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Why is it that the members of a few families sprouted so many useful and famous careers, such as the Jameses, the Adamses, the Holmeses. And the Beechers. Is it a peculiar gene? Or perhaps the family environment is somehow conducive to genius? Out of eleven ( ) children, ten of the Beechers secured a national reputation in one form or another. As I came to know them by their personal statements, I realized that their history was our United States history, not the whole of it, but a major portion of the tides of sentiment and eras of a nation abuilding. This script was produced to honor the Beechers and what they had done that is so little known today. Much of the Nineteenth Century, certainly the era before the War Between the States or the War of Secession (now known as the Civil War, which it was not), is hidden history, yet these events, thse people, laid the foundations for what our culture has become.… (mais)
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
When the father Lyman Beecher retired at age 75, with the intention of sitting down to write his autobiography, he found that memories slipped away from him. His keen mind was gone, and daughters Harriet Beecher Stowe and Catharine prompted him into conversations of his early days. They also added their own reminiscences and drew on the family round robin letters; Edward Beecher supplied materials, and so did the rest of the eleven Beecher children. Charles was finally designated editor, and when the two volumes of the Autobiography of Lyman Beecher was finally published, it was the chronicle of a remarkable family whose ideas and actions helped shape the country that we live in today. That material is the basis for what you will hear today.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
The earnest seeker and hopeful discoverer of this New World always haunts the outskirts of his or her time. Our history is written in the lives of such individuals. — Henry David Thoreau
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
In her last year, Isabella said to her granddaughter Isabel: ISABELLA : I can’t stand all the suffering in the world. ISABEL : Well, grandmother, you have the satisfaction of knowing you have always done more than your share to relieve it. ISABELLA : That’s the point. As long as I could help, I could stand it, but now that I can no longer help, I can’t stand it! NARRATOR : In 1907, Isabella Beecher Hooker died. The Beechers were gone.
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Why is it that the members of a few families sprouted so many useful and famous careers, such as the Jameses, the Adamses, the Holmeses. And the Beechers. Is it a peculiar gene? Or perhaps the family environment is somehow conducive to genius? Out of eleven ( ) children, ten of the Beechers secured a national reputation in one form or another. As I came to know them by their personal statements, I realized that their history was our United States history, not the whole of it, but a major portion of the tides of sentiment and eras of a nation abuilding. This script was produced to honor the Beechers and what they had done that is so little known today. Much of the Nineteenth Century, certainly the era before the War Between the States or the War of Secession (now known as the Civil War, which it was not), is hidden history, yet these events, thse people, laid the foundations for what our culture has become.
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