And to have cspan here taping this to show on television is just icing on the cake. My job tonight is to introduce the two people on the podium who will be conducting this conversation. Jane henderson is the book editor at the st. Louis post dispatch. She grew up in st. Louis and graduated from the university of missouri columbia with degrees in journalism and english literature. She cut short her grad titstude work to go to work as a copy editor. After three years in the newsroom in connecticut, she returned to st. Louis and has been an editor and writer with the post dispatch features department for 30 years. She assigns and edits book reviews choosing from 300 or so new books each week. Tonight she will be having a conversation with Caroline Frazier. Caroline frazier is the editor of the library america edition of Laura Ingalls wilder, the little house books. Her latest book is prairie fires, the American Dreams of Laura Ingalls wilder. It was one of the New York Times ten best book
Here before. You all know the history of the historic home of d. C. s most successful brewer. We are not going to be talking about him today. This is a special story for us about Myrtilla Miner. Myrtilla miner opened a school. Ere 1853 Myrtilla Miner who was a white woman from new york moved down here and built the first africanamerican Teaching School for free africanamericans in washington, d. C. This is before the civil war. It was also called the minor school for colored girls the miner school for colored girls. She established the school in 1851 with 100 in her pocket. Most people thought it cannot be you bere and worse that arrested or killed when she told them what she wanted to do. Although she rallied support of abolitionists and others that sympathized with her cause, when she came here it was her own independent project. She mightght that have been some kind of tool of the abolition movement, really she came on her own at the start. Schoolst established the by the force of h
Historic home of d. C. s most successful brewer. We are not going to be talking about him today. This is a special story for us about Myrtilla Miner. Myrtilla miner opened a school here. In 1853, Myrtilla Miner who was a white woman from new york moved down here and built the first africanamerican Teaching School for free africanamericans in washington, d. C. This is before the civil war. It was also called the miner school for colored girls. She established the school in 1851 with 100 in her pocket. Most people thought it cannot be done here and worse that she could be arrested or killed when she told them what she wanted to do. Although she rallied support of abolitionists and others that sympathized with her cause, when she came here it was her own independent project. I had thought that she might have been some kind of tool of the abolition movement, really she came on her own at the start. She first established the school by the force of her own will, something which is unimaginab
It is raining and parts of northeast ohio, not everywhereer and didnt expect it to be a complete washout but will be periods of heavy rain. We had showers that were pretty much through by about 5 30 or so and then have been in that role out over the lake and throws back into ashland and Richland County is. There is the morning convection into northwest pa and then can see how itn is backing up into north ridgei will into avon lake about to getwil doused with the rocky river, north olmsted, brunswick and down into medinan with decent rain. A bit of cloudground lightning will definitely hear thunder and downtown cleveland with thunder anda whether in the next 20 minutes orth so would visibility down to a mile and a quarter and the heavy rain would mike thises looking was 71 degrees and cleveland. It is 15 degrees warmer than yesterday at this time and had many 40degree temperatures are crossed and lined and the we do not start to see those come down and tell perhaps monday morning. Look
Come into Steak N Shake for handdipped milkshakes. Better yet, at half price during halfprice happier hour, weekdays, now two to five at Steak N Shake. New at Steak N Shake 24 meals under four dollars. With handcrafted steakburgers, allbeef footlongs and fresh guacamole made from scratch. Get 24 meals for under four dollars. Huge staff become. Summer is wrapping up, we have to make them to. It will not bring the entire time but professor ralph ofph whether on the way in which a pretty day it was, wasnt it gorgeous yesterday . 83degrees for a high and can see as theg afternoon wore a long ad a few lowlevel clouds of the american cast a shadow on the ground but radar, mor t shadows also this is not up yet, but it is rain and can see the showers from this morning, do you hear the thunder this morning, it was loud and another round offenders the way, in between weather systems right now or two areas of brain, not necessarily weather systems with one front off to the east in the morning bat