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Next, we travel about 15 miles northwest of washington, d. C. To Great Falls Tavern Visitors Center where well take a boat ride to learn about the history of the chesapeake and ohio canal. I would like to introduce myself. My name is cassandra and i am a seasonal park ranger here at the chesapeake and ohio canal. I think were going to cast off here shortly, but well go ahead and start to give you a brief history of here on the canal. So it is called the chesapeake and ohio canal, but definitely doesnt reach the Chesapeake Bay or doesnt go all the way up to the ohio river, which is your intenti...

Up next, mark maloy describes the events of 1861 when federal guns opened fire on ft. Sumpter. Welcome back to the emerging civilian virtual symposium. Our next speaker today comes to us from our sister site, emerging revolutionary war. Mark is a historian with the National Park service and hes, like, what can i do thats revolutionary war . Im like, this is the civil war. Hes like whoa. We decided we would let him talk about ft. Sumpter because its as close we can get to the war. Mark is a delightful historian. I wish i could get him to laugh on queue. His most distinctive feature is his laugh...

My name is cassandra sohida, and i am a seasonal park ranger here at the chesapeake and ohio canal. I think were going to cast off here shortly, but well go ahead and start to give you a brief history of here on the canal. So it is called the chesapeake and ohio canal, but definitely doesnt reach the Chesapeake Bay or doesnt go all the way up to the ohio river, which is your intention of the canal when we first started building it july 4th of 1828. We wanted to try to connect the Eastern Shore with what was considered the west back then. The west was up in ohio, pennsylvania, that area. We wan...

Congressman rick larson of washington, what is on your reading list. Whats on my reading list its not long but coming in to the middle of the summer i am working on the third iq novel by joe, a los angeles mystery writer and iq is his character and brett is the third book in the series, a detective novel, hes a private investigator and a lot of action and a lot of great relationships in the book so i am working on that, im also working on frederick douglass, biography that is published recently, im working on that to fairly long book so im popping in and out of that quite a bit in taking that ...

Im emily turner. History was made last night, over Vice President joe biden know president elect and california senator Kamala Harris becoming the first woman to become the first role of Vice President elect as woman. At the white house it has been very quiet, taking their first beaches last night joe biden and Kamala Harris projected unity and optimism. Here is not report from washington. Reporter at a victory celebration in wilmington delaware president elect joe biden said he is ready to get to work for all americans no matter who they voted for. It is time to put away the harsh rhetoric, l...