Good evening everyone. We have an event were finally getting around to will have in walmart the washington lecture and Mary Ball Washington. And some time ago and the time and experience and with womens History Month and here we are tonight i went to mention one important thing everyone in the audience probably knows by now we have opened a few audiences to visitors. And in the Education Center and with those particular challenges but please come visit mount vernon so on july 8 right around the corner our book talk will feature the host and creator of the pbs miniseries on the constitution and interviewed from David Rubenstein and please join us for that conversation so we can learn more about our constitution. Terminates events but in fact i do want to interview our guest and moderator doctor karen wolf. And also from the institute of American History to institute of volume and mary and working on a project so welcome. Thank you so much. Im joining you from my dining room. Where is th
Money with where the hive transmissions are happening. We will go over here now. We will not have generation that is free of this . Can you talk about your work on the criminalization . Sure. I promised him a question. Let me get that in. We do a lot of work with this so i am glad it is being brought up. I want to know what you feel is the biggest blind spot in the activism sector . What do you think is the major blindspot . Let me get to that. The senior cdc researcher producedidate thought showed the gates of college age gay men transmission, half of them will have hiv by the time they are 50. And people of color half by the time they are 35. It is hidden because the epidemic overall is static. The hetrosexual transmission has dropped and the maletomale is increasing. The lgbt has abandoned the epidemic for the most part and went on to other opportunities. In terms of the question you were asking about the biggest gap, the criminalization stuff, i think comes from a couple things, an
[applause] thank you for coming out on a cold, cold night. Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte slowly walking down the streets of the city in 1870s, her trademark red parasol held high above her head to protect her from sun or rain or in Winter Weather draped carefully over one arm. On the other and she carried an ornate bag that was rimmer told all of her jewels. Her dress is no longer fashionable, perhaps they did not bygone era when napoleon dominated europe and america was little more than a fledgling nation. No matter, it was clear she had once been a great beauty and even in her old age, she conveyed an elegance and sense of superiority that captured admiration as well as curiosity. Ash is thought that one building in the next wrapping on doors in demanding their rent owed to her by the tenants, passerby is neither recognized her as their cities and their Country First female celebrity. At the same passerby is followed her home after business was to pleaded they wouldve once again marv
Historian carol berkin is next on booktv. She recounts the life of Elizabeth Bonaparte the onetime wife of the brother jerome and a native of baltimore maryland. This is a little under an hour. [applause] thank you for coming out on a cold night. Elizabeth patterson bonaparte was a legend, curiosity walking slowly down the streets in the 1870s, her trademark held high above her head to protect her from sun or rain. On the other arm she carried in a laboratory and the wished bag that was rumored to hold all of her jewels to rea rate her dress no longer fashionable perhaps made in that area when napoleon dominated europe and america was a little more than a fledgling nation. It was clear that even in her old age she conveyed an elegance and a sense of superiority that captured admiration is curiosity. As she stopped at one building and then the next knocking on doors and demanding their rent owed to her, the passerby as might have recognizesmight have cities and countries first female ce
Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte , (born February 6, 1785, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. died April 4, 1879, Baltimore), one of America’s first international celebrities, known for her fashionable clothing, witty remarks, fierce independence, and ties to the Bonapartes of France. She was married briefly to Jérôme Bonaparte, king of Westphalia and youngest brother of Napoleon I. Elizabeth was the eldest daughter of William Patterson, one of the wealthiest merchants in Maryland, and Dorcas Spear, the daughter of a Baltimore flour merchant. Little is known about her early years or schooling, but she most likely was enrolled in a local academy for young women,