Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Its great to see the conversation, everyone having a good time. The food was wonderful. We welcome you again to this. Unch Panel Plenary session im going to introduce the moderator and the moderator will introduce the panelists. I am happy to introduce our panel moderator. Professor mcdowell is the professor of literary studies and the director of the College Institute for africanamerican studies at the university of virginia. She has been a member of the uva her booksnce 1987 and include studies of fiction by africanamerican women as well as numerous articles and in scholarly publications. Professor mcdowell has been extensively involved in editorial projects pertaining to africanamerican literature. Me in welcoming professor deborah mcdowell. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Thank you, marcus. Thank all of you for your presence. Thanks to the organizers for this wonderful event they have , with many more exciting panels to come i task, decidedly simple
It coincides with the American Civil War sesquicentennial. Anduns for five years changes each year to address that your of the war. Interesting aspect of our exhibit is the fact that we are one location that many of the events took place in these exact area. We have the very equipment used by the railroad in the civil war. We present a bottom up history of the b o railroad. We present the technologies and the people involved guarding, destroying, building, and operating the railroad during the civil war years. This would be an entire area of activity. There were paint shops, carpentry shops, car shops. They were casting the rail. There were machine shops. They were building bridge parts. Continuously loading things on trains. As the confederates would damage a section of track, or blow up a bridge, the repair crews would go out, pull out the damage, load it on a car and recycle it. I firmly believe that at the outbreak of the war, the first 90 days, the baltimore and Ohio Railroad was
That year of the war. The interesting aspect of the exhibit is the fact that we are on location, that many of the events that took place with the b o railroad were in this exact area. We have the very equipment used by the railroad during the civil war, and we present a bottom up history of the railroad during the civil war by presenting the technologies and the people that were involved with riding, guarding, destroying, building, and operating the railroad during the civil war years. This would be an entire area of activity. There were paint shops. There were carpentry shops, car shops. They were casting of rail. There were machine shops. They were building bridge parts, rails, continuously loading these things on trains. And, as the confederates would damage a section of track or blow up a bridge, the repair crews would go out. They would pull out damage. Theyd load it on the cars, bring it back here, and recycle it. I firmly believe that at the outbreak of the war, the first 90 day
Much of mr. Berrys last work took place here. Richard stamm is the author of the castle. We met our tour guide in the crypt. This is about 40 minutes. I am steve berry. I am here with. Richard stamm richard stamm. Has a cool job, he looks after this stuff in the building. A really interesting plays that is where it all started, the smithsonian was stored in by admin started by a man named james smithson. He was just a guy who had an interest in science at the time. Had 500,000 when he died and he left it to his nephew. His nephew had been married and had kids, life would be great, but he died childless. The provision said the money would go to washington, d. C. To found at the Smithsonian Institution for the increase and diffusion of knowledge. That is what the language says. Here is the meet part. Neat part. He had never set foot in america. Why did he leave a half Million Dollars to place he never set a foot in . To this day, nobody knows. The gas is he was somewhat bitter. The guest
Tour of castle spaces not open to the public with steve berry and curator Richard Stamm. Much of mr. Berrys latest work took place here. Richard stamm is the author of the castle. The illustrated history of the building. We met our tour guide in the crypt. This is about 40 minutes. I am steve berry. I am here with Richard Stamm Richard Stamm. Steve berry he has a cool job, he looks after this stuff in the building. This is a really interesting place where it all started. The smithsonian was started by a man named james smithson. He was just a guy who had an interest in science at the time. But he died and he had 500,000 when he died and he left it to his nephew. If his nephew had been married and had kids, life would be great, he would have kept the money. But he died childless. The provision said the money would go to washington, d. C. To found at the Smithsonian Institution for the increase and diffusion of knowledge. That is what the language says. Here is the really neat part. The