wood] [chopping wood] [sawing wood] [sawing wood] [cracking wood] [tree falling] [sawing wood] [chopping wood] [cracking wood] [tree falling] ♪ [chopping wood] ♪ [chopping wood] ♪ ♪ [saw engine] yes, the saw was all they expected. the purr of the engine was music to the ears. the two-handle saw was forgotten. [saw engine] [sawing wood] ♪ by continuing to work from daybreak to dusk, they were able to deliver logs to the mill three times a day. ♪ [truck engine] ♪ and now, when father hunter turned in his slips, he received as much money for one day of work as he used to for three. it was a good feeling, good for all of them, and it showed in many ways. ♪ there was extra time and money for things they could never do before. ♪ and when there was finally enough money, hunter and sons did not forget an obligation long postponed. ♪ mother hunter, who had given so much, was at last to get what she wanted most. ♪ ♪ father and sons had never seen mother hunter happier, and because of it, they were all happier. ♪ ♪ it may seem foolish to polish and caress a machine of ru

[chopping wood] ♪ [sawing wood] ♪ [hammering stake] [sawing wood] only when this first tree laid on the ground was their work that a boy could do. limbing the trees might not seem important, but it was a help to james' father and brother. another hand swinging an axe means more trees fell. but the boy was doing something that before, the elders had to do for themselves. ♪ [sawing wood] [cracking wood] ♪ when a tree is down and its branches cut away, the woodsman's job is only half done, for a felled tree is worth nothing so long as it lies deep in the forest. ♪ they could not bring their truck to the fallen trees, but with lady's help, the trees could be brought to a clearing near the road. ♪ ♪ then james was trusted with another job, that of measuring and marking the logs into six -foot lengths. that is the way wood is sold in this timber country. ♪ [sawing wood] as he marked them, his father and harry sawed them, the smell running from the saw cut filled the air. [sawing wood] ♪ [sawing wood] ♪ [brakes squealing] ♪ ♪ the load of logs was slowly taking shape, when t

every wood, every piece of wood that is visible is actually a da sandwiched together, two pieces. the backdrop is a large illustration. >> where diddone she get the ido make these models and had it been done before? >> models like this had not beev done before. her background was a socialite. she grew up in a wealthy family. and herer dad owned a company tt became part of international harvester. she was born in 1878. she wanted to go to medical ocie schoolty but harvard medical to artsol did not admit women until 1945, so that was out of the oh question.cis' shehe went to social meetings ah tea parties and decorative artsa and these sorts of things. francis' mother was quite rsmith talented and very skilled as a seamstress and silversmith and jewelry maker, and she raised bees. so young francis, from the time tha she was a toddler and able to hold a knee in her fingers was a learning how to sew, knit and crochet, and she had an interest in miniatures, and they were a thing back in foo thet day, and 1913 she create a miniature of the entire orchestra, and the display was around ei

i always admired the look of it because the wood is aged so beautifully and it turned out that this wood came from an old barn that was on her property in new hampshire on the rocks where she lived at the time. and so she had her carpenter. saw off whatever. it is a 12th of an inch of the thickness just the aged surface. and then you have to pick out the pieces where the nut holes are small enough to be plausible glue your boards together into planks and then build. the diorama so every every wood every piece of wood that's in it's visible is actually a sandwich together two pieces. and the backdrop is a is a photograph. it's bigger than a five by seven. i guess. i don't really large illustration. where did she get the idea to make these models and had it been done before? models like this had not been done before her background was as a socialite. she grew up in a very wealthy family. her dad owned an agricultural machinery company that became a part of international harvester. and she was born in 1878. so it was a different era. and there weren't a lot of career paths for women at the

