Okay, my name is George Edson. I'm chairman of the Montenegro Historical Society. And I'm going to start by letting Eileen Corcoran from the Vermont Historical Society invite you to the facility. Eileen. Great, thank you, George. Thank you everyone for coming. My name is Eileen Corcoran. I'm the director of service and outreach here at the Vermont Historical Society. And we're really pleased to welcome such a wonderful crowd of folks here today for the reception. We always love to see people in the exhibit. And we're happy that we have Eric Ennishting today as well. So thank you for coming in on a beautiful day with us. But one of the duties that I get to do at the Vermont Historical Society is work with the Local History Gallery, which is where the Common Cracker exhibit is installed. The Local History Gallery is something that we created about five years ago within our Freedom and Unity exhibit. As a way to showcase local history, local stories, and some of the wonderful and magical events, people, and topics that we don't get to do ourselves. And so it's really become this wonderful ability for us to have everything from exhibits on agriculture to women's history to fine art to now crackers. And so I think that really showcases the amazing breadth and depth of history in Vermont. And we really love being able to work with places like the Montpelier Historical Society and people like George to bring those stories to light. And to give these small organizations a chance to showcase the amazing work that they do to a whole bunch of visitors, both from out of state and in state as well. So again, welcome. Thank you very much for coming. I do have to let you know if you're not already a member of the Vermont Historical Society, we would love to have you as one. You can have information on joining on our website, vermonthistory.org. We also do have social media and an e-newsletter for folks who want to know everything about what we're doing and what's happening at the Vermont Historical Society. So thanks again for coming. Welcome and enjoy. We're here to celebrate the opening and as such we have a lot of friends and a lot of people that helped us put this together. And there's going to be a number of introductions, but I'm doing these things a little bit out of order because one of my stories is a little time sensitive and I'd like to start with that. So I'd like to suggest that on a brisk October day in 2001, my father went to the front porch at 47 Liberty Street to get his Sunday Times Argus and brought in and took apart the various sections of the Sunday Times Argus and went to the Vermont Sunday Magazine and found an article, a cover article on Holy Smoke, Jeff Danziger's Warm Memories of Wood Stoves. And on this cover story is an old Vermont parlor with a wingback chair and a potbellied stove and a wood box. And the wood box says Montpelier Cross Crackers. And so my father fired off a letter to Jeff and I have a copy of that letter not here. And Jeff fired back a reply and it was all very friendly exchange. I entered the subject then and I wrote Mr. Danziger and I said, wouldn't it be nice if we could have the cover art, the original art for that cover? And he said yes and he sent it to us and signed it and addressed it to my father. Both articles of which are in the museum and we think that's kind of nice. This was not Jeffery's first exposure to the Common Cracker in 1980 when my family business Cross Baking closed their doors. Mr. Danziger did the art for an article in the Rutland parlor and it shows an old Vermonter and he's sitting in front of a bowl of soup and in the soup is floating some common crackers and the old Vermonter has a hammer in his left hand. I've never quite understood the significance of the hammer. But anyway, we have today with us, we're very lucky that Jeff Danziger with us and I'd like him to comment on everything I've said and swap lives with him and Mr. Danziger take it away. I really haven't anything any remarks to parents about crackers. I'm happy to be part of the history of Vermont drawing for the Rutland Herald and the Times-Argus for almost 45 years now. So if you go back into the archives of those newspaper, you'll find various drawings, some good, some bad, some in between and I guess I will just continue to keep on doing it. That's very nice that the estate has some good papers. It also has the Burlington Free Press. Absorbent, I can say that for it. I don't have any other comments. I'm happy to be here and if there's any questions I would happy to answer it. I really appreciate it coming. This has been important. These two pieces hang in my house and have for 10 years, I guess the math would be on that. So I thank you very much for taking the time to come up here today. Let's start with thanking our underwriters. We wouldn't be able to do this without them and they would include Ben and Jerry's Foundation, Cabot Cheese, Community National Bank, Doodles Prince Serve, Frederick and Mary Fashera, Lake Champlain Chocolates, and we have Allison Ains Meyers here from Lake Champlain Chocolates, a nice local girl born and brought up in Central Vermont. Lyman Orton and the Vermont Country Store Lyman right here. Mrs. A.C. Sprague, who is the daughter of Louise Andrews Kent, National Life Group, the Preservation Trust of Vermont, Union Mutual Insurance, and Vermont Mutual Insurance Group, and we thank them all for their contributions to this project. We're family members here, luckily, I'm only gonna introduce the immediate family starting with my wonderful wife. We've been married 38 wonderful years, 55 total, and they introduce us, they say this is Georgian Jill, you'll like Jill, so anyway, my wife Jill put your hand up, Elizabeth and the doorway, where is Emily? Emily is back here, not yet, but you're coming up. And Emily has two sons, Emily's all the way here from Austin, Texas, Emily has a son, Max, who is somewhere. Raise your hand. And Oliver, Oliver, a year a little shorter, would you stand up please? Oliver, I think, has some prepared remarks, Oliver. Okay. I also have, oh by the way, I meant to say Jill, Carnahan Edson. So those of you that have been around long enough in Central Vermont would remember her father, Dr. Ansel Carnahan Veterinarian who practiced veterinary medicine on this street as far as you can go, the last property on State Street in Montpelier for 40 years, along with his trusty sidekick, wife and partner, Annie, and we have another Carnahan girl here who would be Connie, Connie, right back there, raise your hand. Connie brought along her husband, Paul, and Paul, Paul is my favorite brother-in-law, my only brother-in-law, and Paul we employed as our grammarian here. So everything in the other room was checked by Paul for grammar punctuation and spelling. So before you leave, if you'd please check carefully and let me know. So that's the family. Now, I would be very proud to introduce the members of the board of the Montpelier Historical Society studying with Jennifer Boyer, Vice Chairman, Bill's Secretary, our Treasurer, recently retired librarian at the E Library, Corinne Cooper. Annie has a gig in Marshfield at four o'clock and Danny was here but left. Mike Doyle, Steve Ribolini, Eric is Thumper Colombo who had a previous engagement and I call that a pretty darn good board of directors so we'll accept accolades for that group. Oh, Eric Gilbertson, did I, who did I forget? Eric Gilbertson, I have a list here, I don't really know. Eric has been associated with the Preservation Trust of Vermont for ages and was a Historic Preservation Officer in the state of Vermont. Very lucky to have Eric on our board. Now, David Sheece, I didn't see David. David was to be here. David is the State Curator of Vermont and is a great friend of the Montpelier Historical Society and I would like to thank David for all he does for us. Okay, we're gonna go next to sort of the end of the story and that is when my family business closed their doors in 1980, there was an auction and Lyman Orton came to that auction and Lyman Orton bought some equipment at that auction. I'm gonna invite Lyman to tell us what he did. Okay, may I? Vermont Country Store, Lyman Orton was with relatives, huh? But we've been buying common crackers at the Vermont Country Store from Cross over the river and for a number of years but we never could quite get enough and some of their other business was declining. Did you make white bread for private label grocery stores or something? Lost two cents of both on that. Yeah, I think three. Three, yeah. That wasn't a very good answer. Anyways, sadly, they said they were gonna have to close the cracker business and my dad and I talked about it for about 20 seconds and said, well, why don't you go and buy that equipment and maybe we can make them and we can sort of think about who the hell's gonna know how to make them but we went over, I went over with one of my guys and put a bit in and buy in and stuff like that and bought enough of them and presses and the presses that make the crackers and cut them out and so forth and so I thought I'd done a pretty good job and then a guy comes up to me and said, I'm glad you bought all that. I said, who are you? He said, I'm Bob Mills. Where are you, Bob? Right here. Oh, there you are. So I said, what do you do, Bob? He said, I make the crackers. I'm the cracker baker and I said, this is pretty good. He said, do you think about getting