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Funding for Maryland state of mind is provided by the 13 institutions of the university system of Maryland. Additional funding by her Marion Roussel a leader in pharmaceutical based health care dedicated to moving beyond medicine to health through prescription drugs and patient support program. Coming up on Maryland state of mind in the trauma center the doctors and patients. It's a life saving life. But on your word loaded with traveling with the exception of birthplace of Maryland Lord Baltimore's country home guys with a broad friendly golf course they're hopping for joy because they love the water. It's all American status. Thanks you

axes us with. Good evening. Welcome to Maryland state of mind. I'm your host Scott Simon. You know when George Calvert the First Lord Baltimore conceived of a colony in America the idea may have come to him here at his country home in northern England. This splendid home has survived nearly four centuries. But like most of us at an advanced age it is showing the ravages of time. So for the past decade some energetic students from the University of Maryland College Park have been crossing the Atlantic to rescue this distinguished lady of Maryland history fixing and repairing what we like to call this old hall. You a few of us

you a thank you and thank you A. It was several hundred miles north of London. A week's journey by carriage a noble man over the English History history. This is the home of George Howell that the first told the founder of Marin County. But

this is L.A. going to homestead is battling the ravages of time although ranked in the top 1 percent of Old English historical homes for centuries have taken their toll. But over the past decade a new energy has returned painting cleaning and rejuvenating this grand 180. University of Maryland College Park students are crossing the Atlantic to return to their roots as if beckoned by the cries of a distant relative calling them home. This is our 10th anniversary. Incidentally we came here first in 1907 and so it's sort of a special year I think goes. So I'm particularly glad it's an especially good group because I think that is very encouraging with the great discovery. There's no fire

safe in the house. It was 15 79 and rose to Secretary of State. It was he conceived of a colony where Catholics could live and practice faith without fear. The king granted his charter but with both of his songs the second and King Charles the first to implement the dream. The colony became known as Mary Land named French Queen Henrietta Maria. This country home near the banks of the swale river. So for more generations of Calvert Hall at home several other distinguished families. Then memories document the changes to this land.

To truly grasp the significance of Kipling one must understand how its owners lived. Perhaps no one knows the house's history better than Prime. The spunky 85 year old retired warden or overseer who spent most of three decades attending to her two enjoys a place of privacy if yourselves. We use this room now as a teen room for special occasions to when people come here for a good blow out day and weddings. We haven't had any funerals yet but when we're thinking of it but I can't get it off pat I would like one in the tail cone.

I'm here now. Well you'll be surprised to know that we call this the blue drawing room. It's only called the blue drawing room because I paged the blue many years ago. Otherwise it was a horrible yellow color. Not that color which is any good. Really quite canary like. But that one is a really nice little picture it's painted on the right of the canvas. It's dated 16 18. And because we don't know who the artist was it's been attributed to different ones like a lot of things. We call it Dutch School. Sixteen 18 is the date of it little four year old boy with his little dickie bird and a couple of films and his very home prime is a walking encyclopedia of Kipling whole history. James the first granted the first charter has to

Baltimore but they both died before they were ratified. Really it was Charles the First who really gave the go ahead. Charles the First. His wife was Queen Henrietta Maria and they called it Mary land didn't complement the Kipling hall experience is more than just painting and scraping the English countryside becomes a living classroom as a wandering magnificent gardens once reserved for royalty to explore a cathedral run into ruins by the acts of Henry the Eighth apostle the structural strength of ancient art to begin to appreciate the ingenuity of their ancestors. It's really neat to see what has obviously been here for hundreds and thousands of years still sitting here. The fact that most things or most buildings are made from stone or brick rather than wood means that they're going to last a lot longer. It's quite amazing

