Them, and act silly with them. Its good to feel like youre three years old again. Sreenivasan all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by lincoln financial is committed to helping you take charge of your future. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the president ial primary season is winding toward a close with two of the final states taking their turns tonight. West virginia has 29 democratic delegates to offer. Overall Hillary Clinton needs just 155 more to lock up the partys nomination. Republicans have races today in both West Virginia and nebraska. Even though the outcomes are now just a for malady. Formality. Reporter it was West Virginians turn to head to the polls today, but the candidates were elsewhere. Donald trump a nearlock to be the republican nom
Its good to feel like youre three years old again. Sreenivasan all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by lincoln financial is committed to helping you take charge of your future. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the president ial primary season is winding toward a close with two of the final states taking their turns tonight. West virginia has 29 democratic delegates to offer. Overall Hillary Clinton needs just 155 more to lock up the partys nomination. Republicans have races today in both West Virginia and nebraska. Even though the outcomes are now just a for malady. Formality. Reporter it was West Virginians turn to head to the polls today, but the candidates were elsewhere. Donald trump a nearlock to be the republican nominee was in new york, reportedl
We talked to tim schwartz about the role of the blacksmith in the colonial era. We will also learn about James Anderson who owned a Blacksmith Shop and public armory in williamsburg during the 1770s. Mr. Schwartz i am the master blacksmith at the anderson Blacksmith Shop, part of Colonial Williamsburgs historic trade program. In Colonial Williamsburg we have , preserved a number of trades from the 18th century. We have 20 trades practiced in the historic area. I run the Blacksmith Shop. We work with iron and steel. Those are Raw Materials that are made into finished products such as construction hardware tools, household accessories, agricultural implements. Parts for wagons and carriages. Here at the armory, we expand into even more work. I will touch on that in a moment. As part of historic trades, our mission is to retreat the Work Environment and the activities you would find in the sorts of workshops in colonial america. That involves hand work. There is no machine process here. I
Blacksmith at the anderson Blacksmith Shop, part of Colonial Williamsburgs distort trade program. In Colonial Williamsburg we have preserved a number of trades from the 18th century. We have 20 trades practiced in the historic area. I run the Blacksmith Shop. We work with iron and steel. Those are all materials that are made into finished products such as construction of hardware, tools, household accessories, agricultural implements. Here at the armory we expand into even more work. I will touch on that in a moment. Trades ourhistoric mission is to retreat the Work Environment and the activities you would find in the sorts of workshops in colonial america. That involves and work hand work. It also involves the study of early documentary evidence to teach us about the history of these trades and the technologies that were practiced. The Research Also tells us about the operation of these businesses. Who worked there, what source of work they were doing, and how they were paid. We also
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 addictiv