a job? I said, I'm looking for a job. Anyway, long story short, about before we was done there, we had a deal where he was gonna come over and make the crackers and we didn't exactly know where so we first started making them on an L we had out back of a country store in Rockingham in 103, set that up as a cracker maker and that's Bob, that's where you and the crew set up these contraption stuff with what, 1890 Bob or so in the late 1800s, you said it was... It was probably around 1850. That early, okay. All right, yeah. And it was a group Goldberg kind of affair, very not terribly efficient but when you're the only one gonna do it it seems like a pretty good thing. So we went into that business and still making them. Some years later I kept looking at it and I go, you know, I wonder what else we could make on that and that's when we come up with these cookie buttons that I brought some boxes of those back there on the same cutter, made them what size are they gonna be? I said, whatever the size of that cutter is. So like a good Vermonter, just use that and turn those things out as well. So the people who make this all happen are standing over here and on my right is Julie Lanford who's in charge of all the cracker business and the bacon of them and to her right on the left is Cara Suia. And her job is the director of the entire Vermont Country Store distribution center of in North Clarendon, Vermont. And that's a one-armed paper hanger in itself. And I think we said, well, if you can't do that you're gonna have to take on the cracker business too. So she did, but that's a heck of a job. So these ladies put them out and it's great and I love to go there. Bob Mills told me that every once in a while you get three crackers stuck together and they throw them away. I said, don't throw them away, I could sell them. And he said, well, they're rechecks. He's like, he said, you can eat them, right? What are they, what did you call them in the bakery, Bob? We used to call them in the fridge. You can't use that word anymore, but stuck together, that's very unusual. So I think you could probably get a dollar for each one. We always threw them away so you'd never sell them. Yeah, yeah, well, that's why you went out of business. So it's been such a joy to have rescued the Vermont, what we call Vermont Common Cracker. St. John's Berry crackers, the loyal crackers up in Morrisville reaches Burlington crackers. And there was crackers in White River Junction that were made, they were called Hanover Crackers, came from the first Hanover in Hampshire. And then down in Brattleboro, there was a baker down there, Joel Cutler, who started about the same time that Timothy Cross started here in Montpelio. But his baker got sold like 15 different times in a matter of 50 years. I don't know what their problem was, but they kept passing it on to somebody else. But no, they were still making them until about 1920. But I miss anybody, oh yes, there's two cracker bakers in Rutland. There was the Rutland Cracker Company and another private company guy started in 1853 by the name of Verder. And he and his son ran it and then they sold it to around 1879. In 1879, they sold it to a gentleman by the name of, I think it was Lyon, something Lyon, I don't remember his, was it, I don't remember the first name. Then Lyon sold it after to a guy by the name of Hope. And Hope ran it for a few years and then he sold out in the Visco in 1897 and the Visco shut it down. So that was in 1892, the Rutland Cracker Company closed up after 10 years. So they went away. There was also somebody at Middlebury and somebody at local. So there were 10 cracker bakers in Vermont between 1850 and 1890. Well, look, there wasn't transportation. The old saying, you can't get there from here was really true back then.  Crackers were one of the great local products that covered this whole state of Vermont population. Guys know that. That's what they were, they were local. Yeah, yeah. So that's why there were so many different babies because you didn't have trucks to transport the crackers. You didn't have electricity. These were all by steam engines or a horse walking on a treadmill. It's a different time. And the crackers themselves were, today we all look at these things and we talk about hammers for the crackers, but my wife and I told her, we were doing this because she's not here today. She said, you're crazy. You've got to be crazy. She said, you do it on the hot dog road, not the cracker, she didn't hear it.  And I found that my kids, they don't know what it is, well, of course my kids do because I was involved in what I mean. Dead friends, they have no clue what it is. And so when I was telling the two people I was involved in this exhibit, the same thing came up, what's a common cracker? And then they try to be nice and say, well, I guess you can eat them if you want. Just explain them how you do this and do that. They didn't really, and I tried to explain them that they were a food stuff, but. Yeah. Well, I gathered there's nobody in this room who doesn't know why the hammer was in there. Right?   Of course, crackers and milk and cheese. That's what you've got to bust them up. On the agenda. And that's what we used to have for supper with a little popcorn on the side. And you have to bust them up to get them to soak up. And kind of, the only thing that made them really big was the cheese. Oh, I always say that. The cheese. So anyway, now where's Garger, my son? This is my son, my middle son, Garger Orton. And Garger's two-year-old boy, born in July, but his name is August, two years ago. And I just don't know what you're doing with this, but you know, I'm a grandfather and there's three others. So, and Garger does what every good parent of a little kid going tea then, kept feeding him crackers, right? Yeah, that's right, that. He gave him the Cheddar once. He liked those more than the plain ones. But that's, isn't that true? Everybody knows that, who has grandchildren and children back in that day that gave him common crackers because they're rock hard and absent the hammer. I'm glad you said that, too. Yeah, well, that's good. So, it's been a great thing to have revived the cracker and kept it in Vermont and keep it going and put it in the catalog and online and all that. And we don't ask what people do with them when they get them home. So, I'm glad that it's... Thank you, thank you very much. One more member of the Vermont Country Store group is Janice Brown, another baker over here. We wanna recognize, okay, I'm gonna pick up on the Bob Mills thing. Bob worked for our company until he went to work for Lyman's company. And so, I've known Bob for close to 50 years, 49 years. And we became, we didn't have much to do with each other for a number of years. And a year ago now, I looked him up, called him up and told him what I was doing and asked if he wanted to help. Well, Bob has been invaluable. Research, writing, he remembers things I don't. As you can see, and we emailed, he came to my house and sat at my kitchen table. We drove to this gallery and sat in there and planned it. We emailed hundreds of emails. One of those emails, he and his wife shared email address. And one day I emailed him and the subject line was my favorite beach. My wife and I, winter in Florida. And I sent him this email saying my favorite beach. And his wife got up in the morning before him and opened the email very anxiously to see what my favorite beach was. And it turned out it was a beach cracker box. She was some unimpressed. So anyway, I just can't say enough about Bob. Okay, one of the things we did here, or we tried to do, was to tell some side stories. So you got the common cracker, what is it, how was it made? But I was aware of the fact that the cracker was advertised on some brainge stage curtains. And I was aware of the fact that the Montpellier cracker was advertised on some stage curtains. So I turned to Chris Hadsall, who is the head of Curtains Without Borders. And Chris is with us today. And she's gonna tell us just a little. I'm sure you all went in and looked at everything in there. There is a reproduction of the middle sex brainge curtain that is now hanging in Worcester. So Chris, tell us just a little bit about that. Well, we also have Patty Wiley while we're at it. Patty is from the middle sex historical society and they actually own it or whatever. It's a long, convoluted story, but Chris, go ahead.  Yes, well, actually we met when I was down with a group of people restoring the Claremont Opera House Theater curtain, which is a great big opera house curtain. Bigger than a normal person would wanna take on. But we did manage to restore it and I stayed with you at that particular time because they were volunteers for that thing. And we got to talking. I think we talked about Fairbanks scales and we talked about somehow we got on to Cross Crackers. And I said, well, I have three boxes from Cross Crackers and he said, I don't have any. I said, well, we'll give you one. So I did. Is it in the exhibit? All right, good, I haven't had a chance to see it. That's because I bought a farmhouse in St. J. A. in 1970 from a long dead person named Orange Roberts who had worked for the Montpelier Cross Cracker Company but then it moved to St. Johnsbury. I think he was a trucker. I mean, I think he delivered crackers. I don't know. But we had Cross Cracker boxes galore in the shed outside. And I saved three of them before that barn, not the shed, it was in the barn, barn burned but I did save three of them. So I have one for each son and I've given one to you. And so I had this connection with Cross Crackers that I thought was really pretty interesting and Old Orange Roberts from St. Johnsbury Center had obviously worked for them for years. And coincidentally, I knew that there were advertisements on some of the Grange Hall curtains for Cross Crackers because we've restored every curtain in Vermont, all 193 of them. And one of them was in Middlesex. One of them in St. Johnsbury, well guess what?  