things and yeah the I think that we were at yesterday. What's remarkable right now that that that and I think the history of our wonderful. But the question of how keepin home can be saved is never far from discussion. While the students have addressed it's cosmetic flaws serious structural problems remain problems that will require millions of pounds or dollars. Mark Chetwynd is a trustee and descendant of the last owner of captain and he has made it his mission to save this treasure. Now you may say why in England if anyone out of country would be necessary for a private individual to contribute money you need to know

the truth is that this country is oh ok I mean if you look around your troops you will see their endless wonderful bill. Anderson you know the results of the Iraq war. Just as interest grows in Cape Town Hall and its importance understood Maryland business leaders have commissioned start is on how this Jan can be saved. I mean they're just possibilities that there are corporations that could use it back in corporations that operate in England. Marilyn the corporation is there for. And I know the tremendous possibilities. And God bless David follicle because he's kept a patient alive so this baby. And although it is all the respirator at times it's a miss Crissy in that damned English and this wonderful Reddick still glows from its illustrious past for it

is a common thread stretching across to see across time that binds us to a heritage so grand and recall where the old PBS shows go to die. Find out as we visit the vaults of the public broadcasting system hidden beneath the ivory towers of College Park. Coming up later on Maryland's state of mind. Where do your transmissions have long been used to diagnose patients far away but now television is being tested in emergency situations by the University of Maryland Baltimore Shock Trauma the evident from ation that physicians can gain by actually being able to see a patient in route to the hospital could mean the difference between life and

death. So quiet on the set. Lights cameras traction. John John. Are you OK. His arm and leg are weak. His head aches severe and his speech is slurred. He is having a stroke one of the strokes occur when too little blood flows to the brain cells in the brain and the part of the body they control cannot function. All right I'm going to get help right now. The result can be memory long disability and even the death of Marilyn. John doesn't like to. Talk more you know with his history. Martin tell your hard drive right. I

don't trust your father there. Can you ask him if he was alive when what he was doing at the time. An old fashioned approach your previous approach. The patient might not even know that they should come in. Immediately after their symptoms start. They might wait. They would go to the emergency room and wait to see if the first available doctor. We hope to shorten the time yet by using a new system of mobile telemedicine. The telemedicine brain attack. Is the creation of the core group of doctors and technicians at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. They tell about system as a mobile phone time and that's just I think it's less ambulance service. We have time signals into this room. From Mobile to the meds so also we are able to use this as a referral point

to refer to neurologists who run such as Dr. Lamont breakthrough may be. Ready and able to consult some provide the clinical examination. All the patients on route to the hospital. The concept is wrong. The technology is groundbreaking telemedicine may be the latest medical catchphrase but its roots go back to the first use of walkie talkies and radios in the battlefields of World War 1. That's why the Taliban has been using the radio as a transport vast. Now we have a video information and possibly the transport of video from the ambulance to the receiving hospital from the theater to the hospital and I really expand our ability to transfer that information in a multimedia fashion. Basically as we distribute information when they need it and the where they need it. Using digital cell phone technology to transmit images sound and information

they are laying new computer network building blocks for the university hospital and School of Medicine. We have for sale a film because we need to have more pictures being sent in to us from the ambulance. You know real time sending to our hospitals slow the digital network say you know on that walk when the information gets into the hospital way in the war why web based solution so everybody. Will be able to see if they have a right commission from the patient and the doctors. Once in the hospital patients have traditionally been monitored by doctors in person. With this technology however doctors monitor patients from any location with a computer. The tele control center in shock trauma acts as the master control for the hospital where we can monitor the vital

signs. We can monitor what's going on around about the patient. We can do this in all the locations on the second floor. The shock trauma center. This technology is one that can easily be applied to any time sensitive illness and other very critical illnesses particularly when the patient is in a remote location. For example the other day and Shock Trauma We had notification there short estimated on the arrival of a gunshot wound to the head. We came out of the trauma resuscitation unit. Patients arrived only for us to find this was a 2 year old child. This is not this information is not being conveyed to us. The equipment and everything we needed to deal with this patient is of course totally different for a trial than it is for other also an image and some more direct communication would have come by this information straightforwardly to us so clearly there are also benefits to having

