From The Times-Picayune
by Susan Larson
Historian Douglas Brinkley finally has a moment.
Just in from breakfast with C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, he stops for an interview with his former hometown's newspaper the day before he makes an appearance with Diane Rehm on NPR. Earlier this month he wrote a cover story for Vanity Fair, a postcard from a weeklong cruise in the Caribbean with actor Johnny Depp. Last month there was dinner with President Barack Obama and fellow presidential historians Michael Beschloss, H.W. Brands, Robert Caro, Robert Dallek, Doris Kearns Goodwin, David Kennedy, Kenneth Mack and Garry Wills.
What: Historian Douglas Brinkley signs "The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America" (Harper, $34.99)
When: 1-3 p.m. Saturday
Where: Garden District Book Shop, 2727 Prytania
For more, click here.
Showing posts with label Tulane University. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tulane University. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Tulane School of Architecture's Preservation Studies students are learning the dying art of touching up New Orleans' tombs
From The Times-Picayune
by Molly Reid
The Taylor family residence on Washington Avenue was crumbling. Plaster was missing, a brick wall had collapsed and daily visitors only promised more damage.
The Taylors are in no position to make repairs: Their centuries-old bones lay in a tomb in Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, where tourists, weather and the tests of time have taken their toll on the family's final resting place.
So sprucing up the Taylors' tomb is in the hands of skilled preservationists and students of the art. To them, upkeep is a tribute both to the dead and to traditional building arts.
For more, click here.
by Molly Reid
The Taylor family residence on Washington Avenue was crumbling. Plaster was missing, a brick wall had collapsed and daily visitors only promised more damage.
The Taylors are in no position to make repairs: Their centuries-old bones lay in a tomb in Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, where tourists, weather and the tests of time have taken their toll on the family's final resting place.
So sprucing up the Taylors' tomb is in the hands of skilled preservationists and students of the art. To them, upkeep is a tribute both to the dead and to traditional building arts.
For more, click here.
Former Tulane University historian Douglas Brinkley does book on Walter Cronkite
From The Times-Picayune
by Susan Larson
Former Tulane University and University of New Orleans historian Douglas Brinkley is working on a biography of Walter Cronkite, to be published in May. "His papers are at the University of Texas, just a few miles from my house," said Brinkley, who now lives in Austin. "The last time I saw him was a dinner in December in his apartment, and I came away feeling after that that would be the last time I saw him."
by Susan Larson
Former Tulane University and University of New Orleans historian Douglas Brinkley is working on a biography of Walter Cronkite, to be published in May. "His papers are at the University of Texas, just a few miles from my house," said Brinkley, who now lives in Austin. "The last time I saw him was a dinner in December in his apartment, and I came away feeling after that that would be the last time I saw him."
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