I don't know they made crackers there or the bread but they were certainly there. And that curtain now is at the St. Johnsbury Middle School and I remembered the Cross Cracker ad because I had this personal interest in Cross Crackers. And I think there's one other but I'm blanking on where, oh bear. And the one in the Vermont Historical Society, I think the Berlin Corners Advertising Curtain also has a Cross Crackers ad and that's natural. They were near Montpelier. And so I told George about it and I'm sure you explored actually bringing the whole curtain but I sort of discouraged you.  It's a big job and I had done that. I had actually brought it to the State House one year to show it off. I think before we finally installed it that's how we avoided all those up and down stairs because Dave Sheets and I used to show one curtain a year at the State House in the cafeteria and we did about 10 of them. But each time it involved getting a school bus and dealing with the fact that we had to take them down and put them up and it was real, really difficult. But that curtain did come for a month to the State House so I'm sure a lot of you saw it. Well we also had it in the theater, the, what's it called, the theater that's next to the old opera house, downtown. The actual. Lobby theater? Yes, we put it in their lobby for a while as well. So anyway, I'm very pleased that he took the initiative to make a photographic copy of the curtain but rather trying to bring the whole thing here and these curtains were in every Green Hall. They needed to have a way to roll something up to have a reveal. That it was usually a kind of a staged re-enactment of the founding of the Grange or something else to do with one of the degree ceremonies. And in order to have a reveal, you have to have something that you pull up because this is all before there were drawstring curtains. So every stage in Vermont or every Grange, certainly, and most stages in Vermont had these painted theater curtains. And you can go on our website and see them all. And I also did finally do a book which includes the Worcester curtain. And what else? Jeff, anything else? No, nothing else? It's parts. Okay, I'm going to quit. These are the quids, these are the boss. Thanks. To the staged curtain, I want to make a couple more comments. One is that David Book from Worcester Historical Society helped us out also on this project. Paul Richardson of StoryWorks did the photography and that was professional photography in order to be making the reproduction. Dan Emmons of Fast Signs of Burlington produced it. You can't get just anybody to produce something that big in the way of a banner. I'd like to see this have a life that goes on from here and I envision that being other places, it's got a national life ad on it. It might look nice in the national life lobby for a period of time. Maybe Montpellier City Hall, there's a lot of Montpellier ads on there that would mean things to people that have been around for a while. In Vermont, national, I mean, one of the insurance companies is on there too. So that's the staged curtain. Now, the next side story is about crackers and milk. And crackers and milk, we almost of us have heard about the concept of crackers and milk, whatever that is. And crackers and milk is a diet that was prevalent in the 1800s. And what happened was that mother made a meal on Sunday at one o'clock. Well, mother just wanted to make another meal at six o'clock, so Sunday night was crackers and milk. So that is a subject that we enjoyed approaching. And we got a book through Susan Cain of the Ten Bridge Fair, a box in there. And one of the boxes features a picture of a young man eating his crackers and milk. And we also found my father kept everything.  You couldn't even tell what they were. And so after much searching, I found Sarah Smith, Sarah Smith, who is director of the book arts workshop at Dartmouth College. And she had her students print these and those plates are in at that exhibit and not only the plate, but what they printed from the plate. And those plates have the same picture as the box that we got from the Ten Bridge Fair. So it really makes quite a neat little story. In addition, Teresa Green from the Vermont Historical Society produced a faux fake crackers and milk. They wouldn't allow any real food in the display. So Teresa Green created what you see in there, which is crackers and milk, which is fake. She also created some fake crackers and they're sprinkled around that display box and they're just beautiful. They look as real as they could look. So that is one of the display pieces in there. Now I'm not sure anybody still has crackers and milk on a Sunday night or do they Steve Jocelyn? Would you tell us? Steve Jocelyn just happens to be here. Steve Jocelyn of the Watesfield Jocelyn Clan. Steve, can I talk about, do you still eat crackers and milk? I still eat crackers and milk. And you enjoy it? I have since I've consumed solid food and I have accounts for the cracker. I look the way I am and I'm 104. One year ahead of me at high school. That's right. That's right. I saw a cousin tent today. Yes, and I see the Jocelyn reunion pictures on Facebook. As a side note, Chris, you lived in the Stark District, correct? You're the Jocelyn? No, no, wait, can you please take a picture? I was Dave Clark's neighbor and we used to gather sap out by our house. Crackers and milk, I can't think of a pointer subject to talk about. I, like I said, I've been eating cross crackers since I consumed solid food. I inherited the crackers and milk from my dad who frequently on Sunday night and for lunches in the summer. And what you, what I say you need is a relatively deep bowl. And you start off with six crackers and crushed them by hand, more if you want. And then flood them with milk and let them sit a little while to take some of the crack out of them. And my dad always had cheddar cheese with the crackers and milk and he would send me over to me here in store to get a sample off from the wheel. And I'd carry it home and if it was acceptable, he'd send me back and I'd get a pound. Oh. I silly cheddar cheese but I prefer sage cheese with my crackers and milk. There used to be a number of cheese makers in Vermont that made sage cheese. The only one I'm aware of now is the Sugarbush firm in Woodstock, which I highly recommend for their sage cheese, their horseradish cheese. It's a neat place to go to. We didn't always have crackers and milk on Sunday night. Sometimes we had popcorn and milk. I don't know if any of you are familiar with popcorn and milk, but it's pluttered popcorn in a bowl of milk and you eat it like you would cereal. And it's very good but I'm probably one of the only ones that's souped. I also occasionally have crackers. I split them and put a dab of peanut butter on them. Tradition, but I tried to keep a pretty, a Vermont-y and just crackers and milk. Anybody got any questions on the exciting meal of crackers and milk? We had to prove that it's real. How many have you, how many of you have eaten crackers and milk? Wow. Good. And I thank the Orton's for continuing it because it got me this far, so. Then in Oklahoma, we had cornbread and milk. I heard of that. This is not a cornbread show. Don't forget you said that. I wanna thank a number of people who've contributed items here, most of which I don't think are here, some of which are not here. Peggy Perle and Jennifer Payne of the St. John's Very Historical Society. Pat Stark of the Hartford Historical Society. Tom Cross, who is an antique dealer in Burlington. Brooke Page is here. Brooke Page is the most prolific collector of common cracker items anywhere. Brooke, where is Brooke? Brooke, only in front of me. And Kendall Spavencure and Howe Scales, probably the biggest, most married collector of antique items in the state of Vermont. Thank you, thank you, Brooke. Okay, we have Louise Andrews Kent. I grew up at 47 Liberty Street with my mother having their cookbook called Mrs. Appleyard's Kitchen. And I was very aware of Mrs. Appleyard and Mrs. Appleyard's love of Montpelier crackers. And she has numbers of recipes in here that involved a Montpelier cracker. And there's a story in here. I, knowing of her and the background of the cracker, I included a wall hanging in there of hers. And it's a story out of there. You wanna read the story, but I can briefly tell it in about two sentences. And that is that somebody wanted to steal the idea of the common cracker out west. So they took a baker from Montpelier and they sent him out there and they gave him everything. They called it the secret rule, a rule as a recipe. So he had the secret rule and he had all the ingredients and he had the right flour. And he had everything but the crackers didn't come out right. And they made them again and they didn't come out