additional information and jobs are prepared. Most of the receiving group. A picture's worth a thousand words when it comes to our stripping down because of a neurological deficit or the loss of neurological function. I like that it is a very unusual experience for a physician who's evaluating that patient meaning in the past. Certain aspects of. CMS such as weakness and sensation and the ability of the patient to see and speak well what you do is I want you to raise this arm fires right there's breakdown. OK. That looks like it's full strength for 10 seconds. And how about his right side that side gets weak. Many of those aspects can only be detected and determined that if I make a visual contact with the patient there's two thoughts a stroke or the project strikes was the statement struck this stupid story. Since

last summer I've just read the blockbuster just yesterday. Formation all clocks if you give it to the patient off leaving a blood vessel in mind that this will increase the problems associated with the lads with. Their. Skate strides along with it was all for the feet. Yeah I love the little stall so it is essential to my right diagnosis that potential but that's all well I'll toss model is still very primitive with jealously and I'll have to get stronger trailers a couple songs today of good looks really good there right. Patient with a dangerous truth be appropriate. Short time this is just a revolution. Absolutely in the way we do but thank you. It was a bright star of NASA's astronaut program but he perished that infamous day with Christa

McAuliffe. See how his influence is still shining in many lives. Later on Maryland state of mind. The public broadcasting system has created a rich history in the 30 some years of its existence from wonderful children shows to incredible nature shows to Masterpiece Theater and splendid radio shows like those found on National Public Radio. All of these programs generate a great deal of support materials research scripts drawings etc.. And now an archive of this material has been established at the University of Maryland College Park. These vaults hold some cherished memories of public broadcasting. So I like to think of them as all things conserved. When the first television station signed on the air in the late 1940s a new industry was born. One that would forever change the world. In 1069 the Public Broadcasting System was created.

Entering an industry that had already made history. But for viewers PBS offered a very different kind of television. And today nearly 30 years and tens of thousands of programs later. PBS has a rich history. From groundbreaking children's series like Sesame Street. To extravagant performance programs rarely seen on other broadcast networks. This history has traditionally been stored in the closets and basements of individual PBS affiliates across the country. But now a national facility exists designed to collect and preserve the works of PBS. The National Public Broadcasting archives is housed in the Hornbeck library on the campus of the University of Maryland College Park. Tom Connors is curator. The National Public Broadcasting archives was established in 1980 for the purpose of pulling together in one spot the historical record of the major entities of public broadcasting in the United States.

It's not just a matter of having the tape and looking at the program but it's also being able to back up what you see with a lot of documentary information on how that program got to be you know from conception to final production. And that's that the whole range of of source material I think is what's important about this collection. We're here in College Park or one of the great centers I think. He says. I don't think too facetiously of the world. First the study over. Four years after the doors opened archival materials are still pouring in boxes crammed full of records are organized chronologically and catalogs for recovery in storage. We get a call from someone and we make arrangements to bring the material into the archive. At that point we generally look through everything and we

create a preliminary inventory of what's there so that we have some media control over the material and then over time we slowly process it in a more refined way. The collection is a true archive containing original first drafts of documents one of a kind broadcasting artifacts and programs from public radio and television stations from across the country. For. Historical radio broadcasts. Groundbreaking mini series. This is PBS public broadcasting service held. Early Maryland Public Television programs are preserved at NPR. Even more modern controversy programs have a home at College Park

28 by relay. I know from my garbage you know from our landlady Armistead Maupin tales of the city. Hall. Do you have any objection here. I have no objection to anything. The audiovisual archivists death and ensuring safe storage of all audio and video tapes. He also helps in the cataloguing process and has made some memorable finds. The name Henson leapt out at me on the top of a folder and so I immediately pulled it out and found these storyboards which the archivist of Henson productions Karin Fox took one look at and instantly confirmed for me that they were actually original Henson artwork. And so in that respect they become very valuable. Jim Hansen who of course created many of the public characters on Sesame Street and

later Muppet name was one of the most distinguished graduates of the UMC class of 1960. It was there that the young speech Major would meet Jang a Bell who would later become his wife. Today James Henson continues to share her late husband's genius through a traveling exhibit recently showcased by UMC and the national public broadcasting archives. I generally like to be on the news when they were new because it gave him a chance to do new things. He really enjoyed being early in public television. Has it been able to try more experimental things. Henson and many other public broadcasting trailblazers are preserved here at the National Public Broadcasting archives.

