Above the televised president ial debate tonight. So we think weve got the best thing going here and were glad you chose to be with us tonight. Id like to acknowledge some very important people who are with us this evening. Matts parents tim and debbie costello, who are here with us tonight and his wife kristin, who is here tonight. And, of course, in my book the two most important costellos are sophia and theodore and theyre at home, i guess. They can come next time. Theyre matt and kristins wonderful little kids. I would also like to welcome the members of our board of directors who are with us tonight. We have ann stock and lets give ann a hand. Yes. And bob mcgee. [ applause ] and we have two that are in route, Anita Mcbride and gail west. Both will be a little bit late but will be with us here tonight. Steve strong is the national cochair of our white house our National Council of white house history, which he and his wife andrea are here with us tonight. This is one of our most i
Acres. The significance of that he was involved, partially involved in the creation of the original president s park, a tourist site 12 myles from here that was open from 2004 until 2010. That was the home of all 42 of these sculptures. He was actually also instrumental and commissioned in 2010 to come take these sculptures when that park went bankrupt and put them in his stone crusher. So he did not have the heart to do that, thank god. And spent a considerable amount of his own money to transport every one of these one by one from that bankrupt, nonfunctional park 12 miles from here to his property here as a way to store them temporarily until he figured out what he wanted to do with them. The sculptor of all of these is a gentleman by the named of david adickes. Not in the home attic but adickes. And he, if hes still alive, is probably in his early 90s. He was a painter and artist out of houston who was visiting friends in canada and was coming home by way of Mount Rushmore and beca
Here is the recent program. Amy montana is a wonderful place for discovery of dinosaur fossils not only because of the rocks we have and are present in the state but also because they are exposed. In almost the entire eastern portion of the state is exposed rock from the cretaceous time, which preserved a lot of dinosaurs. The most famous formation for dinosaurs preserves the last of the dinosaurs before they became extinct at the end of the mesozoic era. We have a lot of formation here in the state and that is where we go to find triceratops and trex. Two of so two of the most iconic are here and a tan. In montana. The first discovery of fossils in montana go back to the native american days. These bones have been eroding out of these areas forever. Case were discovered at the turn of the century in the late late 1900s late 1800s. A lot of those fossils went back to the east coast to large institutions like the carnegie or the smithsonian. It wasnt until the late 70s that we found a s
I would like to welcome our friends who are joining us by cspan and those who are here with us tonight who are the really smart people in ashington because you have chosen to be above the nationals game and about the president ial debate. Were glad you chose to be with us tonight. Id like to acknowledge some very important people who are with us this evening. Matts parents tim and Debbie Costello who are here with us tonight and his wife kristen who is here tonight. And of course, in my book, the two most important costello are sofia and theodore. And theyre at hope. They can come next time. Theyre matt and kristens wonderful little kids. Id also like to welcome the members of our board of director who are with us tonight. We have anne stock. Give anne a hand. [applause] and bob mcgee. And we have two that are enroute, Anita Mcbride and gayle west. Both will be a little bit late. But will be with us tonight. Steve restaurant is the national cochair of the white house our National Counc
Programming exploring our nations past. Next, historian Nancy Bristow talks about the 1918 influenza pandemic and how it devastated american civilians and soldiers during the final year of world war i and beyond. She also explains why the epidemic is not memorialized like the war itself, despite causing a higher number of deaths. Ms. Bristow is the author of american pandemic. Museumional world war i and memorial in kansas city, missouri, hosted this talk as part of their annual symposium. I do believe that is my cue and getthis direction our introduction for our next speaker. Also, i would like to say before that, here is a little Public Service announcement. I will be stealing this line from dr. Nyberg. Potentially, there is only one thing you can learn from the world war. That thing would be dont forget to get your flu shot. [laughter] gentlemen, do remember that. We did get that wonderful thing called daylight savings time because of world war i in the United States and other count