right. And they finally figured out is because he didn't have the Montpelier water. Oh, come on, burrow the water to her. No. No? The burrowing water. Thank you, Karen. And so anyway, what we have here involved or was in touch with Mrs. A.C. Sprague daughter of Louise Andrews Kent. We have two granddaughters of Louise Andrews Kent with us today. Janet Ancel, who is a high school classmate of mine and her sister, Olivia Gay. Janet Ancel and Olivia is here. So Olivia, my share of word about her grandmother, Louise Andrews Kent. Thank you, George. So George got in touch with Janet and Janet got in touch with me and our now 100-year-old aunt, Rosamund Sprague, lives in South Carolina. And I go, I, taking care of her, managing her affairs, turn me into a snowbird, I'm happy to say. And so I go down there every winter and George sent us some wonderful materials that I share with her. And it pleased her very much to have her mother remembered in this way. So our grandmother, even though she used an unconscionable amount of butter in most of her recipes, was also very interested in natural foods and simple foods. And certainly the common cracker fits into that category in a big way. And so from early on in her cookbooks, this is her first cookbook. There are other cookbooks that she wrote with our mother, Elizabeth Kempke, which are the summer kitchen and the winter kitchen. And this one has, the recipe is to soak the crackers and then bake them, which makes them fluffy. Of course, of course. Yes, and then you can do other things with them. But in one of, I don't know if it's probably in the winter kitchen, there's a recipe that I use many times as one of my party tricks, which is to cut the crackers in half and spread them with chutney, made to my grandmother's rule. And if you don't have your own chutney, then you use your sister's chutney. She usually shares it with me. And top it with some cabbage cheese and just run them into the broiler for not very long. If you leave them too long, they burn and then that's not a good thing at a party. So, but they're very tasty and it softens the cracker a little bit and the bite of the chutney and the milliness of the cheese turns out a wonderful hors d'oeuvre. A Vermont hors d'oeuvre. So, I think our grandmother would be pleased to have this recognition. She loved to write about Vermont, particularly about the Vermont landscape and this story of the efficacy of the Vermont water, the necessity of Vermont water, appealed to her sense of the pureness of the Vermont and the beauty of Vermont. So, she would be pleased to be included. Thank you. And Kent, name of course, Kent Corners. Kent's Corner. Kent's Corner. Many kents, one corner. Like I said, Kent Corner and the Kent Museum, all affiliated with, all connected with the Kent. And the Kent story itself is a wonderful story. So, unless I missed a whole section here, I think I've touched on every single thing on my list. My wife told me this should last six minutes. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's two things. Yes. Confirms. I'm assuming that everybody here has also heard of mock, mince, pie. Oh, yes. And guess what that was made with? Cracker. Crackers. Like I said, don't forget the mock, mince, made with the cross cracker. And I mean the common cracker.  Are there any questions or any other comments? So, is there anything else to be cold? Let me say, there's stuff up back. There's some, some free stuff. There's crackers. There's some more things there that might not have made, whatever they are. And there's chocolates, late-champagne chocolates. And, and, and stuff. I, I, I agree with whatever you said. I agree, yes. And, oh yeah, any, any questions? Anybody have to say something? Yes, Elizabeth. Please take cookies, they're delicious. And you won't serve them. So, these have remind country store cookies. Right?  One is dark on the middle. And the other is too bright. It has those ones. It has those ones. And, and my man, if somebody was telling me when I was talking about callus and all these different things, your store, your family business started in callus, right? North callus. Like I said, north callus. And you were, you were in business with the teach-outs. Well, my, my grandfather, gardener, my in the garden. It's the name of, it was married to a teacher. And her name was Lillia, teacher. And your father was Melvin teacher. And Melvin and my grandfather had a store in North Callus. 1897 called Teach Out Portland. And looked just like the one in Weston. Burned out in years of community struggle. But that was, my father's experience in growing up in that store, stated in memory. And that's how during the Second World War he was working in the Pentagon. And he saw an ad for Chase and St. Claude Coffee that had an image of the old guys sitting on the top of the stove, snook at their pipes, dog lying on the floors, doorkeeper in the background, cutting cheese. And he said, it's kind of going back after the war to start a company store again. He was sitting in a catalog, of course, because it was in my people, you know, print, print. And then he put out the catalog. People started ordering. Started right then. And we're coming out next summer to come to the store. He said, we're not going to go to the store, I think. We didn't have that store. So he hustled around and told me, oh, behold, there's a building for sale to stop the village grain, which is where this business is now. And my mother and father bought that. And that came to the store. So it all started in North Callus, so we belong there. Teach Out is a name that was very, we had Teach Out friends, close friends, growing up in Montpey herself. So this all is, oh, everything's connected. Okay, anybody else? Yes, David. David Herron, my relative, David and I go back in Berlin until the 1700s. Go ahead, David. My mother always used to go up the road about a quarter of a mile to the grass-baking company. Corner of State and Main Street. And she would buy a bag of split crackers. Got two questions. Number one is, why did they split coming out of the oven?  It weighed about so much.  So it was a hockey puck type shape and a little puffed, but it had a seam all the way around. And as these do today, and you split it open with your thumb. So the only thing I can say is, it's using this improper word of cripples, which is what we used back then, is they became cripples because somehow they became disconnected in production. So that is what they sold them as kind of like seconds. How much it weighed and how much it cost. I wasn't there then. Yes, you were there. Did you work in the bakery? I worked in the bakery for many years. And I was born in 31, right after the depression. And my dad would go down to get a barrel of crackers or whatever would happen to you in it. And we lived on that for quite a while. Then I went in the airport and came back and I worked in the bakery for 10 years. But all of us there, the crackers were in one end of the building and also bread on the other. I had to be working on them. So that's where it is in the bread department. But we worked together. The guy that was picking crackers. Do I watch him yet? He would drug it. At one time he could take 200 pound bags of flour on his shoulder there and carry it off. And then he'd fall. And then he would wash it in, make the dough. And then they rolled it out, he would reverse it, put it out, roll it out, do it again. He'd keep rolling it over and over just a certain amount of time. Then he'd cut the crackers out. That's how we would be able to go for a long time. Yeah, and that's just the way they're made today and just the way it works. And there's a video in there. And I'm sure that given the circumstances here, many of you haven't actually spent a lot of time in there. You might come back when there's nobody around and there's a video taken at the Vermont Country Store production with these people here that made them that would be kind of fun to watch. And then at another point, this guy who was so rugged, they had their oven on the first floor as a measure of the oven.  There's a fire somewhere. He gets the jack, 20, that skid, so 25 bags of straw, he gets the earnings. The next room was probably 30 years in higher. He could get started, he'd run that whole skid up there. He'd cleaned it all up, show it on the fire department and come and get it out of it. Quick story, we're all done. I don't want to get out of it. But the bakery, I'm telling you, which is where City Center is now, and it was 101 Main Street. The bakery was owned by just Charles H. Cross and his son, L. Bar Cross, was in business with him. And what they did was they started out with a building on the front on Main Street. And whenever he wanted to add on, he would just buy another barn and he would move the barn up behind the building and then he'd move another barn up. Every one of these barns had different ceiling heights and different floor heights. So in my memory, back in the 50s, the bakery was like this. It was not even. This was very common. If you look at the old maps of Montpellier, you look at downtown, most every building downtown was built like this. So that just happens to be the way it was. Okay, I really don't want to get corrented. I think this should end with a huge thank you to you. Thank you. Thank you. Sure, I have the right image of my house. You're welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.


