Esthetic, maybe amendment hesic, maybe a better word would be snobbery. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Welcome to lynchburg, virginia, on booktv. Located in the foothills of the blue Ridge Mountains along the james river, it has a population of about 80,000 people. Founded in 1757, lynchburg was named more its founder for its founder, john lynch. The city is home to poplar forest, Thomas Jeffersons private retreat. And with the help of our Comcast Cable partners, for the next 90 minutes well feature the citys Literary History beginning with poet ann spencer. Ann spencer was a poet, an american poet mostly associated with the harlem renaissance period in 19241945. How she becomes part of the harlem renaissance is how harlem comes to lynchburg. Unfortunately, theres a whole group of people who are associated with that period of time like ann spencer that people dont know about. Ann spencer was born in 1882 in henry county, virginia, which is southwestern vir
This house has now been changed a lot. We only had four rooms in it and no Running Water. We had a faucet on the outside. Theres a couple who lives here now, they allowed me to come into this house when i was writing my book, because i wanted to see what it looked like on the inside. And nick, and i forgot his wifes name, they said its the best of all possible worlds. And i said the same thing when we lived here. My brother said this was the best years of his life he spent here on 10 mckinley street. We knew that we were poor. I grew up in poverty. I knew i was poor, there was no doubt about that. When we lived on mckinley on polk street, at 76 polk street, we had Running Water inside, but we didnt have any electricity. And i was standing, i would sit on our front porch and look across the street to the patricks house, and they had electricity because they had a light, a porch light. And i said, well, we dont have a porch light. Why dont we have is electricity . We just cant afford tha
Which no one in either party, establishment of Neither Party responded to. And donald trump reached out to them. Whether they were wise to look to him as their trip and thats another can we can debate that. I have debated my relatives and friends in west virginia, but he noticed that those people were forgotten, or left behind, or look down on, were held in contempt, war was waged on their economy and he benefited. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Welcome to lynchburg, virginia, on booktv. Located in the foothills of the blue Ridge Mountains along the james river and has a population of about 80,000 people. Founded in 1757 lynchburg was named for its founder john lynch. The city itself to poplar forest, Thomas Jefferson and private retreat, and Jerry Falwells Liberty University. With the help of our Comcast Cable partners come for the next and humans will feature the cities local authors and its Literary History beginning with poet anne spencer. Anne spencer
We must unite. Michelle hours after the explosion airport and train stations around the u. S. Stepped up security. We have Team Coverage of the brussels terrorist attack from the airport and metro to the city and social media. Lets begin with Stephen Tschida live at Dulles International airport. What are you seeing there . Stephen michelle, security is visible at Dulles International airport. Those heading to europe saying despite the security they are still on edge. 200 flights to brussels have been canceled or diverted. That includes the flight to brussels. United airlines was canceled. Number of passengers scrambling to get out in alternative modes of transportation. Strong presence in response to this group of missionaries arrived in brussels en route home to oklahoma before the attacks. But they have come through the site of the bombings. Canceling. Its, we are still in shock. Its pretty hard to fathom now. Its hard to wrap your brain around. At the United Airline ticket counter t
Albeit with regret. That the sort of rhetoric republicans adopted long ago is now tainting the democratic contest. Are you qualified to be president of the United States when youre raising millions of dollars from wall street and greed, recklessness and illegal behavior helped destroy our economy . Look, let me be clear. This is not the type of politicings. I know its what the media loves. Its not the type of politics i want to get in. Let me also be very clear. If secretary clinton thinks ive just come from the small state of vermont and were not used to it, well get used to it fast. We will fight back. Well, secretary clinton, she, this morning, laughed off any of that criticism from senator sanders, adding she will continue to point out contrasts between herself and the senator from vermont. I understand Bernie Sanders says youre not qualified . Well, its kind of a silly thing to say, but im going to trust the voters of new york who know me and have voted for me three times, twice f