Politics & Prose @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue -- David McCullough ("Greater Journey"):
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Description of Pictures: The Greater Journey is the enthralling—and until now, untold—story of American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris between 1830 and 1900. After risking the hazardous journey across the Atlantic, these Americans embarked on a greater journey in the City of Light.
Samuel F. B. Morse brought home his idea for the telegraph. From all he learned in Paris, Oliver Wendell Holmes exerted a lasting influence on the profession of medicine in the U.S. Writers Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, and painter Mary Cassatt flourished in Paris and returned to profoundly alter American history. Despite trouble learning French, spells of homesickness, and suffering cold winters by the Seine, they spent many of the happiest days of their lives in Paris.
McCullough has twice received the Pulitzer Prize, for Truman and John Adams, and twice received the National Book Award, for The Path Between the Seas and Mornings on Horseback.
Speakers in sequence:
* Esther Foer (Sixth and I)
* Barbara Meade (Politics and Prose)
* David McCullough
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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
MCCULL_110602_022.JPG: Esther Foer
MCCULL_110602_053.JPG: Flo Stone and Roger Stone
MCCULL_110602_084.JPG: Barbara Meade, Politics, Prose
MCCULL_110602_162.JPG: David McCullough, Barbara Meade
MCCULL_110602_236.JPG: Rosalee Ingram Barnes (David's wife) and Bert Foer
MCCULL_110602_275.JPG: David McCullough
MCCULL_110602_556.JPG: David McCullough
MCCULL_110602_607.JPG: Elizabeth Brownstein (left)
MCCULM_110602_019.JPG: Esther Foer and David McCullough
MCCULM_110602_027.JPG: David McCullough, Esther Foer
MCCULM_110602_028.JPG: David McCullough, Esther Foer
MCCULM_110602_029.JPG: Barbara Meade, Rosalee Ingram Barnes, David McCullough, Jackie Leventhal, Esther Foer
MCCULM_110602_032.JPG: David McCullough, Jackie Leventhal
MCCULM_110602_038.JPG: David McCullough, Barbara Meade
MCCULM_110602_039.JPG: David McCullough, Barbara Meade
MCCULM_110602_045.JPG: Elizabeth Brownstein and David McCullough
MCCULM_110602_126.JPG: Bruce Guthrie, Tracey Filar Atwood
MCCULM_110602_134.JPG: Historian David McCullough passed on August 7, 2022. He was an amazing speaker and writer. He won two Pulitzer Prizes as well as the Presidential Medal of Freedom during Baby Bush's term. Like most sane people, he detested what Trump stood for and published a collection of essays in "The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For" (2017) in reaction to Trump's election. (That book included one of my photos for which I'm forever grateful.) He'll be missed.
He's seen here in 2011 at Sixth and I Historic Synagogue with a fan whose birthday happens to be the date of the Johnstown Flood, which was the subject of his first book.
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2008_DC_LOC_LL_080412 Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Living Legends 2008 (Mario Andretti, Julian Bond, Herbie Hancock, David McCullough, Cokie Roberts, Frank Robinson, and Bob Schieffer)
2019_DC_Anthropocene_190322 Env Film Festival (2019) -- "Anthropocene: The Human Epoch" (w/Jennifer Baichwal & Nicholas de Pencier) @ Natl Geographic Society
2019_DC_Moe_190321 Env Film Festival (2019) -- Eric Moe Sustainability Film Award Finalists and Winner "Lost World" (w/Kalyanee Mam) and "Treeline" (w/Darrell Hartman and Annie Bush) @ Natl Geographic Society
2019_DC_Confluence_190315 Env Film Festival (2019) -- "Confluence" (w/Amy Marquis, Darren Durlach, and The Infamous Flapjack Affair) @ Carnegie Inst
2019_DC_River_Wall_190314 Env Film Festival (2019) -- "The River and the Wall" (w/Ben Masters, Howard Buffett, and Juliet Eilperin) @ Natl Geographic Sociey
2019_DC_Moe_190321 Env Film Festival (2019) -- Eric Moe Sustainability Film Award Finalists and Winner "Lost World" (w/Kalyanee Mam) and "Treeline" (w/Darrell Hartman and Annie Bush) @ Natl Geographic Society
2019_DC_River_Wall_190314 Env Film Festival (2019) -- "The River and the Wall" (w/Ben Masters, Howard Buffett, and Juliet Eilperin) @ Natl Geographic Sociey
2011 photos: Equipment this year: I mostly used the Fuji S100fs camera as well as two Nikon models -- the D90 and the new D7000. Mostly a toy, I also purchased a Fuji Real 3-D W3 camera, to try out 3-D photographs. I found it interesting although I don't see any real use for 3-D stills now. Given that many of the photos from the 1860s were in 3-D (including some of the more famous Civil War shots), it's odd to see it coming back.
Trips this year:
Civil War Trust conferences (Savannah, GA, Chattanooga, TN),
New Jersey over Memorial Day for my birthday (people never seem to visit New Jersey -- it's always just a pit stop on the way to New York. I thought I might as well spend a few days there. Despite some nice places, it still ended up a pit stop for me -- New York City was infinitely more interesting),
my 6th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco).
Ego strokes: Author photos that I took were used on two book jackets this year: Jason Emerson's book "The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln's Widow As Revealed by Her Own Letters" and Dennis L. Noble's "The U.S. Coast Guard's War on Human Smuggling." I also had a photo of Jason Stelter published in the Washington Examiner and a picture of Miss DC, Ashley Boalch, published in the Washington Post.
Number of photos taken this year: just over 390,000.
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