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The grant in 2005. You see his work in eight vehicles with our president ial carriages collection, most notable the Lincoln Carriage. He is here tonight to talk about another American History figure. Arquis de lafayette he has worked on everything from president ial carriages to military cannons to a strange hybrid horsedrawn motorcar that was going to service and alaska lodging establishment. Keep that in mind in cases presentation goes over an hour. Without further do, i would like to welcome mr. Brian howard to the stage to talk about marquis de lafayette. Brian this concludes my program. We will see you later. [laughter] brian you wont get off that lucky. Im sorry. We will be discussing for the most part the conservation of the carriage used by lafayette in his tour of 1825. I have the dates wrong. We reviewed those vehicles in the late 1990s, long before this buildin ....
That supports the role that everyone has to play in the economy including getting people in poverty on a pathway to selfsufficiency. That is just as important. Round of applause for our panel. [applause] up next, booktv takes you to the Fourth Annual boston book festival for a panel called the future of reading. This is about an hour, 15 minutes. Good afternoon. My name is amy ryan, president of the Boston Public Library, and it is an honor and a pleasure to welcome you to the Boston Public Library for the boston book festival. First of all, id like the to thank all the staff and particularly deborah porter, the executive director and founder of the boston book festival, for this amazing lineup this weekend of contentrich programs. [applause] so you can imagine my intense interest in this program, the future ....
So we have bipartisan support for two of the most important things that are going to level us. The things we dont do is think about where do we help the most people the fastest, thinking about per capita returns on investment and our biggest weakness as a nation is Community Colleges, it skill gaps that we have left open. Left wide open between the industries we are holding on to as we compete globally and how well we have done educating the people to take their place in the economy and i would hope whatever agenda comes forward we have an agenda that is deeply focused on adult learning, adult education, Community College and finding more ways for people to constructively entered the economy. I would concur with many of those points. I am grateful i live in a state that has the governor in deval patrick, living in a country with president barack obama. I am vigorously s ....