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Acres. And it is a village setting in many respects, but within that village every structure houses an amazing selection put together or collected by electr webb, who was our founder in 1947. She amassed an amazing collection, which the Shelburne Museum houses amongst its 39 or so pilgdinbuildings. Its just a plethora of objects and collections within collections to see here, from impressionist art to weathhethe weathervanes to cigar stores to the largest item she collected, which was the tikonderoga. Whats interesting about the ti, it was built in 1906. Which was really wi, as you loot it fro...

Okay. So oh, goodness. Heres the oh, okay. So heres the auction. Auction block and auctioneers stand. So thats thats the brick dependency. Okay. Thats the duck house. Duck house . A duck house. This is the wash house. Pretty tiny. Yeah. This one has a neat feature on back side of it. It has a drain in the wall where they would just dump [ inaudible ] yeah, yep. Dump the water out. So this is the slave house. My name is jobie hill and were at Green Hill Plantation which is in campbell county, virginia, and im here with the Company Trimble and they are here with me for my independent project whi...

Houses project, joined by several archeologists and preservations and a team that came to document Brandon Plantation with a series of 3d laser scans. Were here to do laser scanning and documentation of a slave house that is here. This is part of an independent project i am doing thats called saving slave houses, which is a database of all the known slave houses in the united states. It is a staffing central postory of instrumentation and documentation of slave houses in the united states. I have partnered with turnbull, the company that makes the survey equipment that i use, to do kind of the...

Jim my name is jim johnson, im the curator of Historic Structures at the henry ford. We are here in Greenfield Village. T,are here with a 1914 model one of the things you get to experience here. Behind me is the shed, this stood behind his house in house where heed developed his first gasoline engine, eventually his first car in 1896. Then we will be having a look at his first place, which was brought here as well. Jim this is what we call the begley shed, it stood behind the complex where they lived in the 1890s. At that point, henry was a highranking steam engineer in detroit. He also had a ...

That is wrong. Lord dobbs has the privilege of being introduced by lisa. [laughter] [applause] lisa good evening. I just realized that i am going to be the only person on this stage tonight who doesnt have a british accent. [laughter] lisa but i do have an accent, so you have to see if you can detect it at some point. [laughter] lisa if you asked him, lord dobbs would tell you that he never had a proper job. Yet, it was in his restless search, as he calls it, for this ideal job, that he just happened, happened to stumble upon some of the most wonderful and rewarding experiences that anyone cou...