They had . Saw is aat we continuation of this trend of unconventional convention. We had [indiscernible] this conflation of the president S Administration and his campaign. I think the messages they wanted to get across was they wanted to humanize this president somewhat. We had his wife talking about ,im, referring to him as donald talking about his record and what he has done in the white house. I think there was a continuation of outreach to minorities. Theyw on the first night showcased the depth of their bench in terms of having there and nikki haley there. Lets not come obese outreach to women as well as immigrants through the naturalization ceremony we saw. Host what was the goal of secretary of state pompeos address from israel . Caller that is what guest that is one of the that happened. The consternation before the broadcast, he was in israel on official business. The he addressed to the convention was [indiscernible] there were issues of whether they potentially violated the
Franklin finley africanamerican heritage trail. This is our fourth year doing the tours here in mobile. Actually they got started five or six years prior to that when one of our africanamerican city councilman took a trip to boston honesty business. While he was there, he saw a sign that said africanamerican heritage trail. He thought that sounded interesting, because it was kind of a novelty. It was prior to most of the museums we see today and the trails. He took the tour and he enjoyed it. He got to thinking on his way back to mobile mobile was close to 300 years old. And he had heard his family discuss about a lot of the contributions africanamericans had made. He said i think this is something we could do in mobile and do it well. He started looking around the city for someone that would take on the opportunity or the challenge, just depending on the prospective that they looked at it from. After nine months of searching, he finally found a young lady that said i will take on the
Find it where you listen to podcasts. So, today were going to be talking about landscapes and preservation and sort of how preservation unexpectedly changes the places we set aside as parks and protected areas. The intention here is really not only to sort of understand the history of the protective spaces but to make the process more visual, to make it easier to understand not only the history of parks and how they have changed over time but why they have changed over time. We think of some things staying the thing. This changes things. Thats the focus were going to aim at today. And im going to theres often a presumption that Public Ownership is the best way to protect ownership. We see the series on americas parks called americas best idea, that natural spaces that have trails and for hiking and sightseeing and so on are representative of pure pristine nature thats had some boundaries put around it and its been kept the same like a vase in a museum, just kind of static and never cha
Changes the places we set aside as parks or other protected areas. The intention here is really, not only to understand the history of these kinds of protected spaces, but then also to make the process of preservation more visible. To make it easier to understand not only the history of parks and how they have changed over time, but sort of more importantly, why they have changed over time. Because most of us when we think of preservation we think of something staying the same. And yet, preservation actually changes things, so that is really kind of the focus we are going to aim at today. Im going to see if i can manage this. There i go. So in the context of open space lands here in the u. S. , there is this sort of presumption that Public Ownership is the best way to protect a landscape. We even see the mini series by can burns from ways back on National Parks. It was called americas best idea. Thats actually taken from a quote. That natural spaces that have trails for hiking and sigh
Report recorded this conversation. You might recognize my voice, because in previous life streams, im usually the guy behind the camera, and im reading questions from our audience as they come in so that we can directly engage with you while were talking to our first person interpreter actor bill barker, who portrays Thomas Jefferson. We wanted to do Something 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 millions 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, memories. Its a conversation that we must engage in. And working here at monticello, we are a site of memory, and monticello is a plantation where over 400 people were enslaved. Today we decided that, to have a conversation, we would do something we haven