Im jamie colby, and, today, im driving into key west, florida, in search of treasure. You know, years ago, spanish galleons and pirate ships sailed upon and sank in these waters. More recently, the islands been home to the heirs of a man who became rich and famous searching for the treasure left behind. My name is taffi fisher abt, and i inherited a wreck. I mean literally a wreck, a spanish shipwreck. Its an incredible archeological find, and we keep bringing up more treasure all the time. You must be taffi. Welcome to the mel fisher Maritime Heritage society. Taffis father, mel fisher, salvaged tons of treasure from the sea. Oh, yeah. Solid gold. This is an emerald cross and ring that was found in 1982. Some of his most precious artifacts are in the museum he founded here in key west. He must have loved the adventure. He did. He was an awful lot like tom sawyer. Tom sawyer had the mississippi. Indiana native mel fisher dreams up his childhood adventures on lake michigan. He would go
To the small town of wellfleet. Im here to learn about a strange inheritance that shaped a familys life for half a century. My name is elena delbanco. In 2011, my sister and i inherited an extraordinary object from our father. This was my fathers home for many years. He and my mother built it in 1955. Elenas father was the virtuoso cellist Bernard Greenhouse, who died in 2011 at the age of 95. [ Classical Music plays ] greenhouse spent most of his career playing with the renowned beaux arts trio, which made its debut in 1955 and catapulted to fame. He was very warm and very charming but very involved with his work. And he traveled all the time as he became more and more successful. As one of the worlds premier cellists, bernard figured he should be playing one of the worlds finest cellos. He began searching in europe for an instrument equal to his talent. He went to dealers and to instrument shops, and wherever he went, he said, have you heard any rumors about great cellos . In 1957, h
Im jamie colby, and, today, im driving into key west, florida, in search of treasure. You know, years ago, spanish galleons and pirate ships sailed upon and sank in these waters. More recently, the islands been home to the heirs of a man who became rich and famous searching for the treasure left behind. My name is taffi fisher abt, and i inherited a wreck. I mean literally a wreck, a spanish shipwreck. Its an incredible archeological find, and we keep bringing up more treasure all the time. You must be taffi. Welcome to the mel fisher Maritime Heritage society. Taffis father, mel fisher, salvaged tons of treasure from the sea. Oh, yeah. Solid gold. This is an emerald cross and ring that was found in 1982. Some of his most precious artifacts are in the museum he founded here in key west. He must have loved the adventure. He did. He was an awful lot like tom sawyer. Tom sawyer had the mississippi. Indiana native mel fisher dreams up his childhood adventures on lake michigan. He would go
To the small town of wellfleet. Im here to learn about a strange inheritance that shaped a familys life for half a century. My name is elena delbanco. In 2011, my sister and i inherited an extraordinary object from our father. This was my fathers home for many years. He and my mother built it in 1955. Elenas father was the virtuoso cellist Bernard Greenhouse, who died in 2011 at the age of 95. [ Classical Music plays ] greenhouse spent most of his career playing with the renowned beaux arts trio, which made its debut in 1955 and catapulted to fame. He was very warm and very charming but very involved with his work. And he traveled all the time as he became more and more successful. As one of the worlds premier cellists, bernard figured he should be playing one of the worlds finest cellos. He began searching in europe for an instrument equal to his talent. He went to dealers and to instrument shops, and wherever he went, he said, have you heard any rumors about great cellos . In 1957, h
A public service. My name is Kathleen Johnson and today i am with the healths historian matt when you ski. The date is 2016. We are in the house are turning studio and we are pleased we spoke speaking with for a presented from new york. Thank you very much for coming today. Very excited to be a part of this project. So this project that we are working on is to recognize and to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the election of Jeannette Rankin to congress. The first woman. So we have a bunch of questions that we wanted to ask you today. First, of when you are young did you have any role models . No. I had never thought about that question but i dont think so. I mean, you ask her grandmother mother and father to sign it my notion of what women could be. And so it never occurred to me, certainly never to enter into politics to be front and center. I cannot think of too many role models when i was really young that were female that change along the way it gratefully. How did you first bec