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run drove in three to what's you attribute your success tonight you know it's four strikeout game in Chicago I've actually been feeling pretty good at the plate hitting some balls hard not really getting any anything to fall so it's good to see a couple fall at night and contribute to the win how validating is it when you get the results that you want to get like you did tonight it's good you know sometimes you you begin to lose a little faith in the stuff you've been working on but I think I'm on the right track and I need to need to kind of you know use this as a spring board to get back on track Andrew Villa Andrew Velasquez with a couple of hits again tonight can you just describe the energy he has brought to this team oh it's amazing I mean these things the kind of kid you you just always root for and I know I know that we couldn't be any happier for for a guy like him just he just one of our favorites in the clubhouse already so James in Tyune was cruising through five what was he doing that allowed him to be so effective through five and then why do you think things unraveled a little bit there in that sixth inning you know I think he was he was really just down in the zone you know first first five innings really getting a lot of swing and misses on the fastball putting putting pitches where he wanted to and then it just kind of unraveled you know faster than we we had hoped I really I really thought that you know we could have got him through seven or eight today with the stuff he was showing early but unfortunately you know I boonie had to make the change and you know that was that how much confidence do you think Wandy Peralta is pitching with right now a ton you know he's really come into his own in the past month or three weeks or so so it's been really really great to have him thanks Meredith back to you alright Meredith thank you you look at the


The nation and the world really faces an unusual amount of problems right now. I think if one looks back in history they've always had problems. Certainly in my lifetime there have always been serious problems we've worried about, but I think there are more of them today. The financial meltdown, terrorism, the environment, where are we going to get energy from? The deterioration of the infrastructure, we can't keep spending what we're spending on healthcare. One has to have priorities, one has to set priorities. And the real danger as the expression goes is that you get eaten by the ducks where you kind of deal with whatever problem comes over the trance of today and you don't stand back strategically and address these problems. Unfortunately this is a case where we've got to address them all. If you fail to address any one of those problems you probably have a very serious circumstance. But that also means giving up some other things that aren't as high priority as that. And that's going to require some tough decision making, but I think we're going to have to do that. And I think there's some things we can do. This won't get any cards or letters, but for example to pay Social Security to people who are reasonably well off doesn't make any sense to me. I think Social Security is a safety net for people that need it, not as a minor addition to income to people who don't need it. We could save a lot of money if we did that, just as an example.


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My name is Peter Griffith and I'm an Earth scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. We study our living Earth from leaf to orbit so we can provide the best scientific information about the consequences of a changing planet to society. Normally at this time of year, I'd be planning an expedition to Alaska and Northern Canada as part of a project called the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment, or above for short. For the past month, I've been very busy working from home, replanning the airborne remote sensing campaign that we had intended to conduct from June through August. That's not going to happen this year. However, I can take you to some field sites near Fairbanks, Alaska, where we and our partner agencies are conducting research on falling permafrost. Join me now as I step back in time to enter the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' permafrost tunnel. We're walking into the tunnel on a warm summer day, dressed for the cold we'll find inside. The first thing I notice is the noise of the fans and compressors that keep the interior air below freezing so that the tunnel doesn't melt and collapse. I gotta admit, this always makes me think of the scene in Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, when C-3PO scolds R2-D2 for flooding Princess Leia's room in the ice caverns where the rebels are hiding out, because R2-D2 had raised the air temperature to make her more comfortable. Anyway, it's quite cold inside. It's also dusty. The ice in the permafrost sublimates directly from solid to water vapor, leaving a fine dust on the walls and floors and ceiling that every movement disturbs. Oddly enough, the central and northern parts of Alaska were not covered in glaciers during the ice ages. In the summertime, this region was wet and green and covered with animals. And we're walking through the frozen remains of these ice age plants and animals. And we can see them in the walls and ceilings. We're seeing pieces of willow shrubs and birch and older trees and also grasses that are common today in wet lowlands. Here's our guide, Dr. Matthew Sturm from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, showing us an example of grass that was carbon dated to 32,000 years old. It's a really remarkable specimen because it's still green. In this case, the grass collapsed into a melting ice wedge in late summer and froze before it could rot. Speaking of rot that I mentioned the smell, the whole tunnel smells like recently decomposed vegetation. Even though the vegetation is tens of thousands of years old, now that it's exposed to the air and to microbial degradation, it starts to smell. It's not entirely unpleasant. It's sort of a combination of freshly mowed grass and cut trees. There you can see Matt brushing some of the silt off of the walls. Now that we're leaving the tunnel, let me show you some of my permafrost treasures. This is a 40,000 year old plant root that came out of a section of the tunnel that was being recently excavated. When I picked this up, it reeked of resin. It smelled like a fresh cut piece of pine. This came out of a hillside near the permafrost tunnel that was collapsing. This is the tooth of a steppe bison. This is an extinct bison that once roamed interior Alaska during the ice ages. This is probably my favorite. This is a fragment of the tooth of a woolly mammoth. It was also full of all sorts of mud and goo. It doesn't stink anymore, but it's been on my shelf for several years now. Across the Arctic, permafrost contains ancient frozen organic material, like what you saw today in the permafrost tunnel. As the Arctic warms, the permafrost is thawing and this organic matter is decaying, releasing the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, and also methane. NASA and our partners are studying how much CO2 and methane are coming out of the thawing permafrost to improve our climate models. To find out more, visit climate.nasa.gov.


So we're here with Jonathan Breedon, the guy behind Neon, and what have we got on the table today? So on the KD Neon stall today, I've got the KD Slimbook of course, which has been a very successful partnership with our friends over there at the Slimbook store, and they've created this beautiful shiny machine that you can buy with KD Neon pre-installed, so that you can be certain that we've tested the hardware so that it works with the software, which is not usually the case with installing Linux. And specifically on this machine, I'm showing the Neon Docker images, because I think that's a great way to test and develop with KD software. So if a user reports a bug, usually you go, user, that's the old version, can you please test it with a new version? And they go, well, my district doesn't have a new version, so no. But using Docker images is trivial to download the latest image, and you've got a new version right there. So it's one gigabyte download, and then you just run one command, which is just the Neon Docker command. And then unlike a virtual machine, it doesn't take ages to start up because it's using the same kernel. So it starts up as fast as your normal desktop system will start up. And there you can run a full plasma session within your existing plasma session, except it's a completely separate environment. So that's using the unstable version. You can see we've got this new user interface, QML interface for system settings there. But meanwhile, I can say, well, give me the latest user edition, which is the latest released packages. And you can start that at the same time. And that gets built daily by Neon. And it gets automatically updated from updates on the Deno.kd server. So it's got the latest release software. So it should be bug-free and perfect. And you can see that it's running a different version. So it's got the older or the currently existing system settings interface. And so depending on what version people are reporting bugs against or version you want to develop against, you can easily try them both. Excellent. And so I have to ask, is this already a distro or not a distro? I mean, there was this controversy about if it's a distro or not. Call it whatever you want. What do you call it? I just call it a continuous integration project. Continuous integration project. And because we only care about the KDE stuff, so a distro will typically care about 10,000 different projects from 10,000 different open source projects. And we only care about KDE and everything else is just there to support KDE. So it's a limited use case if you want to use the latest GNOME software or whatever. But if you're a KDE fan or interested in our software or you're actively contributing to our software, then this is the good stuff. Brilliant. Thanks very much. So over here, we also have a display of plasma mobile. And so this we've been developing for a number of years. And it feels like quite a slow moving project at times because unlike developing on the desktop where there's your typical standard IBM PC Intel stuff. Here, of course, every single device has its own differences and challenges. And we're using the Google Nexus 5X, which is a pretty open and readily available device. And it's also working with Project Halium, which means that now plasma mobile is working with the Ubuntu community team and a couple of other mobile teams working on a common platform. So the whole platform and device support should be the same across those different projects. But this is our plasma software, which shares 90% of the code base with the desktop, but of course has a different form factor. And thanks to Qt and Kirgami and similar technologies, it's pretty easy to make a user interface that works across multiple different devices and different form factors. And so while it's nowhere near consumer ready, it is hacker ready for people who want their traditional Linux system. But in a mobile environment so that the applications can work across them both. That is about all I have on this stall. We're also working on snappy packages in Neon, which is the upcoming container format. And this week we're going to be planning on how we slightly step back from our existing packages which have been based. And for kitty applications we want to make snappy packages for all kitty applications within the next couple of months, which means that it will run on any desktop. So we'll take away the question of which underlying system you're running because everybody will be able to run the latest kitty stuff. Okay, brilliant. Thank you very much. Good night.


Well, it was a really wonderful interaction that we have with the Honourable Prime Minister today. He was lovely to hear his thoughts and he was very inspiring, very warm and very deep in what he had to say. No, I also feel the fact that film industry can get self-obsessed and it's important that we create work which sends out messages. It does not mean that films should only be about myself, but in an engaging and entertaining manner if we can involve everybody. I think this kind of interaction was really good.


