Questions, Colonial Williamsburg and monticello. Thomas Jeffersons Monticello recorded this program and provided the video. Good afternoon. My name is Brandon Dillard and im the manager of historic interpretation here at monticello. You might recognize my voice because in previous live streams im usually the guy behind the camera and im reading questions from our audience as they come in so that we can directly engage with you while were talking to our first person interpreter actor bill barker who portrays Thomas Jefferson. We wanted to do something a little bit different this week. Given the National Conversation and given events all around us, we know that 2020 has been a challenging year. Monticello has been closed for months. We reopen this weekend due to a Global Pandemic and in recent weeks in the United States, millions of people all over the country are actively fighting for equity against different form of racial injustice, whether its racially motivated Police Violence or ra
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Prevention and sustainable charcoal production. All of the sos are Available Online and of course you can share and discuss on africas Facebook Page and other social media platforms. Crime fighters tune in now. Ok. This week on world stories. China cracking down on buddhism. Nigeria bringing ballet to low income areas but we begin in bolivia where especially in the city love costs more and more people are falling victim to coronavirus and hospitals are dangerously close to being overloaded. In this car a 68 year old man has died as a result of covert 19 he never made it to hospital. Just a few hours earlier a friend and Family Members had tried to get him help at 5 medical centers but they were denied elizabeth all the hospitals are full we were sent to the hospitals in la porte dadda and in court to whom he stopped breathing when we were underway and thats why were here the dead mans sister says her goodbyes while the police examined the corpse. And officer hands over the death certif
Transportation but that is if you go bolivias currently in the Community Transmission phase santa cruz la paz and cochabamba are the worst affected regions the average age of death is about 75. 00 with more men dying than women. Rebeccas father died in his home because no hospital in an alto would admit him. We can do is bury him thats all we can do my fathers no longer with me. The stories of being shuttled from hospital to hospital are repeated every day during the pandemic and theres no end in sight cemeteries are almost full and funeral parlors have run out of coffins but this man complains that he had to say goodbye to a Family Member in a particularly painful way. They simply put him in an improvised box. You cant even barter with them about the price saying youre willing to pay for better but there is nothing else then no i. Family members arent even allowed to enter cemeteries and they have to say their final goodbyes from afar touching flowers at the 1st session of cars bringi
Part of your week. I would also like to thank Jared Hardesty for traveling across country to be with us tonight. I would like to thank cspan for filming us so that others who cant be with us tonight can see it at a later date. And thank you to the Abigail Adams Historical Society and their board of directors who offered us this wonderful opportunity to partner with them as we did last year with their speaker. Abigails rich history in this region inspires us every day. Thank you. The hingham Historical Society is focused like never before on its history to understand all voices. We currently are in the midst of a campaign for the Benjamin Lincoln house which is our effort to purchase the home of hinghams American Revolutionary war hero at 181 north street. Benjamin lincoln received the british sword of vendor at yorktown, or as we like to tell our visiting school children, thats Benjamin Lincoln on the white horse. Featured so prominently in trumbles painting in the rotunda of the u. S.