And the beginning and the end of everything there is light. And god said let there be light and there was light. The light the crowning achievement of creation represents consciousness. Without light there is no vision without light there is no light without light there is no art. James to rail uses light to create art to rel is not a god but many consider him one of our greatest contemporary artists of his works dont simply make use of light they are light itself. Is installations they the viewer in light trucks i. Use your orientation as if in a heavy for. Outlines disappear. Everything and. 3 are going to museum in body posting. The largest ever seen a year. Old and gives interviews but at the museum. 75 years old now he rarely travels to these kinds of exhibitions which are held all over the world. The conversation focused on the main theme of his work the secrets of light. Mist that are out when and how did you 1st realize that the world is all about flights i dont know the very c
He has won many awards for his work. Navy war won a medal from the 20 12th George Pendleton prize. It was selected for the navys reading list. The forging of the american 2008 Samuel Alito Marston award. In 2018 he received the Samuel Eliot Marston award from the Constitutional Museum for his body of work. For this evening, george will speak to us for about 30 minutes. Then we will invite numbers of the audience to ask questions. Please note that cspan is your taping our author event, so speak into the microphone clearly. They will take this presentation as well as the q and a. We invite everybody to come on up. If you have a book, george will sign it for you. We have some of his back lists here as well. We have to 1812 book that i spoke about, as well as the fic book. Please join me and welcoming author george daughan. [applause] george thank you for posting this event. Thank you to all these wonderful people who have come here. Revolut is entitled ion on the hudson. New york city and
Next, George Daughan discusses the importance of the new york waterways and how the british were unable to establish an effective blockade of new england. Arnzen noble hosted this hourlong event. Thank you for attending this author event. George daughan will be speaking about his book revolution on the hudson. in addition to writing books he has also he has won many awards for his work. 1812 a navy war won a medal from the 20 12th George Pendleton prize. It was selected for the navys reading list. The forging of the American Navy won the 2008 Samuel Alito Marston award. The 2008 Samuel Eliot Morrison award. In 2018 he received the Samuel Eliot Marston award from the Constitutional Museum for his body of work. For this evening, george will speak to us for about 30 minutes. Then we will invite numbers of the audience to ask questions. Please note that cspan is your taping our author event, so speak into the microphone clearly. They will be taping this presentation as well as the q and a.
Army medical museum. Our mission is much the same. It is to collect objects that shed light on the value of military medicine and preserve the legacies of military medicine. What we will show you today are highlights of the Museum Collections from the last 150 years in areas of military medicine, Human Anatomy and medicine, forensic bioengineering, and a special few artifacts we have on display here. So, along. Long. , come a we start our tour today with this object, the floor of what 2 fromown as trauma bay an hospital in iraq. From 2003 until 2007, during the height of the iraq war, the hospital served as the evacuation point before soldiers were flown to germany and the for the next level of care. Trauma bay two was where the worst cases were treated. This helps tell the story of modern Battlefield Medicine and it shares that story by the deep gouges you see in the floor. If you can imagine, the gurneys being carried into the emergency gurney legs being kicked into place over and ov
Military medicine, one exhibit display focused on the advancements in surgical kits. We see a surgical kit from the time of the revolutionary war n and the war of 1812, compared 18 and contrasted with kits from rq afghanistan. One thing to notice in the surgical kit from the war of 1812 is that the knives may look to us today very much like kitchen knives or butcher knives, but these were the precise tools of that era. So its interesting to note that those knives are alongside the tools used to extract bullets from injuries and one can imagine the pain that might have been caused by even the tools themselves. Another object kit of note is the kit used to do a postmortem examination, an autopsy on the remains of the father of the United States navy, john paul jones, jones had died and was buried in france at the end of the 18th century, but in 1905 a surgeon named joseph corniel had jones remains exhumed and core kneel used this kit that we have on display to positively identify jones r