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I was invited by my colleague here, karen stone, who has done an amazing job of continuing to tell the story and to kind of bring this story out from the darkness and into the light. A little bit about karen. The director of the news seems division of saint marys countys government. She oversees three sites in that county, is responsible for strategic planning, fundraising, creating partnerships like this overseeing like this one, overseeing Museum Operations and more. This is exciting. Love this article she recently published an article about this disaster in American Civil War magazine potomac peril on the. Thank you for joining us on zoom this afternoon. Himn i am glad to tell people the story. The incident actually took place ago. , april 22, 155 years a great day for us to be talking about it, and there are a number of connections. Between our two institutions. Th ....
Hi, my name is ashley rogers, im the director of Museum Operations at the whitney plantation and were beginning our today in a historic freedmans church which was built circa 1870 by people who lived on the opposite side of the river in paulina, louisiana. This structure was donated to us by the descendants of the founders of the congregation. They bought the land in 1870. Two parcels of land for the purpose of building a house of worship and in the sale document which we have from the courthouse they named their congregation the antiyoke, or against slavery is important to our story here. And this is a Significant Church for newly freed slaves on the east bank of the river and so it is really important here in talking about the lives of people who saw freedom after the end of the civil war. So we like to start our tour of the whitney plantation here in this building s ....
The civil war and using 50 objects, while the multi layered and political history, takes in the totality context of the war, it does not consider the history, or sequence of battle. Harold what do you think about that . Well it is a fair enough comment of course the objects that we are discussing are all in some way related to new york history so it relates to the soldiers who served the leaders who helped or hindered the union war effort, and along the way here, over these last few weeks weve touched on bells. Those who experience them, and certainly the battle for new york city because early on we dealt with the draft riots, indeed indeed. So we are doing okay i think. That is a fair comment. I agree. I thought we might as well air. It yes. Tonights evening has two objects. The portrait of ulyssesesque grant from 1860, eight and a coined by Benjamin Franklin butler. So first up is the london portrait of grant such 1864 and ul ....
Lives, native lands, native worlds. The Hingham Historical Society and the abigel adams Historic Society cohosted this event. Welcome to the hingham heritage museum. My name is degreiedra harrison. What a treat to welcome you all here tonight in the solid out program. Id like to thank on above of our board of directors and our small staff, id like to thank you all for making us a part of our week. And Jarod Hardesty for being with us and cspan for filming us to see it at a later date. And thank you to the abigel adams Historic Society and their wonderful board of directors who offered this opportunity to partner with them. Abigels rich history in this region excites us every day. To understand all voices, we currently are in the midst of a campaign f ....
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