This is glenn tucker. Everyday he watches for the mailman. Good morning. How is glenn . Much better. Thats fine. I have a letter for him. Thanks. Mail for me . Yes, one for you. Your friends dont forget you when you are sick. No, but i wish i could go outdoors again. I like to go around with the mailman all day. All day, glenn . The mailman has a long day. He gets to the post office before 7 00. First, he picks up the mail that is ready for him. He brings it to his own worktable. Above the table, he has a case for sorting the mail. Our mailman is mr. Dolan. Other mailman are sorting the mail that they will deliver. Letters are most important, so mr. Dolan sorts them first. He puts the letters for each family in their own place. Now, mr. Dolan sorts the magazines and newspapers and packages. It takes about an hour to sort the morning mail. It must be done before 8 00. Mr. Dolan is on time. He is strapping his mail into bundles. He makes each bundle a size that is easy to handle. He take
Every minute of every day, one of americas 600 Railroad Companies rolls a train out of a terminal. Ever on the move over the greatest network of rails on the road, trains carry people, goods, and mail. Mail by rail helps tie together the business economy, the free press, and the human relations of this country. For a few pennies in postage, great industries, publishers, small businesses, and just plain people hire Postal Transportation Service on every railroad crisscrossing the united states. Of railwayundreds byt offices, built and owned the railroads, and vented to the bureau of transportation of the post office department. Manned by cars and hardworking transportation crews, they provide almost 500 million miles of valuable Service Every year. In addition to trains, today, Highway Post Offices help speed the mail to every corner of the country. These vehicles regularly travel established routes on fixed schedules. One or more clerks and a driver serve about 20 post offices twice a
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Longsuffering panelists for bearing with me as i arrived at a workable concept and title. I did have a very clear idea of what i wanted this symposium to be, a blend of wellknown speakers who would discuss what theyve learned about the study of the civil war over decadeslong careers, blended with excellent lesserknown speakers whom you should want well, know well and will want to know well and had them speak about their Exciting New Research and their contributions to civil war scholarship. And i finally stumbled upon a title and a gimmick, using the 2020, 2020 vision, 2020 hindsight, insight, cute idea, i guess. Providing both hindsight and insight into the study of the civil war. With that concept in mind, i want to introduce our new our first speaker, an obvious choice to lead off this conference. Jack davis has been one of the most prominent and accomplished civil war scholars for several generations really. He started as a boy. If i recall correctly, you can correct me if im wrong
I am the director of the Savoie Institute here at Gettysburg College. Im also a member of the History Department and its my pleasure to introduce our very first speaker of the morning, pete vermeil, here for you started i just once again show my appreciation for passion and for cspan, cspan and pc. And theyve been wonderful partners to Gettysburg College and the Civil War Institute. Were thrilled to have them here today as well. So our first speaker, pete familiar. Pete familiar, a graduate of Gettysburg College, he graduated in 1994. Hes gone on. Hes a history teacher at whos satanic Valley Regional High School in the falls village, connecticut. Pete has been in indispensable to our mission here at the Civil War Institute. He has been codirector of our High School Scholarship program. While you are enjoined talks and programs here, pete has helped shape a curriculum for our High School Scholarship winners. They have classes here. Of course. They have other special programs. He takes t