Week and every weekend on cspan three. There are more than 400 National Parks across america, covering over 85 million acres of land, with locations in every state. More than 325 Million People visited the state sites last year. Over the next 90 minutes, we will feature a mixture of Natural Beauty and history at eight different parks around the country. We begin just outside cleveland, situated along the cayuga river, we will learn how the canal system here plays a major role in our nations westward expansion in the 18 thirties and forties. The ohio and eerie canal is part of a two canal system that was put in place in the early years of america. Built between 1825 and 1832. Its basically a water transportation route that connected lake erie with the ohio river. It was part of a larger idea, a National Water transportation route. In the early days of america, we had 13 colonies all situated right along the atlantic seaboard. Our leaders at that time saw a problem. That problem was we n
Im excited about this book. The book that we have bee to. And booktvs live coverage of the tucson festival of books continues here on the university of arizona. We hone youre enjoying the festival and we definitely it invite you to become a friends of the festival today by texting, friend to 520214 book as shown on the sign right over here in the front of the room or visit the friend of the festival booth on the mall your guess makes difference in keeping festival programming tree of chrnlg and supporting critical literacy programs in the community. Out of respect for it the authors and fellow audience members please turn off your cell phone at this moment and now im o going to introduce our authors here with us today so joe, joe is a veteran political journalist hes a founder tore in chief of the memo and editor of large fund of the nation sthiewt. His article have prepared anywhere you host probably ever read them. And hes notably covered every american president ial election since 1
Degrees warmer in plymouth than this time yesterday. Shiri yeah, this is a pretty intense warmup. Yesterday we were below zero in plymouth now. Going up to 49. That goes to show what kind of warmth will be moving northward today. We already have temperatures in the 50s in parts of south eastern massachusetts. Boston constituting at freezing at 32 degrees. The past hour and kind of improvements we have seen in these temperatures and holding continue to the 20s natick, lowell and haverhill this morning and heading out into western massachusetts, 30 in worcester and 22 for the rest of Central Massachusetts into southern New Hampshire. And steadiest freezing rain happening right now. The 7 a. M. Temperatures a little closer to freezing, but as we have right now, temperatures will have the same thing at 7 a. M. So boston, southeastern mass, we are going to be above freezing. We will be very close to freezing and perhaps below freezing in Central Massachusetts. Southern New Hampshire. Noon 5