very special guy. >> reporter: so who is this great humanitarian who lifts up the people of galvestonst year, 90-year-old grave digger allen mccloskey has been at this job since 1952 and refuses to retire because he says a new grave digger might not square the corners as precisely. might not care as deeply for all those loving souls. >> yeah. people you went to school with and worked with and -- >> what was your hardest one? >> my wife. >> how'd you get through that? >> i figured she'd want me to do it. >> reporter: allen and barbara had three kids. but his definition of family extends well beyond blood. which may explain why a good chunk of the town gathered for what allen thought was someone else's birthday party. [ cheers and applause ] but was really a celebration of him. at the party he got an official guinness world record for longest career as a gravedigger. 70 years and counting. but more importantly, he was recognized for the thousands of odd jobs he's done for people. it's a side hustle. but with a twist. >> we'd ask allen for a bill, and he wouldn't give us a bill. >> he'd

to an impoverished inc. 5, a besieged from bodied community. separate from the west bank and east galveston. its leaders have declared israel will be suffering over for combined between the jordan river and the mediterranean sea. and it has made this form of government policy. what's the concern to this is the acquisition territory by force, which is the reduction in fragmentation. as you've seen of the territory left for the palestinians and this is a manifest foundation of palestine, territory integrity. it's you. it's contiguity which are cool elements of the right to self determination. the general assembly secure to cancel the human rights council have repeatedly called for the preservation of palestine, territorial integrity and condemned as ralph acts as a violation of the right power student people to exercise their self determination. so we urge the court decry israel 56 year old to be unable to confirm the words of your recent opinion in the trade goss. cuz this route is under an open regression to bring its presence on the territory of palestine to an end. and to do so as rapidly

country to symbolize the two and a half years it took for the news of freedom to reach the slaves in galvestonce of ms. opal lee. [applause] daughter of texas, grandmother of the movement to make juneteenth a federal holiday. jared haibon: what do you want people to know about juneteenth? i want them to realize that it means freedom, and i don't mean freedom for black people. i mean, freedom for everybody. none of us are free, until we are all free. i want people to understand that they can make a difference. i hope i have. the least we can say is that you've made a difference, ms. opal. thank you. i'll keep on walking and talking. maybe somebody will listen. i think a lot of people are listening. i love it. my toast to hollywood glam in the heart of new york city. every time i throw a dinner party here, i feel like i should take a bow. [theme music] hi. i'm sara gore, and welcome to "open house nyc"-- eye-catching design this week in midtown, nolita, the big easy, and more. and i am bringing it all to you from this duplex penthouse right here in tribeca. located atop a landmarked cast-iron bu

the galveston news did better, describing it as a repulse, so decided. sometimes ed showed considerable sophistication. the oregonian explain how had been able to defeat two union armies by operating on interior lines a concept basic to understanding warfare. but common knowledge. the writer actually done research reading a pre war book by general henry w halleck in the summer of 1863, of course, was by the union victories at gettysburg and vicksburg. vicksburg got more attention because operations there had been occurring and covered for a long time. with gettysburg, the battle could hardly have been anticipated by when it was a surprise to both. vicksburg was. well understood. the union and dakota incorrectly speculated in may that the rebels might be trapped in vicksburg. accurately described the destruction of mississippi's rail system and remarkable he was aware that grant had maneuvered inland mississippi by living off the land and the john pemberton confederate commander at vicksburg was anything but brilliant. the oregon reported that vicksburg w

do what he can to help the confederate cause and for the next year or so he runs cotton between galveston, texas and havana for the confederacy and has some speed chases as high speed as they can get in the 19th century on the gulf of mexico now normally at this point my talk i would tell you all that this image is on ebay for sale now and that as a college professor, i don't quite make money to be able to buy this. and i would say to the audience, if you want to get me an early christmas present, i would be very grateful now i have to tell you, and i hope don't tear up with this. so in so our our board member, patrick anderson, has been an event at carthage college, kenosha, wisconsin. that's his alma mater. and he's on the board of trustees there. and so i told that joke in carthage college, and i got about the same low level of laughter when i told it, too. and what i didn't know that patrick's wife, kim, elbows him and says, you know, you got to get that forum and patrick's sydney went on ebay and bought it. and last night i'm choked up. where's patrick? in the back. last night patric

one of schiff's big projects was called the galveston movement, and the idea behind that new york was overcrowded. the lower east side becoming, you know, a poor trait of, you know, of everything the german -- did want crime, prostitution, squalor and so ship comes up with this idea helped by theodore roosevelt that they're not even going to the -- come to the new york or some i should say they got to divert them to texas. and so they will not live in new york and so mean that was there a there was a complex relationship and you know to this day there's there there's ill feeling between of the eastern european immigrants and the germans. it's a thing. okay, that was all perfectly timed questions. really nice work before. we turn to the signing please join me everyone. a round of applause. dan is going to be signing books. it really is. i mean not just saying this because i'm moderating it really is a wonderful read. i gave the book to my dad. your dads, children, moms love it. you know, it's a fascinating fascinating read. thank you for being in

i'm seventh generation texan, and seventh generation from the gulf coast, galveston and houston, andwhat the great -- the money that oil brings, the boom that it brings to a city like houston, and for residents that live here, communities, fence line communities across the city and in this area, it doesn't bring, you know -- it doesn't rain down cash. instead, a lot of people are ste severely impacted by the harmful environmental impact that it has on people's health, their houses, and it's a part of, you know, decaying communities. >> lawrence, talking about politics, you know, as an old politician, i never looked at the latest number. i always looked at trend lines. let me give you some trend lines here. in 2012 in the presidential race republicans won by 16 points. in 2016, republicans won texas by 9 points. in 2020, they won it by a little over 5 percentage points. this is a freight train rolling in the democrats' direction. >> yeah, and you know, the thing that people have to understand is that where texas goes, the country will follow, and texas is important in national politic