Churchillians sharing stories and planning out what inspired you about winston has been a lovely day and a half. We are more than experts on the family life of Winston Churchill. It was very exciting yesterday to hear celia and Lady Williams talking about what it was like to be a secretary. Part of the project we are doing, we plan to open the secretarys room in 2020. If you want to hear more about that, i terms of churchill and i, was trying to think of what we had in the collection. We got a gift from londonderry of a replica, its one of my favorite items in the house. I was interested yesterday to start to hear a little bit about churchills relationship with attlee, we will hear a lot more about that. We have another family of brs, we have the view ews with us. , professor ofew politics at belfast. Bew, who isjohn i have that wrong. Bew is our politics expert, and john bew is history professor. They are going to give a talk this morning, starting off with john. [applause] can everyb
Largely rural. We have enormous challenges in our rural economy. Rural america is a challenge. The strength we have in burlington helps us in vermont to build our rural communities. Two major parts of Vermont History to affect the whole state and burlington are our agricultural tradition and town meetings. There has been an enormous sense of citizen participation and activism ever since the founding of the republic of vermont. It has had the agricultural tradition, where our farmers have had the view that if we take care of the land, the land will take care of us. Even though the farms are in decline, it is not like it used to be. That ethics of being an environmental steward that we inherited, has been important to the state of vermont. And our tradition of town meeting where we talk about everything from weather to get a new school bus or firetruck to sometimes having a Nuclear Freeze initiatives on the ballot. That citizen participation has been very important to vermont. Vermont ha
To be a secretary. And part of the project we are doing, we plan to open the secretarys room in 2020. So if you want to hear more about that, there is some in your packs about the project. And , if churchill was trying to think of what we had in the collection. We got a gift from londonderry of a replica, its one of my favorite items in the house. It is in the library. And i was really interested yesterday to start to hear a little bit about churchills relationship with attlee, we will hear a lot more about that. So we have another family of hillss, like the church here, we have the bews here this morning. Very excited about what they are going to say. We have lord bew, professor of politics at the university in belfast. Bew who is john professor of i have got that wrong. I am sorry, lord bew. Lord bew is our politics expert, and john bew is history is our history professor and Foreign Affairs and awardwinning historian. They will give us an excellent talk this my, starting off with jo
We will explore the history of this midwest city parent coming up, the sinking of the steamboat, one of the many to sink on the dangerous waters of the Missouri River. It sank within minutes. 150 passengers on board were terrified and no one died. But they lost all the freights , goods and cargoes belongings. Third 132 years until the until we dug it up. Nationalter, visit the world war i museum and memorial and see a collection of posters involved in the comments in the conflict. True socialere the media of the day. Really what they meant to the various countries. With thein our look mayor, james. Isphysically, keep it 480,000 people spread across the 318 square miles, about 1460 per square mile. 30 smart when you get down to it. Roughly 30 africanamerican, 11 latino, 5 various mixes of immigrants and cultures there. The rest, caucasian. Kansas city has a variety of neighborhoods and an extremely sophisticated purpose and culture, things people might not expect. ,e have tremendous spo
A. M. Eastern wednesday morning. Join the discussion. Sunday night, astronaut scott kelly recalls the voyages into space in his book endurance. He sinlt viewed by nasa administrator charles bolden. Yours was the third servicing mission. Having been part of that mission and having become an official hubble hugger, talk to me about what you believe the legacy of hubble is. Or does it have a legacy . I think its incredible. Its been up there you would know better than i how long its been up there. 27 years. 27 years. To have a telescope. Getting to 30. Doing that kind of science on a daily basis and, you know, letting them get the stuff most of you dont see and the Public Engagement that is provided and let people kind of get a sense for, you know, where we are in the universe which is pretty insignificant. If you consider, you know, those images. I think its been a great success. It was a great First Mission for me. Afterwards sunday night at 9 00 eastern on book tv on cspan2. Winston ch