and these are more cartoons from the art wood collection. these were done by ron covington. again, back in the, mostly in the '80s i think. and covington's got a distinctive style. a little bit related to the david livingstyle caricature but he took it in his own direction, and there's very light cross-hatching in here, with a lot of gray scale, and they're beautifully done. there's caricatures are a very strange thing. when you're trying to caricature somebody, you exaggerate features and then there are limits to the exaggerations. some caricatures are good of going right to the very edge of taking it away from something you would recognize as that individual. covington's stuff is kind of like that. this board is yeltsin. it is a wonderful extremely exaggerated, pushing the forms, and that's just wonderful, here's a bird, senator bird, west virginia, jerry brown, it's always fascinating when you also work with people, sometimes i'll talk to art students, and do workshops with caricatures, and it's amazing how you don't always have to be so rendered in detail. i mean a presi

sharpened my action -- how is that for a nice day in the woods? >> we were the generation, and all of the baby boom thing, all of us had big families. on a ranger station, there might be three families and 15 kids. >> the forest career was a family business. you and the kids were in on it. >> everybody lived on the compound. in the old days, four or five families lived on the compound. it was a unique experience. growing up in the forest service, it was really a family. work together, play together, partied together, do everything together. >> we had to make our own entertainment for our families. there was a lot of picnicking, all kinds of community things we did together. >> picnics are horrible things. i gained 12 pounds on one trip. ladies were coming and keeping up the tables with fried chicken and pie, and other goodies. they all looked across to see what i would eat. ♪ >> the wives were part of the forest service organization, really part of the functions of the forest service. unfortunately, they really could run the stations as well as

so the plant collection that was picked up during the woods expedition in the pacific found a permanent home finally any teen 50 on the block where we currently stand. it's always fun to think about how much money was expended a long time ago. the original greenhouse of the botanical garden cost 5000 dollars in 1850. and the gentleman named william was hired as the first superintendent of the botanic gardens to care for the plants and stewart the facility on site and would be preserved on to posterity. traditionally something i find fascinating is that the u.s. botanic garden was at that time placed in the legislative branch of government, so it became by the mid 18 fifties a permanent freestanding entity, agency of the legislative branch of government and it was overseeing and it remains overseen to this day by the joint committee on the library of congress. and on the one hand the seems like it did make a lot of sense. why would the joint committee on the library of congress essentially the, committee treated by congress to make sure the congressional library had the books versus thos

the ingredients she uses are animal fat and lye prepared from wood ashes. out in one of the new clearings near the settlement, john fox is giving another newcomer a lesson in corn planting, following the indian method he uses fish for fertilizer. now he takes the carefully saved seedcorn to place on top of the soil covering the fish. then a little more soil is added. >> tis a matter of planting the savages have taught us, and a good one. >> never did i see such planting in england. there will be many new ways to be learned, many. >> yes, there are new ways to be learned in this new land. the changes in the community, however, have made but little difference to robert trent. although many of the fish he catches and dries are now shipped to england. digging for clams along the shore is still a task for the children. this is a task that children enjoy, and one which is very important to settlers who still must rest their food directly from land and sea. food must be taken from shore and from field, from lake and from stream. and there's game to be had in the f

north woods is about as corrupt and shady a plan as you can possibly think of. this is something that i can't believe our joints chiefs of staff came up with. just to give you an idea of what north woods is, a list of different ways we could justify an invasion to take out castro with the u.s. military. the objections were as broad as having the cia kill cuban refugees and pretend it was the cuban government. developing a fake terror campaign in miami and washington, d.c. and blame it on the cuban government. as somebody whose father was living in and miami and i wasn't conceived i'm happy they didn't put this plan into action. they were talking about blowing up buildings in miami and blaming it on the cubans. and a remember the main incident to blow up the main explodes in 1898 and havana harbor. it probably was an accident. we blamed it on spain, it started the spanish american war. the joint chiefs of staff are like look, we can blame it on the cuban government that would justify an invasion. and sinking a boat load of cuban recipes, and bhaming is on the cue

