We do have available for sale if you want to get signed at the end of the presentation, yes, three children and lives with his wife judy sloven in cambridge, massachusetts and tenants harbor, maine, please give a round round of applause for rogers thanks so much. Its great to see you here. Its great to be here where i lived in the mid1980s when this tour was across the street, but was a haven for book lovers in a town where some people prefer to go to the beach now and then and it obviously the store has thrived so its great to see all of you here. This book is is about the civil war as you probably know and the first point i want to make is really the main point of the book about the the tremendous financial burden that lincoln and his treasury salmon chase took on to finances war. Ill talk about them later in the talk, but they had what i would call a marriage. It was a very fruitful marriage. Not a very happy marriage, but they got the job done much unlike the south and one of the p
To us a little bit about general eisenhowers military service and how he developed into a leader and eventually led to him being president. I always allow our speakers to introduce themselves and tell us what they want us to know about them. So i will turn this over to you, david. David thank you very much. Good to talk with you. I am use to looking into a screen but im talking to my classroom. We just had a three hour class on a president ial speech that broke up several minutes ago and i think for accommodating me. There was a several minute overlap in this program but we were able to resolve it. For myself, i am grandson of Dwight Eisenhower. I have spent a fair amount of time in abilene. Mary is living there now. This is a town that probably more than any other place in america reminds me of the town i grew up in. Gettysburg is on route 30 which turns into route 70 about a mile and a half north of where you all are. In the eisenhowers really shuttled between the two. They lived in
But our current plan is to offer the remaining programs this year both in person and via live streaming. And you can always consult our website for updates concerning the venue. Now sponsor for this Evenings Program is one of our oldest chancellors village. Who have been with us for many years . And we are extremely grateful to them for their continuing generous support. This might be a good time to encourage any of you who may be so inclined to make a contribution to great lives. As the continuation of the program depends on this kind of individual and corporate support. And you can do this by once again going to our website for information on how you may contribute. Now speak of this evening is keith obrien author of fly girls subtitled. How five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history. Keith was born in cincinnati and graduated from northwestern university. Heres a former staff writer for both the boston globe and the new Orleans Times picayune. As a newspaper reporte
To change. I need not say subject to change but our current plan is to offer the remaining programs this year both in person and via live streaming. And you can always consult our website for updates concerning the venue. Now sponsor for this Evenings Program is one of our oldest chancellors village. Who have been with us for many years . And we are extremely grateful to them for their continuing generous support. This might be a good time to encourage any of you who may be so inclined to make a contribution to great lives. As the continuation of the program depends on this kind of individual and corporate support. And you can do this by once again going to our website for information on how you may contribute. Now speak of this evening is keith obrien author of fly girls subtitled. How five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history. Keith was born in cincinnati and graduated from northwestern university. Heres a former staff writer for both the boston globe and the new Or
Its great to see you here. Its great to be here where i lived in the mid1980s when this tour was across the street, but was a haven for book lovers in a town where some people prefer to go to the beach now and then and it obviously the store has thrived so its great to see all of you here. This book is is about the civil war as you probably know and the first point i want to make is really the main point of the book about the the tremendous financial burden that lincoln and his treasury salmon chase took on to finances war. Ill talk about them later in the talk, but they had what i would call a marriage. It was a very fruitful marriage. Not a very happy marriage, but they got the job done much unlike the south and one of the points of the book. Is that is that by taking on this tremendous challenge when when the United States from the union had no financial mechanisms. No currency. No bank, no taxation system doing everything in the south failed to do was really responsible for winning