[inaudible conversations] okay. Hello, everyone. Were going to get started. I hope you can hear me okay. Hello. Good evening, everyone. When you have an event on one of the most miserable days of the year, you get very nervous. But its great to see so many people here tonight on what is a truly awful new york city evening. We didnt really worry too much about it. Can you hear me okay now . A little better . Mic check. Okay. We didnt worry too much about it because we have a great draw today. For those of you who dont know me, my name is eric kleinen berg, professor of sociology here at nyu and also the director of the institute for public knowledge. You are in the kind of annexed space of the institute for public knowledge. Were hosting this evenings event, and we do a lot of events like this. Were the part of nyu that tries to take ideas and intellectuals that might otherwise spend too much time merchandise the ivory tower and project them out into the world. So we really aim to gener
If the egos are getting in them way. Juddson and john seem to have dalliances with groupies and theyre married at the time. There are ways in which they mirror our ideal of rock musicians of the 1960s and 1970s and these internal struggles richmond the group apart. By and large, after the civil war, the hutchinson family singers, asa moves out west. The brothers founded hutchinson, minnesota, and then asa moves to colorado and john remains centered in lynn, massachusetts. Abby will remain in new york and in orange, new jersey, and new york city, and travel the world. Shell be in egypt and other places. She has married again ludlow patton, extraordinarily wealthy to whom she wed. And the hutchinsons wont be that social voice they were in the 1840s and 1850s and by and large theyll be what a lot of singer from the 1960s are today. They make money off of what they once were. Theyre hadbusinessessed. Theyre repeating old music. Going on stage as a relic that people want to remember the old
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Now . The water is going recede. The National Guard came and took control of the city, but what next . 80 of the city was covered in water. 110,000 homes in just new orleans were flooded. Around 20,000 businesses. Most of the schools were flooded. The electric system was practically destroyed and had to be rebill. The rest of utilities theres 250 billiongallons of water on the streets of new york excuse me new orleans, and the think about water is its really heavy, so it broke the streets. Broke the sewer pipes, broke the gas pipes, and you cant just turn on the gas if theres broken pipes everywhere. You had most of the citys buses destroyed. There were 24 street cars that flood it at a Million Dollars apiece, half the fire equipment, fire engines, quarter of the police vehicles, you had a the Police Headquarters was flooded. The criminal courts were flooded. Evidence rooms were flooded. Destroying evidence that was necessary to prosecutor people. The morgue was flooded there wasnt a w