Institution and its secretary, lonnie bunch, id like to welcome you all to the next Smithsonians National museum of Natural History and this very special graduation ceremony. Im richard curran, the smithsonians distinguished scholar and ambassador at large. First and foremost, i like to extend the welcome to our colleagues and friends from the u. S. Army, distinguished leaders, and, of course, our officer our graduates and their rightly proud and maybe families. Id like to welcome distinguished guests from the Monuments Men and women foundation, including members of the board and relatives of the world. Two monuments officers. This is a very special occasion. I dont usually wear this every day to work at the smithsonian. But id also like to welcome our guests from, bank of america, whove supported the initiative from the beginning. And finally, my smithsonian colleagues and those from sister organizations involved in Cultural Heritage protect like the department of state, the fbi, the
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The dark literally. Next, its turkey time. Learn how to make a new recipe with the holiday favorite. And travel to one of the most unique farmers markets in the stata. Its all ahead, and it starts now. You would think being around watermelons all day, you might get sick of eating the sometimes messy snack, but not for farmer dan van groningen. Thats good. Thats crispy. Its sweet. Its wet. Its everything a watermelon should be. But then again, hes had a lot of practice eating watermelons at his family farm in ripon. For more than 70 years now, theyve been growing the picnic favorite and have loved every minute of it, seeds and all. 1939, we started growin watermelons the first time. My grandfather did, and, uh, my father was young then, and he would do the harvesting. They would, uh, load the watermelons into small, little trucks and and bring em to the rail car and load emstack em by hand in the rail car, and thats how a lot of the watermelons were shipped. Dans right. When it comes to
What this is all about is your right to freedom of speech. What made America Great is an independent, vigorous presence. If a jerk burns a flag, america is not threatened. Political speech is the heart of the First Amendment. Theyre expressing their religious beliefs. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of gods children. Captioning provided by the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center Welcome to speaking freely, a weekly conversation about the First Amendment and free expression. Im ken paulson, executive director of the First Amendment center, and this is a special edition of the program in recognition of banned books week. It features three very special guests. They include judy blume, one of this countrys most popular and most frequently censored authors, Carolivia Herron, whose criticallyacclaimed book, nappy hair, was challenged in a brooklyn school, and cammie mannino, a bookseller who took a stand against censorship. Welcome to all of you. I have to begin with judy.
Is that an urban legend, or is well, thethe thumping is after youveyouve picked the watermelon in the store. Lets say you assume all the watermelons are ripe in the store. Mmhmm. Every one in th bin or on the shelf are ripe. Then you wanna start feeling them. If they have a good sound to em, it means that theyre not overripe, when they have a a flat sound, uh, doesnt have a good ring to it. This has got a nice ring to it. If its got a flat sound, its either overripe, or maybe it has a hollow heart. After the watermelons leave the field, they are taken here to the packing shed, where they are sorted and even polished up a bit. There are now several generations of Van Groningens working together at the farm, including dans 86yearold dad. In recent years, the family has diversified the farm and has 4,500 acres in production of a variety of crops, so now when the sun goes down on the melon harvest, work just begins on the other big crop, sweet corn. Yeah, we like to do it at night, uh, bec