Shouldve been evacuated and more radiation was released and officials acknowledged that the Nuclear Industry in the u. S. New leader Tory Commission downplayed the seriousness of the event. This is just over a half an hour. Thank you everyone for being here. I am honored to help coordinate the 40th anniversary of the 3 mile island conference with dr. Holly angeli. I helped coordinate the 35th anniversary my first year teaching at penn state harrisburg. I was doing my phd at the university of British Columbia in canada and i was readying cosmopolitanism that has a lot of syllables in it, i was reading a book by ulrich beck, a will that risk and he was talking about events that Transcend National boundaries, they become be on the nation and cosmopolitan. One of the things he referenced in examples of this were Nuclear Power plant explosions. I was reading his book and i was writing on cosmopolitanism in at this time, the Fukushima Nuclear disaster happened and that really altered the foc
Gundersen argues that the harrisburg area should have been evacuated their weird more radiation was released evacuated. More mediation was released than originally acknowledged. This is 35 minutes. Thank you, everyone for being here. I am honored to help coordinate the 40th anniversary of threemile island conference with dr. Holly angelique. And have to coordinate between teaching atr harrisburg, i was doing my phd at the university of British Columbia in canada and i was cosmopolitanism. I was reading a book by Ulrich Ulrich beck called a world at risk here he referenced the nuclear accident. So i was reading this book, and at this time, the Fukushima Nuclear accident happened. It really alter the focus of how i was going to joke about research. Anism in my i worked on publications do they with fukushima and also helped with the 35th anniversary conference here with threemile island, and it was just an uncanny coincidence but i found myself working at the campus location close to thre
operation and the home was passed down through several generations of the myers family. we toured to see the furnishings and learn what life was like the prominent merchant family. hello. welcome to the moses myers house. moses myers was born in new york city in 1752 and he made his fortune as a maritime merchant. he did serve as an american revolutionary war veteran and as a direct result of his efforts, he unfortunately suffered his first bankruptcy. that bankruptcy that caused him to move away from new york city here in norfolk, virginia. we think he chose perfect for three important reasons. norfolk was one of the most prominent colonial seaports. that was very important in his business life. norfolk had been burnt to the ground during the american revolution. we were rebuilding and he was it was ag his life, so good match. and thirdly and probably most important, virginia had just passed to be statute of religious freedom five years before the bill of rights. this woul
meyers family have lived in this house. they re the only family to ever live in this house until it became a museum in 1931. when the great things about that is they left the house with the content intact, so the majority of the frenchs that we re going to see as we move through the house, are not period antiques but actually gates of first generation of the meyer s family. if we look up above us, we can see one of the finest examples of classical plaster work to be found anywhere in this time period. the ceiling is in the robert adams style. we also have, over here, a beautiful case clock. and this clock is original to the house and the family. it predates the house as moses was brought this clock with him from new york city. now, this is the first room that many guests would have seen. they would have been welcomed into this room while one of moses enslaved servants would have brought him out to meet most arched guests. you ll only get to see if you re a vip or friend of th
welcome to the mosys myers house. mosys myers was born in new york aty and 1752 and he made fortune as a maritime merchant. he did serve as an american revolutionary war veteran and that s it direct result of his efforts to supply the american cause during the revolution, he .uffered his first bankruptcy that bankruptcy that caused him to move away from your city and resettle here in norfolk, virginia. we think he chose norfolk for three reasons. it was one of the most prominent colonial seaports. that was important to him. secondly, it had been burned to the ground during the american revolution and they were rebuilding and he was rebuilding of his life. it was a good match. thirdly and maybe most , he moved here in 1787, virginia had just passed a statute of religious freedom five years before the bill of rights. this would be important to him and his new wife because they were jewish. they moved to norfolk, virginia in 1787, becoming norfolk s first permanent jewish reside