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command talksal about the naval warfare in the american revolution. he describes how ships in the colonies fought not just in the as far away as the mediterranean sea and the indian ocean. this event was sponsored by the society of cincinnati. it took lace at the engine house in washington dc. good evening. my name is kendall casey and i am the museum education manager for the american revolution institute and i am pleased to welcome you to anderson house. the american revolution institute promotes the knowledge and appreciation of the achievement of american independence, for filling the aim of the continental army officers who founded the society in 1783. the institution supports advanced scholarships, conduct public programs, and makes resources available to teachers and students to enrich the understanding of the war of independence and to the principles of the men and women who secured the liberty of the american people. if you are not out our public program mail ....
institute promotes the knowledge and appreciation of the achievement of american independence, for filling the aim of the continental army officers who founded the society in 1783. supportstution advanced scholarships, conduct public programs, and makes resources available to teachers and students to enrich the understanding of the war of independence and to the principles of the men and women who secured the liberty of the american people. if you are not out our public program mailing list and would like to be, you can fill out the form you found on your chair. we also have our fall public program out front if you don t have a copy and would like one. pleased tom introduce dr. dennis conrad, who will speak about the changes to naval warfare during the spring of 1778. conrad as a historian at the naval history and heritage command. as a editor of the naval documents of the american revolution series, and is one of a raters of of se rai the american revolution. he is c ....
for the american revolution institute and i am pleased to welcome you to anderson house. the american revolution institute promotes the knowledge and appreciation of the achievement of american independence, for filling the aim of the continental army officers who founded the society in 1783. the institution supports advanced scholarships, conduct public programs, and makes resources available to teachers and students to enrich the understanding of the war of independence and to the principles of the men and women who secured the liberty of the american people. if you are not out our public program mailing list and would like to be, you can fill out the form you found on your chair. we also have our fall public program out front if you don t have a copy and would like one. tonight i am pleased to introduce dr. dennis conrad, who will speak about the changes to naval warfare during the spring of 1778. dr. conrad as a historian at the naval history and heritage command. a ....
we re celebrating the tenth anniversary of the henry a. wallace center, so welcome, very glad to have you. a couple of housekeeping matters before i introduce our speaker.e one is will you, please, all out take out your cell phones,ep pagers, things that beep and the pone and turn them off moanda and turny. them off. the second thing is i want to thank our colleagues at c-span who are filming live from hydeou park to the, so thank you to them for h being here andprog supporting our programs.then and finally, let me just go over the format of the session. as those of you who have been here many times before know what our speaker will do is speak for about to 30 minutes, then we ll have 10 or 15 minutes for questions and answers, and i ask would ask that for the questions you would come up and line up and stand at the microphone, and then mr. persico will call ontin you for questions. and then after the question and answer period, we ll escort mr. persico out to the lob ....
many years later, long nap during that you family plan, my father writing the attend the airshow. while there he began into an old friend from work. the man looked at me and said i work next to your dad at the desk for 15 years. i said hey, you re the guy i ve been looking for. i want to know, what did my father do every morning when he went to work each day? he got very quiet, thoughtful and then he said, a little of this, a little. that s the day i discovered my father had been doing more than just holy all those years. he d been repeating the party line that all engineers with secret clearances had been taught by their employer. but if the knowledge of my fathers daily vocation was meager, it was even less with my mother. i ve been told that my parents had worked together for a while at rocketdyne, although different departments. i know shortly after my younger brother stephen is born, another retired to become a full-time wife and mother. over the years i heard betw ....