We have they spent here. Lets hear it for cspan. [applause] there is no better crow crowd ie washington, d. C. Metro area. All of the viewers of cspan i think are in this room right now. We love you and watching the regular viewers and we welcome everyone to cspan. But theres a couple of other things. First im going to tell you about the difference between history and destiny. This is true. I cannot believe that this is happening. But my father may he rest in peace was struck by lightning. His father, my grandfather, im not joking, was struck by lightning. That means dont stand next to me at rainstorms. [laughter] this last week i was telling my son listen, my dad was struck by lightning, his dad was struck by lightning and he was like my gosh, we could be struck by lightning. I was like we wont be but sure, you might be. This is true, my son, my family, my wife and my kids were taking a train from new york city here in washington, d. C. For this event and their train was struck by lig
Like all of suburbia, really expanded after world war ii because of the baby boom. And speaking of babies, every parent, including me, knows the frustration of trying to get your little one to smile at just the right moment for just the right photo. Well, were about to tell the story of a woman who turned that challenge into an art form. My name is lynda bannister. When my mother, constance, passed away in 2005, she left me more more than 100,000 baby photos. She was the most accomplished baby photographer of her day. Hi, lynda. Im jamie. Hi, jamie. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, too. You wrote me about your mom and something about babies. Yes. Are they here . Yes, they are. Please come in. Okay. Inside lyndas house is her strange inheritance left to her by her mother, baby photographer Constance Bannister. Youve basically put together a museum all about your mom and all these babies. In total, there are more than 100,000 baby pictures yes, 100,000 photos. There are many files ful
History and destiny. And we all know history, its what happens, but destiny is what must happen, this is true, i cannot believe this is happening by father was struck by lightning, his father, my grandfather, im not joking was struck by lightning, that means dont stand next to me in a rainstorm. Last week i was totally my son the story and telling him, my dad was struck by lightning, his dad was struck by lightning and hes like oh my gosh, we can be struck by lightning and as he said that i make you wont be but sure, yeah you might be, this is true, my son and my family, my wife or my kids were taking the amtrak train from new york city to here to washington, d. C. To this event and the train was struck by lightning, my son texted me and he said youre not going to believe what happened tonight. Destiny, thats what were witnessing, you will see them coming in late but this is destiny, a couple of things i will say that we cant do any rows in the country, first of all where is jim, jim s
[applause]. Getting a fun, one because youre in the front row and you are chaos people. Two, weve got cspan here lets hear it for cspan. [applause]. We live cspan. Washington dc metro area. All the viewers of cspan, i think are in this room right now. We love you. And the regular viewers as well. We welcome everyone to cspan. But theres a couple of other things. First i am going to tell you about the different between history and destiny. And we all know what history is of what happened. But destiny is what must happen. And this is true pretty cant believe this is happening. My father, he rested piece he was start by finding predict my father, was struck by lightning. The main still stand next to me in a rainstorm. It must become selling my son the story. And telling him, listen. My dad was struck by lightning, his dad was struck by lightning pretty so my gosh, we could be struck by lightning. As the senate, we wont but sure you might be. Tonight, and this is true. My son, and my wife
Im jamie colby, and today im on the road in lawrence, kansas, on my way to the university of kansas home of the jayhawks, one of the most storied teams in all of basketball. Now, kansas is actually not where the tale of this strange inheritance begins, but through a turn of events, it does wind up here. In 1939, my grandfather, dr. James naismith passed away and left us an artifact that dates back to 1891. He was my greatgrandfather, and what he left us was the magna carta of basketball. Naismiths. Jamie. Im jim. Good to meet you. Hi, jim. How are you . Jamie, im sean naismith. Great to meet you both. Likewise. I am interested to hear about your strange inheritance. Im awfully curious what the connection is to k. U. Wed love to show you. My greatgrandfather, dr. James naismith, started the first basketball teams here at k. U. [ whistle blows ] but time out lets reset the clock. The boy who would grow up to invent basketball, James Naismith, is born in ontario, canada, in 1861. At age 9