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Of shoreland and conservation and food sustainability, and its just, its just terrific. Thank you so much for sharing your city with us. R span cspan is in portland, maine. We visit the childhood home of Henry Wadsworth longfellow. Often i think of the beautiful town that is seated by the sea, and often in thought go up and down the pleasant streets of that dear old town, and my youth comes back to me. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a, was an american poet in the 19th century. He was, when he was alive and writing, probably the most famous english language writer in the world if not the most f...

Paid much attention to dyer. They thought she was a crackpot, a lewin tuck. Who would write lunatic. Who would write books for 50 years decrying the shakers . Models of new england farm life and history. Yet as i read her text, i realized this isnt a woman whos insane, this is a woman whos angry. This was a woman who was placed in an untenable position as a woman in American Society in the first decades of the 19th century. The more i read, the more i realized this was more to this story than an angry woman trying to retrieve her children. Mary and joseph dyer were New Hampshire farmers living...

Some of these authors have a will be appearing on booktv. You can watch them on our website, booktv. Org. Often i think of the beautiful town that is seated by the sea and often in fossil upanddown the pleasant streets of that town and my youth comes back to me. Welcome to portland, maine, on booktv. Located on a peninsula, it was the original capital of maine and started as a fishing and trading village. Today its the largest city in the state with a population of about 66,000. It still has strong ties to its maritime history with lobstering and tourism in its largest economic drivers. With h...

There were others but i dont know them all. Any other questions . [inaudible] the white house and the confederacy the question is where was the white house confederacy . Its enrichment and its now called the museum of the confederacy and it is restored to more or less the status condition that it was and when Jefferson Davis resided there between 1861 and 65. And its a lovely house. It still a family that owned a substantial middle and other properties and it was leased by the confederacy for use in the president s house. Maybe we can finish up with one last question. You profiled a number of ...

Fascinating. Anyone who likes to travel is going to places where people live that have been so tied to history. I think just going to Abraham Lincolns home. Almost you walk in and some of the dark wallpaper and defiance of the time just kinds of things to take you back into the time that youve kind of got in a sense of the people from the places theyve lived. What is really neat is how he took on architecture. His first book, the preservation was a collection of profiles. That was taking a look at the architectural biography and he partnered with roger straus to take the photograph and was fol...