[ bird caws ] im jamie colby in southampton county, virginia. Im here to visit a family, some of whose ancestors were murdered in the nat turner slave revolt. Their strange inheritance . A powerful and some would say holy relic of that bloody and historic rampage. My name is wendy creekmoreporter. My stepfather inherited a bible with a controversial past. Hes 88, and his memorys going, so he asked me to tell our familys story. Hi, wendy. Im jamie colby. So nice to meet you. I meet wendy at persons methodist church. The forebearers of her stepfather, maurice person, started the church in 1838, seven years after the family is nearly decimated in nat turners slave rebellion. I cant think of a more appropriate place to learn about an old bible that survives from that bloody day. What did the bible look like . Tattered. Its missing the cover, very small. It was obviously something that you could carry on you. And, according to person family lore, the centuries old book belonged to the upris
[ bird caws ] im jamie colby in southampton county, virginia. Im here to visit a family, some of whose ancestors were murdered in the nat turner slave revolt. Their strange inheritance . A powerful and some would say holy relic of that bloody and historic rampage. My name is wendy creekmoreporter. My stepfather inherited a bible with a controversial past. Hes 88, and his memorys going, so he asked me to tell our familys story. Hi, wendy. Im jamie colby. So nice to meet you. I meet wendy at persons methodist church. The forebearers of her stepfather, maurice person, started the church in 1838, seven years after the family is nearly decimated in nat turners slave rebellion. I cant think of a more appropriate place to learn about an old bible that survives from that bloody day. What did the bible look like . Tattered. Its missing the cover, very small. It was obviously something that you could carry on you. And, according to person family lore, the centuries old book belonged to the upris
[ bird caws ] im jamie colby in southampton county, virginia. Im here to visit a family, some of whose ancestors were murdered in the nat turner slave revolt. Their strange inheritance . A powerful and some would say holy relic of that bloody and historic rampage. My name is wendy creekmoreporter. My stepfather inherited a bible with a controversial past. Hes 88, and his memorys going, so he asked me to tell our familys story. Hi, wendy. Im jamie colby. So nice to meet you. I meet wendy at persons methodist church. The forebearers of her stepfather, maurice person, started the church in 1838, seven years after the family is nearly decimated in nat turners slave rebellion. I cant think of a more appropriate place to learn about an old bible that survives from that bloody day. What did the bible look like . Tattered. Its missing the cover, very small. It was obviously something that you could carry on you. And, according to person family lore, the centuries old book belonged to the upris
Im jamie colby in western pennsylvania, turning into the village of reduction. Im here because a viewer wrote me to say this whole place is his strange inheritance. My name is David Stawovy. When my parents passed away, my siblings and i inherited a town. Hi, david. Im jamie colby. Hello, jamie. Welcome to the town of reduction. You wrote me you inherited a town . This is it . This is part of it. David and his three siblings inheritance encompasses 75 acres of hills, farmland, and forest nestled along the youghiogheny river. The town, population 60, stretches out along reduction road, which leads into reduction circle, and an area called the village, a collection of 19 houses. And the house right in front of me is the house that my father decided to purchase, and thats where i lived when i was one year old. He wanted only one, but the people that was selling it asked him if he wanted to buy them all. So he ended up buying them all. Your dad bought the whole neighborhood . Yes, the whol
Serving the people of rhode island as their chief justice of the Supreme Court from 2001 until 2009. Frank is the author, coauthor, or editor of several books including judging lincoln, lincoln as hero, and most recently the lincoln wasssination riddle, which published in 2016. Favorite of his published works is the one that he coauthored with richard and me. [laughter] he has received the order of linking, the highest honor bestowed by the state of illinois. Frank also married well. [laughter] edna we are reminded [applause] na we are reminded that great men usually have extraordinary women at their side who are doing their own thing. And johnson barely survived impeachment when grants bargain was ended, a national cop out in personality and outlook, president Andrew Johnson was illsuited for the responsibility he now shouldered following lincolns assassination. A lonely, stubborn man, he was intolerant of criticism and unable to compromise. He lacked lincolns political skills and kee