Unfamiliar fishes 1898. Her book is her book is unfamiliar fishes. Austin and you have microphones everywhere. I will read for a little bit and then have questions just like every other reading you have ever been to. Of macaroni a clock salad next the japanese chicken . With the new england missionaries bound for hawaii in 1819. They only serve chicken four days a week. This is a fine spot for a sunburned tourist to sit need and ponder the historical implications of a lukewarm walks of takeout. None of us belong here. Not me. Not the macaroni. Not the chicken soap in soy sauce. Not even the trees. Their imports from india. That pour up sprouts slowly into the ground and take roots. It leads to more and more trunks into each tree becomes its own busy little orest. Town is a banyan in the landed in 1873 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the arrival of new england missionaries on the island. Tall when a feet descendent planted it and now it stands over 60 feet high with leaves spanni
One time i was in the courthouse chatting with a woman, she told me the town gardeners put a lot of effort into it, because otherwise its roots would crack the foundations and topple everything in its path. The tendency has earned its the pet name strangler fig. Here in waikiki. The u. S. Army museum is hunkered down among the condominiums built in the post statehood architectural style i like to think as a very brady brutalism. It appears in an old black and white photograph on display there. The picture was taken a few days after the sons of missionaries who had dethroned the Hawaiian Queen and handed over hawaii to the United States. The spanish american war had the soldiers stopping off in this city to persuade the filipino people at gun point that south government really isnt for every one. They named their camp after the president that dispatched them there, camp mckinley. The Mckinley Administration invaded puerto rico, guam and annexed hawaii. The United States became a world p
It was really about america reestablishing its independence against the british. In 1814 the city of washington was attacked and it was burned and mostly the federal buildings that were burned and also the newspapers. Anything that was supporting the separation of the United States from britain. Its said that you could actually see the fires in washington from the city of baltimore. This is one of our really iconic pieces in the collection. Its a piece of the timber from the white house and you can see the charring on it. The troops left washington, there was a twopronged attack on baltimore, one was a land group coming up from washington and then there was the naval engagement coming up the chesapeake. What happened along the way is major ross, who was commanding the land forces, was killed and thats what kept the land forces from landing in baltimore. But the sea attack happened. One of the things we like to remind our visitors of is that british were still fighting in europe. They w
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