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I will be doing a book signing upstairs. If you have a copy of the book there is time to get one. If you do not have a copy, there is still time to get one. Richmond was captured april 3, 1865. What antzel understatement that is, to capture the historic event that happened 150 years ago today. I got interested in this project 12 years ago when i was going through my grandfathers Family Archive and memoirs and came across this entry. My fathers uncle was a general in the civil war. My grandfather was born in the United States in ohio. His parents were immigrants. Jacob lew is weitzel was his father and his parents died at a young age when george was 18 months old. He was adopted, and the family name was changed. Im a blood weitzel. So the title of my talk is im a is weitzeltalk returns. We have weitzels in the Confede ....
Im excited to be here on the 150th anniversary of the date godfrey weitzal occupy the house. People are surprised, they have not heard of him before. Over the next hour i will tell you why he was chosen to enter richmond 150 years ago today. You may remember his name when he walked out of here when you walk out of here. I will be doing a book signing upstairs. If you have a copy of the book there is time to get one. Richmond was captured april 3, 1865. What an understatement that is to capture the historic event that happened 150 years ago today. I got interested in this project 12 years ago when i was going through my grandfathers Family Archive ben morris and came across this entry. My fathers uncle was a general in the civil war. My grandfather was born in the United States in ohio. His parents were immigrants. His parents died at a young age when george was 18 months old. ....
100 years have passed since an evening in london when a curious audience gathered to hear a lecture by James Mcneill whistler. [clock ticking] he began by saying that the artist stands in no relation to the moment at which he occurs. He is no more a product of his time than is a scientific truth newly asserted. The assertion requires man to make it but the truth itself exists independently. [clock strikes] James Mcneill whistler arrived in paris on november 3, 1855 resolved to be an artist having left america never to return. He was 21. His mother hoped he would follow a career at west point, as his father and grandfather had before him but his temperament was not suited to the discipline of army life. He failed out of west point. In paris whistler began his studies at the academy of charles gleyre, who had a reputation for providing solid groundwork in drawing and painting yet ....
Music all petty and exacting details vanish and i see thing as they are in greattrong masses. The buttons are lost but the garment remains. The sitter is lost but the shadow remains. The shadow is lost but the picture remains. Anthat, night cannot efface from the painter imagination James Mcneill whistler. Narrator painter, printmaker, designer, and critic whistler was one of the most original and controversial artists of his time. He was born in 14, in the Industrial Town of lowell, massachusetts. When he was nine years old his father was hired to oversee construction of a railway in russia the family moved to st. Petersburg. Whistler later claimed that cosmopolitan city as his birthplace. I shall be born when and whe i want and i do not choose to be born at lowell. After eight years in russia, the fami returned and settled pomfret, nnecticut. rapid drumbeats in 1851, whistl ....
He discusses his involvement in the fall of richmond in 1865. The museum of the confederacy hosted this event. [applause] mr. Quatman mr. Quatman a thank you for joining me. It is a visiting story the story that very few civil war buffs know. Ive given this talk all over the country and people are surprised, they have not heard of him before. Over the next hour i will tell you why he was chosen to enter richmond 150 years ago today. You may remember his name when you walk out of here. The book is actually on sale upstairs in the gift shop. I will be doing a book signing upstairs. If you have a copy of the book there is time to get one. Richmond was captured april 3, 1865. What an understatement that is to capture the historic event that happened 150 years ago today. I got interested in this project 12 years ago when i was going through my grandfathers Family Archive and memoirs and came across this entry. My fathers uncle was a ge ....