She hates me nor saying that. During the symposium i find it to face a topic close to home here in alexandria. Katherine gruber is from the jamestown georgetown from the university of Mary Washington and from the college of william and mary. Shes contributed to the valley of permanent garleries in yorktown including liberty fever, a special exhibitusion careator including early virginia which i highly encourage you to go see before it closed in january and forgotten soldier, open now through march 22nd, 2020. Kate will present her topic. So please welcome my good friend kate gruber. Well good afternoon. So you have to get through me before we can get to happy hour so ill try to make that happen with as much alack ritity of possible. Mark twain said it best. Clothes make the man. Little men little to no influence onsite. And the more i like about people, the more i like my dog. Also, he dressed like this. [ laughter ] so why dont we go to the british author Robert Campbell who wrote in
Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Yes. And the presidency of Washington College . Which i think are actually the five happiest years of his life. I think when he goes to lexington first of all, he leaves behind all of the virginia that he had once known and which, really now for him is dead. And he goes to the valley where the social milue is more Stonewall Jackson than robert e. Lee. But there for the first time in his life, hes got a free hand to do what he wants to do. Its not like being superintendent of west point, where the chief of the corps of engineers was always looking over his shoulder. He is free to be the kind of person he wants to be, and he is extraordinarily successful as a college president. Hes a very Progressive College president. Hes getting rid of all the old curricula. Hes bringing in studies in journalism, in engineering, in law. Hes doing the kinds of things in the valley that Charles Norton elliott is doing at harvard. Hes cutting edge in terms of ped goejy.
War era Study Program and did graduate work in university of pennsylvania where he focused on the history of religion. He holds a master of divinity degree. His roster of publications is so long im not going to try to read them all to you. You can go to his website to get a full accounting of not only his publications but oerjt sail ient elements of other saileint elements of hig biography. Im going to offer five books i think is pertinent. The first is called Abraham Lincoln published by william b in 1998 and the first of allen lincolns prizes. Lincolns emancipation pags proclamation end of slavery in america. Publish in 2004 brought his second lincoln prize. Lincoln and douglas the debates that define america. 2008. Some reason didnt win the lincoln prize. Faithful lightening new history of the civil war and reconstruction came out from Oxford University press in 2012 and the 5th title i will mention is is gettiesburg the last invasion published in 2013 which brought a third lincoln
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End of the day right now even though you dont see visible flames they still have their hands full. You can see up on the hillside, this was a new development that took place about a minute ago we saw them come over the ridge line and look at that theyre coming down so looks like a change. Ive shifts so more firefighters are being thrown at this. This is called the call wein fire because its on colleen drive and blossom avenue and then well zoom off in the distance look at the hillside now that the sun is up you can clearly see the damage from this fire look at that has charred on the side about 90 acres burned. We should get new containment numbers very shortly as they usually update at around 7 oclock in the morning. Let me show you video this fire happened late last night this is a very populated area and it quickly spread through the very dry terrain we havent seen rain in a long time so it didnt take very long for this fire to spread. Why they think this was arson so quickly theyre