Things that are uniquely ours. So, whether its our history, our cultural, the great beauty of this country, the diverse beauty of this country. Without it, in absent the federal support for it, i think much of it would be in a fragile state. I think my first exposure to a National Park was yellowstone. My family was traveling across this country in 1960. We stayed over in yellowstone. I can remember waking up and seeing a wolf out in the woods. Again, so, a beautiful, beautiful landscape. Ive been to yosemite in california. More than anything, the scale is just so different. But each park is so unique. I dont think one is like another. Is the tapestry of them all really a remarkable contribution to this country. This past thursday, the National Park service celebrated its centennial. We talked to members of congress about the parks and Historic Sites and their states. This is American History tv, only on cspan3. Monday on the communicators, author Malcolm Darpa isibes how working for w
Ye linear deposit of hardware and nails and buttons and coins and actu actually the deposits of artifacts out there were so dense and we found glass ware and ceramics and based on the date range of them, i was fairly certain at that time that we had identified the site of the slave quarters associated with it. We did not have any funding for archeo logical research. What we are looking at is what we call structure b or the six of the structure laid out in a row. The way it manifests itself is a foundation of the stone chimney. It is i am lamsimilar of what yn the secondary house there. It is a cshaped that formed the foundation for the chimney. You can see two smaller stone pee pe pierce which would have form the corner of the building. So actually some intermediate pier as well. So they probably were one story or a story and a half buildings, they measured about 20 by 34 feet in dimensions of external chimney in the south elevation. Very simple and expediant structure that was constru
Here at the farm. We were aware there had been at one time a substantial enslaved population. We knew a little bit about the family and their origins and their relocation here to maryland but what we didnt know was very much more than that about the family. We had very Little Information about the enslaved population and certainly one of the Key Research Questions with regard to the Archaeological Research was where were the 90 enslaved People Living. I had a graduate student working with me. Part of her Thesis Research focused specifically on the family occupation, trying to understand their origins and the context of their relocation to maryland. She managed to uncover a pretty obscure account written by a polish expatriot in the end of the 18th century. He was a diarist. He kept a travel memoir of all of his travels. He happened to travel on the georgetown road which we know today as maryland 55. At that time, it was further to the west. Closer than where it is today. He was traveli
But what we know today as the best farm forms the 274 acres of what was originally a 748 acre plantation. That plantation was known as laramie todge. It was established by a family of french planters who came to maryland in 1793 from the colony known today as haiti. The family was called the Vincent Deere family. They came to maryland to escape civil Unrest Associated with the slave uprising that begin in 1791 and also with the french revolution. The best farm was acquired by the National Park service in 1993. Its a fairly recent acquisition. Beginning in 19981999 is when we started doing a substantial amount of historical architectural and Archaeological Research here at the farm. We were aware there had been at one time a substantial enslaved population. We knew a little bit about the Vincent Deere family and their origins and their relocation here to maryland, but what we didnt know was very much more than that about the family. We had very Little Information about the enslaved popu
Not seeing the flag because hell pose a question. O say can you see and does that starspangled banner yet wave over the land of the free and the home of the brave . Hell also answer that question in the second verse where he will say on the shore dimly seen through the midsts of the deep. And hell later say in full glory reflected it shines on the stream. tis the starspangled banner or the land of the free and the home of the brave. So key does see the flag. He sees it the morning after the battle. Key puts into words what everyone really felt in their hearts. Private douglass described that september morning about the flag going up. Another private, isaac monroe said Yankee Doodle played as the stars and stripes, the starspangled banner as the garrison cheered from these ramparts. There was a mutual feeling that an important morale victory had been won. What did it all mean . When word got out to the peace negotiators in belgium, that the americans held in baltimore, that really almos