The great privilege of representing virginias fourth congressional district. You know, virginia is home to so many incredible sites with deep historical cultural ecological and environmental significance for our state in our nation. Is our job to Work Together to be stewards of these areas and ensure the preservation for future generations so they can learn about our history and experience these wonderful areas firsthand. Among the many important sites throughout our state is the Great Dismal Swamp located in the Hampton Roads region of my district. I want to slow chris lilly whos on on this call with us. Hes doing a great job with the swamping and keeping it going. I always chuckled to myself when i think about Great Dismal Swamp because well, it is great. Its not nearly the million acres that it used to be about tenth of the size. Um while allegedly as a swamp is does not look like a swamp. If as you think about it nor does it dismal theyre doing a really great job of keeping it up k
I have the great privilege of representing virginias fourth congressional district. Virginia is home to so many incredible sites historical, cultural, ecological and environmental significance for the state and the nation. Its our job to Work Together to ensure the preservation or future generations and they can learn about our history and experience these wonderful areas firsthand. Among the many important is the swamp located in the region of my o district. Lily is on this call with us into doing a great job keeping it going. I always chuckle to myself when i mention this because whilee its great it isnt merely the acreage that used a to be. [inaudible] ngthey are doing a great job of keepingg it up and i couldnt be more proudno of them. What you might not know is it was once the home and refuge to be a generation of generation of africanamerican and indigenous populations to create a selfsustaining Community Taking away from the threat of enslavement. It also served as an economic p
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Wonderful person to introduce here. And the wonderful part about this is that this event has happened in such a circular synergistic cooperative and loving way i can tell you i first learned about the book the tentative agreement coming out through the pipeline. I saw dr. Miles. Yes, it just started like that. And here you are. Weve been talking on email. I love the fact that you are here. The nonfiction bookstore. In our book fair in the categories of history and Culture Health and wellbeing. Without any further ado i want to introduce you to stephen for with history of his very own i am proud to be introducing my friend and colleague as you will hear from what i tell you and what she will present to you. She is a fierce intellectual force. I want you to know that shes one of the nicest and warmest people that you will ever get to meet. She is an Author University teacher and public historian. With the native native american history. The story of a turkey family published in 2005 next
Welcome to the slavery and freedom exhibition. Im mary elliott. Im a Museum Specialist and cokurater of the slavery and freedom exhibition, which is one of three exhibitions here in this museum. We actually have three exhibitions in this gallery, and those exhibitions cover 15th century africa and europe all the way through today. Some of the things we cover include holding on to humanity under some of the most inhumane conditions. We look at the harsh reality of slavery and freedom and the resistance and survival of a people. We look at how africans and africanamericans shape the world as well as the nation. We look at how they were shaped by the landscape and shaped the landscape. Its important to point out that means socially, politically, economically, geographically, culturally and intellectually. Whats very important for people to understand is throughout this museum we look at these stories that are american stories. Theyre human stories and theyre told through the africanameric