Icy start to the new year. Brutal, bonechilling weather and its not over. Now, were talking about more snow. The worst is yet to come. Now fox 29 news at 10 00. Bonechilling cold isnt the only thing were talking about right now. Snow in the pocono mountains and we can see more of that this week. You wont find any of that, though, on the streets of old city right now. But you will find a bitter wind blasting our area. If youre hoping for some relief, you better hold on it will be a little while. Thank you for joining us im lucy noland. Im iain page. Its a frozen start to 2018. Kathy orr is talking about a chance for snow this week. Kathy, this could be some real accumulation. It could, iain. Were talking about noreaster. This could be a big storm. The cold is already in place in old city philadelphia. The temperatures are frigid. Its 16 pottstown only 12. In the pocono it is 5 degrees and wind chills even lower. 14 below in the poconos. In philadelphia two. How about one below in millvi
And thank you tonight for cspan for being here. This is a first for me. Maybe you guys are used to this. Im going to cover just a few basic things before we get started. Copies of the book are available downstairs. I think they are at the register. You can purchase them there and then bring them up here to get signed after the event. If you could take a moment silence your phones, i think we would all appreciate that. Youre welcome to take photographs. You can post them on social media, if theyre good. And then after the event, or after the author has finished speaking it will be a q a. Then if you could please wait for a mic, come by with a a microphone so we can all hear your question, that would be great. All right, lets get started. James hornfischer, hes a writer, a literary agent and a former book editor. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller neptune inferno, the last and other 10 can sailors and the ship of goes. Hes widely acclaimed historical accounts of the u. S.
Salon while her sister Marion Campbell was embedded when several knickerbocker circles. Mrs. Eames in d. C. And she would later befriend 345irmary lincoln. The physical attributes of the district did not recommend it. Noah brooks described the streets as canals of liquid mud. It would be difficult to could be receive of a meaner street in architectural adornments than pennsylvania avenue, and as we just heard maybe the architect architectureal recommendations of real estate on pennsylvania avenue remain there. There were of course areas of the city which boasted palatial homes, the finest aide of Stephen Douglass near i street and jersey avenue where his wife adelle a legendary beauty, nearly 25 years his junior held equally sumptuous was the mansion built by senator William Gwynn from california who spent 75,000 to furnish his home. Gwen harbor was arrested on charges of disloyalty when the war began was imprisoned until 1863. Then he went off to paris and became involved in a scheme
To organize his government, mary launched her own campaigns hosting family and friends, greeting diplomats and statesmen, anticipating her new set of duties, and she sought to maneuver the treacherous shoals of secession. The coldness and snobbery of easterners was wearing her down. She confronted one of the most idiosyncratic of american institutions Washington Society. At the heart of the citys bow monday, the toughened core of social arbiters were known as cave dwellers. Their tenure and tenacity gave them influence over the parade of newcomers who straggled into the city at irregular but certainly every fouryear intervals. The inner city of d. C. Society was surrounded by the money bags whose rung on the ladder was bought, and then there were the high brows, whose station was secured by talent regardless of wealth although it was considered felicitous when the two went together. Three outer rings applied steady social pressure jockeying for improved position, the diplomats, the arm
Considered felicityious when the two went together. Three outer rungs applied social steady pressure, jockeying for pressure, the diplomats the army and navy crowd and the politicos, but clearly it was the cave dwellers particularly women like mary klemmer and Laura Holloway who influenced the pecking order among the capitols society. Fanny eams mrs. Charles, maintained an eclectic sunday salon at her 14th and 8th street home while her sister Marian Campbell governeur of new york was in several knickerbocker circles. Mrs. Eames reigned in d. C. And she would later befriend the first lady, mary lincoln. The physical attributes of the district did not recommend it. Noah brooks described the streets as canals of liquid mud. John hay concurred it would be difficult to conceive of a meaner street in architectural adornments than pennsylvania avenue. And as we just heard maybe the architectural recommendations of real estate on pennsylvania avenue remained there. There were of course areas o