All bound by a simple set of principles, we want to be able to deliver the best quality, highest Speed Broadband to all americans regardless of where they live. We have work to do because there still are americans out there that dont yet have broadband and were aligned to make sure that we can actually provide ubiquitous access to all americans. Its a great mission. Peter what are some of the companies you represent . John than just this month, i was able to fly out to alaska too spend time with alaska communications, flew down from there to western new mexico with western new mexico communications. Both focused on Rural Communities and extending nextgeneration Broadband Services to them. All the way up to companies that are national in scope and ision. From at t and verizon, and centurylink and consolidated. Frontier, windstream. Its a consortium of companies that are very different and different vision Business Models but are bound together by a single vision to get more broadband ou
Were going to talk about sort of the nuts and bolts of the things that the people would have experienced in if they ry day lives were seriously effected by problems of that decade. I dont normally use images one this but im using this for a reason. Grandma survives Great Depression because her supply was local and she knew how to do stuff. Hats a really important concept and well come right back to it at the end of class as well. Is sort of the theme for the day. Now in terms of what were going to talk about. Were going to start with an problems ofwhat the the Great Depression were for people and the depths of the problem. Were going to talk about how coped in terms of work strategies and about the process help in the case of a disaster like this. Were going to talk about families fed and what do people actually do to try and ut food on the table in the middle of a collapse like this. Well talk about how it changed americas food habits and did starve . Impacts the real sort of of the G
To feature the history of cities across america. Here is a recent program. I represent a third of the geography of new york state, i wide swath of upstate new york. It is steeped in revolutionary war history. Saratoga springs, i represent half of saratoga county. When you grow up in a state new york, you truly grow up around our nations founding history. The battle of saratoga was one of the most important titles in the world because it turned the tide of the revolutionary war. For school kids growing up, the fact they can learn about saratoga battlefield as part of their curriculum and actually visit the battlefield with teachers or family, it is so tremendously powerful. This district is very independent. If you look at many of our local and federal elected officials, people vote for the individual they think will be the strongest advocate for their communities and region. I think i reflect the viewpoints of the district, and i think i also reflect my generation. If you were to ask m
Partnership as we have successfully completed several matching room projects, including the new room and 2014, room last week, and underway the front parlor, hopefully to open up next year. Tom has led critically important projects, stabilizing the iconic couple of and the staircase. He spearheaded the Historic Building information model, not to mention spending several nights in the new room counting and charting every nail and nail hole in that floor to answer the question is it the original floor . I am glad he has a job and not me. John holds a ba from the college of william and mary. Aba and classics from the college of william and mary. With continuing studies at the American School of classical studies at athens and the university of North Carolina chapel hill. Focus to shifted his more classical concerns of historic preservation, earning an and a from George Washington university. Prior to coming to mount vernon, tom served as architectural historian and administrator of histor
Among the judges was merrick garland, a former Supreme Court nominee and chief justice of the d. C. Circuit court of appeals. This is an hour. Thank you and good evening for joining us. The winter mock trial is presented by the group we call ourselves the bar association. It is the Infinity Group that has lawyers a try to do toething more productive support theatre in all kinds of ways. Theater is what we are using the stage for. Beingnight is currently performed here. It runs until the 20th. [applause] i hope, if you havent seen it at least twice, you will consider coming. 12th night, by the way, is not how long it takes for the reconciliation action reconciliation act takes. Stranded on the coast of elyria, viola and her twin brother sebastian become separated. While viola assumes the costume of a page boy named cesarean to be the page for duke orsino, she finds herself at the center of a very explosive love triangle with a sophisticated they are wrong to think of us in that way. In