he owed a small grocery store, a sawmill, and he grew commercial cotton. we planted as much as 70 acres of cotton, a lot of cotton. >> my dad, vernon senior, was one of the founders of the naacp. it was nine men who established the naacp. at that time, it was definitely an underground organization. he felt having the opportunity to vote, because he could not vote, was hopefully the pathway to first-class citizenship. >> you had places the whites could go, the blacks couldn't go. the courthouse was the only place where they had bathrooms for black people. white and colored doors. water fountains were even like that. they would be side-by-side and have a white fountain and a black fountain, a colored cotton, what they really called it. >> my dad and other black citizens in the nearby town of hattiesburg, mississippi, which is only about 5.5 miles south, they would go up and pay their property tax and pay their poll tax, and my dad did that religiously, and he would go to the voter registration office to try to register, and then the register would refuse to

at 1st they bought logs rafted down the mississippi river and put those through the sawmill, but that this back they're. a preview of the rest of the talk. [laughter] the real money way in buying land and chopping down the trees on that land. beautiful white pine love virgin white pine. with the money he made it but more land in wisconsin and minnesota. he was an incredibly good businessman and lumber man. no other man in america knows so much about pine. in 1891 he with his family went from rock island the st. paul minnesota so that he would be near the center of the logging operation as wisconsin became more cut over. and there he bought a house next to another remarkable businessman and visionary who is just about to complete the great northern railroad from st. paul to seattle. if you ever go and have a chance to see the house, it is an amazing monument to the gilded age. the two men quickly became friends and/or similar and often spent the evenings at each other's houses. the only problem was he had a tendency to fall asleep early. the families are often go my living room and the

really, the guy runs a sawmill in a factory. my staff did a poll and the staff came out and said only 3% of people believe the ad. i said really, that is a margin of victory in my district. somes, i have got to have money to get my own advertisements defending myself and getting it out there. i do not could i believe more strongly in this act. thatof you may have seen vanderbilt in virginia and others have done a study of the effectiveness of congress and you are looking at one of the 10 most effective members of congress. it is not rocket science but you have got to show up when they bring an open rule. david and i are doing our business and doing our work and we get things done. that is hard when you are across the street dialing for dollars. that is why this is so important. >> you talk about the process as long as you have been doing this. and you bring up bernie sanders p or is the system rate and are things not getting done because of the money and can you tell us things congress will not do because the money does not want

it's an upscale area once known for sawmills and commercial fishing, and just down the road is one man'strange inheritance and a story with a hollywood ending. >> my name's barry martin. i inherited a tiny, hundred-year-old house from a little old lady. if there ever was a real-estate niche, this is one. >> hi, barry. i'm jamie.in frons little house. yep, this is it -- his strange inheritance. it's just 600 square feet, and it's now surrounded by a huge shopping mall -- a mall that the unlikely heir in this story helped build. >> who leaves this to somebody? >> well, edith left it to me. >> edith? >> yep. >> love to learn more. >> okay. come on. >> barry explains that when this house was built over a hundred years ago, ballard, washington, was the shingle-mill capital of the world, with 20 mills producing 3 million shingles a day. >> there was fishing on elliot bay there, and the shingle-mill industry, all along shilshole avenue here. >> cass o'callaghan from the ballard historical society tells me more. did the neighborhood really change over the years? >> in about the late '30s, early