About flag day and then we realized that in fact there were three flags being stored here and one in the collection of the museum of the American Revolution, two that are the property of an anonymous, very generous owner and lender, who has consented to have them on display for this afternoon. So this is an extraordinary opportunity. Im not sure there is anywhere else on the planet why you can stand in the room and be in the presence of three banners of liberty from the American Revolution. So congratulations to all of you for not going to the beach this weekend or not mowing the grass in the hot weather and choosing to come and sit in the dark with me for about an hour. I would like to start actually with an exercise to get you to think about the role that flags play and the images you have in your minds eye about the American Revolution. And so actually im going to close your eyes for a minute. Because were going to think about how poets and painters have painted the vision we have o
Winter tor museum. Wonderful. Well it is exciting to be here today. This really grew from just an idea that lisa had to maybe just do a little talk on flag day and then we realized that in fact there were three flags being stored here and one in the collection of the museum of the American Revolution two that are the property of an anonymous, very generous owner and lender who has consented to have them on display for this afternoon. So this is an extraordinary opportunity. Im not sure there is anywhere else on the planet why you can stand in the room and be in the presence of three banners of liberty from the American Revolution. So congratulations to all of you for not going to the beach this weekend or not mowing the grass in the hot weather and choosing to come and sit in the dark with me for about np hour. I would like to start actually with an exercise to get you to think about the role that flags play and the images you have in your minds eye about the American Revolution. And s
Sunday night a peco worker is on the mend after falling into a open manhole. And a happy reunion in the nick of time a dog reunited with owners after rescued from death row. Big story on action news what seems like our weekly blast of mess write Winter Weather, sleet, rain and ice could make for tricky travel during tomorrows morning and evening rush hour. After a pretty mild td day today were in for dramatic dip in temperatures and return of seasonal conditions. Meteorologist Melissa Magee at the big board. Its hard to believe were tracking wintery precipitation for some as early as tomorrow. Today it was nice and mild. Milder for second half of the weekend. Check out High Temperatures across the delaware and lehigh valleys. Philadelphia today High Temperature 51. 53 in wilmington and check out High Temperature of millville 61. And now you check out the temperatures this evening most spots in upper 30s, lower 40s. 43 in philadelphia, 43 wildwood 41 in dover. At the freezing mark in po
Thanks to sheffield and members of the at lant at this history and lecture fund and making it possible to for me to come visit again in atlanta, this beautiful jewel of a city. What is pleasure it is to be here especially at the Atlanta History Center, so devoted as it is to the study of the history of this city, of the state of georgia and the United States. It is great to be back again. I wonder if we could have the lights down a bit because we have some pictures to see. Looking back, over 20 years, Alexander Stewart webb, declared, that the battle of gettysburg was, and is now throughout the world, known to be the waterloo of the rebellion certainly alex webb earned the right to speak with authority about gettysburg. He was 26 when the civil war broke out in 1861 and even though this grandson of a minuteman at bunker hill was only six years out of west point, he rocketed up the ladder of promotion to brigadier general, just a week before the union and confederate armies collided in
Next the director of civil war era studies at Gettysburg College recounts the battle of gettysburg which took place between the union and confederate armies on july 1st to third, eighteen sixtythree and resulted in 50,000 casualties. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the conflict. [applause] thank you to all the members of the Atlanta History Center and to the trustees of the living Selector Fund for making this possible, making possible for me to visit again here in atlanta this beautiful joule of the city, what a pleasure it is to be here especially at the Atlanta History Center so devoted as it is to the study of the history of the city, the state of georgia and the United States. It is great to be back again. I wonder if we could have the lights down a bit because we have some pictures to see. Looking back over 20 years, Alexander Stewart web declared that the battle of gettysburg was and is now throughout the world known to be the waterloo of the rebellion. Certainly alex w