Between philadelphia and mt. Vernon for a not very president ial reason. With us now is lee around ornol senior director of the library and collections and chief operating officer. Thanks so much for joining us. Its a pleasure to be here. Youre the historical person forgo to facts. Im happy to be here. Ive been with the Historical Society for 24 years and tour guide within the city. Its always amazing that people even locals dont know a lot of the history of their own city and area. One of the first ones starts with the founding of philadelphia and that it was first founded by william penn, a quaker. You already mentioned early that race street used to be called sasa frasthe east west trees were named for trees and north south after numbers and philadelphia was the very first city built on a public grid and public quar system in the United States and also first city that established a street numbering system based on numbers systemically. And why numbers and trees . Its because part of
Rotated his slaves between philadelphia and mount vernon for a not very president ial reason . Hes also a chief operating officer. Dr. Arnold, thank you very much for joining us. You are the goto person for pennsylvania facts. Ive been with the Historical Society for over 24 years. Im also a tour guide within the city. Its always amazing that people, even locals, dont know a lot of the history of their own city. One of the first ones starts with the founding of philadelphia, founded by william penn and william penn was a quaker. Part of that is street names. Ray street used to be called sassafras. The east west streets were named after trees and the north south streets were named after numbers. Philadelphia was the very first city built on a public grid and Public Square system in the United States and were also the first city that established a street numbering system based on numbers. And why numbers and trees . Its because part of his quaker philosophy. Theyre the plain people. You
Much about the America President s. Host author Kenneth Davis come out where did the dont know much about the american president s series of books come from . Guest welcome to the idea for the series came from my own little brain, although it didnt turn out as a series, peter. It started out with the idea that i loved American History, wanted to write about it. I wanted to write about in a way that shared my enthusiasm for a subject ive loved since i was a small child. The title came of course you and sam song, which i knew from childhood and so it got stuck in my head. And certainly the success of the book, which caught me by surprise more than anyone else perhaps led to the beginning of the series. She outgrew followed and on and on it went from there. So with no pretensions of writing a series of books, i didnt set out to write this book because simply a loved American History. I couldnt understand why we have these surveys that to 17yearolds dont know their American History and i w
One of the things you read and learn about other children of alcoholics in that family dynamic is a childlike bill clinton begins to feel like he has the responsibility of appealing to that family conary teaming, creating on her with various dishonor. He basically said that to be the person whos going to rescue the family. Hes an incredible student, front of his class. He becomes active in worst nation, a junior at american region, gets nominated to go to washington as a quote, unquote nation candidate for u. S. Senate. Goes to washington. Hes 36 feet tall. He strives to the front of the line when they go to the white house to see president Kennedy Kennedy finishes his speech, bill clinton looks voting gets his picture taken with alongside of john f. Kennedy. He so proud and he already is dedicated to the idea that he is going to be the person who will bring complete honor to the family. He already by the age of 17 is planning to be elected attorney general of arkansas, then governor o
Resilient Community Arts to open new spaceEASTHAMPTON Resilient Community Arts will unveil its new expanded space on the second floor of Eastworks, Studio 238, 116 Pleasant St., on Saturday at noon. There will be art activities for all ages,.