my excellent panelists that they should be recruiting their time it. i was working on a book about a celebrity or writer of the very earliest 19th century, who among other cultural qualities, suffered from addiction to opium. sidebar, he blamed it all on his many years of school teaching in virginia, which i think we can all appreciate that. he wrote that there is a disheartening and monotonous drudgery in teaching that silently but fatally saps his constitution, big numbs his faculties, and converts the fuel of enthusiasm into melancholy. opium was the solution, and who can disagree? in writing about his laudanum habit i found it necessary to rethink my own ideas about addiction. he and his contemporaries spoke of opium as his demon, acknowledging its addictive qualities, they also tended to say that his real problem was melancholy itself. since the publication of the alcohol at republic in 1979, scholars have explored the extent to which 19th century americans wrestled with
shirleen, those who knew joyce craig-lewis said she loved her job, she was one of 150 women in the department but she didn t care about gender, she was only concern about being the best fire fighter. she was a ironed to this fire station but she was working overtime at engine 73 which responded to that fire. in your mercy grant us a blessing and holy rest. reporter: tonight outside engine 64 in the lawncrest section of the city a community prayed for this firehouse and fallen fire fighters, 36 year-old joyce craig-lewis. she tried to do her best what she thought, you know, just trying to be a hero, always wanting to save lives. reporter: she spoke about her sister in law, lawn dale married mother of a 16 year old son and 16 month-old daughter lost her life battling a 3:00 a.m. basement fire on middleton treat in west oak lane. fire fighters were in that dark smokey basement but they pull back. craig-lewis didn t make it out. she knock down some doors, barriers, she
plans grab the umbrella and rain gear because we are going to be dodging some of those light showers. timing everything. you can see as we roll the clock by 8:00 p.m. we re still looking at pockets of drizzle and showers some of the heavier rainfall south jersey and delaware. look at what happens overnight. saturday 3:00 a.m. we re looking at that rainfall really starting to spread in and overtake the area and temperatures will be dropping, too. right now it s 60 degrees in the philadelphia area. the sun will set this evening at 6:29. so if you re stepping outdoors, it s going to be a little chill. grab the rain gear. temperatures dropping into the upper 50s that steadier rainfall arrives overnight. we ll talk about when it finally moves out, also, how it could impact temple homecoming and also what to expect as we move into sunday for the eagles game. all coming up iain and dawn. thanks, scott. the weather authority of course tracking the rain and you can, too. to see a li
welcome, and thank you for coming to the roundtable, with the unwieldy and yet highly evocative title drugs, alcohol, and the gendered and racial experience of addiction in the early republic. i am carolyn eastman, and i m pleased to inform you that the subject of this roundtable proved evocative enough that c-span is filming us right now. a fact that gives me an additional opportunity to remind my excellent panelists that they should be recruiting their time it. i was working on a book about a celebrity or writer of the very century, who among other cultural qualities, suffered from addiction to opium. he blamed it all on his many years of school teaching in virginia, which i think we can all appreciate that. he wrote that there is a disheartening and monotonous drudgery in teaching that silently but fatally saps his constitution, big numbs his faculties, and converts the fuel of enthusiasm into melancholy. opium was the solution, and who can disagree? in writing about his
action. we ll not allow the handful of loolters to danger the community. that curfew goes in affect and mike to bin is in ferguson now. mike what is the mood now? reporter: you can hear people playing drums. ground 0 for all of the demonstration. you have got the people out here doing their thing and their numbers are increased more and more as the process went on. and captain ron johnson is going to have a challenge with the multijurisdictional force. he has to enforce the curfew and wants to do it without the repeat of the scene we have seen it ever like we saw it last night. that heavy handed use of the police force polarized the community and critized for not stopping the looter. it is two hours straight. wait a minute. store owners. hey, don t talk over. store owners have their own firearms. what we have police guarding our homes and businesses? what we are doing now is not who we are. captain johnson explains why they came out with force. several officers