Welcome to the complete collection of Derrick Rose's Great Stories, told by NBA players and legends. If you are new around here and you haven't seen an episode within this series, there is a playlist link in the description box down below. Click on that link and you'll find all the episodes within the series. Thank you to everyone that mentioned I should do an episode on Derrick Rose. If you would like to support the channel, be sure to hit that like button, subscribe if you are new and hit that notification button so you never miss an episode within the series. Without further ado, I quickly want to thank Manscaped for sponsoring this video. Before the video begins, this video is kindly sponsored by Manscaped. I'm sure you're all very well aware of Manscaped, but if you haven't heard of them, they're a global brand for men's grooming and hygiene products and they are the best. 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Derrick Rose during that time was probably the most talented player I ever played with. Obviously don't become an MVP but not working hard. I think the only word that he really cares about is winter. Like some of your favorite players I done seen when Derrick Rose was MVP here, Derrick Rose and Derrick Rose with Derrick Rose. I done seen people catch the Rose fluke. Derrick is a dude that, you know, got a great work ethic, you know what I'm saying, very humble. Amira humble, he is above the game. Such a good humble kid. He's a humble guy. And he had a young Derrick Rose before the MVP rose this season before. Why can't I be the MVP of the league? Why can't I be the best player in the league? I don't see why, why, why can't I do that? If that was the quality that I had when I was a kid. How did MJ impact you growing up in Chicago? Growing up in Chicago, I had the chance to go over MJ and career when I was younger, when I was like in high school. Like I said, in Chicago, basketball is a culture, so it holds weight. So I got invited to this house when I was a sophomore. I wake up that morning, they pick me up. We had out there and I just remember getting to the gate. You see the 23 on the gate. The gate open and we drive in and you see like this impeccable like landscape. And you keep driving through the driveway and we saw like a speed sign that blew me away. Like wow, you got a speed sign in his driveway. So we get to the house and it's like a palace. It's like a complex and you see like five or six vehicles out there. So we get out the car and I remember the main entrance was to our left. We were going to the right. So when we got out the car, we passed by the six vehicles that we saw when we was pulling in. They were six Benleys, GTs blew me away. We get to the entrance and the whole time I'm thinking like, man, I'm not going to see MJ. He's going to be somewhere else in the house. He's just going to let us like, you know what I mean? Playing in the gym and all that. The door, it was where the gym was. They were in that hood. Like that whole time I watched them every second while I was there. I watched them the entire time. Watching them be a dad, watching them take out garbage. My things I never thought I'd be able to see, but I got the opportunity. So I remember them taking me back home and I'm in my room and I got the TV off and I'm looking at the paint on my wall because like a couple of months prior to that I tried to paint my room with blue paint and the paint job was terrible. So I'm looking at the paint.  What am I doing here? And I remember having that jinx feeling that I had prior to me actually meeting Mike when I was younger. I used to always feel like I was going to get jinxed because I was winning. So 9th grade, after I met them, after I went to that career, it went away.  I'm going to get that lifestyle. My mom's going to live decent. Whatever I got to do, I got to do it. And I promised myself that night that I was going to be on the mission and me seeing that MJ giving me the opportunity. It made me, let me manifest my dreams from what I saw. My colleague, Missy Isaacson, actually got Michael on the phone a couple of hours ago and he had this to say about you. I'm very happy for him. The Bulls deserve an All-Star. He is a very special player. He will represent Chicago well. Congratulations to him and the Bulls. Hearing that from him, what does that make you feel like? I wish I could have recorded that conversation. I wish I could record it. But him to say that is crazy right there. Young guys do not earn your praise easily. But there was clearly a respect on the court while you were going after him and he was going after you from that first game. And last year too, something happened, something impressed you about him. What was it, Coke?  And I respect that about them. I admire that because that was a quality that I had when I was a kid growing up. And that being said, I've seen improvement in this game from last year to this year. He has a long-range ball now. He can squat behind a pick and shoot. He can pull up off the dribble and shoot. I mean, getting to the rim obviously goes unquestioned. So seeing that improvement shows me that he's putting the time into the gym. And I certainly respect that. Favorite point guard battle? D-Rose. D-Rose. D-Rose. The God. Two point guards. His rookie year? Goal. Is that niggas seven games? Proud. A future All-Star Impossible MVP was his first playoff game ever. And that was against the Boston Celtics. I believe I was actually having like a house gathering with some friends. Everybody just sort of stopped what we were doing. He is out of this world. First game of the playoffs? That's what they're telling us. It's a very special place to play. A lot of history. They were the defending champs. What he did that night was just show that I'm here to stay and nobody can stop me. People really underestimate having hope. And that's what Derek represented for us as his teammates and for the city. What point lead for the Bulls? There is Rose. They're towards Brad Miller. He's up to say where were you. He was realizing he does. And hits it. How about the Bulls with an eight point lead here in the guard? Can you compare a prime time D-Rose to anyone you've ever either played against or seen? Can you compare him to anybody? Nah, ain't nobody. See, I was about to say you can't.   You know, your heel is the whole game. The whole game.  You got a whole scouting port on him for sure. That's how we have him. Pack the paint. Pack the paint. And he's still getting there and jumping over everybody. But still, he's still going to get in there. But then he could hit that little one dribble pull up too. He's hitting that too. He's hitting threes when he's rolling like he was a problem. I think he's too explosive, yeah. Noah's got 14. Miller's got 10. Oh my goodness. You can't foul there. Were you aware that you tied Abdul-Jabbar's first playoff game in his debut? He had 36 points. You had 36 point tenancies. Were you aware of that record? No, ma'am, but I'm happy I'm there. We didn't win the championship. We lost in the first round. But people still come up to me in Chicago and talk to me about that series. That year, my brother was playing on the opposite team. Derek just get the going crazy. Like, bucket after bucket. Nobody anticipated the Bulls to even win or have a chance. So after the game, I remember talking to my brother and he just told me he's real. He's like, nah, he's real. I mean, he was a show one-man fast break. Every night. Could it have been another team? Yeah. Oh, so it could have been another team. It could have been. You know what I'm saying? It wasn't just Miami that this could have worked in. Miami was the only, well, I don't know if it was, I don't know, but I know at the time when we were trying to make a decision of what city we wanted to play and what we wanted to be, like we had to keep our options open to these other, Chicago was on the top of both of our lists. So it was pretty much Chicago, Miami was on the top. So Chicago at the time, they had two max contracts and they had a young D-Ros before the MVP rose this season before. There was so much talking to 2010 about McGon and Wade coming to Chicago. Did they envision it then? Think about you guys playing together at that point? Yeah, a little bit. They had Alou Al-Dane. They had Noah. They had, you know what I'm saying? They had all these pieces. So I'm like, in the city, in Chicago, in the biggest, one of the biggest markets? Yeah, I'm gonna be in Craig's. Yeah. But then it was like, me, you and D-Ros. That's a lot. Just one ball. We all need it. Yeah. That may be too much. He does to the defense. So in the fourth, Derek Rose trying to take over as the battle of MVP candidates heated up. There's Wade answering with the three. Bulls still out by two. Rose, anything you can do, I can do better. Watch what I do to Mario Chalmers. You like that? No, sir. His big night, not enough with no LeBron. Bulls in the heat to a season high, tying third straight loss with their eighth straight win after United Center. Their longest home streak since 0-5. They won two championships right after that. Were you thinking at all what it would be like? Did you ever in your mind say, you know, I could imagine running with Dwayne Wade and LeBron James? Oh, yeah, yeah. I tried, too. Like, people always said I didn't recruit. I tried to recruit. I put out a video, but it wasn't for me to say that. I felt like the organization was supposed to say that and they didn't. And this past week admitted that he, in fact, did text LeBron James in the offseason. And here's what he said in the text. Just text him. Just let him know that I won my plan with him and all the rumors that I didn't want to play with him. They was false. Text back saying he didn't believe it or whatever. I just told him I just wanted to win. That was the biggest thing. It was just winning to me. And that was it. What did you do? I put out a video for them to help Chris Boss and LeBron. And the organization didn't send you? I mean, it ain't for me to say that, but yeah, they didn't say anything about it. They sent it. I don't know if they really actually looked at it or played the video, but I made a video. But at the time, it wasn't for me to say that.  