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cheers and applause its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, i pity the juul. And the stephen goes adventuring in new zealand. Plus, stephen welcomes daniel craig and lena waithe featuring jon batiste and stay human. Inor city, its steph col cheers and applause stephen come on hi oh, what a week come on come on please have a seat, everybody, thank you so much. Please sit down sit down, everybody thank you very much. Welcome to the late show. It is friday. You can feel it. You can feel it. And today congress got a muchneeded break from the impeachment hearings. Theyve gone home to celebrate thanksgiving, where im sure no one will argue about impeachment. Trump also got a break. Surprisingly, it was a smoke break, because today trump met with members of the vaping industry. Now, you might remember a while back, trump surprised everyone by announcing that he would be banning flavored ecigarettes. We have a problem in our country. Its a new problem. Its a problem nobody really thou
Year, 2019. Hes retired, 40 year as an editor and writer and newspaper and magazine industry some of those publications include usa today liberal both more sun the patriot news and your daily record in addition lot ron is edited National Magazines such as usa today sports hes been the editor in charge of the National Football League Coverage for usa today sports weekly, and he has managed the copy desk at harrisburg, when the newspaper want the Pulitzer Prize in 2012. Native to michigan, a graduate of Central Michigan university, and he has returned as a guest speaker to the schools to journalism classes, as part of the schools visiting professional series. Iran and currently lives in york, pennsylvania, and has been a Gettysburg Foundation guide at the George Spangler farms Field Hospital since it opened in 2018. Without any further introduction, i would like to present to you, run cricket. applause thank you, tanya. Okay, we are good. Kenny, thank you, thank you all for coming. I arg
Harrisburg when the paper won the Pulitzer Prize in 2012. Ron is a native of michigan, a graduate of Central Michigan university, and has returned as a guest speaker as part of the schools hearst visiting professional series. Ron lives in york, pennsylvania and has been a Gettysburg Foundation guide since 2013. Without further introduction i would like to present to you ron kirkwood. [applause] mr. Kirkwood thank you. Ok, we are good. Tammy, thank you. Thank you all for coming. I argue in my book that the george and Elizabeth Spangler farm is the most important farm in the battle of gettysburg. Im going to address that first, then we will go into other factors, like the two hospitals that were on this property, and we are going to talk about the spanglers. To help me make my case union , line, army of the potomac line, day three. There is the George Spangler farm. It is close to the line. Everywhere it is close to the line. It is huge, 166 acres, it dominates behind the lines. Rhodes.
Off north carolina. This was part of a seminar the. Without further ado, let me introduce our first speake he has received many awards including the National Trust for Historic Preservations president s award for Historic Preservation and many, many others. His talk today is the ship that saved the nation, the monitors recovery and conservation. Please welcome mr. Quarstein. [ applause ] thank you. Well, you know, on march 8th, 1862 it was a terrible day for the union. In fact, it turned the tide, it appeared in favor of the confederacy when the css virginia emerged from the Elizabeth River and sunk two major union warships, the cumberland and the congress. The union navy was in disarray. People were in the white house looking out the curtains, down the potomac, fearing that this super weapon, as they would have called the merrimack, as southerners called the virginia, would be there soon and the war would finally end in a confederate victory. But all was to change as if magic, because