Its my happy duty to introduce and moderate the second panel. Let me just begin by introducing myself briefly. Im bill galston. Delighted to be a small cog in in the Service Alliance machine that produced this meeting. I want to thank two people in particular. Belle sawhill for conceiving of this day and working tirelessly over a period of at least six months to bring it about. And also our president john allen for lending his vast experience and immense moral authority to our enterprise this morning. And i think its a sign that brookings is spiritually aligned with the National Service movement. Let me introduce the question this way. If National Service is the answer, whats the question . And we have heard and i think will hear three very different kinds of answers to that question. Its useful to keep them separate. The first has to do with service as an avenue of personal growth, the expansion and the deepening of character. The second has to do with actual good done for others, ser
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Didnt. Some of them, there was still mining going on up the valley, not the smelting. They would ship it out in ore cars probably to there was a smelter in washington and there were some this canada. So some of them would get work there, but most of them just waited and waited for the mines to reopen, and they didnt. Finally, many left. But many stayed, and maybe theyre involved with the ski industry here and the tourist industry. But the wages paid in those industries is so much less than the miners were paid. It really hurt the town a lot. I wanted to write a book about kellogg because i grew up here, and i began it as a novel about the labor strike that happened when i was a junior and senior in high school. And so i came back to interview people about this strike and find out more about it because i knew a lot about it because id worked for the lawyer who helped form the new union, but i learned i didnt know know everything. And the more i talked with people, the more i learned. An
A marble bust that a Texas woman bought for about $35 from a Goodwill store is temporarily on display at a San Antonio museum after experts determined it was a centuries-old sculpture missing from Germany since World War II