Im in seattle, headed toward the ballard neighborhood. Its an upscale area once known for sawmills and commercial fishing, and just down the road is one mans strange inheritance and a story with a hollywood ending. My names barry martin. I inherited a tiny, hundredyearold house from a little old lady. If there ever was a realestate niche, this is one. Hi, barry. Im jamie. Hi, jamie. Nice to meet you. I meet barry in front of this little house. Yep, this is it his strange inheritance. Its just 600 square feet, and its now surrounded by a huge Shopping Mall a mall that the unlikely heir in this story helped build. Who leaves this to somebody . Well, edith left it to me. Edith . Yep. Love to learn more. Okay. Come on. Barry explains that when this house was built over a hundred years ago, ballard, washington, was the shinglemill capital of the world, with 20 mills producing 3 million shingles a day. There was fishing on elliot bay there, and the shinglemill industry, all along shilshole a
To bequeath these shackles to my greatgreatgrandfather. Really . Is it a genuine piece of history . What does it feel like to hold them in your hands . I just go, wow. It is a wow. Im jamie colby, and im heading into buhl, idaho, today to meet a man with a really strange inheritance. Its a link to a figure out of the history books who remains as divisive as the day he was hanged for murder and treason. My name is john boling. In 2010, my mother died, leaving behind a very unusual relic that had been in the family for over 150 years. Hi, john. Im jamie. Hi, jamie. Welcome to beautiful, bucolic southern idaho. Thanks for having me. Well, we got a lot to talk about. Come on inside. John boling is a paramedic and the youngest of four children. Okay. Ladies first. Thank you. His strange inheritance comes from his moms side of the family a long line of congregationalist ministers dating back to the 1800s. But its not until johns 18 years old and his air force dad retires to oregon that he fi
Generations and minority groups. The emerging civil war blog hosted this event. It is about an hour and a half. We have a number of speakers tomorrow to speak about those specific legacies. Tonight its a night for you to ask your questions. What did the war mean . How do we still remember it . How is it still with us . Im going to toss out a couple of questions to our panel, let them answer, and then we will start taking questions from you in the audience to feed off some of the comments. Let me introduce our panelists tonight. Starting on the left of the table, chris white, a former historian with the national battlefield, a licensed battlefield guide at gettysburg. You can probably drop him on any field and he will tell you this regiment was right here and the shoe size of the colonel. [laughter] chris is also the emeritus editor of the emerging civil war book series. Please welcome chris white. To the right of him is a man that needs no introduction because ive introduced him once a
The civil war. He discusses topics such as, how intelligence was used during the war and why they are so few primary source documents on civil war era intelligence gathering. The Smithsonian Associates hosted this event. It is a little under two hours. He is a historian with the Central Intelligence agency. He joined the u. S. Government in 1986 as a staff historian at the army center of military history, where he served for 14 years before he joined the cia. During his time with the agency he also served in rotational assignments as deputy and chief historian at the National Reconnaissance office and at the office of director of National Intelligence. Dr. Laurie has taught at the American University and university of maryland at baltimore county. He specializes at the history of intelligence. He is the author of 40 articles on both military and intelligence history from the 19th century to the present. Please join me give you a warm welcome to dr. Clayton laurie. [applause] dr. Laurie
He is a historian with the Central Intelligence agency. He joined the u. S. Government in 1986 as a staff historian at the army center of military history, where he served for 14 years before he joined the cia. During his time with the agency he also served in rotational assignments as deputy and chief historian at the National Reconnaissance office and at the office of director of National Intelligence. Dr. Laurie has taught at the American University and university of maryland at baltimore county. He specializes at the history of intelligence. He is the author of 40 articles on both military and intelligence history from the 19th century to the present. Please join me give you a warm welcome to dr. Clayton laurie. [applause] dr. Laurie i would like to thank you all for coming here tonight and i would like to thank the smithsonian associates. Can you hear me in the back there . I wanted to point out as part of the introduction i am born and raised in iowa, so i come from a northern st