She hates me nor saying that. During the symposium i find it to face a topic close to home here in alexandria. Katherine gruber is from the jamestown georgetown from the university of Mary Washington and from the college of william and mary. Shes contributed to the valley of permanent garleries in yorktown including liberty fever, a special exhibitusion careator including early virginia which i highly encourage you to go see before it closed in january and forgotten soldier, open now through march 22nd, 2020. Kate will present her topic. So please welcome my good friend kate gruber. Well good afternoon. So you have to get through me before we can get to happy hour so ill try to make that happen with as much alack ritity of possible. Mark twain said it best. Clothes make the man. Little men little to no influence onsite. And the more i like about people, the more i like my dog. Also, he dressed like this. [ laughter ] so why dont we go to the british author Robert Campbell who wrote in
very important because it s not about alexandria, virginia. it s about a period in history when the district of columbia included parts of what s now virginia. what i wanted to do was look at a 50 year time period and give a sense of what alexandria became part of the district of columbia, what went wrong and why it left. one the things i wanted to do with the book is give people a sense of what life was like in this time period. firefighting was very differently in this time period. crime was very different. slavery played a crucial role in the business world of this time period. politics were very different. i ve done lots of research on the politics. what was essentially democratic city. so i thought that was kind of interesting because today in the modern world this is a democratic town in what is essentially a republican state. from that since they re sort of a line you can look back to this time period and see there was a political division then that still exist today.
next 22 days? possibly. but more by family members. really? they would sway me. maybe along one of these walks? are you working her over? is that what s happening. now we will be. we weren t talking about that before. reporter: george carlyle is a retired printing and publishing ceo who now owns a building and real estate business in downtown portsmouth. for him, the choice is clear. it all starts with people having jobs and not just any job but good jobs. i think this election cycle offers people the biggest difference they ve ever faced. on one candidate you ve got way over here, the other is way over here. i m shocked that there s anybody who is undecided. you ve made up your mind. oh, yeah. oh, yeah. i made it up a long time ago. i m for mitt romney, and i worked in massachusetts back when he was with bain capital, and i have watched his career. i think, first of all, i m shocked that he wants the job.
notch just after midnight 280 days ago. hard to believe. now in the remaining three weeks of this campaign, new hampshire s four electoral votes could conceivably be the difference between victory and defeat. more on that shortly. first, the headlines. president obama and mitt romney are both off the campaign trail today getting ready for tuesday s second debate. it will be a town hall format. the president is promising to be more aggressive this time out. one of the likely topics to be discussed, the libya scandal. the obama team is still trying to do damage control from vice-president biden s debate comment last week that the president did not know american diplomats in libya had begged for more security prior to last month s attack, plus the initial and repeated statements tying the attack to that anti-islam video. in the meantime, health officials are broadening their warnings to doctors about the company linked to the deadly meningitis outbreak. they say other medicines
0 notch just after midnight 280 days ago. hard to believe. now in the remaining three weeks of this campaign, new hampshire s four electoral votes could conceivably be the difference between victory and defeat. more on that shortly. first, the headlines. president obama and mitt romney are both off the campaign trail today getting ready for tuesday s second debate. it will be a town hall format. the president is promising to be more aggressive this time out. one of the likely topics to be discussed, the libya scandal. the obama team is still trying to do damage control from vice-president biden s debate comment last week that the president did not know american diplomats in libya had begged for more security prior to last month s attack, plus the initial and repeated statements tying the attack to that anti-islam video. in the meantime, health officials are broadening their warnings to doctors about the company linked to the deadly meningitis outbreak. there were three status changes,