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Going to say it until i get here. So i hope you will forgive me for the lack of visuals. My title is dreams nightmares and neglect. And im going to start earlier than 1783. Im going to start with the beginning of european exploration, the early part of the 17th century. So its going to be an almost 200year dream. And but it will go fast because im going to concentrate on what happened once the dream was realized. In 1607 john smith entered the sevenmile wide mouth of the Potomac River and headed north. Whether he got this far north we are actually not certain but the People Living here called ...

Recognize the value of what was in this house and what a number of things including the deathbed and a number of relics in the back room. The band later was purchased by a chicago millionaire, Charles Guenther for 100,000. It is now in chicago with the Chicago Historical society. The Peterson House had an interesting history after lincoln died. It was not immediately seized upon as an Important National monument. The petersons move back in after a few days, borders came back and it became a boarding house again. Then a visionary historian, who loved Abraham Lincoln and was obsessed with honori...

There she cradles the president as other people tried to deal with the situation. Is this a mortal wound or not . There was a doctor in the theater. Dr. Leo. He releases a blood clot in the back his head. And realizes in a sense that while this eases the president sbreathing, this is a mortal wound and hes about to die. They take the present out of the theater across the street to the Peterson House where, early the next morning, he dies. Then the nation is in mourning. Its one of those times in American History where everything changes. You know the sense of incredible celebration and relief ...

It is part of the exhibits we are working on, which opens this month. April 14, 1865 was an incredible day for both the lincolns and washington. News had reached the city that robert e lee had surrendered to grant. The war was finally coming to a conclusion. That morning, Abraham Lincoln had breakfast with his family. Robert todd lincoln, his eldest son, joined him for breakfast. And he was telling the story to the family about what had just taken place. The city was in celebration. And the lincolns themselves you know, or celebrating and finally seeing the end of this incredible war and all o...

Looking quite good. Beltway everything is green and moving along and a lot of that earlier construction of course is now getting pushed out of the way because it is 5 00 a. M. Its moving out of the way for us here. Beltway at branch avenue everything looking quite good for us here now. 95 in virginia into town and out of town you are not having any problems. That earlier road work northbound as you are passing 234 is out of the way since were in the 5 00 hour. Seminary road southbound near kenmore avenue do some road work there where traffic is only getting by the shoulder now. And 20270 270 n...