The minors, and finally when it was all finished and they went to work in the mines, that was a different story and work in the mines for many years. But then the mines petered out and they came to spokane washington and seattle, portland, tacoma, places like that. They left rosalind and came there. Thats how i came here to spokane. My family anyway. Others came at that time, too. The name of the book is African Americans in spokane, and i decided to write it because of my daughter. She knew that i all of these pictures and things of that nature that weve gotten together for the spokane northwest black pioneer centennial in Washington State in 1989. And she said, mom has all these pictures and why doesnt she put into a book form . And so she came back and she told me and thats what we did and thats how we happened to write about spokane. And because ive been a lifelong member of the spokane community. We showed all these photos and were very, very grateful because most people had not s
Always here. James hunt is next on the spokane, washington. His book restless fire is it about the life of john muir while he is considered one of nations most significant and firemen to leaders and father of the National Park service. John muir was probably one of the most significant environmental thinkers, leaders pick is basically the protagonist for the National Park system. He helped to bring about the creation of yosemite as a National Park. It was a state park before his work. He was instrumental in glacier bay National Park. Also influence information of olympic National Park and Mount Rainier National Park. For a long time ive been interested in the impact of travel in leadership formation in young adults and ive done previous work on frederick douglass, on john quincy adams, on jane addams, all of whom had significant travel experience before they embark on their career. In the case of john, he found his career through his travel. And he kept as many of the others did journa
Thats not their mission and thats not what we are paying for and we should stop paying for it. And i yield back to mr. Buck. The chair the chair would remind members that remarks during the debate may not engage in personalities towards the president including the repeating of remarks that were said elsewhere. That would be improper if spoken here by the members here in their own words. The gentleman from georgia is recognized. Mr. Lewis i yield one minute to thegentleman from kentucky, chairman of the state foreign operations committee. Mr. Rogers i rise in respectful disagreement with my colleagues who offer this amendment. The United States institute of peace works to help prevent, reduce and resolve violent conflicts abroad. The institute along side our military, our diplomats in the most conflict affected including iraq, afghanistan, tunisia, south sudan and ukraine. Eliminating the u. S. Institute of peace would hamper our efforts to stabilize these areas and to prevent further o
For the next hour, book tv exclusive, our cities tour visits spoken, washington to learn more about its literary life. We have traveled to u. S. Cities bringing the book seen to our viewers. Cspan. Orgrn more at. John near was probably one of the most significant john muir was one of the most significant environmental thinkers. He helped bring about yosemite as a National Park. It was a state park before. He was instrumental in way survey National Park. He had influence in Olympic National park and not rain air mt. Rainier National Park. I have done previous work on frederick douglass, john quincy adams, jane addams, all of whom had significant travel experience before they embarked in their careers. In the case of john, he found his career through travel. He kept, as many of the others did, journals of his experience. It gave me insight as to what was happening in his head as he traveled a thousand miles. This was a life shaping experience for him. It really gave him focus and directi
Im 111 years of bipartisan land conservation, which began with president roosevelts leadership. The most glaring example is an ongoing attack on the Antiquities Act in general and the National Monument in particular. Trying to roll back as a taxpayer weight especially at a time when the administration is proposing significant staff cutbacks. In my opinion, another management designation is that they are seers Intertribal Coalition inspectors working to protect these lands. I believe any action by the administration to undermine protection for any other National Monument is illegal and i will strongly oppose any legislative attempt to weaken this monument status. Secretary zinke, the administration also attempting to unilaterally rule that has gone into effect on the blm mapping rule. The department now statistically dubious decision to suspend the methane waste prevention rule. This is a commonsense rule that implements in 97yearold requirement to prevent waste of federal natural gas.