i was shown chopping wood. jumping over fences and in one broadway play i was even depicted tap dance, which i think is rather ironic. my disability polio was not a huge secret. i had just run for vice president in 1920 when i could come down with polio in august of 1921 and my slow recovery was covered by all the major newspapers of the day. i was a public figure. i think a lot of people didn't realize the extent of my disability and when i decided to run for president, i wanted to be a president who happened to have a disability and not a disabled president and so disabilities in those days made people uncomfortable. they were people felt pity for the disabled or in some would sometimes even scorn and so i did not want people to pity me. and so i went to considerable links not to show my disability. i wouldn't be allowed to i wouldn't allow myself to be photographed in wheelchair and when i spoke and i had to walk to a lectin i had special ramps built so i could walk assisted to those. i want to point out tha

they are just they're made out of wood. they're more neatly combustible and i have not come across any records of people talking about shifting the designs of steamboats. what we do see is especially in st. louis is calls for more protection and so they will actually start putting like curfews out for crews and when ships can leave poor or doc when they can't they'll be a call for more police and that would even include patrol boats as well as more police on the docks a heavier naval presence, so they're doing more of those types of protection than physically protecting the boats with iron. technology. i mean we have to remember while technically there are a few other instances of ironclad's pre-civil war. the civil war is really the first war where you see a massive rise in ironclad technology and ironclad's fighting one another so that's very new and innovative and it's gonna take a while before it would trickle down down outside of the military. it looks like we may have lost caroline. and so i'll continue with the quest

but with abundance of toil and hazard of their own health, fetched wood for the sick, fed them, made their beds, washed their clothes, and did all the necessary offices for them which dainty and queasy stomachs cannot endure. >> but after that terrible first winter, life improved for the pilgrims. bradford's history continues the story. ♪♪ >> the spring now approaching, it pleased god that the sick recovered. ♪♪ about the 16th of march, a certain indian came boldly amongst them. he spoke to them in english. his name was samoset. >> samoset, a local chief, had learned english from english fishermen along the coast of maine. he told the pilgrims about another indian, squanto, who also spoke english and who had even sailed to england and back. he promised to come again and bring squanto with him. when samoset and squanto came, they told the pilgrims that a great chief massasoit was nearby and wanted to meet with them. the pilgrims decided to welcome him. ♪♪ they brought massasoit, chief of the wampanoag indians, to meet their governor. the two leaders ate and drank together.

and we were able to take for example pictures of the the the wood the wooden beams. so again, we can use the pictures to map on to our 3d model to make it look more realistic. we were able to use some of the the 3d information we've got ways in which we can convert different forms of 3d information. so for example, the laser scan we can convert that into 3d and then put in a little bit more detail. so every piece of information gets used nothing is wasted. how are you able to come across the same type of details for the town? because that's a big part of the project as well. well the town and the the area of sutton pool in plymouth again was we very very difficult. we used a combination of of data sources, obviously the maps that i've already described gave us some degree of confidence about the the potential layout of that part of the town back in the 1620s the the buildings were predominantly medieval now, that's quite fortunate because there are some very good assets online when you can buy medieval buildings. they're fairly basic. so but we could use the 3d struc

and so i went into the little anti-room and and got rosemary wood on the phone and i know the number down there too. and and i said the president the senator irvin and senator baker would like to speak to the president. and she said well, hold on and i'll be back with you. well you got to remember that all during that time president. nixon had been saying the committee is out to get me is out to get me. well unknown to me. the president gets on the line and says senator irvin, this is this is richard nixon. it wasn't talking and said earlier he was talking to me and i and i blared out just unconsciously i said mr. president wants to get you. i mean on the phone, i'm sorry mr. president on the phone. so we we put the president on with senator ervin and senator baker and they they asked him they said they thought under the separation of powers that he should honor the subpoena and turn over not out of the head and talk about subpoena at that time that he should turn over the tapes voluntarily and of course, he said no and that's when the committee voted that they would have to savannah

