The weather is supposed to be nice before it turns over the weekend. Mostly sunny and breezy and we find out more in detail about the weather coming up. Me, right and garcia anhere we are in the new normalout it i w away for the family for a quick four day trip having a blast. I touched on this last week. Flipping on the old pictures of your phone. It seems like a year ago. Im thinking of news events that have been two months ago and it feels like three years ago. Im all about routine and speaking of phones we use them to stay connected and the liver than a halfhour of us. Every night we have a standing facetime call and some of us are eating dinner. My sister has a darling baby we love to gush over and these phones are more critical staying together because we cant just drive down and say a quick hello anymore expect when they do th uill keep their distance. We are getting used to this and the wonder social distancing will take a while. I dont think everyone is having a big hug party.
Good evening everyone. Can anyone hear me well . Good. I am mary mclaughlin, a program coded with the Smithsonian Associates and i like to welcome you to what is promised to be very perfect halloween evening on the crucible of the victorian surgery. Before we begin risley like us everyone to check their cell phones and make sure they are silenced. Im also like to let you know that this program is being filled by cspan to be aired at a later date, so if youve enjoyed tonight program and would like it again, or if you think your friend like to see it, you should check over the next few weeks cspan and see if it is up. Sometimes it takes a couple of weeks for them to run a show and other times it can be one or two months. So its worth checking periodically. It is my pleasure to introduce our speaker doctor lindsey fitzharris. She tells me as a little girl shes to drag her grandmother trump cemetery to cemetery so that she could hunt ghosts. So some thought she was obsessed with death from
Know that this program is being filmed by cspan to be aired at a later date, so if you enjoy tonights program and would like to see it again or if you think your friends would like to see it, we should check periodically over the next few weeks to cspan. Org and see if its up. Sometimes it takes a couple of weeks for them to run a show and other times it could be one or two months, so its worth checking periodically. It is my pleasure to introduce our speaker, dr. Lindsey fitzharris. Dr. Fitzharris tells me as a little girl she used to drag her grandmother fromet cemetery to cemetery so that she could hunt ghosts. Though some thought she was obsessed with death from an early age, she like ared to think she was simply fascinated with the t past and with the people who lived there. Thus began her lifelong on to session with history. On to session with history. Dr. Fitzharris received a doctorate in the fields of science, med kin and technology from the university of oxford. In 2010 she w
It is really a great conference, something that really needed to be done in the country. I just said to a couple of people that the best memory is to write it down. And so, this important history, the people on this panel have been writing it down so that it will be preserved, not just for us, but for the next generation and the next generation. One german historian said that history always must be revised. It must always be rewritten, because even we in this generation cannot write the final part of the story. Because new resources are coming up, new interpretations, and consequently we must keep working at the same topics and subtopics until we get it, and until we get it right. Frederick douglas visited tennessee three times before he died in 1895. He came in 1873, 1882, and in 1892, 3 years before he died. He did not come to memphis in 1892 because of the riots. And massacres that took place. He had visited chattanooga, knoxville, nashville, as he did on his 1882 tour. One of them
History always must be revised. It must always be rewritten, because even we in this generation cannot write the final part of the story. Because new resources are coming up, new interpretations, and consequently we must keep working at the same topics and subtopics until we get it, and till we get it right. Frederick douglas visited tennessee three times before he died in 1895. He came in 1873, 1882, and in 1892, 3 years before he died. He did not come to memphis in 1892 because of the riots. And massacres that took place. He visited chattanooga, knoxville, nashville, as he did on his 1882 tour. One of them asked douglas, what must we do after slavery . And better douglas said, Frederick Douglass said, we must learn or die. That is still true today. We have to learn our history, keep writing and rewriting it until we get it right. And we have to learn what has happened in the past in order to be able to govern ourselves in the present, and to plan for the future. So these three schola