Page 6 - Port Huron News Today

Everybody, welcome, to the celebrate hamilton 2016 events. On the 202th anniversary of Alexander Hamiltons passing that happened in 1804, at the young age of 47. President ofolet, the Awareness Society. Society. Hort, the aha we have had many discoveries, and we just revealed three new ones this past thursday at liberty hall. So check online for that. The Society Needs to give a special thanks to a number of organizations that made this program possible today. Especially, Trinity Church who host...

Sps sds came here to write what would be called the port huron statement. The students for a Democratic Society were a group formed in ann arbor michigan. They wanted to bring about a more Democratic Society. They figured that they needed a manifesto to bring that about. Here to write their manifesto. Sds was a student group. They wanted to sort of building more Democratic Society. They looked at the laws of the United States and they said, these come about because of a lack of democracy. Here,e...

Holocaust museums firstperson series. It is just over an hour. Good morning and welcome come to the United States Holocaust Memorial museum. My name is bill benson, the host of firstperson. Thank you for joining us today. We are in our 17th year of the first person program. Our first person today is mr. Julius menn whom we shall meet shortly. This season of firstperson is made possible by the generation of the loos frequent Smith Foundation with additional funding from the arlene and Daniel Fish...

Im i did a book on a liberal president and a conservative court. Have you ever heard of any of those . Well, of course you have. But its not the present liberal president and a conservative court. It is the president Franklin Roosevelt and the hughes court of the 1930s. Indeed, it was 75 years ago this month that Franklin Roosevelt announced his Court Packing plan which is the subject of much of my book. Ill talk to in a moment. The clash between roosevelt and hughes at a critical time in Americ...

Steps to the top of the Fort Gratiot Lighthouse. Wet were looking at here, have got the view of the bluewater bridges to the south and lake huron to the northeast. So, were right at the historic the source of the st. Clair river at the mouth of the lake. You can see the nice blue water and what tourists come to this area for. When they hear this is the bluewater area, this is what they get to see. They realize you are not line. Just north of the city of port huron, within the city limits, it get...

K examined. Ve emotions in reconstruction politics. Most recently, dr. Summers published this book, the ordeal of reunion, and it is already sold out in our bookstore behind you. There will be more copies coming. A volume that alongside eric boehners classic reconstruction. It is that important of a book. Mark summers has the task to frame the reconstruction era for us. He is going to raise the Big Questions of this period, and it is my pleasure to introduce professor summers. [applause] thank y...

Addled. You can see it hurt his feelings, it angered her, and she said to mr. Crawford, he is a lot smarter than you are. And if you cant teach him, i will. So she homeschooled him. He credited his mother for making him the vanity became, through her kindness and teaching, and a love of learning. He read and Read Everything that he could. In the evenings as a man, he would read the encyclopaedia britannica. If edison were in school today, he might have been on ritalin or other medicine for add o...

Hayden, and a few others. They wanted to bring about a more democratic society. They figure they needed a manifesto to bring that about. So they came here to write their manifesto. Sds was a student group. They wanted to build a more democratic society. They looked at the problems the United States and said these come about because of a lack of democracy. So in order to fix them, we need more. And so they came together here working from an original draft by tom hayden and they broken up into pie...

Ideally designed for what it was supposed to do. It did that job and we did not exceed that. Im not blowing smoke, thats a good military term. We had all these people who were qualified here who took care of this vessel and we are very proud. The ship itself is 180 feet long and was one of 39 that were built in a rush in world war ii. Feet wide and ways approximately 1100 tons. It draws about third teen feet of water and is told to crush buoys. Apply its an icebreaker when you needed. Tothis goe...

Tv. We are at lake park lakeport state park. Back in june of 1962, this was owned by the United Auto Workers and Union Members would come up. In the summers and weekends with the families. This park at one time was the site for the students of a Democratic Society. Sds came here to write what has become known as the port huron statement. The students for a Democratic Society were a group formed in ann arbor michigan paper, tom hayden, and a few others. They wanted to bring about a more Democrati...