Some of these authors have a will be appearing on booktv. You can watch them on our website, booktv. Org. Often i think of the beautiful town that is seated by the sea and often in fossil upanddown the pleasant streets of that town and my youth comes back to me. Welcome to portland, maine, on booktv. Located on a peninsula, it was the original capital of maine and started as a fishing and trading village. Today its the largest city in the state with a population of about 66,000. It still has strong ties to its maritime history with lobstering and tourism in its largest economic drivers. With help of our spectrum Cable Partners for the next 90 minutes will feature the areas history and literary community. Whitney kent are special feature on portland with a history of lobstering industry. We begin our special feature. Over here is my gps and radar. So and thought it helps us figure out where we are. I dont mark my traps with the gps. I i kind of do it by feel. Look at that bad boy. Its a
Panel discussion featuring all seven speakers. Coverage on American History tv on cspan 3. [no audio] everybody. Ning, were ready to get started. Welcome back to the last day of our conference. And also welcome to our cspan viewers. Were live. Just a couple of announcements before i introduce the speaker. We still have some Tickets Available on our wonderful plan k, that you will be able to take him today if you want. Weve also got some other raffles going on, and at your table you have been given a notecard that we would like you to write down a question for our panel this afternoon. If you have a question for them, and what i will do, i will take up the most objectionable ones [laughs] well proceed from there. But, so if uyoyouve got a question, write it down, and we will ask our wonderful speakers today. Also at the break we are going to bring in my staff and were going to have a chance to make knowledge them. Our Panel Discussion is after lunch at 1 00. So, thatll be the end of our
That is the direct dependency the brick dependency. That is a duck house. This is the wash house. This one has a neat feature on the backside. It has a drain in the wall where dump thed yes, water out. This is the slave house. My name is jobie hill. We are at green hill plantation. It is an virginia. Is in virginia. Im here with a company. They are here with me for my independent project. It is called saving slave houses. Doing. Imitation of all the known slave houses in the United States. When i was in school, my masters aesis, i did research with survey. 1936 andram in program that started in 1936 to get architects back to work. 1000 architects were hard to go look at his storage structures across the documentation was slave houses. Not intentionally, but they did document slave houses. Times, you a lot of got one photograph or you would see a slave house in the background in the picture. Thesis, i looked at the collection and identified the sites that had a slave house in them. My f
States. We are founded in 1822. Collecting at this location since 1907 in portland. Historical city was in brunswick and moved to portland the 1870s, we moved from and c library to city hall once the society was donated, we library in 1907. In 2007, we underwent restoration and renovation and 13,000 square feet of archival Storage Space to the building. E that is what were in today, temperature and humidity control, climate controlled space, we store our collection. E have offsite Storage Space we use for larger collections and since weve outgrown our location. We connect on main, but have broader scope and reach back to the 15th century, terrible hat is not a amount of our collection, the bulk of our materials are from he 18th century and 19th century, from about the 17001900, although we have colonial and dating from the 1600s relating to canada and ime newsmakers. We are showing the treasures of society. Storical early in years we collected broadly on history, anything that had to d
Live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. A big rig jackknifes a muni train. A bus plows into a dump truck, a San Francisco street becomes a triage center, good evening, im ken bastida. And im veronica de la cruz. We have Team Coverage beginning with andria borba. First crash happened right here. Reporter it was a 38 line bus. It all started with a dump truck and that bus. It sounded like. And everybody goes front. Reporter San Francisco police say a dump truck driver slammed on the brakes, the bus swerved to avoid a crash but ended up rear ending another dump truck. Next thing you know, we get a big jolt, boom. And im like oh my god the front window is out. Reporter then collision number two. This time, it was a big rig that hit a muni tline train. 40 passengers were hurt. 23 were taken to the San Francisco hospital. And the commute was sent into disarray. After we were able to get it back on the rail, and out of the way, now we are doing tests to make sure we can operat