Conversation by adam gopnik. My name is bo mendez, manager of program progressive communications. Brooklyn Historical Society. While we walk in the tort physical location i am still honored and have opposed to welcome you all to our virtual programs. We look forward to hopefully having you join us for more in the coming weeks. Before we get to the subject of two Nights Program i want to share a little bit about some things we have coming up, things to look forward to more virtual programs. We will be hosting next week will be hosting former new York State Attorney general kenneth philby shared her new book in the conversation with they will explore the connection between big money and impact on our democracy. That would be on august 11. Following week will be hosting Rick Perlstein in a conversation with Jeffrey Toobin discussing his new book which continues in the expiration we been doing with the recent history of the Republican Party in modern american conservatism. That will be aug
Places where the first president lived and worked. This is just under an hour. Our member of the society here at mount vernon. In september 1751, George Washington ordered a ship for his Brother Lawrence traveling to barbados. Arriving on november 2. As he traveled to barbados, he kept a detailed diary, which survives in the library of congress. And partnership with the university of virginia press, a new addition will be released of this journal. Readers will find it an excellent example of insight into a lost world. The Mount Vernon Ladies Association has been a leading supporter of efforts to transcribe and annotate all the papers of George Washington. The opening of the library in 2013, support for more scholarship was increased around the life and legacy of George Washington. This included support for the washington family papers, an effort to transcribe and annotate the papers of Martha Washington as well as George Washingtons parents, his relations, and the inheritor of mount ve
90minutes conversation. Allen is the third professor of the gettysburg college. He serves as the director of the studies program. He did his graduate work at the university of pennsylvania where he focused on the history of religion. He also holds a master of divinity degree. His roster of publications is so long that i am not going to even try to read them all to you. You can go to allenguelzo. Com and get a full accounting of not only his publications, but other salient elements of his biography. What i am going to do here is areion books i think especially pertinent to what we will be doing this afternoon. I will read them in order. First is called Abraham Lincoln, redeemer president. Published in 1998 and won the zes. T of the lincoln price emancipation proclamation published by simon schuster. It brought him his second again lincoln prize. Lincoln and douglas. Published in 2008. It did not win the lincoln prize. [laughter] the next came out from Oxford University press in 2012. Th
The aftermath of the tourist s cashew apple adventure was alarming. Waking up the next day, he found his face marred by severe burns, with his skin resembling a patchwork of painful blisters.
In a bizarre turn of events, a British tourist has reported to have suffered third-degree burns after eating an exotic fruit in Campeche, a Mexican port city on the Gulf of Mexico.Thomas Harold Watson was walking in a Mexico.