Electronic past protected for future generations. These tiny creatures would agree that a golf course is water hazards are just that they can't stand them. But new research is showing how the authors and frogs can coexist quite peacefully. Coming up later in our show. The creatures that call the Chesapeake Bay home depend on clean healthy water to survive. And in a broader sense so do we. The bay is so important for so many reasons to us recreationally economically environmentally to check its health scientists at the University Center for Environmental Science are probing the bay with an odd looking device called a scan fish which measures the things that reveal the baby's health. It's sort of a diagnosis of the deep and it's coming to an estuary near you. The Chesapeake Bay is the largest of the eight hundred and forty estuaries in North America. And it's the most biologically productive. More seafood is harvested from the

Chesapeake than from any other estuary in the United States. In fact more than half of the nation's annual Blue Crab catch comes from the bay. What makes this possible. Surprisingly scientists are only now beginning to find the answers. We're involved in a big program with a very bold hypothesis. I'll try to answer the question of why. There are so many fish in just. The Chesapeake Bay produces 30 times more fish than the typical. And. Many might more times than a lot of continental shelf is a very productive. Body of water for fish. And the reasons why are not that clear. To explain this and many other questions about the bay. Scientists at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science are taking a closer look at the Chesapeake physical structure and how it works. The six year study called Thais an acronym for trophic interactions in S year in systems studies how the bay transforms nutrients and organic matter

into microscopic plants animals and fish. This is all become possible with the help of a newly designed highly sophisticated underwater probe called scan fish. Campeche is like a flying wing and it is it's taught in the water. It's like an airplane it's controlled by. A computer. It has elevators or flaps whatever you want to call it. That can control not only the quiet and dive rates of the of the flying wing but also can. Control the tilt as it flies for the water. Skin fish is put into action each spring summer and fall during two week research cruises on the bay. Tethered only by a very thin cable skin tissues carefully lowered into the water from a specially equipped ship. It's been towed from Solomon's Island to the northern Bay and then returns along a zigzag course called the transact between the eastern and western shores

to the southern bay. While underway the ship uses sonar and signals from global positioning satellites in space to monitor fish populations and track the location of scanned fish. Data is radioed back to the ship's computer lab where the research team lives and works for the duration of the voyage. We operate 24 hours a day. And. Of the typical make up of a scientific crew us a few scientists of professors of University of Maryland mostly. But we also have a lot of students are doing their thesis work when they are from the study and some are a summer students that take advantage of the of the research going on. While scan fish may fly or swim through the waters of the Chesapeake Bay much like a fish its main purpose is not to count fish at all. We're not measuring fish with a scan fish even though it has a rather skin fish examines the bay's biological composition during its flight.

Onboard sensors rapidly measure the water and produce computer images that make it possible for scientists to look at the bay's interior structure. We measured that the standard physical. Variables temperature salinity salt content. We also measure oxygen which is very important as an indicator of the health of the bay. An astonishing discovery pioneered by skin fish revealed the Chesapeake Bay is not one massive body of water but rather many zones or layers of one. Dr. Boyd or demonstrates. Here we have a very thin estuary. This is the sauce we had a river up here. This is the open ocean here. This is the deep blue sea water. And this is the fresh water coming down. So first of all take part of this dam apart. And then pulled up the real dam here and watch the process go. First of all we have a bore under running the freshwater Likewise a bore along the surface we call it. There is

