An a ante bell um. Please welcome the 15th director of st. Johns church. Welcome, good evening. My name is rob fisher. I am thrilled to our friends at the White House Historical association asked you to provide space for tonights conversation. Stewart asked if i would share history about this historic room, so i will share that this church was completed in 1816 not only did he decide this church, he was working on rebuilding the white house he belt the Decatur House, and if you go and sign the Decatur House, you look up, its a similar it was built as a greek cross, so an even four sides. Just six years later in 1822, they expanded the building to make room. We dont know who the architect was tragically latrobe had already died. If anyone is in interesting of helping us solve the mystery, we would love to know, the belltower is a very beautiful addition to the church. Indiana side the belltower, it houses a bell forged by paul reveres son, its stamped 1822, boston revere. Its not the on
I am the rector of st. Johns church, and i am thrilled that our friends at the White House Historical association asked us to provide space for tonights conversation. Stewart asked if i would share a little bit about the history of this very historic room that you are sitting in tonight and so i will share with you that this church was completed in 1816. The architect was Benjamin Henry latrobe. Not only did he design this church, he was working on rebuilding the white house after it was destroyed by the british in the war of 1812, and in 1818 he built Decatur House which is now the home of the White House Historical association and if you go inside the Decatur House and you look up, you see a very similar entrance. It is almost like a miniature of this dome that we have in our church space and the Original Church was built as a greek cross. So it was an even four sides and just six years later in 1822, they expanded the Church Building to make room for more seating. We dont know who t
Interpretations at monticello. In previous live streams, i am they got behind the camera reading questions from our audience as they come in, so we can engage with you while we are talking to our first person, interpreter actor bill barker, who portrays Thomas Jefferson. We wanted to do Something Different this week. Given the National Conversation and given that it is all around been aknow 2020 has challenging year. Monticello has been closed. We reopened this weekend. And in recent weeks in the united states, millions of arele all over the country actively fighting for equity against different forms of racial injustice, whether it is raciallymotivated Police Violence or raciallymotivated monuments, memories. It is a conversation that we must engage in. Weking here at monticello, are a site for memories. Monticello is a plantation where over 400 people were enslaved. We decided that to have a conversation, we would do something that we havent done. And i am sure everyone knows that wh
Look live our sutro tower camera. And at the lighthouse there in santa cruz its going to be nice. Temperatures going to climb to near 80 degrees at the beach, 55 near the delta. Less breeze today but chilly this morning. Upper 40s in santa rosa and petaluma. Low 60s by 9 00 in oakland and warm through the 70s and 80s. By 2 00 weve got the low 90s returning, so thats about 5 to almost 10 degrees warmer today in our inland valleys. Around the bay maybe 7 degrees warmer. At the coast our sea breeze will pick up. Itll be breezy there but tonight we wont see much in the way at fog. Well track that forecast, but the cooler week ahead coming up, liz . Okay, lisa, thank you. And new overnight contra costa fire crews were responding to at least 13 fires. There were four fires in the span of 30 minutes that involved two cars and two homes in concord. Firefighters quickly got the flames under control, and fi fireworks are being blamed as well for a grass fire in pittsburgh off highway 4 in ludrid
Women where they could wield a great deal of political power. Here, Dolley Madison would sit at the head of the table and direct the conversation. She got these people to the white house and entertained them, got them together, got them talking. This is very important for dolley to make everyone feel welcome. Whether they were enemies or allies. Dolley popularized the style to american fashion, that was considered her classic look. People noticed it. The octagon, it was the perfect setting for james and Dolley Madison as they try to resume government as quickly as possible. She sat side by side with madison for almost 20 years during his entire meant, helping him compile his papers. She moved back to washington d. C. And became a grand, very much behind the scenes in the political field again. As henry clay said, everyone loves mrs. Madison, and then her equally famous response, thats because mrs. Madison loves everybody. Dolley madison came to her service as first lady with the experi