Bad as we saw earlier in the afternoon where flooding is concerned taking a look. Right here, two or three blocks in that direction, two blocks down to the bay, two or three blocks from each corner where were standing right now is completely filled with water in the street. All it took was a combination of the high tide this afternoon and those gusty winds to push all of this water into the street. A wind driven storm surge combined with rain and sand went barrelling down the north end. Others mistakenly drove through the rising flood waters leaving them with no choice but to be bailed out by tow truck crews. Mom ma maria of Atlantic City says she had no choice but to be out and about. I have to take my son home because im at work. I have to drop him off and i have to go back to work and then i have to see how were going to get back home. This is the worst i ever seen out here. Reporter students in the chelsea neighborhood and texas Avenue School braved the gusty winds and heavy rain o
Welcome history 3 27, arts and history students, you know me. I am professor april masten. We are very fortunate today to have a guest lecturer, president of stony brook university, maurie mcinnis. Id like to tell you a bit about her the title of her lecture as you, conceit, the shadow of slavery in public life. This topic is relevance not only to our inquiry into how the arts can be researched as a window onto the past, but also how the affects the president , in the words of james baldwin, how history does not merely refer to the past history is literally present in all we do. The research for this lecture and the lecture itself was inspired by the students of the university of virginia who thought that the university wasnt adequately representing how the labor of the enslaved people helped to create this institution. Doctor mcguinness is a renowned scholar and cultural historian of the relationship between art and politics in the colonial south. The politics of slavery. She is an aw