I was never really in that kind of position. Perhaps the opposite, trouble seemed to follow me wherever i went. I saw a lot of military mutinies , i served in iraq, served in sudan. None of which places would call hi am for american diplomacy. I had lived in iran. I went there as a diplomat. It was also about two and a half months before president carter decided to admit the deposed shaw and a few weeks after that a group of iranian militants stormed the epicene. Something vaguely like a student sit in. The and that the adults in the room would eventually get together and straighten it all out. Clearly that was not going to happen. About a month into these events, when i received a care package from home, with some clean andrwear and clean socks some books. You can see there was a message there. Length about 1000 pages. Telling me something, you are not going anywhere. War and peace is wonderful. Middlemarch has to be the most boring book in the english language. I since realized that
Toledo museum of art. The purpose really is to showcase the glass collection, which is one of the significant parts of our collection. It is actually almost a third of the overall collection here in toledo. It is also one of the larger collections of glass in the United States. And the city has a wonderful history of glass both in terms of the industrial contribution in toledo and in terms of what the museum presents. Ms. Mcmaster Edward Drummond libbey was our founder. And Edward Drummond libbey was the proprietor of the Libbey Glass Company. And it was through his ties at the Libbey Glass Company he made his fortune. Because he and his wife had no children, he left that fortune to the museum. He also gave us a large both glass collection and paintings collection. Edward drummond libbey, he was born in 1854. The new england Glass Company, which was the precursor to the Libbey Glass Company, started in 1818. Edward drummond libbeys father became the agent for the new england Glass Comp
Expanders. Continue the tour and learn more about world war ii battalion eight stations. Unday at 6 00. N american artifacts tv and American History tv on the road, with the support of the buckeye broadband cable partners. Visit notable locations. In about 15 minutes, the battle of Fallen Timbers and its native american removal in the west. Later, we learn how toledo became known as the glass capital of the world. We begin with the toledo war. The toledo war goes back to 1787 and a northwest ordinance that established the area that by state andcame establish in order that started at the bottom of Lake Michigan iran east to lake erie. The strip of land formed was called the toledo strip. It was formed by two different surveys and that was a wedgeshaped strip five miles knows theat we indiana border today. Eight miles wide by the time it reaches lake erie. It is a pie shaped, 454 square mile edge that became the toledo strip that ohio and michigan really started to wrangle over. Point bo
Including tenacity, early jamestown in virginia. Also the forgotten soldier, africanamericans and the revolution. Ate will present her topic please welcome my good friend kate gruber. Good afternoon. You have to get through me before we get to happy hour. I promise ill make that happen with as much alacrity as possible. Mark twain said it best, clothes make the man, naked people have little to no influence on society. Mark twain also said the more i learn about people, the more i like my dog, so maybe we shouldnt exactly take his word or it. Also he dressed like this. Why dont we go to the british author robert campbell, who wrote that no man is ignorant, the taelor is the one who makes our clothes. In some measure he makes himself. In short, the clothes make the man. In 18thcentury people had a relationship with their clothing. Role inrs who had a producing clothing, imprudent importing or selling. This is true for alexandria virginia on the eve of the revolution. They define themselv
Have built this economy of glass here in toledo. So we are standing in the glass pavilion, which is part of the Toledo Museum of art. The purpose really is to showcase the glass collection, which is one of the significant parts of our collection. It is actually almost a third of the overall collection here in toledo. It is also one of the larger collections of glass in the united states. And the city has a wonderful history of glass both in terms of the industrial contribution in toledo and in terms of what the museum presents. Ms. Mcmaster Edward Drummond libbey was our founder. And Edward Drummond libbey was the proprietor of the Libbey Glass Company. And it was through his ties at the Libbey Glass Company he made his fortune. Because he and his wife had no children, he left that fortune to the museum. He also gave us a large both glass collection and paintings collection. Edward drummond libbey, he was born in 1854. The new england Glass Company, which was the precursor to the Libbe