Our second presentation this morning is by jake wynn. Jake is a director of interpretation of the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office museum. Also the National Museum of civil war medicine. He worked on a number of civil war related jobs and in fredericksburg and spotsylvania. This talk is entitled discovering Clara Bartons missing Soldiers Office. Mr. Wynn. Thank you very much. Hello everybody. Good morning. I am so excited to be here this morning, talking about something i am very passionate about. The story of clara barton and her role during the american civil war. I am the director of interpretation at the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office and museum and the National Museum of civil war medicine. I will explain how that connection works in just a bit. I wanted to introduce what i am going to be discussing today. Can we see a show of hands, how many of you have heard of the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office museum before . How many have been there . Excellent. I am glad to s
2015 graduate of hood college in frederick, maryland. Focusing on public history. Worked in a number of other civil warrelated jobs and also at fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park and also writes on the history of pennsylvanias coal region in his blog, winning histo history. This talk today is entitled discovering Clara Bartons missing Soldiers Office. Mr. Wynn. All right. Thank you very much. Hello, everybody. Good morning. Im so excited to be here this morning and talking about something that i am very passionate about. The story of clara barton and her role during the american civil war. As was said, i am the director of interpretation at the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office museum and the National Museum of civil war medicine. Ill explain a little bit about how that connection works here in just a bit. I want to talk a little bit just kind of introduce what im going to be discussing today. I would say, can we see a show of hands how many of you have heard of
General Services Administration wanted to sell many of the buildings on this block that they had owned. Because this was old and dilapidated, they decided they wanted to demolish it so i developer could come in and build something new. The thingsiscovered in the attic, third floor, they decided that the space was so historically important that they wanted to save the space instead of destroy it and build something new. Staircasee original that clara used that has never been renovated or changed much at all. Just a few repairs done to it. So when you walk up the staircase, you put your hand on the bannister, you are walking in Clara Bartons footsteps. She did this for about eight ,ears during the civil war era which he operated a missing soldiers office. Eventually, she and up leaving because her house became she ended up leaving because her house became so poor and exhausted from the work she had done that she couldnt climb the stairs anymore. So she ended up moving out late in decembe
Interference. Thats the verdict on jo bidens Foreign Policy. As the u. S. President is criticized for not resolving domestic issues with hello 6 am here in the russian capital from wherever youre catching us. Welcome to the program. Im carol isabel with R T International to top news stories us our Israeli Armed forces and Palestinian Militants have exchanged massive rocket and air strikes tonight. Thats those tensions in the region mounted after tel aviv struck the gaza strip, killing at least 10 people in response to the israeli strike, the Palestinian Islamic jihad claim to have launched a 100 rockets from the gaza strip towards israel, while elevates that at least 50 rockets were fired, air raid sirens were heard in the south of the country, a defense correspondent for the israeli. I 2004 news channel brought us up to speed with my latest. A very tense night to head for the residents or for the guys a border communities here around us with a concern that there will be many, many mor
Graduating senior Edward Shaw III of the College of Natural Resources and Environment got a taste of the limelight this past year during a nine-month internship…