My name is dennis pogue, i am the Vice President of preservation here at vernon and we are standing in front of a reconstruction of washingtons distillery. Not only most people have no idea that washington was not only first in war, first in peace, but also owned the first distillery. This was a very important part of the plantation economy. Historians have known this for a long time, but about 10 years ago, we decided we wanted to explore that. We came out here with archaeologist, excavated the distillery were the had been located, did about five years of excavation and research, and decided we had a wonderful opportunity to bring this back and show what it would have been like. You cant see this anywhere else in the country. Relate tothese two each other . Washington already had a gristmill that was a major part of the plantation. He made lots of money off it over the years. In 1797, at the end of his second term as president , he was getting ready to come back to mount vernon and he
My name is dennis pogue, i am the Vice President of preservation here at vernon and we are standing in front of a reconstruction of washingtons distillery. Not only most people have no idea that washington was not only first in war, first in peace, but also owned the first distillery. This was a very important part of the plantation economy. Historians have known this for a long time, but about 10 years ago, we decided we wanted to explore that. We came out here with archaeologist, excavated the distillery were the had been located, did about five years of excavation and research, and decided we had a wonderful opportunity to bring this back and show what it would have been like. You cant see this anywhere else in the country. Relate tothese two each other . Washington already had a gristmill that was a major part of the plantation. He made lots of money off it over the years. In 1797, at the end of his second term as president , he was getting ready to come back to mount vernon and he
Major distillery here, and it was a very important part of the plantation economy. Historians have known this for a long time, but about 10 years ago, we decided that we wanted to explore that. We came out here with archaeologists, excavated the site, found were the distillery where the distillery had been located, did about five years of excavation and research, and decided that we had a wonderful opportunity to bring this back and to show what an 18thcentury distillery was like. You cant see this anywhere else in the country. There is a gristmill here as well . How do these two relate to each other . Dennis pogue the reason the gristmill is here is because washington already had a gristmill that was a major part of the plantation. He made lots of money off of it over the years. In 1797, at the end of his second term as president , he was getting ready to come back to mount vernon, and he hired a scotsman by the name of James Anderson to be his plantation manager. And apparently all s
Bay area. Theres a look at San Francisco this morning. The glow of the lights of the city and a lot of rain. Theres a lot more where this rain is coming from. Our radar is really lighting up this morning as the heaviest batch of storm moves through. We have a team in place monitoring potential trouble spots, including flood concerns mounting from the north to the south bay. Thanks for joining us. Im laura garciacannon. Im vicky nguyen. Lets get to cakari hall. It is more accurate because you can move this vehicle around and figure out exactly where the hot spots are. Right, and we parked it on the mountain in san bruno to get the best view of the north bay all the way down to the south bay and over toward the east bay. We are scanning this with our mobile Doppler Radar truck and seeing what it looks like as the rain comes out of the clouds, and were picking up a line of bright red and yellow showing the most intense rain moving through at this point. You see there, on the radar, it onc
Good evening. I am the executive director of the society of the cincinnati. It is my pleasure to introduce our speaker this evening. I want you all to do me a favor. This is his book. Hes going to talk to us about it. The book is the road to concord how four stolen cannon ignited the revolutionary war. He will defend that premise for us a little bit later. I want to tell you what my reaction to this book is because i have had the opportunity to read it already. It is one of three books in the last 20 years i read cover to cover in one sitting. I dont read quickly. The reason i read it cover to cover in one sitting is it is extremely well written. It is graceful prose of an oldfashioned sort. And second, it is wonderfully researched, when i was taught in graduate school to refer to as a revisionist work in history. All good works of history if they are good are revisionist in some way, but he is telling us a new story about the coming of the revolution in massachusetts. A story you migh