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i m jamie colby, and i m in the berkshire mountains on my way to great barrington, massachusetts. i m meeting a woman whose ancestor played on one of the great teams in the early days of baseball. his picture is on her strange inheritance, which may just be the world s oldest baseball card. my name is florence sasso. my great-great-uncle archibald mcmahon was a member of the 1860s atlantic nine baseball team. i inherited this card from my mother when she passed away. hi. i m jamie. hi. i m florence. heard you have a great story and a very strange inheritance. also heard you re a new york girl. yes. i m from queens. i m a brooklyn girl. uh-oh. 75-year-old flo lives alone and runs an electrolysis business from her house. what a lovely home. she explains that fate has handed her a very unusual inheritance in the form of a 2 1/2-by-4-inch antique baseball card. oh, my goodness. is this what i think it is, florence? may i touch it? sure. look at the players.
A last way to think about this is name a monument that has changed the world. A few. Name a monument that has moved you to tears. Think about it, though. My answer is one down the street. As a historian you just finished, right . Im sorrsorry. Sorry, sorry. I would just like to say despite the numbers game and the allusion to a newschannel that shall not be named, i do believe in the power of historians. I do believe we need to speak up and speak out. We need to be writing at our local and state levels as well as national levels. And it takes historians to be a little more proactive, not just wait to be invited. And so thats why ive been speaking out, and i think that more historians ought to be doing that. And thank you. If you google karens name and Washington Post and one or two words, youll get that plea. That would be the one or two words . The piece i dont know if that was that or the New York Times. The New York Times. The New York Times. Oh, that was the cnn piece where i said
Acres. And it is a village setting in many respects, but within that village every structure houses an amazing selection put together or collected by electr webb, who was our founder in 1947. She amassed an amazing collection, which the Shelburne Museum houses amongst its 39 or so pilgdinbuildings. Its just a plethora of objects and collections within collections to see here, from impressionist art to weathhethe weathervanes to cigar stores to the largest item she collected, which was the tikonderoga. Whats interesting about the ti, it was built in 1906. Which was really wi, as you loot it from hindsight, the cusp from the steamboat era to internal combustion engine. And when they built her, they didnt realize that this perhaps might be the last boats built for Lake Champlain, but she was one of 29 steamers built for the lake. And she was the last one. Basically operated on Lake Champlain as a day boat. The lake is over 125 miles long, but the ti ran from the vermont shoreline over to
National archives. In 1942, new guinea was divided into two territories. Pap papua, new guinea was under british control, the island has mountains reaching to 16,000 feet. Port morsby was the only military base in the country. The japanese control the entire island except morseby from their large beach at rabaul, new britain. Night raids were also common. It took the allies 2 1 2 years to eliminate the japanese from the island. General mcarthurs leap frog tactics neutralized many of the enemy. Our chaplain conducting Easter Services in northern australia, 1943. We are 600 miles south of ft. Morseby, new guinea, or fourth fighting squadrons, had just returned from new guinea. These are air corps personnel preparing to embark on another trip to new guinea, our third to enemy action. Barracks back were a good portion of these men were airplane resection people. These are pilots and ground officers getting their first promotion. Note the variety of uniforms. Mostly australian clothing, inc