Not willing to spend the money. They knew they could be skipped if they did not. We will continue questions downstairs. Also signings of the book. Lets continue downstairs. For our panelists. Robert, a tired, and john todd andrlik is a publisher of raglan did, it is always a treat to be in this store it is a wonderland. About five years ago a friend suggested that i share rightabout ms. Green. [laughter] i said to . She was called the which up on wall street. She was interesting but finance and wall street . Then it was 2008. And everything changed the stock market collapsed collapsed, realestate prices plunged and we were in a financial panic i started to think more about ms. Green and how shes survived ms. Green and how shes survived many financial crisis. There were no diaries then i remember something that was said that nice girls keep diaries. Bad girls do not have time last laugh and hetty green was bad. Now with men but many. She was consumed with money. Born in massachusetts 18
London chronicle was the issue in which they announce the repeal of the stamp act and one of the ways that the stamp that, or one of the causes of the repeal to the stamp act is the boycott of British Goods and what that did is in essence, it made the london merchants become american lobbyists lobbying parliament for the repeal of the act. And so you read in the london chronicles how the london merchants were celebrating and how, as soon as the doors to parliament opened the london merchants had a commissioned ship, a light, fast ship ready to speed across the atlantic and tell the americans all their customers, that good news. You can stop boycotting. Exact. [laughter] there was after the boston massacre, there was a brief discussion and boston town meeting. Should we send the captain, a ships captain and he said i will carry this report to london. The boston meeting discuss this and they decided they couldnt afford it. Said they didnt put their money towards that in the royal governm
Fivehour presentation for your this evening, and decided to scale that back to a more manageable 45 minutes. So ill start by saying this, without newspapers, there would have been no American Revolution. Newspapers are what fanned the flames of the rebellion. They sustained loyalty to the cause, they provided Critical Response during the war and aid in the outcome. Historians know this very well. For 200 plus years, the historians have referred the footnotes. What this book was inverts the traditional history book taking the newspapers that have been in the footnotes and places them at the forefront for general readers like you to enjoy full access and newspaper from the period. The process for putting this book together was quite a journey for me. I started out as enthusist, then became a collector, then became an educator through a website called rag lynn. Com and through the book. The story how i discovered historical newspaper happened about five years ago. My wife and i took our f
Which brings me to the last subject, what i would call paper preservation discoveries. Prior to 1870, before the transition to woodpulp, newspapers were printed on raglinen stock, paper made of linen rags, primarily of the facts of the colonists, what people wore as close. Also shipped sales. These rags were boiled and pulled and ultimately sifted into these sheets of paper. The durability of that paper plays a significant role in their preservation, and that today we can find 250 year old newspapers that are in better condition than, say, last weeks boston globe which is probably already yellowing and bill. So thanks to the raglinen paper on which they are printed, thanks to the institution that bound them into volumes, we have these wonderful printed accounts of what transpired during the American Revolution. What i tend to do is i also look for newspapers that others might consider trash, where they are extremely eat up. They have holes, theyve lived a long life, and through fire an
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