weeks, a long right. rig i feel great. i fgr i m excited about this. t i volunteered for this.ntee we are honored to have you alongside of us this morning. mg i m honored to be with you.h thank you very much.thank u ve okay. all right, we ve got some snow coming up is that true?hat it is true. tomorrow is the first day ofst d sprung so why not have some som snow mixed in to celebrate,elebe right. oh, it s crazy. c look at that sky, though.ug that s gorgeous.s g we set the clocks forward lastwl week so now a little bit darker in the mornings untiln th we adjust, little bit lighterbii in the evenings so that is a tha beautiful still shot justt jus before sunrise of the o the washington monument.ingt we have some precipitation outpn there already.there already. storstorm tracker radar showinga little bit of snow in westwest virginia just headed into the shenandoah valley, west of front royal out there, some som dean snow coming down east of elkins towards peters
on the web site for years. some people believe darrow was the inspiration for some of the monopoly characters. the only problem is that story isn t exactly true. the actual game originated with a the woman. this woman elizabeth mcghee. so who was she? prior to inventing her game she had a patent for a typewriter gadget. she was an outspoken feminist. she had a lot of views. her father was a gentleman names names names james mcghee who wasn t just an influential newspaper owner that travel with abraham lincoln during the lincoln-douglass debate and was around for the founding of the republican party and was impactful in that. she had also appeared on stage. she wrote short stories and wrote a book of poetry which you can see the plate there for that and she was very impacted by this man henry george. in this room i m sure a lot of people know that henry george and in the very short version i am not a henry george scholar is that he was a proponent of single taxpayer amd of t
the northeast. so on the far left one of the earlier monopoly players was rex tugwell. he later joined fdr s cabinet but was also a teacher at columbia and in the center you have ernest angel who was a national chairman of the aclu. he had been playing the game here in new york and his son roger angel is a writer for the new yorker if you re a great narrative sports journalism fan. scott nearing plays the game, he was a professor at wharton who was involved in a very important academic freedom case. some consider him to be the father of the green movement, so he was far ahead of his time on that one. he probably would have gotten a kick out of brooklyn. art and delaware is a single tax colony where the arden, delaware, was frequented by upton sinclair, and his house in arden was called the jungleo which is a ridiculous pun because his book was called the jungle, and there was this salacious sex scandal that took place. it was played at wharton, harvard, it was played everyw
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