Stephenson, president and ceo of the museum of the American Revolution speaking tonight, this talk is entitled among his troops , chords of memory. Scotts broad public history spans nearly 3 decades and has been marked by professional and public acclaim for his creator in the audiences. He developed and elaborated on exhibits, films and interpretive programs were numerous historical sites. Including colonial williamsburg, thesmithsonian , National Park Service George washingtons not vernon, pines History Center and museum of the cherokee indian. From 2007 the team hestopped lebanon of the museum resolutions were both media experiences and mieducational programming as well as overseeing the care and expansion of its rich collection of artifacts. He served as president andceo of the American Revolution. Tonight you will hear from scott about the history and significance of George Washingtons mobile field headquarters that sheltered their first commanderinchief during the revolutionary wa
Good morning today is thursday, february 4, 2016, this is the regular meeting of department of Building Inspection Commission id like to remind everyone to please turn off all electronics and the first agenda is roll call commissioner president mccarthy commissioner melgar commissioner konstin commissioner clinch commissioner lee commissioner president mccarthy here again commissioner walker. And i think. Did i call everyone. Commissioner gilman i apologize everyone is present and accounted for we quorum and our in relation item is item 3 general Public Comment im sorry president s announcements. Good morning and welcome to thursday, february 4, 2016, the day before st. Patricks day i want to welcome everyone and wish everyone a st. Patricks and early happy st. Patricks day for you who enjoy enjoy the annual event and thank you. The staff for joining camp mather tang in her district and answer peoples questions about permits programs like legalization and soft story retrofitting and ot
Here again commissioner walker. And i think. Did i call everyone. Commissioner gilman i apologize everyone is present and accounted for we quorum and our in relation item is item 3 general Public Comment im sorry president s announcements. Good morning and welcome to thursday, february 4, 2016, the day before st. Patricks day i want to welcome everyone and wish everyone a st. Patricks and early happy st. Patricks day for you who enjoy enjoy the annual event and thank you. The staff for joining camp mather tang in her district and answer peoples questions about permits programs like legalization and soft story retrofitting and other matter the neighborhood dbi welcomed the opportunity to inform homeowners and tenants and customers about the policy procedures and program and supervisor tang conveyed her appreciation the newsletter they tagged tom chu and others as well as William Strong so thank you special thanks to why who is one of the key managers at dbi Central Permit Bureau who was
Number of books on the arts and history, among them being the birth of virginias aristocracy and Thomas Jeffersons enlightenment. After his presentation, there will be a q a and mr. Thompson will be happy to sign copies of his book. Please take the opportunity to explore our library and museum with its new exhibition, remembering the american to 1890. N, 1776 period rooms31 detecting life in early america. All these resources are free and open to the public. Without further ado, please welcome jim thompson. [applause] jim thank you, mark, for the fine introduction, and thank you all for coming today. I appreciate you joining me and learning with me about billy lee. Im going to begin with a couple brief comments about my background and my approach, my view of the past, and how i research. Then im going to talk about the book. Im only going to focus on a couple aspects. Im going to focus on the first point is, how was George Washington related to billy lee . I believe they had a family b
D he gives grant basically a twopart requirement, first to Bring Organization to the union war effort. And secondly to defeat the army of Northern Virginia. And grant goes about making it possible to carry out that charge with a vengeance. First he put together a Program Unlike any the war has yet seen. He realized up to this point battles would last a couple of days and armies would pull apart for months. Grant would not let that happen anymore. They would fight them until they were destroyed. He also realized the old goal of capturing territory didnt make sense anymore. Hence the goal would be to destroy them and only by doing that could the rebellion be brought to a close. And finally he realized they had to move together so the confederates couldnt shift from one theater to the other. We are going to see opening campaigns in the east grant riding with the army and in the west under the direction of grants close friend and subordinate general sherman and these will be bat thals will