You can read faster than i can talk so i wont read the slides. I want you to see beautiful places i love. They are history and parks and recreation and National Resources and frankly the lungs of the city are largely these forts and the parks. So there we start. As frank said the city was unprotected down below. This is Fort Washington. If you havent been there, you should go. Its quite different from the forts that were built during the civil war. After bull run, lincoln knew the city was vulnerable. Thats when he ordered director Major General john g. Barnard to design forts around the city to protect it. Here they are. These are the ones available there. It was quite an amazing feat to build all those. It was just tremendous. Here they are there. Ive circled them here on this old map, the ones that are under government ownership today. The park service owns all the ones in washington, d. C. And one in maryland and one in virginia. The ones in virginia are owned by local governments.
Its been 75 years since a biography of key has been published. Our speaker mark leepson is here to tell us what hes discovered and writing rching his new book about key, what so hailed. We historian john cupla, officer of women said it tells the multifacetted story star author of the spangled banner with clarity, passion, a and literary performance nailing the high notes of the land of the brave. D the home of the mark leepson is a journalist, historian, and author of eight previous bookses include lafayette, letters of eadership, desperate engagement, the story of onfederate general jubals early attack on washington. Flag, an american biography, the istory of the stars and stripes. And the levy familys epic quest that ease the house jefferson built. Es a former staff writer for Congressional Quarterly and a freelance writer since 1986, ritten for many newspapers and magazines and arts editor and olumnist for the newspaper published by the Vietnam Veterans of america. At Fairfax Commun
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