riding through the woods, he met a lady on horseback. he waited for her to pass. but instead, she stopped and scrutinized him before saying, well, for lamb's sake, you're the homeliest man i ever saw. yes, madam, but i can't help it, he replied. no, i suppose not, said the lady. but you might stay at home. well, once the editors had stopped laughing, lincoln said he felt with propriety, he might have stayed at home. well, the story is -- i chose it because it's particularly apt. i was scheduled to speak here last year at the symposium, but when it came to it, i stayed at home. and now i may possibly be the ugliest man you have ever seen, though i certainly hope not. but that wasn't why i stayed away. i simply wasn't well enough to travel. so i'm especially grateful to president john white and the executive committee of the abraham lincoln institute for extending the invitation a second time. and i want particularly to thank michael burlinggame who stepped in to fill the gap a year ago. now, while i was working on my book on lincoln's humor, i was aware of those wh

started going there, some 40 winters of hot water heating had worked to combine the scent of varnished wood with the slightly acidic odor of aging books to create a wonderful smell, one that was unique, in my experience. in the 1950s, it was a haven for kids like lynne vincent who loved books. this was a different time back in the 1940s and '50s. and a lot of us in this audience can relate to it. i remember, too, teens and kids were free to run around, come and go, and their parents didn't even know where they were or worry. there was no pervasive fear of computers or cell phones blaring something ugly from around the country or the world. there was a feeling of optimism. when i was the regent at mount vernon, i invited dr. cheney to come as the second lady to talk to 350 students on constitution day september 17th. as you know, it's the day that celebrates the adoption of the american constitution. and her talk captivated the students. she, in turn, invited the entire board to come to the vice president's mansion, and, as you know, it resides on the u.s. naval observatory grounds, and the

my grandfather worked in a wood shop and took care of me every day after school as much as i can remember. i don't know why -- >> washington journal live every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. and you can find more at c-span.org. we're leaving this now to bring you

it's a little pretty pocket book from 1787, and it includes here a little wood cut drawing of children playing baseball with three posts. the word "baseball" is printed there and there's a little poem suggesting a boy runs home with joy. the lexicon showing up. the word baseball, the word home, first produced in 1744 in britain. it's not until it comes to the united states in 1787 that the word first shows up in print in america. as a parallel item to that, we've got a diary, original page from student diary from 1786, john ray smith, who is attending the college of new jersey. that later becomes princeton university. on march 22nd he writes, fine day, played baseball. i'm beaten because can't catch or hit. he's not a great player. the following year the college faculty will ban baseball as being unbecoming of a gentleman. this is the earliest written reference we have to baseball. so already the game is on college campuses. already played by boys much older than children. these are probably older teenagers playing this game. a couple of other things to note in the early going of the g

so in this case this inquest is taking place in the woods near william gardners. you always get a date the fourth day of january and the year of our lord 1817. you get a coroner in this case. he's a justice of the quorum. i won't even get into what that is. you get a dead guy in this case the body of alexander mckee. you get the jurors in this case right at white men all white men 12 white men. and then you get this phrase which i became sort of addicted to finding and everyone of these do say upon their o's do say upon. i became a sort of rhapsody thing for me because that was always my cue that somebody's walking out in this case mckee became deranger insane. he escaped from his family. he died of exposure. this is an era in which right they don't. they would routinely treat people with problems at home. and so they'd essentially locked their loved one up and he escaped and i guess like no like mental. right direction to take care of stuff, right? so so not in 1817. well, you'll start to see in south carolina and other places reform movements for penitentiary, y

started going there some 40 winters of hot water heating had worked to combine the scent of varnished wood with the slightly acidic odor of aging books to create a wonderful smell. one that was unique in my experience. in the 1950s. it was a haven for kids like lynn vincent who loved books? this was a different time back in the 1940s and 50s and a lot of us in this audience can relate to it. i remember too. teens and kids were free to run around come and go and their parents didn't even know where they were or worry. there was no pervasive fear of computers or cell phones blaring something ugly from around the country or the world. there was a feeling of optimism. when i was the region at mount vernon, and i invited dr. cheney to come as the second lady to talk to 350 students constitutional day, september 17th. as you know, it's the day that celebrates the adoption of the american constitution. and her talk captivated the students. she in turn invited the entire board to come to the vice president's mansion and as you know, it resides on the us naval observatory grounds, and the ladies we

