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hello. we re missing somebody. the moment mom gets her soldier back. ah and you are fourth of july party with tiny hamster. making tiny burgers. where the drinks are cold the kids are cool. and the guinea pig is chillin in the guinea pig pool. whew! the frnlg frnlourth of july. a special day you celebrate employeeing up a small part of it. when you see fireworks displays we re distracted by the beautiful explosions and sounds and colors in the air, and we often look over the people behind the scenes. they ve got a pretty cool pov video actually submitted to our facebook page by steve hammond. check it out. i think about these guys every time i see fireworks. who s down there running this lighting the wicks? a guy pressing buttons. there is is a whole team. a fireworks display put on in richmond indiana, legendary fame. safety gear on helmets on and this is they re running around just lighting all of these wicks as they kind of are trying to put ....
parks service. we re here to talk about the service at its history and also learn more about the special house and people who lived here and how it s being preserved by the national parks service. we re joined by robert stanton. biez, the former site manager here at arlington house. obviously a park service employee. he s also oversees a year long renovation of the estate. let me start with the story of how the national park service began. as the national park service was authorized by an act of congress, signed into law by president woodrow wilson, august 25, 1916. there we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the national park service today. and that legislation came about through the stellar efforts of many conservationists and civil leaders throughout the country. was it at all controversial at the time it was signed into law? it was in the sense there was sort of a misunderstanding in terms of some of the constraints that may be imposed by having one federal ....
community established on the plantation grounds to transition slaves into independent lives but first steven hammond talks about his research on the family. my name is steve hammond. i m a retired department of interior employee. i work for the u.s. geological survey. it is sister agency to the national park service. i actually was the deputy associate director for national hazards that death with earthquakes, volcanoes and landslides and a variety of hazards that effect the united states. and my connection is an interesting one. by third great grandmother was a slave at decatur house in washington defendant c. and her brother is charles that actually was a slave here on arlington national cemetery. and go way back in materials of their connection to mt. vernon in the local area here. and martha washington s estate at mt. vernon. he basically became a support and he was living on the estate with his grandparents and inherited arlington estate once martha died in 1802. ....
services most visited historic home, arlington house, the robert e. lee memorial at arlingt arlington cemetery. join us with our phone calls as we talk with the former arlington site house manager who will oversea the year-long restoration of the mansion, slave quarters and grounds. today the 100 anniversary of the national park service live from arlington house at 7:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. coming up this weekend on american history tv on c-span3. the abraham lincoln presidential library foundation published a book of musings by public figures and ordinary americans celebrating or responding to lincoln s gettysburg address. editor of gettysburg replies, the world responds to abraham lincoln s gettyburgs address reads passages from the book. his presence still resonates from the words he s written and the artifacts and documents that he has left behind for our prosperity. he was a simple yet deeply complex man who looked at complex issue pl ....
people visited the national parks. when people think of national parks they think of the every glaze. the national park service tells the american stories. the lincoln memorial and the washington monument and president s park which surrounds the white house are all part of the narrative. this submission was carved in the stones of mount rushmore by the sculptor who wrote the purpose is to communicate the american s stories. the national park service taking the lead and reconcile story lines of many historic sites across the country. it is an example of that effort. it is the park s system most visited historic home. today, visitors learn several story lines connected to this 19 century. they learned about the enslaved people who lived their lives and whose legacy lived on, on their descenda descendant. tonight, we ll visit arlington house as a way to learn more of the park easter vis s servicess of history. coming up first, we ll hear several presidents talk about the ....