Nonfiction become award from the mississippi utah letters. S and he has a book out and you can our bookstore at battlefield center. Introduce to dr. Timothy smith. [applause] i appreciate the opportunity to here. I have always heard about the time. And this is my first i heard how nice it was and im a believer now. A great place here and i appreciate the invitation to here. We will truck about the western talk about ing to vicksburg, Champion Hill. To vicksburg . Been how many to Champion Hill . Not as many. A good number. Champion hill is one of those fields and watching the news and listen to the Civil War Trust they tlefield are doing a lot of work there. The state of mississippi just several Hundred Acres to the National Park a unit of the Vicksburg National Military Park going on this at Champion Hill. We will talk about that battle the larger r, Vicksburg Campaign just a little bit. A power point either. Im a little bit old fashioned. Do have a map of Champion Hill that we will t
A few Health Issues and not able to travel right now. One of the great collectors, folks connected with the Shenandoah Valley battlefields. Two people who are very important to me, sarah has made all of this work behind the scenes. She is constantly making sure that something needs to be done and it gets done. You need someone like that. Last but not least, my wife elizabeth. Elizabeth has come down from virginia to join us. What i will do is move into my part of the presentation. We are going to talk about the leadership. We focused in the past about various aspects of leadership that included areas outside the late unpleasantness, as we like to say so we do not step on any toes. One of the issues we wanted to deal with was the civil war leadership we first talked to coach about setting this up, he said i do not mind you talking about anything else but i want something on the civil war. Today, we will pretty much focus on that. We have done different figures and we will do different f
Our stops by going to cspan. Org citiestour . They were very bride wheels compares the careers in leadership start want tof the things i make sure before we go into our , is to thank those of you who have come from other and some of our supporters. One of the people not with us today but is a life member an honorary member of our board is James Robinson junior. He has had some Health Issues but he is recovering and i know he is back on the speaker circuit. Nick who has also had a few Health Issues and not able to travel right now. One of the great collectors, folks who hut is folks connected with the Shenandoah Valley battlefields. Two people who are very has made to me, sarah all of this work behind the scenes. She is constantly making sure that something needs to be done and it gets done. Like that. Meone last but not least, my wife elizabeth. Elizabeth has come down from virginia to join us. Into myill do is move part of the presentation. We are going to talk about the leadership. W
It built the thing that destroyed itself, the car. We built the car to leave the city, so isnt that ironic . Just 40the richest years ago. We were the richest city, and now we are the poorest, and now you cannot buy a cadillac in the town settled by cadillac. So what happened to detroit happened. I am more interested in what is going to happen and if i can make it better for all of our kids, and im interested in that. There used to be so much money here. They talk about the saturday night drives up and down woodward, and you got a new car every other year, and there were so many jobs that you could go across the streets to the other supplier i get another job until your boss to screw it. We were rocking. We had the greatest schools and graduates, so we did not take advantage of it because cars were our life and then things changed. After the oil, people did not want the cars. The cars were made poorly, right . The japanese and foreign car started catching us. Factories started moving o
We learned about the Music History of the city. Once again as they once were. We are in a place called 54 sound. We are in what a sickly is and still is the main music studio. Where George Clinton recorded a number of his albums. All of the music would come out of this room here. This is where the romantics recorded, and others to all over the years. Place. A pretty Iconic Detroit music does center around motown. Interestingly, motown is the middle of the story. A part of all the stories, of the other genres of music. Plays a big role in the sound of detroit. It is known for motown, but known around the world worse for some of these other areas as well. This is starting around the 1920s and into the 30s. Detroit was becoming the automotive epicenter. Before that detroit was a major manufacturing city. They were famous for ovens and even cigars and things like that. The car company turned into whenssembly line thats people started migrating up here. Musicians started to migrate up here