They got to know new jersey and my wife im here to talk about something that happened to me that could happen to you or your sons your nephew husbands i was on top of the world, just retired from harvard after teaching their 50 years without a single complaint of any kind leveled against me among the highest ratings as a teacher teaching 10000 students altogether and i was given honorary degrees the time in my life to sit back and reflect on what i had accomplished growing up in brooklyn into graduating college for the first my family now suddenly a woman i never met i am told accuse me of having sex with her when she was under age i never had sex with anybody under age even when i was underage. I tried but in my day marriage license were not preceded. I was married in 20 years old that was my life my wife and i we known each other 36 years and had a wonderful marriage and it just came out of the blue like somebody scribbled my name on the bathroom wall. I didnt take it seriously and n
Cspan2. Television for serious readers. Well, its nice to see all of you nice folks here today. I see some familiar faces, a few new faces and were happen to have you here. I dont really need to do much of an introduction because we all know our friend, allan, but ill tell you a secret. He was going to name the book 50 shades of alan but decided against it. He thinks only he can tell jokes. Have give him a jersey welcome. [applause] thank you very much. I spent a lot of time growing pup in jersey, my father hard a mens underwear and work clothes store on the Lower East Side and the customers were in new jersey so i would come with him on springfield avenue, newark, and patterson and passaic and went to all these after the second world war, all the army and navy stores so i got to know new jersey and my first wife was from bayonne, new jersey and her classmate in high school was barney frank who i met hen when he was 15 and knew he would be a politician. Im here to talk but something th
Thats facing all of the Museum Managers and people that are responsible for generating, producing, and collecting objects that would likely go into a museum sitting such as this is how much do we need to keep . How many things do we need to have to tell the american story and its the great conundrum of our protection. There are those who believe that maybe the time has come to start reducing the amounts of things we collect and be more judicious in how we collect them and what we collect. Is it inappropriate to use representative samples, say at an archaeological site, where things are left at the Vietnam Veterans memorial. Do we need to keep everything . And there are those in the professional field that think we need to keep everything and theres others who think sampling is the more judicious and longterm strategy. Because there is a point of diminishing return. It costs money. There is an inherent cost to storing all of these objects. In many cases the costs can be prohibitive and
Water color of the canyon of the yellowstone. Heres one of mammoth hot springs. Then we have we have jacksons photograph of the lower falls. This is the 1872 print of his one of his pictures, his albumin pictures on glass plates. You should keep in mind that they had a glass plate. They couldnt enlarge it. The plate was as large as the picture. They took the picture, they had to coat it and then expose it and then fix it and then keep track of this glass plate. They were on mules and horses. The very essence is the miracle we have any of them. We have to understand that lot of the park, it was driven by how could i make money. We understand we know for a fact that part of it was that railroads were making their move west, and in order to fund and to make a business out of it, they had to have places they wanted to go. And so the Northern Pacific railroad, which was going to be on through montana which would have been through what is now bozeman, livingston and on out to the pacific coa
Please join me in thanking bill and nicole. [applause] the civil war airs here every saturday at 6 00 and 10 p. M. Eastern time. To watch more of our civil war programming any time visit our website. You are watching American History tv, all weekend every weekend on corey. All weekend, American History tv is featuring Corpus Christi, texas. In corpus kristen in 1948, dr. Garcia founded the american g. I. Forum which fought for equal treatment of hispanic veterans. Karanusics staff recently visited many sites showcasing the citys history. Learn more here. Padre Island National sea shore is 70 miles of a Barrier Island with beach bay coastal prayer prairie. We are located about 25 minutes from the city of Corpus Christi texas. This island started out by being used by american tribes seasonally. They would come here during nice weather. There was a bounty of fish in the area, a lot of seed plants, and they would leave when the weather turned bad in the winter. What happened next was when