Via chat. Kyle good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us on this new program were trying out. We are having a morning conversation over coffee. Im kyle dalton, membership and development coordinator. Jake im jake wynn. I am the director of interpretation for the National Museum of civil war medicine. And i am in washington, d. C. Kyle and im in frederick, maryland. We are happy to have you joining us bright and early. Today, we are talking about coffee. Ive got my cup of joe right here in my appropriately branded mug. I see you got yours. Jake im supporting james Mason George Mason university today. Kyle you support education. So my coffee, you can see a here, its really tasty. If you havent tried it, give it a shot. I made it with my french press with filtered water. Fresh ground is best because that releases the flavors. If you buy Ground Coffee, Ground Coffee loses its flavor. As soon as you grind it, it starts losing the flavor, so youve got to get the whole been, grind it your
Found the washington, everything Martha Washington did likewise. It was a business relationship, but not without affection. I think they had deep respect and affection for each other. She was as close to her hometown and she would get. She owned most of this whole block going back a couple of acres, which means she owned a huge chunk of what williamsburg was. There was a lot of tragedy in Martha Washingtons life. She lost her first husband. She was raised a rich woman, what that means an 18th century is now what it means today. When she marriage George Washington, she brings with her to mount for then 12 house slaves and that is really almost an unimaginable luxury. It would take her ten days to travel here to valley forge from mount vernon in her carriage with her slaves and this was a difficult journey. Marthas experience had prepared her to become the first first lady. Born in virginia in 1731, Martha Washington was 57 years old and 1789 when she and George Washington, once again, l
Test. Test. Test. test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac he was unwilling to go back to headquarters. The men of connecticut carrying for one of their own gently placed arnold on a litter and carried him to the field hospital. Gates never set foot on the field during the battle that day nor did lincoln the second in command. But gates was given the honor of having one that great battle and congress had mint add special coin and theres a wonderful painting of the surrender with gates accepting the surrender from the british. This was a great turning point in the revolution and because of that great victory, the french who had been sort of quietly deciding to come out openly and support the americans and it was because of them that we won. Once the french got into the war, the british realized they were going to have to pull back a bit in america because they had colonies and interests all over the world where the french would be competing against t
I would like to turn the program over to dr. Patrick spero executive director of the washing john president ial library. Pat joined mt. Vernon in june. Comes to us after serving as library and and director of the library and museum of the american phyllis affordable society in philadelphia to a library founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743 and homemore than 14 million pages of manual groups, including franklins personal papers. We are thrilled that p is here with us and leading the special library dedicated to the father of our country dr. Earned his b. A. From ph. D. From the university of pennsylvania. He is the author of several books including frontier country the politics of war in early pennsylvania. Frontier rebels the fight for independence in the american west. A winner of the winner of, the philadelphia atheneum literary award and a finalist for best book by the journal of the american revolution. His new book botany and betrayal, Andre Michaud Thomas Jefferson and the kentuck
Amy does it get more magical than alexandria around the holidays . The crews are busy all day. They are letting everyone know about the big event. In frigid temperatures. Going around and putting the signs up. At all the venues. The crews kept busy gearing up for first night alexandria. Now is when it gets intense. The executive director ann dorman has run the event for 17 years. People come from all over the world to visit d. C. In the holidays. This is the only thing to do for families on new years eve. We will put a bubble around alexandria and heat it. No. Its going to be cold. Its december 31 after all. Dressf most of the events will be indoors. No matter what the weather is. Cold or not im going to do it. Amy the crew has been in contact with the Alexandria Police department about the security. Specifically dealing with security in if finale. Alexandria is a Safe Community but they will be out in force. Amy bitter temperatures or not they are gearing up for a big night. I probabl