reflection on the end and remarkable internal waves we call them. They're propagating back from both ends. Producing a layer of mixed water in between. The Chesapeake Bay is what we call a partially next asked away what that means is we have freshwater moving sea word over sea water moving landward. And in that process there's lots of mixing going on between the upper layer and the lower layer. This is a computer visualization of a trance like across the bay from the western shore to the Eastern Shore showing salinity. And the basic big picture of fresh water for Blue. Over a salt water orange. And it shows that sharp interface between the two. A lots of structure of internal way down welling features. That is pretty exciting. Our hypothesis is that there are lots of small ecosystems are structured

by the freshwater introduced through the estuary on which there are lots of food for a fish but we need to not only. Result. In our measurements those small interfaces we have to then over the entire bay to really answer the question we have to show that these little interfaces these ecosystems are the hotspots that account for the great amount of production of fish. There is worldwide interest in the work done by University of Maryland scientists now being conducted in several estuaries around the world. In fact scientists are conducting similar studies in the Adriatic Sea the Amazon and the Sea of Japan. This is really basic research asking the question of why. And how the asteroid produces. That. Our concern here is. The Chesapeake Bay as well as. Elsewhere. Around the world. That connection. From the base of the food chain. Through the small plants and animals.

Fish. Is a critical one a matter where the fisheries are our world. Our colonial history and heritage is well preserved on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Join us as we open three and a half centuries more precious past. Later a Maryland state. When the shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986 it extinguished a number of stars on that cold January day along with Christa McAuliffe. We lost Ronald McNair one of America's first African-American astronauts. He was an inspiration to millions of children and adults and now that inspiration lives on in a scholarship fund bearing his name at companies State College the McNair scholarship fund is changing lives and futures and proving that a bright star shines on 7 6. We have meaning to meet right now.

There they are managing the power. We all remember that ill fated day in 1986 when some of America's brightest stars were extinguished extremely cold weather had caused O-rings on the challenges booster rockets to fail allowing them into the sky. As the world watched the Challenger exploded killing the seven member crew. The name people remember most clearly was Christa McAuliffe the gung ho curly haired teacher who was to be the first civilian space. Oh I am so excited to be here. But the crew also contained another trailblazer run to make Nayar born or in a small Southern town this quiet determined African-American man had battled the odds to gain a Ph.D. in physics from MIT. Then he'd overcome the odds again to become one of America's first black astronauts.

De Monte Davis a student at Coppin State College remembers learning of McNair's death a dozen years ago. When I came home and we saw on tv that. The space shuttle had no blew up they had no that's where when it really hit me. But Davis has another reason to remember Ronald McNair McNair was an ardent advocate of educational opportunities for minorities. Today Davis is one of 25 students in the Ronald McNair program at Baltimore's Coppin State College. The program pushes promising undergraduates to pursue their Ph.D.s. The program is aimed to serve students who really don't have the funds in their family to go on to school. They don't have the parental influences that would encourage education higher education. Though Davis had always loved learning this Gulf War veteran had thought it would be a miracle if he even completed his college education. No one in my family has ever been to college you know even though they're in a bachelor's

degree. Nicole Baird on the other hand had long dreamed of going to medical school but when she became a single parent she thought her dreams were doomed. Between high school and it's time I start about I started college I had my daughter and I really thought that. Now I won't be able to go. Thanks to the McNair program there is no such thing as an insurmountable barrier really trying to determine what might possibly prevent the student from going on and try to put things in place to sort of head off the problem. The program in place at a number of colleges around the country and picks juniors and seniors who show grad school potential at Coppin State. The program pays students undergraduate tuition so they can concentrate on finishing their bachelor's degrees. Then the program works to get these students into the grad school pipeline. Unlike their program just showered with an affirmation. On

grass school the process of getting in the grass school the process of getting funding the application process that's a whole new level. The program also picks up the tab for grad school visits so students can take a firsthand look at schools of interest. So far this semester I went to Temple in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. I also went to University of Cincinnati and they did fly us to University of Cincinnati. I also had another trip to go see Ohio State and Ohio State they really pulled out all the red carpets where there was this push to aim high. Maybe more important than ever as a debate over affirmative action continues says Dr. Brian what are been reading recently indicates that a number of students aren't even applying anymore to some schools which means that they're not even risking being denied. So a program looms large because our students are not going to be afraid to in fact close to 100 percent of

