this is robert boden-powell and his wife all of boden-powell and juliette gordon low on your right. now he was a war hero. he was famous all over england and beyond. he was known as a military scout, a tracker and he was famous for -- he was so famous that juliette low was determined she was not going to like him because she had other friends of the british military who she thought deserved much more praise and much more honor than they had gotten since he had gotten it all. so she had lunch with him in 1910, sat across the table from him and was determined not to be interested. this lasted until about the soup course. [laughter] when she found herself smitten, both with him -- they had a lot of common -- and with his children. so boy scouting, she was fascinating with the track in the scouting,, the topography and the jack-up become the travel, the outdoor experiences of scouting. she was also very much in tune with boden-powell's desire to grow better men through this program, men who were prepared for their future. the most important thing that juliette gordon low about the scann

this week an examination of urban america in the mid-20th century with brian purnell, from boden college at maine, race, class, gender and the urban crisis which covers the social, economic, political and cultural dynamics of u.s. cities after world war ii. this lasts an hour and 20 minutes. >> so today is a lecture on the origins of the urban crisis. the term urban crisis is in the title of this class, race, class, gender and the urban crisis. we use the hbo miniseries the wire as a text to study or to think about the urban crisis and also again we use the wire for the sociological presentation it gives us of post war american cities and also to ask questions of it because it gives us this through the police procedural, right, through fighting crime or through police and criminals a many things, but it also over clueds and hides so we use it for what it does and doesn't do. today's lecture is more or less a historical oved that comes from the title of a book 1995 book by thomas sigrew and you read an excerpt. it is the origins of the urban cris detroit, and that is where i am using the

and to lead us in the discussion of this crucial issue, we are thrilled that we have william boden who is himself a foreign policy all star and also who we're proud to say is a fellow with our religious freedom project. so let me introduce will. he is assistant professor at the lbj school of public affairs and distinguished scholar at the strauss center for international security and law at the university of texas austin. he is also a nonresident fellow at the german marshal fund of the united states, previously he served as senior vice president of the lagatum institute and senior director for strategic planning on the national security council at the white house. will has also worked at the department of state as a member of the policy planning staff and as a special adviser in the office of international and religious freedom. and also, i have significant experience on capitol hill. so it's our great mature to have will, he'll be moderating the discussion right now. >> thank you for turning out on this lunch time on a friday. what we hope will be a very stimulating and provocative a

michelle boden takes us to a rural mill town in north carolina where many of the key scenes were shot. >> reporter: this has to be the perfect place for a 12-year-old boy who needs exploration. ben beaver, the siblings and cousins are on spring break -- >> i thought, how cool would it be on the way home to stop. >> reporter: how cool to see where key scenes from "the hunger games" movie were shot. the kids from iowa are surveying every nook and cranny of the old henry river mill site in middle dhildebren that the workers once lived in. then admits he's certainly never used an outhouse and he doesn't want to start here. >> because it might break down on me. and then when i'm in the middle of doing my business -- >> reporter: he is looking at the homes with run-down rooftops have been abandoned in the 1960s when the cotton mill stopped running. sharon remembers living in this house with no running water. >> you set your buckets to the side and get them filled. >> reporter: this is what is exactly portrayed in "the hunger games" and why the crew knew they struck gold when they saw all of