mrs. pratt liked it and john pratt bought it for $150,000 and he would live here up until he gave it to us in 1975. mr. pratt and mrs. pratt were two entirely different personalities one of those things of opposites attracting. john lee pratt was a simple man. he liked to go out in his old clothes. had patches on his coats. in fact, he liked to walk -- he walked across the river and play cards with buddies in town. he dressed so shabbily, everybody thought he was a bum. it was explained that's one of the richest men in america. his wife was driving across the bring with her chauffeur and saw mr. pratt from mind and said to the chauffeur who is that poor shabby looking man over there? and the chauffeur said madam that's your husband, should we stop and pick him up? she said drive on. mrs. pratt liked nice things and among the nice things she liked was russian jewelry. she started a collection of very fine russian jewelry. among the things she collected were russian imperial eggs and collected fiv

mrs. pratt had five of them. the largest collection outside of russia, more than the queen of england owns and she had them here in this house. later on she donated them to the virginia state museum. so today you could see them in one of the rooms down there. she predeceased mr. pratt by a number of years. he lived here by himself up until 1975 when well into his 90s he died and at that point he gave the house to the national park service. realizing its historical importance. thanks to the jens rossty of this man that we are able to show the house to you. i hope you enjoy it. if the you have any questions ask me and of course, we have a lot of interesting things going on on the front grounds today as well. so please take advantage of those as well. the gardens were on the front of the house. entirely obliterated. if you look at pictures, we have one on the fireplace, of that side of the house during the war, you'll see no garden. after the war was over in the 1920's they then moved the garden to this side of the

it was an innovative library for your starting with mr. pratt when he established it.he was a philanthropist business person in baltimore at a time when the city was growing and he picked the free library to fund. he said my libraries will be for all, rich or poor without distinction of race or color and that was in 1886 in a city that had racial challenges. so when i had the opportunity to go to the pratt library i didn't know with as much about all the more that i knew the pratt library. there are now 21 branches and everywhere i would go in baltimore people would have a pratt library story. people from all walks of life. they would name the branch and so what i'm most pleased pleased about is that over the time i've been there we have revitalized those branch libraries and we actually constructed the first new library in that city in 35 years. that's a lifetime and we even had all of the senior staff members bring in a photograph of themselves at either five to 10 years old and we made a poster so that when we meet we would say what would a child now say 35 years no

member of the former american nazi party so it is naive to think that's all people in though wyser-pratte mr organizations are dim witted. there are a number of highly intellectual and twisted people so we see richard spencer in the past in this very important when the media interview him to confront him with his statements. richard spenser's news because steve abandon is news it is important to cover him because some could say that is his alter ego was because richard spencer is the originator of the right that he did say on that bright barred new site was the platform for a the alt-right >> day you have suggestions what ordinary americans can do to promote tolerance to fight the heat from - - eight? >> one correction there is no such thing as an ordinary american. only those who have answered the call and those who have not. each and every one of us has a responsibility to push back against anything but contrary for with your family or at work during your house of worship people are not powerless and the worst thing that one can believe in that individual's can make a difference it is a se

pratt west virginia. margie representative john lewis and andrew aydin are our guests. the book is "march" book three. >> caller: i have to tell you i'm absolutely thrilled to talk to you mr. lewis. it's wonderful to get to see att hero in our own living timer period and i want to thank you for everything that you do for silver rights and civil rights in general. two questions if i may please. i wanted to ask this one of mr. mr. woodward and i couldn't get in on time but what are your concerns about donald trump's presidency, your main concern if he were to be elected and i think is a question as i've been a democrat my whole life. i'm 64 years old. i don't feel like i have a voice in my party because of the abortion issue. is there something that you see that we can do to help women not have to go in that tragic direction, because i feel --. >> host: margie, i think we got the first part of your question. a donald trump presidency. >> guest: well i don't want to see mr. trump become president. first of all i don't think he is qualified. i think he has a mean spirit and he wants to take us back to another period. i think his presidency would divide america. we have come s