Weekend. The Lincoln Group of the district of columbia hosted this event. Our speaker tonight is wendy allen. Most people in the room know who wendy allen is. For those who dont, shes an artist. Wendy allen first painted did her First Painting of Abraham Lincoln in 1983. Since then shes focussed on him as her subject and has made many, many paintings in many different styles. Shes listen very active, been interviewed by cnn and had her paintings in the Historical Society along with some other people you might have heard of. Salvador dolly, norman rockwell. Certainly in very good company and so were they. In addition to all this, she lives in gettysburg and has a gallery up there, lincoln into art. Shes also very active with the fellowship of pennsylvania. Shes on the board and a Vice President to the fellowship of pennsylvania. Shes also very active in the Lincoln Forum and a lot of us went there this past year. We had a record turn out. Were going to try to beat that record this year
And its a rivetting story of her life and so shes my guest and im glad to have her. Welcome donna. Good to be here ron. Great. Great. Before we get into the book tell us about your background and your experiences. Well, im from california born and raised. Active in the United Methodist church and ended up going to seem reasm becoming a pastor marrying my husband and having two little girls. Just loving every single minute of life and then one day we went to a fancy meal at a restaurant in lake tahoe and a 200pound glass partition fell onto my head and in that moment i sustained a disabling head and neck injury. And so have not worked since and for 17 years i relied on a cane, opioids and a wheel chair to get around. But you have work now. Its taken my eight years to write this book and i do a little preaching. With some of the head injury stuff you have to rest in order to let the brain come online so to speak. So i do a little bit at a time and the spirit and spiritualty has really he
And our adler members here tonight. And for those of you who would like to check out the planetarium, theres a free admission pass at our front desk, so stop by and grab one of those on the way out if you have not been. We are thrilled to be working with the adlers to present tonights program. If you dont have a book yet, you can pick one with up from our bookseller partner at seminary coop there in the back. Were here tonight to welcome sarah parcak and lucianne wall wits to talk about walkowicz. The story of the extraordinary new world of space archaeology is a story of how we see ourselves. Through spy photographs and satellite imagery, we can look thousands of years into our history and discover what would otherwise be completely invisible to us. Sarah has worked on five continents and over 20 years of experience in the anthropology field including as a National Geographic explorer. Her work has been the subject of three bb specials, and she was a 2014 senior ted fellow and winner
Good morning, broadcast on tv channels belarus 1 and belarus24 continues the review of crime news. Im yuri shevchuk. Hello. Counterfeiters were detained at a gas station in the volozhin region. Our correspondent alena lishkevich became an eyewitness and reported from the crime scene. The man paid off counterfeit banknotes. 200 rub. With the gas station operator. The cashier suspected that it was a counterfeit and called the police; before they arrived, the second Money Changer disappeared, throwing the money in the trash. He was detained a little later. The money turned out to be a souvenir. Before they came to the gas station with it, the men managed to pay the taxi driver with the doll. It is necessary to find out exactly what amount the swindlers had and where else they managed to pay with counterfeits. The review of criminal and emergency incidents will continue to be published. The Investigative Committee shared details of the investigation case of a fatal hitandrun in mogilev. Th
[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2024] cspan was on capitol hill to get reaction from lawmakers following the president s speech. Heres what members from both Political Parties had to say as they were leaving the house chamber. On cspan here in cspan2 we are getting reaction from lawmakers were getting reaction from lawmakers who were in the room for the president s speech. Congressman andy ogles republican. What did you say to him w you know, i simply said, you know, laken riley, i pointed to my pin. He didnt have much to say to disappointed in his speech. A lot of blaming republicans. Republicans. Lets face the fact he owes the family of lakin a an apology for his border crisis pick what you said the name lakin riley what did you think of that exchange . Again he could not get her name right. I am disappointed in the president , h