MacNair scholars are accepted at a school of their choice. But once students get in the program wants them to stay. So the McNair scholars spend summers at research institutions and other sites developing the research skills they'll need to succeed in the years ahead. Nicole Baird worked at the University of Maryland School of Medicine on a government funded study examining how contaminated water affects the functioning of fish livers not so many undergraduate juniors have an opportunity to participate in an academic research setting such as this let alone working on real applied research problems. Davis spent a summer doing original research at the Hampton national historic site near Telson. He helped unearth information on a long neglected and sensitive subject. Slavery. Happened mass and was a former plantation all by family called the residence and there was a producing plantation. They had slaves who worked there I afford

to up and do so. So basically my topic was to try to discover what was life like for the place that I visited the different cottages that the slaves lived in and when a side of a scene what it looked like and went over where some of the primary documents dealing with the deficit lazy. Slaves would get sick of being injured. Or whatever. There will be something in the residence letters mentioning this. The experience fuel Davis's interest in getting a Ph.D. in history you can play a part in making the story know. Basically allowing these people to have their story to leave an F-3 and they're dead now. Bogor. Mean the story can still be told from your work. And Davis believes he'll achieve this goal because the program has profoundly changed his sense of himself. Come and then. I was very uncomfortable as far as public speaking or human speaking with people. But I've had so many opportunities now to present papers to speak. That

I'm confident. I've written papers now. Back and go back now and look at them and read them. And this often made to believe that this came out of me. That I did this. Even my family sees the change within me. Often times when I go home I can see it in their eyes our parents are so proud of me. Like their program was a blessing for. That. Has opened up a lot of doors. That a home. Is. When there's not enough say about the new place. Coming up this spring on Maryland state of mind. See how the mystery of Styria he's being unraveled. And perhaps why scientists at the university system of Maryland. When we're out on the links taking a walk with our sticks it's hard to ignore the natural but

manicured beauty of a golf course. To many it's like an environmental event. But to some critters. Golf courses have hardly been as beautiful pesticides herbicides and coarse landscaping and made some wings uninhabitable for these sensitive creatures. Now a professor from Frostburg State University is trying to make these emerald pads as pleasant for our web toad friends as for us. For so watch out for bogeys birdies and frogs. Traditionally the goals of golf course design have been challenge but for amphibians that traditional design has been challenging as well. Since he was a child Dr. James Howard of Frostburg State University has spent

untold hours in marshes and swamps. Now through a research program called wildlife links these activities may reacquaint the golf course and the Frog. That's all due to a recent and fruitful dialogue between parties traditionally suspicious of each other namely the United States Golf Association and environmentalists. In 1994 an international of New York with the blessing of the USGS started honoring forces that were built and maintained according to set standards as signature sanctuaries. Reserve Country Club in Naples Florida was the first golf course with that distinction. You don't have to join the program right. But again those same categories habitat restoration habitat. The energy conservation water conservation recycling but all common sense. The USGA emboldened by the feedback and success of the program decided to

fund environmental research and wildlife links was born. We estimate over 15000 golf courses in the United States 1.5 million acres of habitat so there's incredible potential for this wildlife management on golf courses and everyone's really excited about it and we see it as a positive thing. Katie distiller is a coordinator for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation the organization that handles the research proposals and makes recommendations to the USDA for funding. She read a proposal by Dr. Howard. Well I think when we first saw his pretty proposal come in we automatically jumped on it because it dealt with him Philippians. They are suffering a severe decline and we don't have a lot of answers for that. His proposal specifically looked at the effects of pesticides on amphibians on golf courses. We are exposing amphibians a very state various stages in their development to these compounds at various concentrations.

