on weekend, american history church --s or worchester massachusetts located about 40 miles of west -- west of boston. about the city all weekend. march 17, 1926, the first flight with a rocket using liquid propellant was made yesterday in auburn. the day was clear and comparatively quiet. the annulment or on the physics lab was turning leisurely when mr. sachs and i left in the morning. it was turning as leisurely when we returned at 5:30 p.m. even know the release was rised, the rocket did not at first. after a number of seconds, it rose slowly until it cleared the ski, and then it expressed closing to the left and striking at a rapidill going rate. it looked almost magical as it rose without any appreciable greater amount of flames as if it said "i have been here long enough, i think i'll be going somewhere else." 1882. goddard was born in at hisborn here grandmother's house about two miles from here. famous for his rocket work. he was the first person to successfully launch a liquid fueled rocket in 1926. when he was a professor here 1943, he met his wife here, who was a secretary

history tv is joining our charter to medications cable partners to share the history of worchester, massachusetts. to learn more about the cities on the 2015 tour, visit .ww.c-span.org/tour we continue note the history of worchester. ♪ >> mechanics hall was built in 1957. in association was formed 1842 as an educational organization, reminiscent of similar organizations that were in europe with the burgeoning of the industrial revolution. the europeans primarily in britain established mechanics associations to teach skilled labor. the term mechanic means someone who works with the hands. to be a member of the association, you had to be recommended by someone of some sort of authority and you had to be morally upright. you had to be a hard worker. you had to be industrious and reflect the characteristics that mechanics believed would bring this community and the country into the future. they built mechanics hall to inspire and to be a sort of the trade show of the industry of worchester. building.markable when it opened in 1857, everything was american made. it was pretty a stunning because, prior

. >> our cities to her staff recently traveled to worchester, massachusetts to learn about its rich history. learn more about our stir and other stops on our tour at c-span.org/cities to her. you are watching american history tv all weekend, every week and on c-span 3. announcer: as the 50th anniversary of the national preservation act approaches, historians have gathered to look ahead at the workbook for them in the 20 for its century. jewell addressed their conference. this was hosted by the national trust for historic presentation -- preservation. it is about an hour. >> and now please welcome chief preservation officer david brown. [applause] david brown: thank you very much. welcome to the closing lunch of this conference. this is the time to reflect on all that the preservation movement has achieved over the last 50 years. it is also a chance to look forward and see how the work we are doing today will affect able to be here and participate in these conversations. we look forward to you being involved in these conversations in the months ahead we are pleased to be joined by representa

he was born in 1889 into an extremely wealthy family in worchester, massachusetts.nd him fascinating for a lot of reasons. first of all, his achievements in publishing the magazine which attracted a lot of the great writers of the period. both the younger writers who we tend to call the modernist and some writers from the older generation. the list is endless. if you look at the contents page, it reads like a who's who of all of the great writers of the period. also, the great artists of the period. arch was included in every issue -- art was included. through the magazine, they are introduced to america many of the great modernists of the time and many picasso others. this you can hear more weekend on booktv and american history tv as we travel to worchester, massachusetts and to watch video of all of the cities we have visited, go to our c-span city store website, www.c-span.org/citiestour. democrat line, hello. caller: hello. thank you so much for taking my call. i wanted to touch on one last subject and then i will move on to my second point if you will please n

massachusetts. at six months old, she moved to worchester. this is where she had her career. she went to an anti-slavery meeting and william lloyd garrison was the speaker. she was 21 years old at the time and it was then that she decided she had to do something for the cause. and she did join the female anti-slavery society and raised a lot of funds and took petitions around to be signed and was very active on behalf of the abolitionist movement. she became a radical abolitionist, unlike a lot of abolitionists at the time. she felt that, not only should slavery be ended, but people should be treated equally. so she then decided, not long after she gave her first public speech in 1838, that she would become a lecturer for the american anti-slavery society. abby really spoke from the heart and yet she did a lot of studying. she read legal books and she read political information in order to make sure that she was being able to answer questions or hecklers who threw things out at her as she was speaking. she was absolutely bombarded with hecklers and things thrown at her. one t