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The Smithsonian Associates and the International Spy museum cohosted this 80 minute event. Good to see all of you here. I am a historian and curator. Some of you i know, some of you i am meeting for the first time. I would like to welcome all of you to the spy museum and spy seminar, where we focus on the spies of the American Revolution. The first two weeks centered on wellknown personalities. You have the , which has an entire tv show dedicated to it now, and ben franklin is of course ben fran...

North carolina. It is called cape fear because when boats were approaching there were a lot of shoals and it was difficult to get into, so it was a fearful place to land, at least that is what most historians thing. Wilmington is the main city in North Hanover county. The exhibit is called cape fear stories. It explores the history of wilmington and North Hanover county from the earliest inhabitants of to the 20th century. When people came here, some people described it as an ocean of trees, maj...

North carolina. It is called cape fear because when boats were approaching there were a lot of shoals and it was difficult to get into, so it was a fearful place to land, at least that is what most historians thing. Wilmington is the main city in North Hanover county. The exhibit is called cape fear stories. It explores the history of wilmington and North Hanover county from the earliest inhabitants of to the 20th century. When people came here, some people described it as an ocean of trees, maj...

North carolina. It is called cape fear because when boats were approaching there were a lot of shoals and it was difficult to get into, so it was a fearful place to land, at least that is what most historians thing. Wilmington is the main city in North Hanover county. The exhibit is called cape fear stories. It explores the history of wilmington and North Hanover county from the earliest inhabitants of to the 20th century. When people came here, some people described it as an ocean of trees, maj...

It explores the history of wilmington and North Hanover county from the earliest inhabitants of to the 20th century. When people came here, some people described it as an ocean of trees, majestic, tall trees, and these became the bedrock of the regions economy. The trees are called Longleaf Pines. You can still see them today, but they used to cover a huge part of the united states. They have these long pine needles, big pinecones, totally different than anything you would have seen in england i...

He brought 60,000 guest, the union army. Sherman had previously been to savannah and lost savannah. There was no burning, looting or destruction. Savannah was spared. Sherman just left savannah about four months later with those 60,000 troops. A significant amount of marriages occurred between savannah women and northern officers. So we come up past the American Civil War through the reconstruction period ending in 1876. By the 1920s cotton had failed because of overgrowth and lack of fertlizati...

The founders are. In 1954, come to the rescue was the Historic Preservation society who had enough when the Old City Market was destroyed and they built an incredibly hideous looking parking lot. So, they band together and formeded what some called it hysterical save savannah foundation. Literally seven old ladies, some in tennis shoes, went around throwing their bodies in front of the wrecking ball to stop the progress and a Revolving Fund started to buy a house for 5,000, restore it to what it...

Plant occur ator explained the history and use of some of the plants by native americans and others. Welcome to the national garden. This is the most recent garden to open on our property. It opened in 2006. Its a wonderful place to look at native plants. Bus thats n but thats not where it got its start. It got its beginning when the rose became our National Floral emblem in the 1980s. Shortly after that, the senate wives committee started looking for a way to commemorate the rose. They noted th...

So now it is officially part of the custody of the national archives, the original. The copy right is retained. And i believe that the family has given the copyrights over to the sixth floor museum, in the old Texas School Book depository. If someone were to come here, they could look at it. Its just that if you were to choose to duplicate it and publish it, that you would need to get the copyright in order to do that, permission under the copyright. If you were to come in to see it, you would b...

Plant occur ator explained the history and use of some of the plants by native americans and others. Welcome to the national garden. This is the most recent garden to open on our property. It opened in 2006. Its a wonderful place to look at native plants. Bus thats n but thats not where it got its start. It got its beginning when the rose became our National Floral emblem in the 1980s. Shortly after that, the senate wives committee started looking for a way to commemorate the rose. They noted th...