We're placing those and aquaria in a controlled environment. And we're introducing the toxins in a controlled concentration into those aquarium temp through to monitor survivorship and and. Catching his recommendations for the concentration and timing of different chemicals will be shared with golf course superintendents around the country. Reedus their extremely sensitive bio indicators there's some reason to think that amphibians may represent sort of a canary in the mine scenario. That whatever may ultimately impact human health is going to impact amphibians first in land adjacent to and provided by the emerging golf course at Rocky Gap State Park. Dr. Howard second line of research is being conducted in the design of what lines the

habitat for these biologically important creatures usually were used to see huge ponds or lakes with not much vegetation around them that are pretty deep. And the problem with those is they are perfect for fish and for both frogs and that's good for fish and both frogs is not so great for other and Fabian's wetland features that will help keep amphibians alive include shallow edges thick with vegetation surrounding a shallow pond. That way dangerous predators won't survive. And one of the ways you can prevent those predators from becoming a stablished is to have wetlands or design wetlands that periodical you dry. Obviously those don't support fish. And because both frogs have a two to three year larval period they don't support both frogs either. Environmental development of golf courses is being embraced by golf course professionals nationwide. Companies such as Jack Nicklaus's Golden Bear International the designer of the Rocky Gap course have taken notice.

It won't affect the playability. It will be much more natural which will also require less maintenance because you're using native grasses and native species so therefore the maintenance the impact of maintenance is is reduced a great deal. Using a region's native flora is a staple of this movement. Dr. Howard visited colliers reserves for a firsthand look at excellent design. Yes maybe a volunteer we planted a lot of it out here but you know it's regenerates and. What's important about this again we do is we show them that this is a result of this planning the planning it gives cover for the smaller and some of the big wading birds. You know wonderful meshing of motives these new notions seem to impress everyone

involved affecting the bottom line of every superintendent and golfer. Ironically a lot of these designs want Hanson a look at the golf course actually reduces the cost of magnets and that's one of the reasons a so compatible. Well one of the things that you guys have done right is the fact that you've got a shelf around this pond that you can plant with this immersion aquatic vegetation and the cover works for even on this overcast December morning in Florida conditions in which frogs are almost immobile and imperceptible and inch long specimen is discovered. Now that's not a very robust specimen but I do have a frog. Yeah. So they're very sensitive. They have highly playable skins so just about everything that comes in contact with them and gets incorporated inside Danimal.

Golfers have always loved the differences between golf courses through wildlife links. The USGA has intrusted scientists such as Jim Howard to accentuate those natural distinctions. And although one may need to know where to look. More variety will bloom. Mixing a good walk spoiled with the flesh of the breed. If you would like more information on the stories featured on Maryland's state of mind call 1 800 4 7 7 8 4 3 7. Or visit our website. W w w dot MP dot org slash mind the first colonists in Maryland settled on its eastern shore and lived quietly and prosperously in attics and basements they kept a wealth of records from birth and death certificates to deeds in legal documents. Those documents never disturbed by war or fire are now being studied in an unpretentious museum opened by Salisbury State University. Some old

stories are being rediscovered refreshing some wonderful memories of the shore. When the first settlers arrived in the new world many made their way up the Chesapeake Bay to settle on its eastern shore. The record of their progress is intact. Documents date back to 16 32 and all for an uninterrupted narrative of this remarkable historical record unlike any in the United States is being preserved in Explorer here. This tiny and rather modest building at Solsbury State University is the home of the research center for Delmarva history and culture. Not far from where some of the first Marylanders established there were hundreds of historians from amateurs to academics come to search for them. The records in the research center provide much more than just names and dates of people when they were born or when they died. What we can actually do is put flesh on the bones of

