Most historians focus their or inion on virginia terms of the seaport in charleston. Wilmington played an incredibly Important Role during the war. Not many people know about fort anderson. They hear about the forts guarding wilmington during the civil war, to hear about fort fisher and understandably so. The site of the two Largest Naval bombardments of the war, the largest amphibian operation in American History up until world war ii. We have this great earthen fort that is very important in guarding the city. We are here at the Historic Site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The draytons were an important South Carolina family. They play critical roles in the formation and development of the colony of South Carolina. And in the formation of the nation itself. In fact, if you follow their trajectory through the 19th century, you will see the different descendents came apart as well. The family allows us to follow both the birth and development of the carolina colony, t
River every morning. He did nothing to kid would do it. Nast went down for days. Every day he would observe the background. What time the whistle blew that everybody got on the ferry and how it looked and decided what he wanted to be in the illustration. Having sketched in the background and decided on the framing, do when one morning and produced a very attractive sketch that he presented to frank leslie, who of course was trapped by his own hubris and head off for the young man a job. From that moment nast work for the rest of his life steadily. Though not always for steady people. You may already know that one of the problems with frank leslie was he often did not pay people who worked for him, which they did not like very much. He works pretty steadily. First for frank leslie in the for the new york illustrated news, harpers weekly. It was at harpers weekly he built his career. That was the thing that catapulted him into fame. And for a while fortune, though that is a sad story. Yo
They were 40 to 100 slaves in this area of drayton hall. But to run this house itself, the draytons head cooks, butlers, stable hands, blacksmiths. They had carpenters. We have gone through the slave lists and identify the names of these individuals. We have tried to highlight those places that are distinctively african american, like the africanamerican cemetery that dates to the 1790s. We have done careful research to show the area to have been a cemetery. Making it the oldest documented africanamerican cemetery in the nation still in use. Descendents of the africanamerican can any from drayton hall can be interred there. The last person to be interred there was richmond bowens, born in 1980. He died in 1998. He was a remarkable source of oral history for us and that a lot of work in educating people on the cane to drayton hall about this site as he remembered it growing up. Parents and the Africanamerican Community here used the Natural Resources around for medicinal purposes. Acces
Culture. This is an hour and 45 minutes. [ applause ] all right. This is going to make me cry so come on, sit down. Geez, i was just going to say thank you, hard core folks. You know, im really pleased to welcome you to this session, but before i do that let me just say how unbelievably honored we at the smithsonian are that so many of you are here and that all of you that participate in this conference, the papers have been brilliant. We have learned so much, and i just want to let you know how much it means to all of the smithsonian that youre here. So thank all of you so much. I appreciate that. So my job today is to welcome you to the session with that was voted the session with the most unwieldy name. History, preservation, public reckoning in museums, which is translated to mean this panel will grapple with issues and challenges that flow from working at the intersection of history and memory, or put in another way this panel will look at what happens when the past meets the pres
Culture. This is an hour and 45 minutes. [ applause ] all right. This is going to make me cry so come on, sit down. Geez, i was just going to say thank you, hard core folks. You know, im really pleased to welcome you to this session, but before i do that let me just say how unbelievably honored we at the smithsonian are that so many of you are here and that all of you that participate in this conference, the papers have been brilliant. We have learned so much, and i just want to let you know how much it means to all of the smithsonian that youre here. So thank all of you so much. I appreciate that. So my job today is to welcome you to the session with that was voted the session with the most unwieldy name. History, preservation, public reckoning in museums, which is translated to mean this panel will grapple with issues and challenges that flow from working at the intersection of history and memory, or put in another way this panel will look at what happens when the past meets the pres