they used wood as a few. so those are some of the of the camps. by the way, we use all military terminology. so we lived in barracks and then we ate at the mess hall. so we're fed three meals a day. this is what really broke broke up our family unity. as a family we sometimes eat breakfast together, but by lunch time and dinner time, forget it we're regulated by the dinner gong anytime. we heard the dinner gone. we ran to the missile lined up eight then went out to play or went to school so we didn't have chance to discuss family matters over the dinner table because we didn't eat together. and the latrines the woman in heart mountain complained so they put partitions but still no doors. so encamp they said tea they have to use strategy just use the bathroom if you go to the end stall that's the least amount of traffic. no it backfired. everyone went to peak to see if someone's in the end stall so i got the most traffic but on the men's side we didn't have any partition so we had to sit next to strangers and do our personal business. this is proba

so we're not out of the woods yet, but we are moving forward. and that's what i want to talk to you about now, what's next? over the past year we've been pushed to think outside the box, to work in new ways, learn in new ways, socialize in new ways. one thing is clear. we can absolutely do things differently. so this legislative session, let us challenge ourselves to envision new ways of making louisiana better for all of our citizens. tragedies like the ones we faced often remind us of our shared humanity. but then things start to get back to normal and we forget that for some the road to recovery is much longer and more difficult. like you, i want mardi gras parades to roll again, i want festivals to resume. i certainly don't want to have to wear a mask all the time. but i don't want post-pandemic louisiana to look completely like pre-pandemic louisiana, nor should it because we can do better. the pandemic has highlighted inequities that have persisted in our communities, especially when it comes to health outcomes. these inequities were not c

the wood collection, mostly went back to the 16 seventies, eighties and then there was a big gap and the things started happening in the bar where people would come in and then your clients didn't recognize the people from the nixon and reagan administration. so they want to people from the clinton and obama administration. so that's when richard thompson, who would fortunately pass to win a couple years ago passed away. richard was an astounding territory tourist. he was really the top-flight caricaturist of the time and did a lot of things for u.s. news and world report and the new yorker and so he came in with a portfolio drawings and they got some of those and they wanted more and they say check out my friend matt worse at politico so i want. and i got also and some more recent political figures. i struggle both works, i work with caricature's and a political cartoonist and there is a difference. political cartoonists use words and when i'm wearing my political cartoonist hat, i'm really a political commentator. just like somebody who is writing a column in the pages, except i dr

this spindle this wood spindle bed that lincoln had died in it was too short for his long body. you know, he had to they tried to break off the wooden spindles, but there were too hard the men in the room couldn't break the bed so he had to be laid diagonally on it. and this boots were left behind as soon as the almost immediately just as at the white house. souvenir hunters descended on the peterson house and began taking things and everything disappeared. basically. i mean the anything movable his boots the blood-soaked pillows the the bandages on the floor people started actually tearing offices of wallpaper. they've even evidence to people took splinters from the floor just to have some momento of what they already recognized to be one of the extraordinary moments in american history and many of these things disappeared for about a generation and then began coming up for sale. this was edwin stanton secretary of war took charge of the manhunt for for the assassins and also of the public information that was released. you can see this picture the treasury building with the bl

and then model airplanes, the balsa woods that we would pass. i didn't have hand control. that was too complicated than i had to spend so i just bought the 29-cent balsa wood ones that you could throw. carved some out of pine wood. then during the korean war, many flights would come over our farm. i would be out in the fields, in our garden and i would look up and see that formation of airplanes going over. so even though i was working the dirt, my heart was really in the sky and that's where i wanted to be. i always loved being outdoors. i loved adventure, but cautious. my mother was a schoolteacher and a brilliant woman. she graduated from the university of georgia with a phi kappa phi and that kind of stuff. she actually kept house and lived for the woman and cooked for her and cleaned house for her room and board so she could go to school. when my mother graduated from the university of georgia in 1931, her father sold a pair of mules -- actually traded a pair of mules with some money and bought her a 1931 ford. that was kind of her going away present. and she went off

