textile manufacturing first came to this country, served as a huge part of our economy, and how it is now almost all gone. I have previewed the video she will be using as an aid to her talk and can report it is very good indeed. Centering around Webster Massachusetts, the mills that Samuel Slater ("the father of the American Industrial Revolution") founded provided the lifeblood of generations.
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CLUB BUSINESS: As everyone surely understands, we need speakers for our monthly meetings. The fact that you good people find history interesting enough to show up causes me to think you may also have ideas or thoughts of speakers we could invite. For instance, someone told me this morning of a fellow who grew up in a very poor area of the old Soviet Union and who tells amazing stories of those times. Yes, my initial thought was, "Let give the lectern to this guy---I want to hear those reports without interruption."
So far we have received only good feedback from attendees. That is fine, but we surely want to keep the spigot open. So feel free to pass forth to us those interesting keepers of history and I'll see if I can entice them to come share. Perhaps your dentist is an amateur historian and has collected scads of materials about something obscure to the world. There is a speaker. Perhaps your spouse was involved in a secret mission a half century ago that is now declassified. There is a speaker. Or it could be that you were near a historic event and have fleshed out the story as the years went by. Yes, you could be a speaker.
As things stand now, we're hopeful that Phil Petta will be here on December 20 to give the conclusion of his report on military grave history. And, yes, this time we will have the audio part of his DVD playing. Then in January, I have hopes of presenting a personal report about segregation in 1940s South Carolina. If I can get enough video together it should give you a look into truly another world.
And we need more...
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