Historian and author Richard Norton smith is working on a new biography of gerald ford. We caught up with him at his homing in grand rapids home in grand rapids, michigan. A Baptist Missionary put down roots, and a year or two later on the east side a friend be frenchspeaking intend tour showed up who was eager to sell liquor to the indians to save their sols, and it their souls, and it set the pattern ps in some ways for the two faces of grand rapids, west side and east side. Both sides of the river banks more for most of the 19th and 20th century were covered over with factories, furniture factories, back when grand rapids was the furniture capital of the United States. Theyre gone now, but the city that has replaced them in many ways was seated by that building, the ford museum was seeded by that building, the ford museum, which was opened in 1981, located downtown at president fords insistence in the hope that it might, in fact, spark the beginnings of an urban renewal, a genuine u
Writer. Shes the kind of person that other writers just the door. Stacy schiff. And boy, does she know how to pick a good topic. Unbelievable. Even john stewart was interested in cleopatra. E is w she somehow brought to life color patrick in a way that nobody else had. And by the way, cleopatra, a lot of people who cleopatra for a long time. Of course, shes won so many prizes its fairly ridiculous. When she was a child she won the Pulitzer Prize for writing the iraq, about the wife of vladimir noble coughed. She was a runnerup for the pulitzer even earlier in 1995. When she comes back. You see how young she is, itsth super annoying for the rest of us writers. Ron chernow knows how to write a book himself said this about stacy. Even if forced to at gunpoint, stacy schiff would be incapable of writing a dull page for a lame sentence. And david mccullough, you know the guy they just always writes bestsellers is like stacy . His most recent, the wright brothers, i love what he said about h
He came to the president ial museum in 1996. Since that is up curator and shape over 70 including centennial of president mrs. Ford. The core exhibit in 1997 and 2016. He has a bachelors degree of history and science from oklahomas Baptist University where he served as adjunct professor teaching American History and ancient history. Donna welcome are you with us . I am thank you for having me. Excellent how are you doing . More importantly how is the staff . Are you guys reopen theres a lot of energy to get all of these museums reopen how are things there . We hope to share some the energy and soon. Library is in phase one. Some are returning and doing more on site. The museum continues at zero. The numbers are training our way. We hope in short order to be in a position we can reopen the doors to the public. We are excited because just this last weekend we were open in washington d. C. The headquarters were the rotunda on saturday and sunday were testing all the systems here in washin
Donald holloway is the curator , president ial museum. He came to the president ial museum in 1996. Since that is up curator and shape over 70 including centennial of president mrs. Ford. The core exhibit in 1997 and 2016. He has a bachelors degree of history and science from oklahomas Baptist University where he served as adjunct professor teaching American History and ancient history. Donna welcome are you with us . I am thank you for having me. Excellent how are you doing . More importantly how is the staff . Are you guys reopen theres a lot of energy to get all of these museums reopen how are things there . We hope to share some the energy and soon. Library is in phase one. Some are returning and doing more on site. The museum continues at zero. The numbers are training our way. We hope in short order to be in a position we can reopen the doors to the public. We are excited because just this last weekend we were open in washington d. C. The headquarters were the rotunda on saturday
Professor teaching American History and ancient history. Donna welcome are you with us . I am thank you for having me. Excellent how are you doing . More importantly how is the staff . Are you guys reopen theres a lot of energy to get all of these museums reopen how are things there . We hope to share some the energy and soon. Library is in phase one. Some are returning and doing more on site. The museum continues at zero. The numbers are training our way. We hope in short order to be in a position we can reopen the doors to the public. We are excited because just this last weekend we were open in washington d. C. The headquarters were the rotunda on saturday and sunday were testing all the systems here in washington and were eager as you say open the doors all laughing at the crowds back in. Because of our situation thats why we are doing the centennial we will learn and alisa virtually experience the president ial museum. We have great programs for us today. Im going to turn the scre