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CSPAN2 Chief Engineer September 9, 2017

Series. So id like to thank quay and devon who currently run the program here and remind you there are several more coming up in july and august. The next is powerhouse arena with sarah girard and hannah tente speaking. A little bit about this book and about erica wagner. As you can tell from the backdrop here, this is a great topic for this setting in Brooklyn Bridge park. You know, not most great monuments dont have, dont inspire great writing, but i would say the Brooklyn Bridge is an exception to all of that. You know, from hart crane, you know, to many other poets and writers and notably to the nonfiction writer David Mccullough, there have been really inspired writing on this subject. And err can ca wagner is right up there erica wagner is right up there. What shes done with this biography of Washington Roebling is even remind everyone how even though she was the son of he was the son of a designer, he was the person along with his wife who got it through, you know, a dozen or so

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CSPAN2 Chief Engineer October 1, 2017

When i want to give up, he helps me go on. I know that nothing can be done perfectly at the first trial, he once wrote. I also know each day brings its middle quota of experiences, which, with honest intentions, will lead to perfection after a while. So thats just a little bit about how this remarkable structure came to be built all those years ago. A structure that has endured with some but notmuch alteration from that day to this. I thought id read you also a little bit from the book. As i mentioned in my talk, Emily Roebling washingtons wife was a truly remarkable woman. When he became very ill in the 1870s, the episode i just read to you was the beginning of his sickness. He got much, much sicker after that. In 1973 and 1875, he really thought that he would die. He didnt die. He remained in control of the bridge but emily was his extraordinary mn events is, helping him, going down to the Bridge Consulting with the other engineers, truck talking to the trustees, doing all the compli

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CSPAN3 The Brooklyn Bridge January 14, 2017

He is best known throughout new york for the series of video walking tours presented by channel 13, including the Emmy Award Nominated shows 42nd street, broadway and harlem. He lectured at numerous vienna venues, including columbia, university of pennsylvania and smithsonian and Harvard Graduate School of planning and architecture. We always like to ask everyone to turn off cell phones and electronic beepers. Now lets give barry lewis a warm welcome. Thank you. [applause] professor lewis i dont need that. You know me. Im all over the stage. Actually it is interesting there it i had people talking to me about the lecture. Im not really talking about the the Brooklyn Bridge as much as brooklyn. New york would never admit it needed brooklyn but it needed it. Again, just in case people were not here, its a series of three lectures. I did the first one about a month ago. Remember new york and Staten Island becomes a premier city by the 1820s and 180s. 1830s. 60,000 in manhattan in 1800 and

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