You can watch previous episodes on our website. Senator lamar alexander, if somebody asked you for a recommendation about tennessee or tennessee history what would you recommend . I would recommend alex stewart by john rise erwin. Stewart was a clipper who is a barrel maker and lived in hancock county, a remote county. John rice erwin is the creator ofhe museum of appalachian. He could make anything. He could pull teeth, catch a squirrel and skin it, fry it and eat it. He was so interesting he was invited to washington to be part of the smithsonian folk life festival one time. If you want to get a sense of how some Mountain People lived totally off the land, alex stewart by john rice erwin. Host a lot of famous politicians from tennessee. Poke, a couple president s like jackson and johnson. I mentioned two, john meechamp best book. He wrote a book not as many people know about. It is a short book and i think it is about the role of religion in america. I read polks diaries. He sat down
Trip. So we met at a cafe in downtown columbia, and i showed him a few of these images from the oregon coast which was part of his route. And i said heatmoon, my son edgar iv and i would like to retrace your route and do a photographic version of your book because we cant begin to write like you write, but we can take good photographs. His answer, i was very pleased, was very positive. He said, you know, one of the most common questions people ask me is when are you going to take make the trip again, but im never going to take the trip again, have at it. He confided to me about four years later he didnt think my son and i would make that journey and the book. So so our goals were to find the characters still living almost three decades later. We wanted to find the beauty of back roads america that he had so beautifully described in his book. We wanted to find the 5 30 taverns that he frequented. We wanted to find the mom and pop cafes that he always ate at. Ask youll remember one of my
Good morning, to you. Welcome to a brand new day middle of the week im dave clark. And im pam cook. Lets talk about weather this morning. Good to go for the game i guess. Fully think the game i think the game looks good. After the rain goes by we will be much improved today. Some of it is heavy on the peninsula heading toward san jose. There is scattered light showers and also out toward vallejo and cordelia. Look for morning rain to give way to partly sunny partly cloudy skies. Highway 4. Traffic looks good in bay point but you will see slow traffic in antioch. Heading over to pittsburg. The morning commute looks good in oakland although it has been raining in the last few minutes. 880 traffic looks good getting up to downtown. Lets go back to the desk. All right, sal. 2012 world series starts today. Game one today. Ktvu Tara Moriarty is live outside of at t park right now. Youre ready for it arent you . Reporter im ready. I got my rally towel ready. Here at the ballpark the crews hav
Then a country that is collapsing and in response lashing out at dick cheney. Its very close to home. Also in my continuing quest to remind you of the good news about the world out there, two special guests. Swedish professor hans rosling will dazzle you with charts that show a very different world than youve been led to believe you live in. One of bill clintons favorite experts will tell you about the amazing technological advances that are changing the world for the better. But first here is my take. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus speech to the United States congress was eloquent, moving and intelligent in identifying the problems with the potential nuclear deal with iran. But when describing the alternative to it, he entered never neverland, painting a scenario utterly divorced from rye aelt. Congress joined him on his fantasy ride, rapturously applauding as he spun out one unattainable demand after another. Netanyahu declared that washington should reject the current de
Then a country that is collapsing and in response lashing out at dick cheney. Its very close to home. Also in my continuing quest to remind you about the good news of the world out there, two special guests. Swedish professor hans rosling will dazzle you with charts that will show you a very different world than youve been led to believe you live in. One of bill clintons favorite experts will tell you about the amazing technological advances that are changing the world for the better. But first here is my take. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus speech to the United States congress was eloquent moving and intelligence in identifying the problems with the potential nuclear deal with iran. But when describing the alternative to it he entered never never land painting a scenario utterly divorced from reality. Congress joined him on his fantasy ride rapturously applauding as he spun out one unattainable demand after another. Netanyahu declared that washington should reject the curr