Submitted to the clerk, items acted upon today will be appear on the supervisor agenda unless otherwise stated. Er can we get a motion the excuse supervisor mar from todays meeting. Motion from supervisor cohen, without objection. Call item 1. Item 1 is a a motion confirming the mayoral appointment of Eleni Kounalakis to the Port Commission term ending may 1, 2016. And i believe she is here today. Thank you very much. Members of the rules committee, supervisors tang and cohen, im very honored to be here today and to have been nominated by mayor lee to serve as the San Francisco Port Commission, i grew up in Northern California and left my heart in San Francisco bh i was a young girl on a special visit to the city to visit family. My husband marcos who like me is a child of greek immigrant parents was born and raised in San Francisco. We have made our life here for most of the last 16 years, raising our two children and being part of the civic life of this great city. Like many first ge
Buried in, he was Arlington National cemetery. After some time, no one was in the house. It had gotten in bad shape. There are other exhibits about but wein other museums, knew we wanted to do something with this house. We may not have known exactly what we were going to do. At first, people wanted to come and see where medgar evers and his family lived. Letpened the door and people flow in and flow out. We get the point where we said, we have to Say Something about medgar. There are people right here in mississippi, my age or older, who dont really know who medgar evers was. That is what i want people to know. I want people to know who medgar evers was. I want people to know what a great difference he made in mississippi. As i said, i learned later not only in mississippi, but of theout the world, one things he said was, i like mississippi. This is home. I like fishing here. I like hunting. Mississippi is a wonderful place to grow up. He said, why should i leave . I love mississippi.
These captives coming from native communities are women and children. A large number of slaves coming from the west indies and africa are male in the early years. You have this intermixing and intermarriage. These unions and the cultural influences africans and native peoples had in the shaping of low country culture. That is a really good question. Anything else . All right. Very good. Dont forget we have our reading for wednesday. We will talk more about this rice economy. Join us each saturday evening for classroom lectures from across the country on different topics and eras of American History. Lectures are also available as podcasts. Visit our website or download from itunes. This is American History tv on cspan3. Our 2014 to her has taken us on the road to cities across america. Working with our cable partners, we have toward Historic Sites and interviewed local historians. Coming up, highlights from our travels. See the schedule and watch video from all of our stops. Highthe mo
Capitol, Salt Lake City. To learn more about the cities on our 2014 tour, visit cspan. Org localcontent. We continue now with our look at the history of Salt Lake City. This is American History tv on cspan3. I would like to welcome you to the tabernacle here on Temple Square in Salt Lake City. This is the home of the mormon tabernacle choir. Some might call it americas choir. The mormon tabernacle choir was firstzed in 1847 when the pioneers came into this valley. It was a small group of people a bowery type building, very rustic, and they asked for a choir to perform, but it was in 1849 that welsh pioneers came to the valley and they saying in fourpart harmony. They saying in wells, and that decided youam young needed to be the nucleus of the great choir, so it really started in 1847 and 1849. They used to sing in a building over on the square that was is a temporary link, but they called it the tabernacle, and that is how the name came, the mormon tabernacle choir. When that was too
[choral singing] i would like to welcome you to the tabernacle in salt lake city. This is the home of the mormon tabernacle choir choir. The mormon tabernacle choir was organized in 1847 when the first pioneers came into this valley. It was a small group of people who met in a bowery type building, very rustic, and they asked for a choir to perform, but it was in 1849 that welsh pioneers came to the valley and they saying in fourpart harmony. They sang in welsh, and that is one Brigham Young decided you needed to be the nucleus of the great choir, so it really started in 1847 and 1849. They used to sing in a building over on the square that was is a temporary link, but they called it the tabernacle, and that is how the name came, the mormon tabernacle choir. When that was too small, they started building this particular building, which was in the late 1860s, it was completed at the end of the civil war, and the choir moved into this building at that time, and the tabernacle here has be