2009 by the bbcs katty kay, who was guest host on the the diane rehm show. This is about 50 minutes. Katty thanks for joining us, i am katty kay of the bbc sitting in for diane rehm. On april the ninth 1865 general robert ely surrendered robert ely surrendered robert e. Lee and the sultana sank in the Mississippi River. Alan huffman tells us overlooked story. Thank you so much for joining us. We will be opening a phones a later on in the program, and comments to alan at our email address. Lets start by describing what you have on the front of your book, a picture of the sultana. Describe it to the audience. Alan the boat in the painting is in flames in the middle of the river, and you see a lot of rescue boats and it is night and you see people drifting down the river clinging to debris. It evokes what was going on. The river was full of people. There were 2400 people aboard a boat that was supposed to carry 375, roughly. After it exploded and caught higher, you had people and horses s
Philanthropic community when i joined talking about community diversity, Kaiser Permanente also participated here. They are active and more than just talking about diversity. They are active in putting resources together to join this and fund this 5 million refresh of the plaza. I want to thank walter, the architect. Of course hes famous in his own right. I have known that since my days at dpw but hes taken a refresh on this whole sight and gotting together with partners along with preservation architects and to work with our ocii or our refresh substitute for eliminated redevelopment and have an office of Community Investment and infrastructure to work on this sight and partner with others and take an investment and Historic Preservation experts can appreciate we want to do this right and sensitively and with our neighborhood leaders. There are many people that have come together for the bayview opera house. This is a wonderful announcement today because i think we are doing it in the
Architect. Of course hes famous in his own right. I have known that since my days at dpw but hes taken a refresh on this whole sight and gotting together with partners along with preservation architects and to work with our ocii or our refresh substitute for eliminated redevelopment and have an office of Community Investment and infrastructure to work on this sight and partner with others and take an investment and Historic Preservation experts can appreciate we want to do this right and sensitively and with our neighborhood leaders. There are many people that have come together for the bayview opera house. This is a wonderful announcement today because i think we are doing it in the right way. We are not doing it to the neighborhood. We are doing it with neighborhood and building our neighborhoods spirit up, local businesses, youth, arts, leaders as well. Let me Say Something about the arts committee. I have read many articles that of course suggest a fear among all the arts programs
Third thursday of every month. Please come out and please come and support our businesses along the corridor and come out and share the rich experiences that we have here in the bayview. Thank you so much. [ applause ] before we get to put a shovel in the ground i have a few more thank yous. I have to thank sf mta for their incredible partnership. We appreciate that partnership. As mentioned the department of public works mohammed, Great Partnership and we look forward to breaking ground together and want to thank captain sullivan and his staff for working here at the opera house and i big big round of applause for the Arts Commission staff that have championed this project. When i started 2 years ago, judy said we are putting a shovel in the ground at the bayview opera house. Judy, thank you for all you do at the opera house. Its an honor to work with you. To robert tacayama and crystal who have made this work at the bayview possible. I would like to thank the goldly fund and Kaiser P
In new orleans with katrina and lost many of the people, hasnt recovered the building stock. Its not a good situation. I think we can agree and in san we want to rebuild well and quickly after a major disaster so we have defined what that means for our life lines. How do we need the gasolines to perform and water perform after an earthquake and the building stock as well, so we have the goal of 95 of our homes to be ready for shelter in place after a major earthquake, and that way people can stay within the city. We dont lose our work force. We dont lose the people that make San Francisco so special. We keep everybody here and that allow us to recover our economy, and everything because its so interdependent. So that is a difficult goal but i think we can achieve it over the long time so thank you very much for hosting us and hosting this great exhibit, and good morning and welcome ining to bayview and the Ruth Williams memorial opera house. My name is tom decaneey and from the Arts Co