Late night bull session last night which a lot of my democratic colleagues in detroit did as well. Im sure a few of you stood up to watch the democratic debates. I have to admit, i did not. I read the recaps this morning and seems like much seasoning and thoughts by the democrats have not yet made them come to their senses. Understand were still advocating for decriminalized just decriminalizing our border illegally and deporting no one and in the meantime giving taxpayerfunded healthcare, too. In fact, one of my colleagues in the congress recently said that we have to provide taxpayerfunded abortion to illegal immigrants. Which, i have to say, sounds like something some of you might come up with at a late night bull session when youre thinking of a parity about the Democratic Party positions might be. I could go on and on about our democratic friends and what they were saying last night but i see that on your tables you all have a fascinated book in front of you. It is called sacred d
Virginia premise collar slavery in virginia. It was usually the most interesting part of the landscape and as a professional chef or 10 years and i found myself in a few spaces for the children had to cook and i realized there were no answers to the questions about their lives and contributions. My work in my book is focused on the 18th to 19th century Plantation Homes than the larger ones. But the ones where where the cook mind of the the cook mightve been a longer set than any, but the ones that they send for it kitchen that was run like a business. Those particulars had a mastery of flavor, the mistress, the wife, so the cook would have to cook for all of them and of course its virginia. All of the culture of hospitality and so they would have to be cooking for neighbors to visit it. There was no social world outside of these Plantation Homes during this period. All of the court shall life involving parties and mary and their children off to the next person down the road and had a v
Esthetic, maybe amendment hesic, maybe a better word would be snobbery. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Welcome to lynchburg, virginia, on booktv. Located in the foothills of the blue Ridge Mountains along the james river, it has a population of about 80,000 people. Founded in 1757, lynchburg was named more its founder for its founder, john lynch. The city is home to poplar forest, Thomas Jeffersons private retreat. And with the help of our Comcast Cable partners, for the next 90 minutes well feature the citys Literary History beginning with poet ann spencer. Ann spencer was a poet, an american poet mostly associated with the harlem renaissance period in 19241945. How she becomes part of the harlem renaissance is how harlem comes to lynchburg. Unfortunately, theres a whole group of people who are associated with that period of time like ann spencer that people dont know about. Ann spencer was born in 1882 in henry county, virginia, which is southwestern vir
I mean the woman he referred to as his angel mother, nancy lincoln, the woman who regarded in his fatherand his whose relationship with him remains something of a controversy even today. Of the three, who was influential and who was a negative influence . Why dont we start with sydney. Microphone. Negativesitive and the were about one experience, and that was an experience of being in the lincoln family growing up. Him,tepmother protected crucially, from his father, which enabled his Early Education and that was the initial positive spark for lincoln. Lincoln was a bright, inquisitive, naturally inquisitive child, but he was suppressed by his father. Was ather himself suppressed man and that have enormous influence all the way through his life and deeply on his articulate thinking on slavery. Had been a poor third farmer in kentucky. He had been cut out of the family inheritance. His stepbrother had taken it all and wound up being a quasiaristocratic. He had terrible luck was reduced t
I mean the woman he referred to as his angel mother, nancy lincoln, the woman who regarded in his fatherand his whose relationship with him remains something of a controversy even today. Of the three, who was influential and who was a negative influence . Why dont we start with sydney. Microphone. Negativesitive and the were about one experience, and that was an experience of being in the lincoln family growing up. Him,tepmother protected crucially, from his father, which enabled his Early Education and that was the initial positive spark for lincoln. Lincoln was a bright, inquisitive, naturally inquisitive child, but he was suppressed by his father. Was ather himself suppressed man and that have enormous influence all the way through his life and deeply on his articulate thinking on slavery. Had been a poor third farmer in kentucky. He had been cut out of the family inheritance. His stepbrother had taken it all and wound up being a quasiaristocratic. He had terrible luck was reduced t