Thank you pastor keaton, thank you, pastor keaton, ms. Keaton, members of morris brown ame for welcoming us here tonight and particularly that choir we could listen to you all night. Fortunately well have another chance so thank you. Thank you all and welcome everyone. It is so nice toll be back an opportunityve to discuss things that matter in this community and discuss how we can make them better. I want to thank, i hope you had the opportunity to get some of the food that was served up outside by them firster of all, morris brown member Reggie Simmons cooking up a lot of the sides. And then we had Benjamin Carnell come down here from South Carolina. He is so committed to what the forum needs and what it is doing hes a lawyer in South Carolina and county counsel and eddie drove down here and cooked the chicken and the sausage for us, and he didnt just cook it. He donated his time at donated all that food, and that is a commitment to the community and we thank you so much, my friend.
So far that is roughly this was the size of San Francisco. At least two dozen homes destroyed like. County fire spread to napa county. The largest fire burning in the state right now. Evening everyone now new evacuation orders are in place tonight that fire threatens uncoffined of palms the structures. Gramm has a close look where wildfires are burning across california. First drawls clifford live in lake county with the latest. Reporter andrade crews try to bring this fire under control for chilean have suffered setbacks back the iraqi fire burn 62,000 a. Still just 12 percent contained fire started last friday to monday crazy been able to keep it was a highway 16 south highway 20 hot temperatures for it when the temperatures have pushed the flames or highway 20. In my everyday been kidnapped we aggressively that this today at that at 28 and whatever they could and its well established across the area were so cross your fingers to maybe catch a big jump to 20 and appears to be wellest
He was subject to savage criticism but i think he retained a certain amount of popularity with the ordinary confederate citizens. On the three trips that he took to the deep south during the course of the war in december 1862 and again in the fall of 1863 and the fall of 1864, he spoke at a dozen or more venues during those trips almost too large and enthusiastic crowds. So clearly there was some residue of support and even affection for davis among the general population. At the same time that governors, senators, newspaper editors were savagely criticizing him. That doesnt mean he was as popular as lee or Stonewall Jackson by any means but i think he was probably more popular than the popular image with the image we would have of his place in the southern affections would indicate. Host in the record there is some evidence of the behavior for the Common People of confederacy even drilling his common escape. He passed an old woman in a cabin and she held up an infant child and she sai
There were others but i dont know them all. Any other questions . [inaudible] the white house and the confederacy the question is where was the white house confederacy . Its enrichment and its now called the museum of the confederacy and it is restored to more or less the status condition that it was and when Jefferson Davis resided there between 1861 and 65. And its a lovely house. It still a family that owned a substantial middle and other properties and it was leased by the confederacy for use in the president s house. Maybe we can finish up with one last question. You profiled a number of houses in your book. Did you find you have a favorite weather is from the architectural standpoint or the character of the person who lived there . I guess it is hard to pick which is kind of what this is because when you spend the time i did looking at these places, i think from an architectural standpoint it is hard not to stand in awe that before long wanted the great octagon in part because it
Fascinating. Anyone who likes to travel is going to places where people live that have been so tied to history. I think just going to Abraham Lincolns home. Almost you walk in and some of the dark wallpaper and defiance of the time just kinds of things to take you back into the time that youve kind of got in a sense of the people from the places theyve lived. What is really neat is how he took on architecture. His first book, the preservation was a collection of profiles. That was taking a look at the architectural biography and he partnered with roger straus to take the photograph and was followed is a series of books that are not only stunning to look at but fascinating to read. We had the houses of the Founding Fathers as one of the things looking at the Founding Fathers fathers and the houses theyve lived in. Hes written a number of books but this is a timely anniversary of the civil war and as i said the photographs are spectacular. Its interesting so please join me in welcoming h