thinking leaders more than 150 years ago decision madehe by forward thinking leaders more than 150 years ago is still reverberating today. if it had not been built, it s possible the town would have gone away. throughout the weekend, american history tv is featuring highlights from c-span s cities tour where we go on the road to learn more about american history. learn more about these cities at estour.pan.org/citi you re watching american history tv. all weekend, every weekend on c-span 3. this year s iowa state fair in des moines takes place august 15 through august 23 and will be visited by many of the republican and democratic candidates seeking their party s presidential nomination. in a few minutes, we look back to the 2008 presidential race by mittidates visits romney, hillary clinton, mike huckabee, and others. learn about its stop on the road to the white house. the first iowa state fair was held in fairfield, iowa in 1854, some 160 years ago now. as the faire
i m in seattle, headed toward the ballard neighborhood. it s an upscale area once known for sawmills and commercial fishing, and just down the road is one man s strange inheritance and a story with a hollywood ending. my name s barry martin. i inherited a tiny, hundred-year-old house from a little old lady. if there ever was a real-estate niche, this is one. hi, barry. i m jamie. hi, jamie. nice to meet you. i meet barry in front of this little house. yep, this is it his strange inheritance. it s just 600 square feet, and it s now surrounded by a huge shopping mall a mall that the unlikely heir in this story helped build. who leaves this to somebody? well, edith left it to me. edith? yep. love to learn more. okay. come on. barry explains that when this house was built over a hundred years ago, ballard, washington, was the shingle-mill capital of the world, with 20 mills producing 3 million shingles a day. there was fishing on elliot bay there, and
i m jamie colby, and today, i m in seattle, headed toward the ballard neighborhood. it s an upscale area once known for sawmills and commercial fishing, and just down the road is one man s strange inheritance and a story with a hollywood ending. my name s barry martin. i inherited a tiny, hundred-year-old house from a little old lady. if there ever was a real-estate niche, this is one. hi, barry. i m jamie. hi, jamie. nice to meet you. i meet barry in front of this little house. yep, this is it his strange inheritance. it s just 600 square feet, and it s now surrounded by a huge shopping mall a mall that the unlikely heir in this story helped build. who leaves this to somebody? well, edith left it to me. edith? yep. love to learn more. okay. come on. barry explains that when this house was built over a hundred years ago, ballard, washington, was the shingle-mill capital of the world, with 20 mills producing 3 million shingles a day. there was fis
i m in seattle, headed toward the ballard neighborhood. it s an upscale area once known for sawmills and commercial fishing, and just down the road is one man s strange inheritance and a story with a hollywood ending. my name s barry martin. i inherited a tiny, hundred-year-old house from a little old lady. if there ever was a real-estate niche, this is one. hi, barry. i m jamie. hi, jamie. nice to meet you. i meet barry in front of this little house. yep, this is it his strange inheritance. it s just 600 square feet, and it s now surrounded by a huge shopping mall a mall that the unlikely heir in this story helped build. who leaves this to somebody? well, edith left it to me. edith? yep. love to learn more. okay. come on. barry explains that when this house was built over a hundred years ago, ballard, washington, was the shingle-mill capital of the world, with 20 mills producing 3 million shingles a day. there was fishing on elliot bay there, and
experience, where we relive, remember and relate to the events that are cemented in history i m ellee pai hong. and i m kerry sayers. and i m your host, bill kurtis. this is through the decades. longfellow called it the universal language. plato said it gives wings to the mind and hendrix insisted it never lied. what they and so many were describing is music. it has the power to connect and define the decades. so today we are looking back at some morable milestones in music from a sound that would define detroit to t dawn of disco and the legacy of the incomp fraarable sinatra. but we begin with the for of nature known as beatlemania. the fab four sparked the hysteria in 1964 when they another level when they landed on the west coast ready for their first u.s. concert ur. stepping off the plane the day before tir first concert tour began in san fran, the beatles were welcomed by 50,000 delirious fans. andthis is beatleland formerly known as britain, where an epidemic calle