Yes. It's hot. The way I look at it with them myself, why not? Why can't I be the MVP of the league? Why can't I be the best player in the league? I don't see why. Why can't I do that? I seen what was happening in Detroit and it was kind of breaking up that team. And I was like, all right, you know what, Rip?  Right? So like you start thinking, you start looking at all the different teams. I'm saying, you know, what is the best fit? Right? I knew Chicago at the time needed a two guard. Right? Bad. And I felt like, all right, you know what? I can be the missing piece to get them over the hump because for Chicago at the time, they will always meet up against the Miami Heat with LeBron and D Wade. Welcome to the American Airlines Arena. Sold out as it has been all season, as late arriving as they may be. Still every seat sold to see some of the big stars in the NBA as the bulls in heat beat head to head. Nobody considered them a title contender. People now say maybe they can. Big reason Derek Rose has been great this year. Well, look at the fact that he's in the top ten not only in scoring, but in assists. And then he's improved his field goal, three point shooting, and at the foul line. With the clock going down like, there is no one better that you want having the ball because of his incredible quickness. Rose fakes a three, takes a better two. See LeBron exploding, get that floor. Oh, Rose scored as James was there waiting for him. Throws, see if he fouls him. There he goes. But it's a problem. He's five for ten at half time, and he has five assists. We're seeing him at his best because he's not forcing a thing. I admire his passion. I admire how humble he is about the game. And, you know, I think the only word that he really cares about is his winter.  I think he's great. Not only for the city of Chicago, he's great for the NBA. You know, he's great for, you know, all kids that look up to him as well.  And I'm looking forward to joining him on the Olympic team. And the second round will be the key in the eighth. Before the heat, there's that uncanny ability of Rose. From Chicago. Rose is back in. Rose, what speed? Rose it in. He pulls by four. Rose, got another one. 27 points for the MVP candidate, Derek Rose, on the road in Miami. And the Chicago Bulls have swept the heat three games this year. Now you guys have the season sweep on Miami. What kind of statement does that make about where the Chicago Bulls team is, you know, where your place is in the league? Um, we just think that we could tail away any team in the league. As long as we play hard, play with the edge, I think that we should be fine. One theory is, slow down Derek Rose, we need the bulls to do that something. Yeah, you have an idea how to do that? Is MVP? And we always say about our athletes that, A, if you're going to talk to talk, walk the walk. And in 2010, 2011, Derek Rose walked the walk. Rose to his left, goes right by. MVP chance, why not? MVP scene was just crazy. Yeah, that was crazy. Getting a chance to play with Derek Rose the year after coming off his MVP season.  Bro, like, I played with a lot of great players. Derek Rose during that time was probably the most talented player I ever played with. I mean... At 23 too, think about that. At just starting.  And I seen what he was doing in practice. Night in and night out, and he had a great work ethic. Like, and Derek was that type of guy. So playing against the 76ers during that time and yeah, a lot of people say, hey, you know what, why was Derek in the game? And, you know, I would ask the question too.  It's a pretty good feeling to feel that way. And nobody is going to be able to take this from us. This is our chance to win the championship. Derek was ready. We were ready for him. That game won. I mean, we were so ready. Like, I remember coming down, I think I made like a jump hop to like a pass. When that happened, I'm like, oh, snap. I'm like, bro, get up. Like, like, get up. I remember passing the ball and feeling like my ACL tear a little bit. It didn't tear all the way. It tore a little bit. So when I went down on the floor, I thought through the pass, I went down on the floor. Right when I like laid down, put my hands over my head, I felt it tear a toe like it totally tore. My leg just started shaking. I didn't know what was going on. I remember walking to the back to get a X-ray, the X-ray, of course, didn't do anything. They knew the MRI. And I remember going to the MRI after getting out the MRI machine, they told me that it was tore and just breaking down. I got to unbelievable. When Derek went down, I was like, I might be out for a couple of games, but it's going to be all right. I remember where I was sitting when I got the news that he tore his ACL. It was a lot. When he doesn't get up and he's walking off, man, it crushed me not because of my own individual, me coming there and wanting to win the championship, but just knowing Derek is a good kid. Derek is a dude that got a great work ethic, very humble, and this guy right here, best point guard in the game. Couldn't nobody mess with D-Ros during that time. So to see him going down, I just felt like, you know, our chances of winning the championship is very rare to none. There may be no highlight or video clip that former players want to see less than the one you just saw right there of Derek Rose's first game of the playoffs blowing out his left knee, torn ACL. Reggie, when you saw that happen, when you watch something like that, what's hitting you in the gut? So when he went down and the camera focused on his face right then and there because he's never really had a major injury throughout his whole career, AAU, high school, college, whatever, you could see on his face that it was something serious. Guys are coming back in every sport from ACL, so there's no doubt he's going to be okay in terms of his recovery, but how much of the explosion will he lose and how can he... How much up here? He does that move how many times a game? 20, 30? To be able to make that move and just explode is mental, but it's about having the confidence okay, my knee. I think for him, the big question is now do you change your approach to the game? Do you change your game? Is he going to become more of a facilitator? Can he think the game? Can he play the game? You're going to think about those moves, Chuck. I think for him, how do you land? And that's going to be the big difference, I think, for Derek Rose. I'm not wearing that man's sneakers. I got to play against him, you know what I mean? It's like, it's not nothing against D-Rose, you know what I mean? I love what he does. It won't be on my foot. I can't wait to play D-Rose. I can't wait. Finds Rose. Rose trying to get open, fires away. And he jumps in midair and catch him. He's just got the stale face. That's my Derek Rose. Words at the time couldn't describe that feeling. The thought process was, man, we overcame, you know what I mean? You overcame, we overcame, and it's paid off. It showed at that moment. We just thought it was nothing but great from that. That was a crazy year. And that was a really, really big shot. And I really felt like this was the chance for us to go to the finals. I was supposed to get the ball in the corner. I said, forget it. I ran towards the ball. They're getting the opportunity to get the shot off. And I just got to thank my teammates, man. They give me so much energy. They give me so much confidence, man. They give me the ball. It's unfortunate, very fortunate. Congratulations on the win. Mike, back to you. 14 of his 30 points, Lisa, here on the fourth quarter. The native son of Chicago is the bulls a thrilling and exhilarating win. You know, we were, again, headed in a good direction. So many people had kind of written him off and talked poorly about him. His heart had changed in some ways, too. You know, about how people perceived him. As an organization, we were kind of in an iffy spot. And we knew we had some decisions to make going forward. Derek, you'll be 29 with this contract ends. Can you think of playing for another team other than the Bulls? I don't think so. Unless they trade me. I don't want to finish my career here, but we'll have to see. You win, just in all. It's no hard feelings. Like, nothing, no grudges or anything if it was that. It's no hard feelings at all. I understand it's a business. And I'm trying to do what's best for the team, I guess. And I'm trying to do what's best for the team, I guess. And I don't think I will be wrong for using that as motivation. I don't know why I was traded, but I would like to tell them thank you. Thank you. For real. Well, I think they have to be happy, mainly because he's been solid. He's played between 30 and 32 minutes in the four games. Averaging 16 points on 16 shots. 