in the morning, the dead bodies are stacked about the morgue like cord wood. despite his efforts to forget, vaughan remembered and remained haunted. we don't know how many medical practitioners shared this sense, but i did find in a number of memoirs and in diaries, people talking about it as a traumatic experience for them, something that would stay with them, that they would never forget, but what we also know is that the public presentation of medicine by medicine, by physicians very quickly moved away from self-critical reflection and into a more opportunistic optimism. they began immediately to call for funds for their research and promise that their work would save americans' lives. as influenza continued to threaten american health in the years to come in 1920, '22, they talked about these as opportunities, as a chance to test hypothesis. what's interesting is only a small number of physicians remain interested in investigating influenza. interest in it waned quickly. from pages and pages of articles in the journal of the american medical association in

and the original genesis and collection that was on the walls was from art wood who collected cartoons and ended up donating his 30,000 cartoon collection to the library of congress. and he made an arrangement with the hotel to loan them a bunch of classic caricatures from his collection. and since then, i got involved in 2008, thanks to my buddy richard thompson, when they wanted to update the caricatures to stuff that was more current. it went back to the 60s, 70s, and 80s and then there was was a gap. and the newer clients didn't recognize people from the reagan and nixon administrations. they wanted people from the clinton and obama administrations. that's when richard thompson was brought in and richard was just an astounding caricaturist. he was the top caricaturist at the time. did a lot of stuff for u.s. world and news report and the new yorker. he came in with a portfolio of drawings and they got some of those and they wanted more and richard said check with matt who works at "politico." i was able to fill in some of the most recent politicians. political cartoonists use words

described the indelible impact of his former commander had on him and possibly, with sorrow himself for wooded passed between them. let it be a benediction of sorts for this presentation. i saw him in my earliest youth in new jersey, at the head of a small man, or rather and it's rear for he was always near the end. and his countenance and manner made an impressionable -- time can never have faced. that department so far, so magnified, so exalted but yet so modest and composed. i have never seen in any other person. thank you. next on american history tv, historian scott harris talks about james monroe's life. we are about fifth presidents revolutionary war service, his work as a lawyer, his path to the presidency and the that carries his name. mr. harris is director of the james monroe museum and memorial library. the most be heritage area association hosted this 45 minute event, which was part of a symposium called james monroe, presidential inauguration. bicentennial commemoration and reflection. >> our first speaker that were privileged and honor to have your today as scott harris, who is

. >> organization -- jenny, a man isn't made of wood after all? >> $1, i want it. >> it was an assessment. we're helping to organize the steelworkers and the autoworkers. >> last month it was an assessment for the miners. >> next month there will be an assessment for the text tile workers driver. >> who are you working for, me or the labor's union. >> how many suits or dresses does the family of a dress maker buy on $15 a week? >> don't change the subject. >> through the union you improve wages, conditions. people live like people instead of an apple. does an apple buy what i make in the shop? no. the stuff about the american standard of living. you know how you get it? build a trade union movement. >> you should have gone tonight school, you could have been a lawyer. >> the bar association. that's a union. the american medical association. talk about a closed shop. they wouldn't even let a doctor in it. >> alexander brody! >> who knows, maybe it's good for the stomach. >> settling peace rates with the boss thanks to the union. it's always easier

this temple is a replica from a temple and kyoto japan, but the canopy is made original ones made of wood here. it's made of concrete and the architect. mcclellan was first time builder buddhist temple, he was a specialist in making public schools, so we're not sure how and why he had this northern wall that's not japanese that's middle easterners, but way back in 1925, maybe that's when the king tut's tomb was recovered and also in hollywood. we had the egyptian theater built then so maybe in theme with the egyptian theme that he made the egyptian wall here. this is the gateway to little tokyo home his little tokyo and this depict what happened here in the japanese american community in the center right here. we see three people right there with a dedication of the candles and then this young girl with a mallet. actually, she was supposed to be making japanese crushed rice or we call it more chi however is depicting. 1942 guard tower with this symbol executive order 9066. so she's actually demolishing the memories of world war ii up here it depicts some of the activities going on in the

