This year marking the 200th anniversary of the opening of the trail, we figured it was a perfect time to invite joy back to tell us the stories of these women. Poole currently serves as deputy librarian with the new mexico state library. Previously she was director of the el can me know rial international heritage center in university of new mexico. Poole devoted much of her career to studying santa fe trail history. She helped organize the first symposium in trinidad, colorado. At that conference, she was named the first vice president of the santa fe trail association. She also served for ten years on the santa fe national historic advisory council for the national park service. Simply put, she is an authority on trail s history, which is part of kansas city s early history as a frontier town. Thank you for being here, joy! i ll turn it over to you. Thank you. Welcome everyone. I almost feel given the topic and the fact we have descend end was of the brides in our viewing audience th
having moved from tidewater, virginia, with lots of vegetation and tons of water, i couldn t believe the dust and the lack of plants and the tiny amount of water, even in something that was called the rio grande. but over the years, that came to be my favorite place of all the places i ve ever lived. we d go back from time to time, more to santa fe than los alamos. we had our children and grandchildren join us in santa fe for our 50th wedding anniversary a few years ago. but it took me time to warm up to los alamos. should i tell you about where i lived there? tell us how old you were and what brought your family to los alamos. i was 8 when we moved there. just short of 11 when we left after the war. my father had worked on the proximity fuse, although he was a regular navy officer, he d work science and from the beginning of world war ii on. general groves picked him, and he meshed with oppenheimer, so he became head of ordnance at los alamos. i don t think you ve me
losing control of her car and plummeting 500 yards a ravine. why emergency crews say she owes her life to an app on her will cell phone and mrs. kloon oat case. amal clooney steps into the spotlight without her husband just weeks after their lavish wedding tackling a controversial case hundreds of years in the making. today, wednesday, october 15, 2014. from nbc news, this is today. with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. good morning. welcome to today on this wednesday morning. i m matt lauer along with fatly morales, tamron hall and al roker. savannah continues on maternity leave and we start with unsettling news on this ebola crisis. frightening indeed. it is our top story, breaking news from texas. presbyterian hospital who cared for thomas duncan has now been dieing nosed with that virus. kate snow, what can you tell us? good morning. reporter: good morning. a total of 77 health care workers at this hospital cam
and plummeting 500 yards down a ravine. why emergency crews say she owes her life to an app on her cell phone. and mrs. clooney on the case. amal steps into the spotlight weeks after the wedding without her husband to tackle a controversial case today, wednesday, october 15th, 2014. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. welcome to wednesday morning. i m matt lauer along with natalie morales, tamron hall and al roker. savannah continues on maternity leave. we start with unsettling news on this ebola crisis. very frightening, indeed. breaking news out of texas. another worker from texas health presbyterian hospital who cared for ebola victim thomas duncan now has been diagnosed with that virus. nbc national correspondent kate snow is outside the hospital. kate, what can you tell us? good morning. reporter: matt, good morning. we learned about this just before 4:00 am local time this
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