Well, everyone, you very much for coming. Welcome to the American Legion. Were going to lay down some ground rules. Please kindly remain seated and quiet at all times. Set your phones to vibrate. Airplane mode. Please hold your questions till the end and. Well have a questions and answers session at the end. Books are available for sale afterwards, and if you dont mind, take a photo of your purchase and then put it on social media of theres also were at the American Legion and they are the volunteers here they try to accommodate us as best as possible. So you dont mind, please step in while without further. I present to you jack cashill 13 presentation for cc pan booktv. Awesome awesome. If you notice alexs sure gear is for a reason were in ocean county, new jersey which is Center Central to the whole theme of the book as well talk about in the second. But the fyodor dostoyevsky, the great russian once said tell the story of your village. And if you tell it well you tell the story of t
Booktv he could find us on Twitter Facebook and youtube. And Rebecca Boggs roberts who had joined together to write a book called the suffragist playbook. If you can take a look here, you will learn about this book more important you will learn about the suffragists and what they did, how they did it, some of the encouraging things and some of the discouraging things as they as they were working on a. So the idea is that we can learn a lot from suffragists and that the suffragists with the first to doo a parade down pennsylvana avenue, the first to pick the white house andow now we see tht as commonplace. To let me tell you about these two women. Lucinda robb was the project director for our mothers before us, we meet and democracy, 1789 hyphen in 20 at the center for legislative archives here and this project we discovered thousands of overlooked original documents and really she helped to organize the National Archives in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the 19th amendment in 1
Well come. Welcome to San Francisco James R Herman cruz terminal at pier 27. The first stop for all most 300 thousand people who come here every year from around the world to our beautiful city. I want to tell you about another jewel of the San Francisco port that just celebrated 125 years. The San Francisco Ferry Building. [applause] in the 19th century, commuters and visitors traveled by train or ferry or both. A Ferry Terminal on the waterfront downtown was a practical necessity. It was the sfo of its day. Grand central station. But as we so often do, San Francisco built a practical space a world class beauty, with a 245 foot clock tower along arched arcade, and a interior worthy of a renaissance cathedral. At the foot of Market Street, a beautiful bridge from water to land, the Ferry Building announced to every commuter, every traveller, this is San Francisco. You have arrived. Until that is, [applause] until that is, in the late 1930s when two new bridges the bay and golden gate a
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The first time that happens so you know really trying to sit in that complex and nourish us in ways that enable to make lifelong commitments to the work important to me. Well, thank you. Thank you, everybody. Give it up for your name and i just want to say its been such a pleasure to work with you and be on your journey with you. Youre a person of courage, integrity and grace, so thank you much. Give it up again for gift and you well, everyone, you very much for coming. Welcome to the American Legion. Were going to lay down some ground rules. Please kindly remain seated and quiet at all times. Set your phones to vibrate. Airplane mode. Please hold your questions till the end and. Well have a questions and answers session at the end. Books are available for sale afterwards, and if you dont mind, take a photo of your purchase and then put it on social media of theres also were at the American Legion and they are the volunteers here they try to accommodate us as best as possible. So you d