Philadelphia. Originally thats what it was. But in the years the city of washington, d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary u. S. Capitol. This room serves for the house of representatives. The second floor of the building that well see in a moment was the United States senate. The house of representatives, each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population at our first census of about 3 3 4 million. We had six members of the house would sit in this room and eventually from 16 states. The story of the u. S. Capitol is the story of where were taking a new constitution and actually operating it, doing things like adding new states to the original 13. Also the bill of rights would become a part of our constitution while philadelphia was the capitol. In fact, secretary of state Thomas Jefferson would formally announce the amendments to the constitution by basically coming to congress here in this building and officially annou
Lincoln in 1983. And since then shes focused on Abraham Lincoln as her subject, and has made many, many, many paintings of different styles which she will talk about. She has also been very active. Being interviewed by cnn. Her paintings on historical society. Along with some other people you may have heard of. Salvatore dali. He was there as well. Norman, and robert. What so certainly in very, very good company, and so are they. In addition to all of this, has a gallery up there, linking it to art. She is also very active with the fellowship of pennsylvania, where she is on the board. And the Vice President of the fellowship of pennsylvania. Shes also very active in the lincoln form. A lot of us went to it in the last year. I think we had record turnout going to the lincoln form and were going to try to beat that record this year. But the foreman of ember. Wendy is involved in all of those. Tonight shes going to talk about her time, just want to talk about lincoln art. Maybe a little
Although originally it was a county courthouse of philadelphia. But in the years that washington, d. C. Was being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary u. S. Capital. This room is for the house of representatives. The second floor was the United States senate. The house of representatives, each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population around 3. 75 million. We had 106 members of the house he would sit in this room, and eventually from 16 states. The story of philadelphia as the u. S. Capital, we are taking the new constitution and doing things like adding new states to the original 13. Also the bill of rights would become a part of our constitution while philadelphia was the capital. In fact, secretary of state Thomas Jefferson would formally announce the amendments to the constitution by basically coming to congress here in this building and officially announcing that we have changed our constitution, which of course, the bill of
Philadelphia serves as our temporary u. S. Capital. This room is for the house of representatives. The second floor was the United States senate. The house of representatives, each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population around 3. 75 million. We had 106 members of the house he would sit in this room, and eventually from 16 states. The story of philadelphia as the u. S. Capital, we are taking the new constitution and doing things like adding new states to the original 13. Also the bill of rights would become a part of our constitution while philadelphia was the capital. In fact, secretary of state Thomas Jefferson would formally announce the amendments to the constitution by basically coming to congress here in this building and officially announcing that we have changed our constitution, which of course, the bill of rights is a huge part of our history and will be in the future a continuing talking point in our political life. But also
Athough originally it was county courthouse of philadelphia. But in the years that washington, d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary u. S. Capital. This room is for the house of representatives. The second floor was the United States senate. The house of representatives , each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. Around 3. 75ulation million. We had 106 members of the house he would sit in this room, and eventually from 16 states. The story of philadelphia as the u. S. Capital, we are taking the new constitution and doing things like adding new states to the original 13. Also the bill of rights would become a part of our constitution while philadelphia was the capital. In fact, secretary of state Thomas Jefferson would formally announce the amendments to the by basically coming to congress here in this building and officially announcing that we have changed our constitution, which of course, the bill of rights is a huge part of our