45% shooting. Okay. The rebounding solid for a point, but the assist 2.5. He is not in the top 40. That has got to change. Rose fakes, drives, gets inside once again. Get your pass, gets it to Rose. Rose drives underneath. Layup! Oh, beautiful play from Rose. Rose jumps shot. He's feeling it. Yeah, he's feeling everything. Rounding in the shape. Rose inside the Noah. And the layup. And Rose with his 10th assist to the game. Rose drives. Layup, banks it in. And a foul. What a beautiful move from Derrick Rose. One thing we do know about Mr. Rose is he's a fighter. So these first couple games, he didn't play well. Single digits, last three games in a row. He's not going to quit. He's not going to break them. And it's early in the season. This is going to the playoffs to be a problem, but still plenty of basketball left. They'll be fine. New coach, new system. Noah coming off the bench, you know, four teams left. They're adjusting, but Derrick Rose will be fine. I'm God gifted. So if I just go out there and play, you'll be able to easily see that the best revenge is massive success. And that's the mindset that I have right now. Rose attacks, challenges Derrick Rose. 46 for Rose. Even when a superhero is knocked down, he's still a superhero at the end of the day. And Derrick Rose showed why he's still a superhero. Amazing story just in terms of what he's been through. It's great for obviously him's comeback story, where all the opportunity, believing in yourself, and we obviously knew what he was capable of and the level that he was at before the injuries. And I know people that have been around him from then that have talked about how hard he works. And obviously don't become an MVP, but not what he's been through. The roller coaster ride he's been on. Just understanding how hard he worked to get back. We see them in here sitting back on the court just playing basketball, where we all know Derrick loves to do. That was great. I don't really like to do hypotheticals, but the trajectory you saw him on at 23, barring injury, where would he rank amongst the greats?   I don't believe and that's what I was about to say. That's why I was about to say it to me, to me, I agree with you. And when you say it's hard to say who, but then that same breath to me, I got a kind of slept towards D Rose because he got he first won his youngest MVP ever but number two he got to where he got without even like you understand we don't even know he reaches full potential no he didn't he didn't he didn't he didn't reach his full potential I think he he had so much excitement people got to understand what this kid did and then you go win rookie of the year and you like literally he lived out every Chicago kids dream and he maxed it though only thing he didn't do is get a chip but he maxed it he was the MVP of the league but a youngest ever he the toast of the town it don't matter what happened like they can never take that man but you can never Chicago it ain't nothing nobody could do about it ain't he did what he did it ain't nobody change it came no injury change it came nothing change it where does he rank in the historic because to me he was he was a generational talent as well but probably one of the most special and at his position yeah in my opinion Derrick Rose is definitely top 10 easily you know could be top 5 man this dude like like I'm telling you like I mean there's a lot of great players in our game right now when you're talking about the point guards position Russell Russ Steph CP Kyrie listen none of them dudes wanted no smoke with Derrick Rose and Derrick Rose there exactly I'm telling you right now none of them dudes wanted no smoke with D Rose during that time trust and believe I hate when people run away from competition hate when people don't want to play against or don't match up I done seen in the league people been scared of each other I don't see you know I didn't see people fake injuries like some of your favorite players I didn't see when D Rose was MVP year D Rose and D Rose with D Rose I didn't see people catch the Rose flu yeah we think that's not people think that's fake we we used to joke about cuz me and D Rose sit right here and well we'll go out there I used to start and I knew when somebody was kind of shaking you know like I knew my role didn't you tell him earlier this year that you grew up watching his mixtapes did that happen on court I think you've told me a story like that yeah this was when he was with Detroit still I got caught on a switch with him and he went to his kind of like in and out pull up or whatever and actually I got a stop I blocked it partially yeah we secured secured the ball went the other way and there was a dead ball a free throw we were at the line and he came up to me and he was like man Duncan you must been watching all my all my game film you know my moves and I just kind of laughed I was like man I've been watching your game film and your highlights well before this year man like I grew up watching that and he just had this moment he was like man that's crazy man and he said to me he's like I'm a huge fan of your game and I was like damn that's crazy I was like I was like no no no no no I'm a fan of your game there was just kind of like this little moment the game within the game of like that's crazy like Derek Rose you know former youngest MVP ever like you know all the accolades it was definitely kind of that like aha moment for me I've had a bunch of them in my career but it was definitely one of them our community we don't care how many times Derek get hurt like that's a part of life that's a part of being a basketball player and we never saw a downside we never thought about a slope but as a Bulls fan what did you think of kind of the rise and fall like what happened with Derek and seeing how high he went and then how low things got I mean Derek had no lows he didn't because he still maintained Derek is a legend no matter what we always wanted him to come back that was most important thing is Derek coming back we're his family and we just love every time he came back there are any on see me on players in the great lineage in history you look up to role models me being a sixth grade kid and eager to be in the gym with Derek and be around greatness just those little memories is what helped me be the person I am and helped my hoop dreams and inspired me to go to Simeon and to be like him that's my hero and I hope you guys enjoyed the video thank you once again to Mandscape for sponsoring this video be sure to check out the link in the description and use code nixmith MBA for 20% off if you did enjoy this video be sure to hit that like button subscribe if you are new and hit that notification button to stay up to date with all the new episodes within the series it's been your born Xmith I'm out peace


Hello, Columbia. I'm Alicia Yeatsy, your host, and I'm the Director of Public Relations Media and Marketing for the City of Columbia. This week in the city, we start out with a special announcement and some breaking news from our Public Relations Media and Marketing Department. Our department has been named as a winner for the 2020 International Association of Business Communicators Award of Excellence in the category of web communication. The award has been received for our Resilient Columbia Micro-site, which is an online hub that brings you information regarding COVID-19, safety tips, testing, vaccination sites, and other information that is helpful to the general public during this pandemic. This award has been received by our department for excellence and we appreciate the opportunity to serve our citizens and provide needed services during this pandemic period. On Thursday, September 3rd, the Board of Zoning Appeals will meet at 4 p.m. at the Busbee Street Community Center located at 1735 Busbee Street. This will be a hybrid meeting, meaning that they will meet in person, but you can also watch the live stream on our website at columbiasc.gov and on the City of Columbia's YouTube channel. For agenda items or more information, visit our website at columbiasc.gov. And just in case you did not know, Columbia Animal Services Clear the Shelters Adoption Special is currently underway. You can now adopt a pet for $15 from this date through September 19th. Help Columbia Animal Services clear their shelters and adopt a family-friendly furry friend today. For more information, you may call 803-776-PETS, that's P-E-T-S, or you can visit our website at columbiasc.gov. If you love Columbia, then show us through your photos. The annual Love Columbia SC Challenge is currently underway. Brought to you by the Public Relations, Media, and Marketing Department. We encourage all citizens to submit your photos of places within the city limits that you love and make sure you use the hashtag LoveColumbiaSC. Once you have tagged the photograph, make sure you also tag the City of Columbia on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram and post your photo. Encourage your friends and family members to vote for your photograph and you could be one of our winners for 2021. Your winning photograph will be featured in city publications and you will receive an award and public recognition. Again, Love Columbia SC Challenge is underway, so please submit your photos today on our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram platforms. For more information, call Public Relations, Media, and Marketing at<PHONE_NUMBER>, or you can email us at PIO at columbiasc.gov. Registration is now open for the virtual Mayor's Walk Against Domestic Violence. The virtual Mayor's Walk Against Domestic Violence will be held on Saturday, October 9th. This is the 15th year for the walk and due to COVID restrictions, it will be virtual. Please join us by registering on Eventbrite or you can visit our website at columbiasc.gov. Registration is free and you can register now. Show your support for helping to bring an end to domestic violence in our community. If you have questions, please call us at Public Relations, Media, and Marketing at<PHONE_NUMBER>, or you may email us at PIO at columbiasc.gov. Now here's some information for those who want to plan ahead. Please remember that on Monday, September 6, city offices will be closed in observance of Labor Day. Solid waste and recycling pickup will operate on a normal schedule. But again, city offices will be closed. For all emergency services, please dial 911 on that day. Also for the purposes of planning ahead, please mark your calendars for Friday, September 17th, which is parking day. Please come to downtown Columbia and other locations to see various parking spaces being transformed during parking day. This will be an annual event but is always enjoyed by so many who attend. For more information about parking day, visit our website at columbiasc.gov.