Lunchtime lecture series at u. S. Capital historical society. I want to end the series with something instructive, of course but also, not light and frothy by any means but something a , little less serious. By that i made, there is going to be a lot of visuals and i figure visual intelligence is something we can all lay a little bit of a claim to. For those of you who need the more traditional scaffolding, like an outline, we can start off with a few pages of that. For those of you to respond to competitiveness, have a couple door prizes i will give out at the end to people who can answer a couple questions that might occur during the talk. But mostly this is going to be visual. We are going to wait through to going to wade are through two centuries, works of art, mostly paintings, stump statuary of George Washington portrayed in art i should say a little bit about myself. They say i am chief historian, i am not an art historian, but anyone who appreciates the multiplicity of doing hi
Lunchtime lecture series at u. S. Capital historical society. I want to end the series with something instructive, of course but also, not light and frothy by any means but something a , little less serious. By that i made, there is going to be a lot of visuals and i figure visual intelligence is something we can all lay a little bit of a claim to. For those of you who need the more traditional scaffolding, like an outline, we can start off with a few pages of that. For those of you to respond to competitiveness, have a couple door prizes i will give out at the end to people who can answer a couple questions that might occur during the talk. But mostly this is going to be visual. We are going to wait through to going to wade are through two centuries, works of art, mostly paintings, stump statuary of George Washington portrayed in art i should say a little bit about myself. They say i am chief historian, i am not an art historian, but anyone who appreciates the multiplicity of doing hi
Digiacomantonio. I wanted to end the series with something instructive, of course, but also, not light and frothy by any means, but something a little less serious. For those of you to respond to competitiveness, i have a couple door prizes i will give out at the end to people who can answer a couple questions that might occur during the talk, but mostly this is going to be visual. We are going to wade through two centuries of works of art, mostly paintings, some statuary of George Washington portrayed in art. I should say a little bit about myself. I said i am chief historian, i am not an art historian, but anyone who appreciates the of doing city history, understands you have to work with art understands that is how people express themselves when they are at their best and sometimes their worst, as well see. When i taught a course at Gw University on George Washington, i made sure there was one lecture on George Washington in the art and i refined it a little bit for todays purposes,
I dont believe that. From a 44 year career in public history, most notably as a former and founding executive of some place. Previously served as historian and manager of a National Park service, before becoming the first president of the association of preservation of civil war studies. Hes currently on work on the last two volumes of his trilogy, which we desperately waiting for. Whats going on . Theyre coming . Great. Im very happy to introduce a. Wilson green. Why is it good to look out on these faces. Ive gotta say. Its just wonderful to be with you all. Especially to be with such great colleagues. We are really fortunate that ryan was able to make it because he has a twoweek engagement at the boom boom room at the holiday inn and you took time off to join us, so thank you for that brian. I hope your flight is and you can get back to the show at the holiday. And pete carmichael, what a great [inaudible] im a little supplies that he would take a shot at my sartorial habits because,
By the tens of thousands. Their terrifying stories. And classic art, whats considered did largest art show ever conceived. We begin we deadliest disaster at the worlds tallest peak. Killed at least 12 people, four others missing believed to be are buried by the snow and others trapped at dangerous altitudes. Roxann sab roxana saberi. Has the story. Higher camps to fix ropes. But were delayed because of an ice fall area. He had been on the mountain with a group of sherpas. The guides were still relatively low on the slopes when the avalanche struck. Suddenly when they reached the area called popcorn the avalanche fell on the group and buried many of them. Popcorn field is named for large boulders on the route. Before they reach camp 2 about 20,000 feet up. Nbc crew was on the route. Nobody was shocked, but when radio reports started coming off the mountain that people were stuck in the avalanche everybody came out and got organized for the rescue. Reaching the summit has become more and