The city is home to fantastic caverns. Americas only drivethrough cave. Learn more about springfield all weekend here on American History tv. I begin researching the delaware townsite in 1998. One of the township records and some of the fieldnotes denoting the location of what became known as delaware town. Or delaware village. I believe it was 400 square miles in the southwest part of the state including springfield. And where delaware town was south of springfield just across the Greene County line. Over the course of five field seasons, we documented several delaware village site dating between 18221830. They probably were more europe and eyes to or americanized than most other groups because of the fact that they had been in contact with euroamericans very early. Where were they from . The delaware. Whatware valley became known as the delaware valley. And came in contact very early with english, dutch, french even peoples. And probably signed more treaties than any other group and
Good afternoon. Welcome to our session with the author, mark k. Shriver. My name is dan. My wife and i are the proud parents of three k School Graduates and im the dean of the law school at cass university. Withbe get started, a few reminders. Please be sure that your cell phones are turned off or in the silent mode. After i introduce mr. Shriver our program today will follow a question and answer format to facilitate our discussion. I will be asking questions for the first 30 minutes or so, then for the next 40 minutes well turn the program over to you, members of the audience to ask questions. Youll be invited to come to the microphone ther center of the room. Whenout your turn, please fivous and briefly, briefly, ask you question. Immediately after we conclude mr. Shriver will be available in the activity building to sign copies of his book. Mark shriver is the author of the book toy pilgrimage my search for the real pope fran tis president of the save the Children Network in washin
The painful reality is the hostility to jews because they were jewish existed outside of nazi germany at the time. Today we honor the memory of those who perished in the holocaust by hearing about the journey of the st. Louis and we also honor their memory by ensuring such horrors do not continue today. Unfortunately, media reports abound with devastating images of the chemical bombing in syria. Refugees fleeing from the chemical war in syria weighs heavy on many minds. The holocaust itself and contemporary stressors underscore my gratitude to have these doctors here to discuss the journey of the st. Louis, a german transatlantic liner full of mostly jewish refugees fleeing from the nazi regime. After some passengers were denied in cuba, they sailed here and asked to come to the u. S. But the u. S. It did not heed their calls. Hundreds of the passengers were still killed by the end of world war ii. Our first speaker has been an archivist at the United States Holocaust Museum for 14 yea
Question and answer format to facilitate our discussion. I will be asking questions for the first 30 minutes or so, then for the next 40 minutes well turn the program over to you, members of the audience to ask questions. Youll be invited to come to the microphone ther center of the room. Whenout your turn, please fivous and briefly, briefly, ask you question. Immediately after we conclude mr. Shriver will be available in the activity building to sign copies of his book. Mark shriver is the author of the book toy pilgrimage my search for the real pope fran tis president of the save the Children Network in washington, dc and a form maryland state legislator, this is mr. Shriver res second book. Er is first book a good man, rediscovering my father, Sergeant Shriver was a New York Times and Washington Post best seller. Mr. Shriver has a wife and three children. For those who have not yet read the book i thought i would share with you a review about the book which will give you an introduc
I needed a grounding in order to be able to write this book about a woman who is really just absolutely magnificent when you read the book, youll be blown away by her life. Now, many folks here in this room and of course at mt. Vernon, this is no new story. We know about ona judge and you are among a small group of people who actually now happy there are many more who know her. This expectation. I want her name to become one of those sort of household names, like a frederick douglass, lake Harriet Tubman because she rubbed away decade before they do. Sew so the title a quick story about the titling never caught. This is one Motor Vehicle first one of my first choices for the title of of the book ann the perfected hated it. They said gives away the story, erica. I said, yeah, but so does 12 yours a slave. Only, we understand, it was 12 years, going to end at some point. With never caught this is a history of how a woman who was a fugitive, never found freedom. She was never free. She si