On jefferson between 1809 to 1826. I work with a total of ten people to do that. Our job is to take jeffersons letters and papers and produce an authoritative edition for those years that will enable future scholars to rely on that and not have to go back to the originals. So then, what exactly do you do as a documentary editor . One of the most important things is to make it clear what we are not. You hear of a documentary editor and you think either that you are creating film documentaries, and we have in fact have people apply for jobs who were baffled at first because the application was all about how they could splice film, and that was not what we were after. We are also not editors like in a newspaper, would take an who would take an incoming letter to the editor and market through and make all sorts of corrections. Our job is to give as accurate a representation of the materials that we are editing as possible, so as to convey what was on the handwritten page to the reader so t
Been living through an unprecedented health, economic and social crisis. A global catastrophe many have predicted and index of which are living around the world, a vaccine which has been hailed threat as the only solution to this crisis to the covid pandemic, and there has been investment in the site and manufacturing a developing such a vaccine rolling about in record time and getting it ideally to everybody around the world. A few of us get together a few months ago building upon in may this year to try to understand this journey to characterize the vaccine for polio, scaling up of such a product. And to reflect on what this means for policymakers and for society all over the world. What are the chances of getting a successful vaccine the next 12 months on how long will it take to manufacture it to scale, how good a job have government, collisions of government, donors and supranational organizations done in designing their vaccine portfolios why does any of this matter . National pe
More now from bill barker portraying thomas jefferson, discussing the third president s love of gardening from the west lot of monticello, his virginia home. Good afternoon my friends and my fellow citizens. What a pleasure to greet you once more here on our mountain here at monticello. What a pleasure to be out of doors here amongst the wonders of nature. Particularly that we can stand together underneath this live oak, one of my Favorite Places next to the fishpond, to welcome the bloom of the snowball that is the vibrant behind me. Theyre the beautiful purple iris and of course the pansies. B fox club as well about to bloom. What a pleasant occasion. And particularly to welcome our friend mr. Steve light to be with us again to welcome your questions. Without any further comment, as i have a few moments before i continue my walk through the garden, and i think gardens is a most pleasant subject to attend to today. I asked for the first question if you will. Yes, thank you president j
Portrays Thomas Jefferson. We wanted to do something a little bit different this week. Given the National Conversation and given events all around us, we know that 2020 has been a challenging year. Monticello has been closed for months. We reopen this weekend. In recent weeks in the united states, millions of people all over the country are actively fighting for equity against different forms of racial injustice. Whether its racially motivated Police Violence or racially motivated monuments of memories. Its a conversation that we must engage in. Working here at monticello, we are a sight of memory. Monticello was a plantation where over 400 people were enslaved. Today, we decided that to have a conversation it, we would do something that we havent done, and im sure everyone knows this, youre not actually talking to Thomas Jefferson. Youre talking to, again, my friend bill who portrays Thomas Jefferson. Bill is going to join us today. When he does so, he will be out of character. We tal