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i m in seattle, headed toward the ballard neighborhood. it s an upscale area once known for sawmills and commercial fishing, and just down the road is one man s strange inheritance and a story with a hollywood ending. my name s barry martin. i inherited a tiny, hundred-year-old house from a little old lady. if there ever was a real-estate niche, this is one. hi, barry. i m jamie. hi, jamie. nice to meet you. i meet barry in front of this little house. yep, this is it his strange inheritance. it s just 600 square feet, and it s now surrounded by a huge shopping mall a mall that the unlikely heir in this story helped build. who leaves this to somebody? well, edith left it to me. edith? yep. love to learn more. okay. come on. barry explains that when this house was built over a hundred years ago, ballard, washington, was the shingle-mill capital of the world, with 20 mills producing 3 million shingles a day. there was fishing on elliot bay there ....
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we talked about the actual wars and fighting and the times when the cold war got a little hot. today we are talking about the cultural cold war prerhaps or te war over culture and the fight for influence. so in that context jazz really comes to the forefront. we are thinking about why that guy is running around in the congo and why they are traveling to far flown places of the world like pakistan and south asia. what are they doing there? we ll talk about big ideas. i want to talk about this. who is that? armstrong. yes. you were probably hesitant to say. you know who it is. there he is. you can t miss that smile and that gaze. you know, he gaives people that gaze when he is talking. probably america s most prominent jazz musician during this whole period. certainly when it starts and also before that. he already toured europe commercially and he was prominent figure but just american culture generally. and so before we get into unpacking this image the reading wa ....
for influence. so in that context jazz really comes to the forefront. we are thinking about why that guy is running around in the congo and why they are traveling to far flown places of the world like pakistan and south asia. what are they doing there? we ll talk about big ideas. i want to talk about this. who is that? armstrong. yes. you were probably hesitant to say. you know who it is. there he is. you can t miss that smile and that gaze. you know, he gaives people that gaze when he is talking. probably america s most prominent jazz musician during this whole period. certainly when it starts and also before that. he already toured europe commercially and he was prominent figure but just american culture generally. and so before we get into unpacking this image the reading was from a different book than this. it is kind of extract this part that deal with africa. you got jazz and the cold war in africa. the rest of this book blows up the world. fabulous book. i re ....
i m jamie colby, and today, i m in seattle, headed toward the ballard neighborhood. it s an upscale area once known for sawmills and commercial fishing, and just down the road is one man s strange inheritance and a story with a hollywood ending. my name s barry martin. i inherited a tiny, hundred-year-old house from a little old lady. if there ever was a real-estate niche, this is one. hi, barry. i m jamie. hi, jamie. nice to meet you. i meet barry in front of this little house. yep, this is it his strange inheritance. it s just 600 square feet, and it s now surrounded by a huge shopping mall a mall that the unlikely heir in this story helped build. who leaves this to somebody? well, edith left it to me. edith? yep. love to learn more. okay. come on. barry explains that when this house was built over a hundred years ago, ballard, washington, was the shingle-mill capital of the world, with 20 mills producing 3 million shingles a day. there w ....