in this case this inquest has taken place in the woods near william gardner's. you always get a date, the fourth day of january, and the year of our lord 1817. you get a coroner, in the case he's a justice of the quorum, i won't even get into what that is. you get a dead guy, in this case the body of alexander mckee. you get the jurors, in this case white men, all white men, 12 white men. and then, get this phrase, which i became sort of addicted to finding in any one of these, do say upon their oaths, it became a rhapsody for me. in the case, mckee became deranged or insane, escaped from his family, died of exposure. they would routinely treat people with problems at home, they would essentially lock their loved one up and he escaped. >> it's like there's no mental health prescription to take care of -- >> right. not in 1817. you'll start to see in south carolina and other places reform movements for penitentiary -- facilities for the deaf, dumb, blind, insane, other kinds of improvements, but not in 1817. you had to take care of it at home. and in this case he

that were shiably put together except for this pop belly stove that they'd have to collect coal and wood to keep it going throughout the winter. when i hear to our paper shack in wyoming winter in the same sentence, i know in a bad place. right the we've talked about executive order 9066. i noticed that in your book you use the term concentration camp, you know, i've seen prison camp in tournament camp. it's difficult to know what to call the individuals who are caught up in the system where they prisoners were they internees and here at the national world war ii museum we struggle with these kinds of terminological issues all the time. so talk to me about well what to call heart mountain, wyoming well, and we really think it's up to the reader and the individual and the person that visits our museum to decide what they choose to call heart mountain i tend to use the term concentration camp lightly, although i did use it in the film as well as in the book just for sensitive political reasons because people associate that with the holocaust and it's really more of a technical legal term i

but we keep wood and clabboards on the outside of the houses to protect it from the rain and any sort of weather that might come. all things that we've got in the house have really come from england. there's not a lot that's being made here at the moment, so all of the prettily carven furniture and all of our baskets and all of the pewter and our pottery, that's all come from england. the only things that here for the most part are very simple things like this stool. things that don't necessarily look very pretty, but we can use them quite well. but there's all sorts of herbs we have hanging in the house we grow in the gardens, but we cut back in the winter so we might dry them and keep them for cooking, might keep them for making medicine for it is a very flagmatic season in the winter so you want to keep things like mint and things that will help -- sage that can clear the phlegm out of your body. not only for cooking but things to help you feel more better in the winter. i've got all sorts of things i use for cleaning. i have a brook on the side of the house. i'll use rags to dust

it was a gothic style greenhouse it would have been serviced in the winter by cole or wood heated stoves in order to keep it warm because the plants that it contained were in many cases actually tropical plants some of the plants we know were tropical ferns large specimens of tropical ferns large specimens of tropical cycads, and many other plants from the we would call the the equatorial latitudes of the pacific rim and and it would have been a very exotic place. it would have been exotic in terms of architecture. gothic greenhouses were not something that we're readily available or found throughout the country at that time glass houses. just on their own. we're certainly not something that were much into public domain at that time and certainly these plants would have been outlandish almost alien to temperate eastern americans who you know almost certainly had not seen or traveled to the tropical environments where you would see these plants in nature. and so over to my right just behind us is actually one of the very few plants that i'm still exists from the time of the us botanic gar

would have been serviced in the winter by coal or when heated stoves to keep it warm -- would heated -- wood heated stoves to keep it warm. because many of the plants were tropical plants, large specimens of tropical ferns, tropical psych ads -- tropical cicads, and many large plans from equatorial latitudes of the pacific rim. it would have been a very exotic lace, exotic -- exotic place, exotic in terms of agriculture, gothic greenhouses were not readily found in the country at that time. glass greenhouses were not something that were much in the public domain at that time. and these plants would have been outlandish, almost alien to temperate, eastern americans who almost certainly had not seen or traveled to tropical environments where you would see these plants in nature. to my right just behind us is one of the few plants that still exists from the time of the u.s. tannic gardens placement upon this block of land. it is a special treat call day zelcova. in the old days, it was considered a type of elm and is classified today in the m family but is considered its own genus, so we give i