To add to that also the congressman has been working very hard with us to get the building on the National Register of. We have been working on that for a long time and the reasons for why we are here today because we are still talking about pt barnum relevant in our lives today. Robert wilson is here to talk about the fact you can contextualize him in a modern way and its something to be looked at and examine and reexamine and brought into modern culture. He is the father of the Entertainment Industry that he was a philanthropist. The doer of good eats many tim times. But enough about me. Thank you for coming to the museum. Please support us. We do programming all year the museum is open during the week the couple of days even during the big historic construction project thats going to be happening soon but with no further ado let me introduce you to bob wills. The editor since 2004 that won the National Award for the best feature in may of 2006 and Digital National magazine for comme
I dont like to always shut people out at the very beginning that walking in right now is the great, great granddaughter eleanor and her husband. [applause] its special to have them but welcome everyone to the museum. I know many of you have been here before but is this everybodys first time . We are delighted to have you on this Beautiful Day in downtown connecticut. It is in fact the last museum for the community that we serve many are familiar in 2010 we were hit by a tornado because that is the kind of stuff that happens and then the year after that was hurricane irene and super storm sandy so thank you to the delegation who support the bonding appropriation because we are just about to embark on a major historic rehab of that building from 1893. To add to that also the congressman has been working very hard with us to get the building on the National Register of. We have been working on that for a long time and the reasons for why we are here today because we are still talking abou
Moving news from around the world, from hong kong to new york to d. C. We start off with the latest in trade. Larry kudlow im a white house Economic Advisor, signaled the u. S. And china are close to signing phase one. We are coming down to the short strokes. We are in communication with them every single day right now. Joining me on the phone from hong kong is enda curran. Does china agree with this assessment . Musiccertainly, the mood from both sides now is that they are on track to reach some kind of agreement. Mr. Kudlows comments came only a day after china agreed yesterday to lift a ban on poultry imports from the u. S. They started to buy u. S. Farm produce again last month. Clearly some things are coming together, but there are outstanding issues. We still dont know where either side are on tariff removal. That is something of a redline on the chinese side. There are still other areas, like ip protection and the like. Still dont know when any agreement will be signed. Separate
Tv, more television for seriousreaders. Joining us on the tv is Alan Crawford. His book how not to get rich, the financial misadventures of mark twain. Mister crawford, where doyou want people to learn if they pick up your book and read it . I wrote it in part as a spoof of books about successful people. And how if you just do what they did, then you too can be a Great Success in life, because having read a lot of these books, i found them all woefully useless. Theres even one you might have heard of called the art of the deal. Terrible book. Pt barnum wrote a book called the art of money getting and barnum had made a Great Fortune at this point but mark twain went broke. He wrote the art of money getting while he was broke and the sales of that book enabled him to rebuild his fortunes and go on to be pt barnum chapter 2. 0. Its fascinating mark twain who was so good at so many things, who was the bestselling author of his time, who made more money on the lecture circuit that he even d
Good afternoon, everyone. I dont like to always shout people out at the very beginning that in walking right now is the great, great grandfather, eleanor and her husband. [applause] , it is always special to have them. Welcome, everyone to the Barnum Museum. I know many of you have been here before. Is this anybodys first time . Welcome. We are delighted to have you on this Beautiful Day in downtown connecticut. This is the Barnum Museum. It is in fact the last museum and as we all know he started the enterprise in 1842 and this is the last gift of just the city of bridgeport to the Global Community that we served. Many of you are very familiar with the museum. In 2010, we were hit by a tornado because that is the kind of stuff that happened to barnum. And then a year after that it was hurricane irena and then super storm cindy. I want to also give a shout out to the state of connecticut indoor delegation who really supported the 7 milliondollar bond reappropriation because we are just