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And thats why this assistant principal is visiting the 5thgrade classes. We have Highschool Students that drive up and down this street and this neighborhood all the time, right . Theres a good chance some of them are driving in the neighborhood while texting or on the phone. Okay . And if people who are on the road are texting, what can happen . Vincent. They can hit you. They can hit you, right . And thats where the nrsf the National Road safety foundation, comes in. Theyve come up with a clever idea to get Highschool Students to Pay Attention to the message that distracted driving is danger...

Oglethorpe who was one of 21 trustees basically a Charitable Trust kind of like a Nonprofit Organization would be today came to savannah with a ship load of people who are going to start a new colony south of the savannah river. We are in the area of the museum now that talks about this early colonial era here in augusta. We have a picture of just augusta. She was the wife of frederick the prince of wales. You can think of them is sort of the william and kate of their day. They were married in april of 1736 and went oglethorpe came back from england after that marriage, he said he wanted a for...

[applause] interested in American History . Watch American History television on cspan3 at the weekend. 40 hours of people and events that helped document the american story. Visit cspan. Org history for more information. Booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. Im going to try to get through a few. One is the future of the brain. Doing a lot of work in neuroscience space in congress. We have a map of the brain. A group of essays that if they all point to the direction of the future. As a euro sign tracers. Im also interested in both st...

The book were talking about today is augusta then and now a book that i wrote with the museum of history so no better place to talk about the book and what we werent there and here in this Award Winning local museum. It is entitled adust does story so it tells us how agusta developed dedicated to be what it is now. 1733 James Oglethorpe one of 21 trustees of a Charitable Trust like a Nonprofit Organization of today, came to savannah with a shipload of people who would start a new colony south of the Savannah River in the area of the museum now to talk about this colonial era here in agusta. We...

[applause] shank tonights guest is war and being home. Freelanceoadcaster, author, and write her. He won a ba in history from the university of North Carolina go, heels. His career includes nearly 25 years of success in sales and marketing and philanthropic services. He is a special interest in the history of south and North Carolina. Carolina and george seems to be a theme. He is the creator of carolina color, a series of live radio the nuts vignettes, and his column has appeared in the raleigh times and observer. I hope you brought some hush puppies or barbecue or something with you. Being a...