Numbers, 8 30 this morning. We knew it was going to be bad because bricks and Mortar Stores have been largely shut down, and it was bad. April sales down 16. 4 in april after dropping 8 in march. So heres the market, with just minutes to go to the opening bell. Red ink all over the place but not as bad as it was. The dow off about 180, 25 down for the s p, 121 down for the nasdaq. Thats of course inspired by apple, which is way, way down this morning. What were looking for is how fast we can rebound on the other side of this really bad Economic News. Thats the other side of the coin. The great reopening. Which gathers steam this weekend. There are only a handful of states that are still trying to enforce a complete lockdown. This will be a test of our willingness to get out and about, our willingness to travel, eat out and shop. This is important. We need to open the economy. We need to get back to work. This weekend, i think its a prelude to memorial day next weekend which is the unof
We think its really important to document the everyday life of women and their diaries are wonderful ways to do that. Sometimes perhaps but they dont contain. So the first example that i want to share is a diary written by Eleanor Hamlin from portland this diary is from the 1940s and its unremarkable nest. January 51945. Cloudy and rainy downtown. That jim im assuming this is her son and brought him home to listen to president trumans message to congress. Rested for a while and then helen became in the afternoon. Unremarkable and yet showing how these people are clearly engaged in the world around them living their everyday lives. One of the two claimants to having the first reads to the north pole. And it recorded the experience it was recorded and photographed she also kept a journal in which she documented the aspects of the experience so on her second journey to greenland she was in fact eight months pregnant when it set off. They gave birth to the daughter marie about the arctic c
Jefferson and friends divided. Look for these titles and bookstores this coming week and watch for many of the authors in the near future on booktv on cspan2. He is also the director or International Institution and Global Governance program. Known in shorthand as the iigg. Stewart is a quintessential policy practitioner at the rockefeller studies program. As a doctorate in International Relations from Oxford University where he was a rhodes scholar. He served on the state Department Policy and planning staff for the george w. Bush of administration and he has been with us here at cfr since 2008. As you might have gathered from stewarts very long title that he is an expert in multilateral cooperation and International Institutions. He has written widely as well on topics ranging from fragile states to u. N. Security Council Reform to the merits of Ad Hoc Coalitions of the willing. I will refer you to the internationalist available here on cfr. Org but tonight we are not here to talk ab
Some of these authors have a will be appearing on booktv. You can watch them on our website, booktv. Org. Often i think of the beautiful town that is seated by the sea and often in fossil upanddown the pleasant streets of that town and my youth comes back to me. Welcome to portland, maine, on booktv. Located on a peninsula, it was the original capital of maine and started as a fishing and trading village. Today its the largest city in the state with a population of about 66,000. It still has strong ties to its maritime history with lobstering and tourism in its largest economic drivers. With help of our spectrum Cable Partners for the next 90 minutes will feature the areas history and literary community. Whitney kent are special feature on portland with a history of lobstering industry. We begin our special feature. Over here is my gps and radar. So and thought it helps us figure out where we are. I dont mark my traps with the gps. I i kind of do it by feel. Look at that bad boy. Its a
Watch on cspan. Org and on cspan, or listen in the freeseas bandwidth radio app. For the next hour, a book tv exclusive our cities to her visits portland, maine, to learn more about its unique history and literary life. For six years, we traveled in u. S. Cities, bringing the book seem to our viewers. You can much more of her visits at cspan. Org cities tour. More of our visits at cspan. Org cities tour. These are some of the items that i pulled out to show the , which of our collection documents the exploration and founding of maine from about the 16th century through the modern period. This is a piece from 1565, reportedly one of the first uses of this term in print. Is a legendary city, the el dorado of the american northeast. It is claimed to be a viking settlement of riches and gold never to be found, but often sought after, in the true sense in the age of exploration. This is all you three of for mobiles of a volume, loosely translated as a documentation of the exploration of the