Wow its pretty dark down here and pretty chilly too i mean on the Missouri River the city is known for these underground solar vaults. Where are we what kind of cell is half a sentence here and i live in one of the large sellers of the underworld form a wine cellar is unfortunately they no longer used to such today. There are cell is under the whole of tartan tub because at the end of the 20th century it was a huge wine Trading Center people said it was the 2nd largest wine Trading Center in europe after bordeaux in france. In the year 898 alone some 18000000 leases of wine made their way from here out into the big wide world. The 1st thing all visitors notice above ground is the breach gate on the muzzle at the beginning of the 19th century there was enough wealth here to commission the well known berlin art nouveau architect when the looting he not only designed the bridge gate but also in number of villa. Park noble architecture characterizes top and top up to this state a great pla
Organizations on legislation recently passed in the senate which is expected to be taken up in the house. This is 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. The committee will come to order. I am pleased to have this opportunity today to hear directly from organizations that work with, represent or support millions of veterans every day. This committee has gatheredli today to hear from these organizations their firsthand perspective and reasons they support our comprehensive Suicide Prevention legislation, s. 785, the commander John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental Health care improvement act. This is a legislation that is been before this committee and before the senate, and i wanted to give the opportunity to those Veterans Service organizations and others the ability to tell us any thoughts that in regard to this legislation as we negotiate with the house in its p
This afternoon, we are going to be starting our discussion of the Great Depression and what were going to be doing today is talking about how the Great Depression affected ordinary people. Were going to talk about sort of the nuts and bolts of the situation and the things that people would have experienced in their everyday lives if they were seriously affected by the problems of that decade. Now, i dont normally use images like this, but im using this one for a reason. Grandma survived the Great Depression because her supply chain was local and she knew how to do stuff. Thats a really important concept, and were going to come right back to it at the end of class as well. This really is sort of the theme for the day. Now, in terms of what were going to be talking about, were going to start with an overview of what the problems of the Great Depression were for ordinary people. Sort of the depths of the problem. Well talk about how families tried to cope in terms of their work strategies
Week and every weekend on cspan three. There are more than 400 National Parks across america, covering over 85 million acres of land, with locations in every state. More than 325 Million People visited the state sites last year. Over the next 90 minutes, we will feature a mixture of Natural Beauty and history at eight different parks around the country. We begin just outside cleveland, situated along the cayuga river, we will learn how the canal system here plays a major role in our nations westward expansion in the 18 thirties and forties. The ohio and eerie canal is part of a two canal system that was put in place in the early years of america. Built between 1825 and 1832. Its basically a water transportation route that connected lake erie with the ohio river. It was part of a larger idea, a National Water transportation route. In the early days of america, we had 13 colonies all situated right along the atlantic seaboard. Our leaders at that time saw a problem. That problem was we n
Weekend on cspan 3. To join the conversation, like s on facebook cspanhistory. Filmmaker and author john wilingman discusses his book how filmmakers reimagined america which explores the history of nonfiction films and television from late 199 century edson films to 21st century reality tv. The pur bank Public Library hosted the event and the video is provided by the burbank channel. I just wanted to say thank you all for coming. Im hubert cozak of the Library Staff and tonights program is part of a series of programs that the library presents from time to time on topics related to the film industry. Sometimes we take a look behind the scenes at how films in a specific genre are made or explore how a particular movie was made and we did it recently, for example, with queens of animation and the look at the making of chinatown just a few weeks ago now. Tonight were presenting a program on the craft and varied history of documentary filmmaking. And the spring we hope to present a program