Path. And an 8. 2 magnitude earthquake in chile, experts warn an even bigger one can come. This is ktvu channel 2 morning news. Well, take a look at the damage of a tree that came down, the cars were damaged and this is in oakland and it looks similar to what we started, we had a lot of rain down and the soil is wet and this is happening in many places this in particular in oakland, we are live out there this morning, Tara Moriarty is out there near the caser perm thenty. We will show you the other damage around the bay area and we will show you what happens today, it is wednesday april 2 april 2nd and i am pam cook. 0. Lets talk about weather and traffic, you need umbrella by this morning. It will be cool so jacket weather, still some isolated cells, mainly over marin county and parts of the peninsular and right over the san mateo, that is the main focus and there are still a couple of other guys around. It will take all of this moisture with it rapidly and some hit and miss showers a
Was surrounded by the atmosphere of the mid19th century. I was afraid to come here because i was afraid a parking lot would ruin it. I would like to pronounce this names. Locals and scholars and there are no family members now but they know he was named Henry David Thoreau and they acted on the first sill bill. His family was from new jersey and only two generations of the pronunciation of s thorough and changed it here. If we learned tomorrow that enest hemmingway pronounced his name differently we would not say it differently. Having spent up close time with him for two years i tend to call him henry. And the book is a closeup personal almost novel like look at his years. And i dont mean fiction but detailed and primary. Throughout the book i call him henry and i will fall into that. I need to start with a quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson who said of his old friend he was free and strange. And the one thing i keep coming back to was henry was very strange and that was the exciting
When you write, you cannot sit down to write a bestseller. In fact you should not thing about that issue at all when you sit town to write. What you should do when you sit down to write is write what you find interesting and follow your own curiosity. When i was writing tipple point i never tried to imagine how the book would sell. I wanted to write something that was cool and i was interested in and my friend would read that my mother would like. Read more of the conversation and other interviews from our book notes and q and a programs. Now available as a fathers day gift at your Favorite Book seller. Michael sims is up next with the adventures of Henry Thoreau a young mans unlikely path to walden pond. He spoke in massachusetts at the concord bookstore for a little less than an hour. The bottom line is i like to type. Thank you very much come forking out today and i was wondering if it was going to rain on me and i was thinking i should not be worried about that because it is Henry
And the colonial marines is a e unit that resembles on a much m smaller scale the union color regiments of the civil war in that the officers are white men, but the enlisted men and the ncos are africanamericans. And they are being attracted into the service because theyr not being compelled to it, and indeed, as far as we can tell, f most of the runaways, indeed, tl including most of the men, dont choose to be colonial marines. H some may end up as sailors or ms others work more informally as guides. Many women worked as laundresses and nurses. Hem some of them are serving as paid servants for british officers rh and others go to work for the ts dockyard in bermuda. So theres a whole range of roles, and it is a subset of the men who are serving in the colonial marines and theyre not compelled to do this, though aro there is a great deal of t persuasion applied to encourage them to serve. By the and they are attracted by the fact they will be paid, they re will receive decent clothing
Now, admittedly, in the summer of 1811, madison knew that george, iii,s old ministers were not likely to ease up. Now, this prediction would come to pass. Now, how do we know this . We know this because of an editorial in the administration newspaper. Oh, sorry. Okay. All right. I wasnt looking behind me. Yes. Onwards and upwards. Yes, how do we know this . Because an editorial in the newspaper, the national intelligence, the newspaper that coburn trashed when he burned washington in 1814, it said as much. And we know from a surviving fragment of the diary of the paper, joseph gales, that madison had dictated the contents of that editorial to the editor. So what that means is that as early as the spring of 1811, madison was considering very seriously the need to go to war with Great Britain. And this is seven months before the 12th congress and the war hawks even meet in washington. They would continue with these policies for as long as it took r took for them to end this abomination o