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Our final speaker tonight is christopher calkins. He a proud graduate of longwood university. You were one of the first male graduates of longwood. Chris has had a long career with the National Park service. He worked at appomattox, spotsylvania, and was chief of interpretation at petersburg for many years. In 2008 he took over the position of park manager for battlefield state park. It is only 15 minutes from here. He has done an amazing job in revising Sailors Creek. As a mentioned in the beginning he will be available tomorrow for some tors of their cash for some tors out there for some tou...

The reality is they opened up but it was to be an outreach to our kind of people there. Thank you. I just had a quick question. Do you think the majority of the people, do you have any information on this, left for political reasons, not wanting to live under yankee rule or was it more economics hoping to reestablish a Slave Institution in brazil or elsewhere . And also, do you have any information perhaps about the states that they were more likely to have left were deep south states like alabama, mississippi or upper south states, which i would think it would be deep south states but im just...

I brought some of our brochures. I had no idea how many people would be here. If you are planning to go to the park this afternoon, if you hold off taking one of these, they are in the back. We will get you some. Its on park row. My talk is referred to as black thursday, the battle for Sailors Creek. One of the Union Generals who was involved in the battle, he wrote in his book about the fighting 5 of the intelligent people of the united states, north or south ever heard of the battle of Sailors Creek. They dont know anything of its magnitude or importance. This is not strange. It was fought i...

A number of different details. I have never seen one like it before. Reporter till today this was the worse ever. This was last year. A bad year. This is the average depth this time of year. Up there, the most that was ever recorded. From our advantage point there was little snow on the mountain tops 2,000 feet higher. The American River is looking like late fall. I know been here 22 years i have been here 22 years. Never seen it like this. Reporter this years snow pack was below any other measurement going back to1950. The usual is 30 inches of snow. Over the last 65 years the average has bee...

Woman arrested in connection with the case walked out of court. New this afternoon we are learning what police say was taken from the room at the Donovan Hotel. Pat collins is outside d. C. Superior court. What are you hearing . Reporter chris, this all came down just a few minutes ago. Here now some fresh video of 19yearold domeniqueonique johnson after she was officially charged with conspiracy to commit robbery at the Donovan Hotel. Johnson is the roommate of the accused killer in that hotel murder. According to police she was with the murder suspect before it happened and with the murder s...