Around the country on npr. Spring in the mountain, and it blows down to the town. With support provided by bailey and glasser and the West Virginia tourism office, welcome to the Mountain Stage with larry gross. Nonstage is a two hour radio show composed of live performances, musical performances, from all kinds of music. All across the usa and all around the world. The music varies from african bands to oldtime appellation fiddlers and everything in between. Appalachian fiddlers and everything in between. We startedd december, Mountain Stage regular broadcast once a month. Was 26 showsink it later, we were national. Now onto hundred 40 stations in america. From the beginning, our idea was to show as many different styles of music as we could reasonably. That is what we still do. There have been so many folks, many of them before anybody else heard of them. People like lyle lovett and mary shape and carpenter in the early 1980s. Alison krauss when she was 19 years old. We had sheryl cr
The it hearkens back to the days when we had three channels on tv and Nothing Better to watch than lights going on. Its an honor to be with everyone tonight and all across our land. Melania and i would like to wish you a very, very merry christmas. And now the first lady will do the honors of lighting the National Christmas tree. So well count from five down to that very special number. [ laughter ] jimmy which very special number, one . All right, lets see if we request make can make it all the way down to one. Five, four, three, two, one. [cheers and applause] jimmy oh, isnt that great . Look at that. Perfect. And melanias dressed just like the gifts they wrapped, too. Then they went on with music and performers. This is a family fun fest that started in 1923, and in my opinion, peaked when bush was president back in 1989. So we feel a Little Christmas right this very minute candles in the window we need a Little Christmas right this very minute we need a Little Christmas now hey jim
Box. We stuffed him in the closet, and he got out and onto the tree. Its good to have the rat back. You tell the kids not to at t at and then you have this elf, whose job is to tell the parents everything they do. My daughter is determined to impress the elf. Today she brushed her teeth in the living room in front of him. Look at what im doin. And my son bill ey calls santa hoho. Yesterday was selfish monday or cyber monday. I went a little nuts, i woke up this morning with a dozen amazon echoes in my bed. Theres one still in me, i think. Do you think President Trump buys presents for anyone in his life . Not a chance, right . You cant buy things on twitter. The president now is in london, mixing it up with fellow World Leaders at the nato summit. Tomorrow hes scheduled to meet with leaders from estonia, latvia, romainia, lithuania and several other countries hes just learning about for the first time. Today he and the first Lady Buckingham palace. Watch him trying to not walk. Hes kin
Will speak with local authors about the citys history, starting with its link to booker t. Washington. And in about 20 minutes, the Chemical Spill that contaminated charlestons water system and then in 50 minutes, theWest Virginia teachers strike. We begin with booker t. Washington. Booker t. Washington was for 20 years the spokesman and leader of African Americans in america and at the time we had horrible jim crow race notes in the south, that didnt happen here in West Virginia. It was a different sort of Race Relations and what he observed with his heroes was the building of a black middle class and that became his path, his career path as he went from dusky to being a National Celebrity. Booker was born in a place called hales ford south of roanoke virginia, 220 miles from here and in those first nine years he was a slave boy. He didnt have pants. He wore a slave boys shirt, shoes were two wooden slats with a piece of leather across each toe across thetop. He wanted very much to go
Court, and Public Policy events from washington, d. C. And around the country so you can make up your own mind. Created by cable in 1979. Cspan is brought to you by your local or cable satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. The cspan cities tour is exploring the american story, as we take book tv and American History tv on the road. With the support of our link by all teas cable partners, this weekend we travel to charleston, West Virginia. Coming up in the next hour and a half, we will visit notable locations and speak with experts about the citys history, including a home dating back to the early settlement of charleston. Then in about an hour, we will tour West Virginias capital building. Later, we hear the true life story of the movie Hidden Figures. In an africanamerican woman played in putting a man on the moon. We begin our special feature with a visit to the state history museum. Welcome to the West Virginia state museum at the state Cultural Center in c