Welcome. Welcome to the september meeting of the Lincoln Group of the district of columbia. Im david j. Kent on the president of the Lincoln Group of district of columbia. And this is kind of a special night because not only is our first meeting since june, but we also have zoom. We have a video being recorded and this is my official book launch for my new book, lincoln the fire of genius. So thank you. I know a lot of people like when are coming in and i really appreciate that. Im going to give a talk tonight about about lincoln and the fire and basically look at well, i just let me look at just the the the subtitle because that i think that really describes the book. Its however ham lincolns commitment to science and Technology Helped modernize america. So thats what im going to talk about tonight. And just to give you a little background, im going to talk about, i guess start with the book is really kind of the kind of piece set out in the three different sections. The first is like
Welcome. Welcome to the september meeting of the Lincoln Group of the district of columbia. Im david j. Kent on the president of the Lincoln Group of district of columbia. And this is kind of a special night because not only is our first meeting since june, but we also have zoom. We have a video being recorded and this is my official book launch for my new book, lincoln the fire of genius. So thank you. I know a lot of people like when are coming in and i really appreciate that. Im going to give a talk tonight about about lincoln and the fire and basically look at well, i just let me look at just the the the subtitle because that i think that really describes the book. Its however ham lincolns commitment to science and Technology Helped modernize america. So thats what im going to talk about tonight. And just to give you a little background, im going to talk about, i guess start with the book is really kind of the kind of piece set out in the three different sections. The first is like
He came to the president ial museum in 1996. Since that is up curator and shape over 70 including centennial of president mrs. Ford. The core exhibit in 1997 and 2016. He has a bachelors degree of history and science from oklahomas Baptist University where he served as adjunct professor teaching American History and ancient history. Donna welcome are you with us . I am thank you for having me. Excellent how are you doing . More importantly how is the staff . Are you guys reopen theres a lot of energy to get all of these museums reopen how are things there . We hope to share some the energy and soon. Library is in phase one. Some are returning and doing more on site. The museum continues at zero. The numbers are training our way. We hope in short order to be in a position we can reopen the doors to the public. We are excited because just this last weekend we were open in washington d. C. The headquarters were the rotunda on saturday and sunday were testing all the systems here in washin
Donald holloway is the curator , president ial museum. He came to the president ial museum in 1996. Since that is up curator and shape over 70 including centennial of president mrs. Ford. The core exhibit in 1997 and 2016. He has a bachelors degree of history and science from oklahomas Baptist University where he served as adjunct professor teaching American History and ancient history. Donna welcome are you with us . I am thank you for having me. Excellent how are you doing . More importantly how is the staff . Are you guys reopen theres a lot of energy to get all of these museums reopen how are things there . We hope to share some the energy and soon. Library is in phase one. Some are returning and doing more on site. The museum continues at zero. The numbers are training our way. We hope in short order to be in a position we can reopen the doors to the public. We are excited because just this last weekend we were open in washington d. C. The headquarters were the rotunda on saturday
Professor teaching American History and ancient history. Donna welcome are you with us . I am thank you for having me. Excellent how are you doing . More importantly how is the staff . Are you guys reopen theres a lot of energy to get all of these museums reopen how are things there . We hope to share some the energy and soon. Library is in phase one. Some are returning and doing more on site. The museum continues at zero. The numbers are training our way. We hope in short order to be in a position we can reopen the doors to the public. We are excited because just this last weekend we were open in washington d. C. The headquarters were the rotunda on saturday and sunday were testing all the systems here in washington and were eager as you say open the doors all laughing at the crowds back in. Because of our situation thats why we are doing the centennial we will learn and alisa virtually experience the president ial museum. We have great programs for us today. Im going to turn the scre