History tv, sierra Club Volunteer discussing the legend of conservation os x naturalist john muir, often considered the father of the National Park system and had a large role in creating yosemite. This was hosted by the California Historical society as part of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the wilderness act. A huget of all, what pleasure it is for me tonight be able to play a really small role. I will keep my speech to less than two hours. We rarely want to hear harold tonight which will give us an incredible journey through his life, legacy, and that legacy lives on and is stronger now than ever. He will give us an incredible journey through john muirs life. That legacy is stronger than ever. Im looking forward to hearing you talk. I promise to be relatively brief here and just say a few words of welcome. And thank you all for coming. I want to say that i really am a huge fan of the two organizations that had us here tonight. The California Historical society, what a
Coming up next, sierra Club Volunteer harold wood discusses the legacy of con survey shifts that conservationists and National List john your john muir. This was hosted by the California Historical society, as a part of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the wilderness act. We want to hear harold would tonight. He will give us an incredible journey through john muirs life. That legacy is stronger than ever. Im looking forward to hearing you talk. I promise to be relatively brief here and just say a few words of welcome. And thank you all for coming. I want to say that i really am a huge fan of the two organizations that had us here tonight. The California Historical society, what a great place for great work that is preserving our cultural and historic heritage here in california. And the partner, the sierra club. For all of the great work it has been doing since 1892 to protect our Natural Landscapes here and throughout the nation. What a legacy. A couple of quick questions,
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Maggie for her presentation. Thanks so much, maggie. Thanks for the introduction chrissy. Its definitely an interesting being on the other side of this. Im excited to do my first lecture here at the museum since joining the team. So as many of you guys have figured out this is about Martha Gellhorn, were gonna talk a little about hemingway as well because you cant talk about Martha Gellhorn in World War Two without talking about the infamous Ernest Hemingway. And so one of the things that you know, i do want you guys to keep in mind. Is that like this whole perception of martha . You know, how did she get to where she was where she did become a famous wartime correspondent. Was it based off of her work her reporting in advance, or was it based off of her connections to hemingway . Now thinking about wartime correspondence. I do want to kind of fast forward a little bit to look at some more modern wartime correspondence now when i think a female wartime correspondence i go back to my yo
Gellhorn without further ado. Id love to turn it over to maggie for her presentation. Thanks so much, maggie. Thanks for the introduction chrissy. Its definitely an interesting being on the other side of this. Im excited to do my first lecture here at the museum since joining the team. So as many of you guys have figured out this is about Martha Gellhorn, were gonna talk a little about hemingway as well because you cant talk about Martha Gellhorn in World War Two without talking about the infamous Ernest Hemingway. And so one of the things that you know, i do want you guys to keep in mind. Is that like this whole perception of martha . You know, how did she get to where she was where she did become a famous wartime correspondent. Was it based off of her work her reporting in advance, or was it based off of her connections to hemingway . Now thinking about wartime correspondence. I do want to kind of fast forward a little bit to look at some more modern wartime correspondence now when i