Revolutionary war. Mark malloy is a historian with the National Park service and he is like, what can i do this revolutionary war . I said, this is the civil war. We decided we would let him talk about fort sumter because it is as close as we can get to the revolutionary war era. Asay that because mark is delightful historian, wonderful guy, wish i could get him to laugh on cue. [laughter] his most distinctive feature is his laugh. We are delighted to have him come here today to speak about the first shots of the civil war at fort sumter. Mark . Mark thank you so much for that introduction, chris. It is a pleasure to be able to speak at this symposium for the emerging civil war. We would love to have done in person, but being able to do it digitally is a wonderful way to do it as well. Mentioned my main passion is the American Revolutionary war. Work for the National Park service and we take care of a lot of important civil war sites. I started my career with the National Park service
Reacts to it and grapples with it. So today i want to frame our discussion around a couple of quotations. The first is from the anthropologist and fox. Fox writes, Country Music is widely described in racialized terms. Assures sins of its essential badness is frequently framed and racial terms. For many cosmopolitan americans, especially country is bad music because it is widely understood to signify an explicit claim to whiteness. Not as an unmarked mutual condition as locking or trying to shed race, but as marked of cultural identity. Bad whiteness, and redeem by ethnicity, folklore authenticity, progressive politics or than no plus a bleach of elites. I want us to think about that, Country Music as articulating current being this type of marked white particularity. So thats the first quote, the second. Its from the writer and historian roxanne dunn bar, and her book red dirt. Which is a great memoir of growing up in oklahoma, she writes. Country music, wrote patriotism, evangelism,
To start off this workweek 50s and 60s for current temperatures, a nice cool start to what will be a pretty pleasant finish to the day. Ill tell you more about that. Still ahead michelle. Robin time to pack up roll out to head to work and hit the roads and freeways were checking in on the bridges which are getting a little kids busy depending on where youre heading this morning. Like if you take 92 and you need to make that trip from the east bay over to the peninsula we already have some crowding here on the san mateo bridge. No problems its just off to a sluggish start as usual that actually started an hour ago, and its still busy to the peninsula. Were checking in on the bay bridge were hot spot free into San Francisco, no delays or issues across the upper deck right through downtown San Francisco. So under 10 minutes for your drive and they were just speaking at some drive times around the bay area they all look good rain the green for highway for west through contra costa county,
From the flames and the smoke the fire thats still burning. Firefighters do say that they have stopped before progress on this fire. So again more breaking news that military helicopters now attempting to rescue more than 60 people who are trapped in the creek fire thats the one burning down in fresno county. This is a 3rd attempt now to get those hikers the rescuers had to be called or the rescues had to be called off last night because of the heavy smoke that was blocking visibility. Very scary. We actually have some pictures of the hikers you see that there they are right there sheltering at the vermilion valley camping resort thats at lake edison volunteers are out there and theyre helping the hikers a stay fed and hydrated hydrated excuse me as they wait to be rescued and then we also have a map here showing where those hikers are in relation to the creek fire. Itself and you can see that red outline is the outline of where the fire line currently is and the marker that you see th
Sleeping in the garage last night because thats about the only cool spot that was left of my we saw a record breaking highs in San Francisco and other spots across the bay area. Today were likely to break a few more records across the region skies are clear aside from hayes is air quality really uniformly across the bay remains very pour this morning so it is not the day to do beale be doing a whole lot of Outdoor Activities nice and calm into the afternoon not doing too much of a workout or anything like that stay hydrated and stay inside that cooler spot near houses what i would recommend 70s and 80s already this morning we barely fell out of the 80s last night in berkeley. Nor down along the towards pacifica in daly city where temperatures remained in the 80s overnight. A San Francisco Oakland Alameda in hayward also starting off this morning in the 70s so it is already a warm start to the morning not a whole lot of relief for those of you that open up the windows wide open last nig