An honor and pleasure to have you here for us to begin a series of conversations that we hope will be a blessing to many. For thisthi evening is to create a cap conversation about the lee jackson windows and the larger issues of race and the legacy of slavery and our nation. Know the recent history of events regarding these windows, i invite you to read about that history in the information we provided for you within your program on tonights conversation. This is the first in an ongoing series of conversations over the next two years intended to foster conversation and a deeper understanding. While the leadership of the cathedral made the decision to remove the confederate battle flags from these windows, the larger question of whether the windows should stay in the sanctuary or be moved to a different location was intentionally left open for a period of two years so we might engage in conversation and education around the difficult issues of race and our history and our present life t
250 years people have come to the forks of the ohio, the place for the Allegheny River comes together to form the ohio river. It is a place where ideas have converged. Now follow me and lets take a look at 250 years of pittsburgh innovation. 20,000 years ago, people started coming to north america. No one is native to north america. They all came from someplace else. About 30 miles west of pittsburgh is a place called the meadow cropped rock shelter. It is deal decided human habitation in north america. Representative of those first people in western pennsylvania. Arrivedfirst europeans they found native peoples here. Peoples who settled at the confluence of the three rivers. When George Washington arrives in 1753, he wanted to meet queen alaquip. She was a chief. She was probably already in her late 70s or 80s when 21yearold George Washington arrives. 21yearold washington was six big and strong with red hair. He was trying to build a career. The governor of virginia hired him to come
The west, prior to st. Louis being the gateway. A pittsburgh native who took the art world by storm. A visit to the andy warhol museum. He grew up in pittsburgh. He was born in 1928, the youngest of three siblings. He grew up really religious. They revise and team catholics. Byzantine catholics. We begin at the Heinz History Center for the look at innovations created right here in western pennsylvania. Pittsburgh is an amazing place. It is a city with a tradition of innovation. For 250 years people have come from all over the world to the forks of the ohio, the place for the allegheny and monongahela river comes together to form the ohio river. It is a place where ideas have converged. Now follow me and lets take a look at 250 years of pittsburgh innovation. 20,000 years ago, people started coming to north america. No one is native to north america. They all came from someplace else. About 30 miles west of pittsburgh is a place called the meadow cropped rock shelter. It is the oldest s
Next, a look at our recent visit to pittsburgh, pennsylvania. You are watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend, on cspan 3. Countryitsty is the placeu will were the Allegheny River comes together informs the ohio river. Its a place where ideas have converged. Follow me, lets take a look at 250 years of pittsburgh innovation. 20,000 years ago people started coming to north america. No one is native to north america. They all came from someplace else. About 30 miles west of pittsburgh is a place called the meadow cropped rock shelter. It is deal decided human habitation in north america. This figure is representative of those first people in western pennsylvania. One the first europeans arrived they found native peoples here. Peoples who settled at the confluence of the three rivers. When George Washington arrives in 1753, he wanted to meet queen alaquip. She was a chief. She was probably already in her late 70s or 80s when 21yearold George Washington arrives. 21yearold w
Live where you live, this is abc7 news. Tonight searchers are looking for a missing kayaker in the San Francisco bay. Good evening, im eric thomas. Thank you for joining us. The kayaker was in the water in south San Francisco off oyster point. We have developing details. Reporter right now this search is being coordinated by the fire battalion chief sitting inside that red suv, and in the darkness there are a number of rescue boats from post sides of the bay involved in this search. Theyre searching for that kayaker who was reported missing this evening just before 6 00 p. M. Right now were confident we have a lot of resources out there and a lot of well trained folks with a lot of good technology. Were hoping for a good outcome. Reporter at one point there were eight rescue motor boats and two aircraft. Theyre searching a pretty extensive area stretching from candle stick point in San Francisco all the way down to the san mateo bridge in foster city and beyond. Earlier this evening a