn Bridge park. Not most great monuments dont dont inspire great rating but this is a good exception to that. From hard crane to many otherpots and writers and notably to the nonfiction writer, david mccullough, there have been really inspired writing on this subject, and erica wagner is right up there with all of those other writers. What she has done here with this biography of Washington Roebling is remind everyone although he whats son of a designer he was the person long with his wife who got it through, those dozen or so youres to the end and it was so years to the end and 15 years ago his father died, just up here in the heights behind you, and the young 32yearold took over and brilliantly brought it to life. A little bit about erica. She has written on many different topics. We
And august, the next is pay pourhouse arena power house arena. A little bit about this book and erica wagner. As you can tell just from the backdrop here, this is a great topic for this setting in Brooklyn Bridge park. Not most great monuments dont dont inspire great rating but this is a good exception to that. From hard crane to many otherpots and writers and notably to the nonfiction writer, david mccullough, there have been really inspired writing on this subject, and erica wagner is right up there with all of those other writers. What she has done here with this biography of Washington Roebling is remind everyone although he whats son of a designer he was the person long with his wife who got it through, those dozen or so youres to the end and it was so years to the end and 15 years ago his father died, just up here in the heights behind you, and the young 32yearold took over and brilliantly brought it to life. A little bit about erica. She has written on many different topics. We
He is best known throughout new york for the series of video walking tours presented by channel 13, including the Emmy Award Nominated shows 42nd street, broadway and harlem. He lectured at numerous vienna venues, including columbia, university of pennsylvania and smithsonian and Harvard Graduate School of planning and architecture. We always like to ask everyone to turn off cell phones and electronic beepers. Now lets give barry lewis a warm welcome. Thank you. [applause] professor lewis i dont need that. You know me. Im all over the stage. Actually it is interesting there it i had people talking to me about the lecture. Im not really talking about the the Brooklyn Bridge as much as brooklyn. New york would never admit it needed brooklyn but it needed it. Again, just in case people were not here, its a series of three lectures. I did the first one about a month ago. Remember new york and Staten Island becomes a premier city by the 1820s and 180s. 1830s. 60,000 in manhattan in 1800 and