In a laramie, wyoming as well. So edward was actually of all the places, was born down in the caribbean. He lived there for seven years. His father moved there from england to manage a sugarcane plantation and he wound up in new york city in about 1852. While he was there, he met a young woman. He is 23, she was 16. They ran away to get married and they, like a lot of young folks, moved west to make their fame and fortune and wound up in laramie, wyoming. The family had been living in tennessee, and he decided to move the family to california. The way he thought he would get to california, he had a dry goods store and he sold all of the stuff and got freight cars and put his stuff in them. As the Union Pacific was built across the right planes, he great plains, he followed right along and had a rolling store. In the winter of 1867, he learns that the Union Pacific railroad is going to have a facility and what would become laramie. There was nothing here at the time. He came over for th
Mansion thatn the Edward Ivinson built in laramie, wyoming in 1892. It is now the home of the Laramie Plains museum. It has been restored. For about 10 years, it was vacant. People broke in vandalized the , building. It has been a long and fruitful to make it into this Wonderful Museum we have here that highlights the ivinson family and historical issues from the past in laramie, wyoming. Edward ivinson was born on the island of st. Croix in the caribbean. He lived there for seven years. His father moved there from northwestern england to manage a sugarcane plantation. He wound up in new york city. While he was there, he met a young woman. He was 23, she was they ran away 16. To jersey city, new jersey to get married. Eventually like a lot of young folks, they moved west to make their fame and fortune. And eventually wound up in laramie, wyoming. The family had been living in memphis, tennessee. He decided to move the family to california. And the way he thought he would get to califor
Should have the ability to go into the private sector when its in their best interest, when the care is better or specialized care is available thats not in the da. I think we all believe that should be available. Watch booktv at the weekend on cspan2. The cspan cities tour is exploring the american story as we take booktv and American History tv on the road with support from our spectrum Cable Partners this week and we traveled to laramie, wyoming. Coming up we will speak with local authors about the cities history and more. We will hear about the influence the Energy Industry has in the state of wyoming and then after that a visit to the ivinsons mansion to learn about the early days of the city. Hear how the sport of road you became a symbol of the american west. We began our special feature with the conversation about retail pioneer j. C. Penney. Like most people in wyoming at the turnofthecentury, he was a transplant pig is born raised in missouri by to think j. C. Penney was a co
Test. Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac i mean, like it will be really exciting when we can put some robots up on mars, wont it be exciting . Weve already done it, right . Okay. I dont hear now, when you put when you put [ applause ] when you put joe blow and jane doe up on mars, then i think you will see true excitement. That may not be [ applause ] you know, that may not be the way the world should be because charlie points out things that are of more importance than whether it is a machine or whether it is a human being, they each have their place, but the public, i do think, has a special Little Corner in the back of their brain reserved for people who go to these places and i dont think that will change. I mean, you see the reaction you still get 50 years later for having been part of the grand adventure of apollo 11. In my feeling its still something special. There are only 570 humans that have been in orbit, so there is something there that maintains potency and sending
All week. A greater percentage of efforts population followed their flight than any other event in human history. After their flights the astronauts toured. President nixon proclaimed them the best possible am baz dors america could have on the earth. Today were looking back and asking what was the political and Foreign Relations significance of the apollo program, and what is its enduring legacy. Were going to look forward questioning how apollo era space diplomacy should inform Foreign Relations today. Very shortly ill give you Historical Context on the role of project apollo in u. S. Foreign relations and its followed by a one on one conversation between me and Major General Michael Collins. Then well have a larger Panel Discussion that looks at apollo and then also how it can inform the future of space diplomacy. But first, i would like to say thank you for coming to recognize special guests we have here today. The Collins Family and friends. Thank you for joining us. And i would l