Host Rachel Louise martin the story you tell in your new book, a most tolerant little town, centers around clinton tennessee in the 1950s. Where is that and describe what it was like . Guest clinton is right on the edge of the mountains that make upppalhia. It is about anof knoxville and it is right on the gateway to coal mining country. Host if you and i were there in the 1950s what kind of a community would we find . Guest it was an interesting place in the 50s. It was very mixed up about itself. On one hand it was a small rural southern appalachian town full of coal miners and farmers and local business people. But it was also 7 miles from oak ridge, which was a secret city built as part of the Manhattan Project that built the first atom bomb and it was also about seven miles from nora stamm. Norris dam. So while it was isolated and small it was also very connected. In 1956 it was the sort of place that oak president ial candidates felt like they had to go and Campaign Even though t
Host Rachel Louise martin the story you tell in your new book, a most tolerant little town, centers around clinton tennessee in the 1950s. Where is that and describe what it was like . Guest clinton is right on t appalachia. Tains that make it is about an hour north of knoxville and it is right on the gateway to coal mining country. Host if you and i were there in the 1950s what kind of a community would we find . Guest it was an interesting place in the 50s. It was very mixed up about itself. On one hand it was a small rural southern appalachian town full of coal miners and farmers and local business people. But it was also 7 miles from oak ridge, which was a secret city built as part of the Manhattan Project that built the first atom bomb and it was also about seven miles from nora stamm. Norris dam. So while it was isolated and small it was also very connected. In 1956 it was the sort of place that oak president ial candidates felt like they had to go and Campaign Even though there
Good evening im the exec difficult director of the society of the cincinnati. Its my inestimable is pleasure to introduce our speak this evening. This is his book, he is going to talk to us about it. The book is the road to concord. Or how four stolen cannon ignited the revolutionary war. He will defend that premise for us a bit later, but i want to tell you what my reaction to this book is. Ive had the opportunity to read it already. Its one of three books i read cover to cover. I dont read it quickly. The reason is, first, it is extremely well written. It is graceful prose of an oldfashioned sort, and it is wonderfully researched, what i was taught in graduate school to refer to as a revisionist work of history, that is all good works of history if theyre original are revisionist in some way, but hes telling us a new story about the coming of the revelation in massachusetts. This book is a reflection of two things. One really good oldfashioned history writing of a kind that we dont s
Take the roar out of snore. Yet another innovation only at a sleep number store. Just put down sandbags and hope for the best. With all this rain parts of pasco county plagued by flooding. Look at that. At least one road under 30 inches of water. Dont be fooled. There is no other donald trump. What you see i Hillary Clinton bringing her economic message to st. Pete today. Hear what she said about her plans for jobs and taxes. Very frustrated. Not knowing whats going on. Travel trouble for delta flyers. Hundreds of Flights Canceled or delayed today after a power outage knocked out its computers. Youre watching fox 13, and the 10 00 news starts now. Mark im mark wilson. Were glad to have you with us. Mike is in for paul tonight. What are we looking ought now . We had a break during the afternoon and evening hours today. This is a look at 24hour rainfall totals, and its pretty impressive. This doesnt include what fell yesterday or on saturday, either. You can see some locations where you
Some rain down by sarasota. I want to bring your attention we talked about these strong winds. This caught my attention a few minutes ago. This is an Emergency Action message that requested a civl emergency message. This is transmitted at the request of the florida Emergency Management agency. Citrus county, dangerous coastal flooding possible. Monitor media county could be as high as 4 to 8 feet later on tonight as hurricane hermine passes west of them, but theyre obviously closer to the center. The satellite presentation continues to improve with the developing eye, and heres some wind gusts. As i said, 41 in st. Pete, 35 in 23 in tampa, 20 in brandon. On average between 40 and 50, which is by definition tropical theres a satellite radar composite. You can see the storm spinning just south of apalachicola as a down one. It looks like if you look at the clouds and we had discussions about this last night, you see the clouds moving to the east. You may think the hurricane is going the