Covering this week. Many of these events are open to the public. Look at them to air in the near future on the tv on cspan2. Senator lamar alexander, someone asked you for a recommendation for a book about tennessee or tennessee history, what would you recommend. Guest i would recommend alec stewart, by john griese. Alec stewart was a cooper, its a barrel maker. He lived up maker. He lived up in Hancock County which is one of our remote counties and John Rice Irwin is the creator of appalachia and he interviewed alex stored about his life. He was a a remarkable man. He can make anything. He could pull teeth, he he could catch a squirrel, skillet, fright, eat it. He was so interesting that he was invited to washington to be part of the smithsonian folk festival on time. If you want to get a sense of how some Mountain People lived and totally off the land, alec stewart, john reiser. A lot of things politicians from tennessee, that janes couple of president s andrew jackson, what about bi
What is conveyed on the back as well as on the front. Because you were forced at that time with the people at that time were forced to write things in a very short, succinct format it gives you an indication of what they felt was important. In many cases is very different from what we feel is important today. In some cases its very much like we do. They tend to stick with, in the words of joe friday, just the facts. They really believe that conveying the most important thing more important but it is you are real idea of what things, what people, what events were important in their daily lives. That kind of a window is very often a tough thing for historians in particular to get an idea of. Thats one thing in particular that i think the era has been able to document in ways that you may not have been able to document the errors are a maybe even in the air is since. For more information on booktvs recent visit to port huron and the many other destinations on our cities door go to cspan.
He wrote a book not as many people know about. It is a short book and i think it is about the role of religion in america. I read polks diaries. He sat down and must have with a quill pin, this was 1840s, and he wrote sometimes lengthy notes, probably 1011 at night. Something like senator houston showed up at 9 p. M. For an interview. Took a long time but where read it all the way through. I dont know of any president who has written such detailed diaries. What is counterly on your reading list . I am reading a book at robert nole wrote. It is the biography of alex haley. He was a tennessee man and he is in the news because this is the 40th anniversary of roots which people may have forgotten was the best watched Television Show ever. About 85 of the American Television sets watched some part of roots in 1977. Alex haleys book is about slavery really told it in su such in terms that had not been presented before. When that was combined with the movie it just jolted the country. And it
You can watch previous episodes on our website. Senator lamar alexander, if somebody asked you for a recommendation about tennessee or tennessee history what would you recommend . I would recommend alex stewart by john rise erwin. Stewart was a clipper who is a barrel maker and lived in hancock county, a remote county. John rice erwin is the creator ofhe museum of appalachian. He could make anything. He could pull teeth, catch a squirrel and skin it, fry it and eat it. He was so interesting he was invited to washington to be part of the smithsonian folk life festival one time. If you want to get a sense of how some Mountain People lived totally off the land, alex stewart by john rice erwin. Host a lot of famous politicians from tennessee. Poke, a couple president s like jackson and johnson. I mentioned two, john meechamp best book. He wrote a book not as many people know about. It is a short book and i think it is about the role of religion in america. I read polks diaries. He sat down
Center in 2001. This Brooklyn Historical Society Program is about an hour. Welcome, everybody. It is so great to see the room full like this. Im marcia eli, Vice President of programs at the Brooklyn Historical society. And we are really, really excited about tonights program. I just wanted to say very quickly that if you are not familiar with Brooklyn Historical society, it was founded, we were founded 151 years ago. And it was the middle of the civil war. And a group of prominent brooklynites realize they were witnessing history. And decided to take it upon themselves to found this organization in order to steward that history. And this building actually was built as the Historical Society and opened in 1881. When it opened, like we have here tonight, it was a place of civic dialogue. In fact, back then this very room had an auditorium and thought leaders came here and spoke. Right here where we were standing, president Woodrow Wilson spoke. Dr. Arthur conan doyle spoke. Senator Henr