Other biographical sketches, and that the Historical Context is not lost on us. Is a system of this amendment has not been advertised. Ive not had a piece about how to direct my energy. For those who have not had a chance yet, the Southern Cross what was defined as the Southern Confederate flag as known as the army of virginia, the current flag that is flying right now, im asking that it he raised be raised at signup and lowered at sundown on state holiday that memorializes the confederate soldier. In its observation, we have confederate Soldiers Memorial day. It is intrinsic in the definition, confederate memorial day. The tradition of more realization as memorialization that i in many others wish to observe is of longstanding, 148 years. Sometimes with great hardship. The first soldiers that were buried in that million back buried in magnolia the banks of the cooper or by force denied flowers. Those that gathered to memorialize were denied even the ability to display a confederate bu
The object that surround us here in this Beautiful Museum are lovingly and superbly conserved as if they were all made yesterday or teleported a regular from every age of the past into our present. Even in the greatest rural cemeteries like this one, the Allegheny Cemetery in pittsburgh, the passage and pressure of time are everywhere visible. The residues of past eras coat the graves and factory smoke and coal dust. The stone and metal erode. Slabs tilt and sometimes fall into the ground. By the way, this is not what every grade in the elegant what every grave in the Allegheny Cemetery looks like. Images dissolve before our eyes and the names of the dead, the whole reason for this above ground apparatus, even these often disappear. As Oliver Wendell holmes wrote about his local graveyard in cambridge, massachusetts it slowly disappears. The mosses creek, the gravestones the mosses creep, the gravestones lean. The decaying gravestones have age value. Triggering metaphysical ruminations
90 minute talk. Professor savage everyone in this room has probably had the experience of wandering through an older u. S. City and stumbling into the beguiling section of a rural cemetery. With its vast collection of gravestones and tombs and miniature temples interspersed among rolling hills, woods, and vales. Highly manipulated landscape is an Outdoor Museum in more ways than one. It was a striking difference. The objects that surround us here in this Beautiful Museum are lovingly and superbly conserved as if they were all made yesterday or teleported a miraculously from every age of the past into our present. But even in the greatest rural cemeteries like this one, the Allegheny Cemetery in pittsburgh, the passage and pressure of time are everywhere visible. The residues of past eras coat the graves and factory smoke and in factory smoke and coal dust. The stone and metal erode. Slabs tilt and sometimes fall into the ground. And, by the way, this is not what every grave in the Alle
Everyone invage this room has probably had the experience of wandering through an older u. S. City and stumbling into the beguiling section of a rural cemetery. With its vast collection of gravestones and tombs and miniature temples interspersed among rolling hills, woods, and dales. Dales. It is an Outdoor Museum in more ways than one. It was a striking difference. The object that surround us here in this Beautiful Museum are lovingly and superbly conserved as if they were all made yesterday or teleported a regular from every age of the past into our present. Even in the greatest rural cemeteries like this one, the Allegheny Cemetery in pittsburgh, the passage and pressure of time are everywhere visible. Coatesidues of past eras the graves and factory smoke and coal dust. The stone and metal erode. Sometimes fall into the ground. By the way, this is not what every grade in the elegant what every grave in the Allegheny Cemetery looks like. Images dissolve before our eyes and the names
Cspan for being with us tonight so that her remarks can be covered by the entire country. Thank you, cspan, and as always. [applause] in the remarks that she made at her installation as president that is a 5dollar cambridge word for inauguration doctor faust said these investments have yields we cannot predict and measure. Universities are stewards of living tradition. This resonated with me with my colleagues at the National Archives in washington because we like to think the same of our institution. We are focused on educational issues at all levels and civic leadership issues at all levels as a key role in our mission to serve the public. A little word on her background, doctor fausts background. She serves before her current post as the founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for advanced studies from 2001 to 2007. She has been held in a number of other academic posts. University of pennsylvania and others, radcliffe, and shes written six books while well received. Her other achie