Jagged edge takes its title from f. Scott fitzgerald who is the author probably most famously of the great gatsby and if you remember your gatsby from back in high school or college you will remember nick carowinds is from minnesota. He went off to war and this would have been world war i and when he came back he decided that he thought it would be sort of dull to move back to minnesota which he saw as the ragged edge of the universe and he decided to move to new york and he got nixed up and arrained 20s on long island with gatsby and all that cast of characters from his book. In the end when he sees what happens to many of these characters he begins to see the ultimate west where he came from as the warm center of the world and so that contrast is what i tried to draw out in my new book book, warm center to jagged edge. In the decades after the civil war the midwest was seen by many commentators as the pacesetter region, the place that is the most active the place where there were som
The exciting new book the strange career of William Ellis the texas slave who became a millionaire is so important. The university in new york where he lives with his wife and son. The work which includes the previous books develops the carefully crafted details to address the largest issues in American History and shaping human cover relationships. It brings to life an elusive figure known as w. H. Ellis. It strips away the layers surrounding ellis revealing a long ignored history of slavery and emancipation of racial mixing and segregation. The National Boundaries that rendered mexico and the United States and several elements of a shared north American History so please join me in welcoming carl jacoby. [applause] i thought id give a very brief overview about the book and i wanted to read a short excerpt for you and then we will have a short conversation up here and we wanted to get some questions from the audience if that sounds okay with everyone. It jeff Columbia University and i
We saw a man in custody, police had them handcuffed, and they took them away in a police car. Tracy carloss news 5 live in euclid. Now to the story everyone is talking about, the first president ial debate. Yes, they are. We are calling trump on how the governor and former candidate john kasich thinks that his partys nomie with us for what Party Leaders and voters are saying today. Rob . Yes, through social media and the press last night as they did so face to face. They thought clinton won. 27 gave the debate to trump. Most of those people identified themselves with a disclosure as democrats. But today both nominees did their victory laps while most trump took to twitter to declare he was the winner sharing a collage. And getting continued support though from Party Leadership today. I saw Hillary Clinton give a polished wellrehearsed defense of the status quo, which seven out of ten americans dont like. I saw donald trump give a spirited voice to those of emerging in front of us the p
Together for one last ride. It strikes a nerve with everyone who rides a bike. It is the kind of thing this Community Never wants to have, a ghost bike ride. Today is a sorrowful day for the community. Hundreds and hundreds of cyclists came together to give Michael Prater s last and final ride. It is empowering to see this many people are coming out. Just a s show of support. Anchor the hit and run crash which killed the father of two children hit close to home. The driver had Drug Paraphernalia in her suv. There was nothing michael could have done to prevent this. It could happen at any time. It is a scary thought. The white ghost bike is there is a vivid reminder. Bicycling is about people. Whenever people are involved you have experiences like this. Riding bikes was a way of life. Now that his life is gone his life is being honored with the passion he had. We are sad to be here but it is a coming together of the community. Reporter a gofundme has been set up for michael s wife and y
This is video shot just about 2 hours ago. As the watch their mens basketball team. Xavier is the number 2 seed in the 2016 big east tournament at Madison Square garden. Xavier finished second in the big east regular season race. And will play its first game at 7 thursday night against the winner of the first round game between marquette and st. Johns. Our joe danneman is hitting the road as well. Hell bring you starting thursday. Only right here on fox19 now. An ohio man may have trumped the cookie monster on cookie monster on this one. Police say a man stole around 600 dollars worth of Girl Scout Cookies outside of a wal mart. The girl scouts were using the money from the cookies they sold to go towards a trip to tennessee. A gofundme account has been set up for the troop. Troop. Spring break is nearly here for their families. And many of them will take to the skies to reach their spring break destinations. The tsa says its ready to effectively screen the tsa says its ready to effect