those long dead ancestors. Originally I was using the records to try to find lost places so that they could be found and tested archaeologically. But finding it just getting hooked on the way people do in fact. Elmer and Vivi Moore live in Shreveport Louisiana. They're here ferreting out their family genealogy has become a full time hobby. Elmer is hunting for one of his more prominent ancestors. I've been trying to change him because he was born Shimer Surely you know we're conscious. And. I was in my family. We really didn't expect to find that much but. It's going real. Well. Well thank you. Tell me forgotten everything when. You have people come in and instead of the library where everything is very quiet all the time we're usually chatting you know did you see this and look what I found the records and other archived material here is available to

the public. But it was really assembled for Solsbury State students here they have a chance to explore not just another author's research analysis but original An edited historic documents. There are then the ones who interpret they're the ones who are gaining the critical ability to interpret the records and then to write and to create history and I think that's probably the really important thing that we can do here in the research center is to help those students as they develop that ability when you see the actual documents of people. That's that's probably the most amazing thing. But you know a four hundred three hundred fifty years ago this person wrote this document. Because you just you know a lot of times you just hear about the stuff. And I you know it goes into the history books that you used in high school and in college and it's very rewarding. And it it really makes They made me love history more because here I am excavating. You know things that have never been seen before. This garden of future historians has inspired others to entrust the research

center with their collections. The man who directed The American history department at the Smithsonian Institution brought his personal library here from his home in nearby Prince's san. The late will come Washburn developed a fondness for the research center and its mission. Thanks to him their library has grown dramatically in size and most certainly in death. You see what this man read through his whole life and what he's given to us and what we will now have. And that's very exciting because when I came here we didn't have a lot of books. Maybe a thousand maybe two. But now we have 15. And that's that's it's a heartening prospect. I think what we are finding happening is that when something like this occurs other people then are more interested in seeing that their materials are placed there as well. Letters clothes and other family heirlooms have been arriving at the center since it opened. The donors hope to preserve not just family history but a bit of Eastern Shore

heritage. Surely the region of the eastern shore of Delmarva Peninsula is grand. It's a wonderful wonderful place because people who live here have a very very powerful sense of themselves as belonging to this region. These photographs give some idea to the center by the artist. They were taken in the 1960s and 70s by Orlando Wooten who at the time worked for the local paper. The pictures document a world in its twilight. Hearing my parents and grandparents talk. About how a man in every every community they go to the local store and sit around that was an entertainment and talk about things going on and sit around all pot belly stove and talk about the day's events and the politics. People come here in search of the familiar. Sometimes they find surprises. Until he researched his family tree James trader had been sure his family was German but nobody had ever done our tree so I thought well I would start to work on that although it's a

late story and getting it out and kind of find out we are French Huguenots the news has trader looking at his heritage and at himself a little differently. He's of a generation that looks to family and cultural origins to explain some personality traits. I think I have some French characteristics Yes. Good look at that look Joe when you look at you for your center director Becky Miller's family is from the Eastern Shore. She understands the attraction. In fact a set of Civil War letters and drawings recently donated to the center came from a distant cousin and are addressed to Miller's grandfather in one of them. The grandfather's cousin Alexander King writes from the union prison King was one of very few Southern sympathizers in the family. My dear cousin. I can take my pen in hand to write you a few lines although you don't seem to think enough of me to write. I receive no letters no one from any of you

since Christmas. I want to hear from you very bad. The letters. Maps newspapers books these seeds of history are dropped at the center every week. Here they fall on fertile soil. They're preserved and they're analyzed. The fruits of this work a new generation of historians and a new understanding of colonial Chesapeake. We hope you've enjoyed our little journey here the front page of knowledge courtesy of the university system of Maryland. We'll be back this spring with another travelogue of this great institution for Maryland state of mind. I'm Scott Simon. Good night. Funding for Maryland state of mind is provided by the 13 institutions of the university

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