00:16 - THIS PROGRAM IS UNDERWRITTEN

00:17 - BY CCA P THE COUNTY

00:19 - COMMISSIONERS ASSOCIATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

00:23 - PENNSYLVANIA IS HOME TO SOME

00:25 - OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL

00:26 - COURTHOUSES IN AMERICA.

00:28 - IT'S RARE WHEN POLITICS ART AND

00:30 - LAW MEET AT THE FRONT DOOR, BUT

00:32 - IT HAPPENS IN THE KEYSTONE STATE.

00:35 - SINCE

00:37 - 1886 THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

00:38 - ASSOCIATION OF PENNSYLVANIA HAS

00:40 - CARRIED THE LEGACY.

00:43 - PENNSYLVANIA'S HISTORIC COUNTY

00:44 - COURTHOUSE, US.

00:54 - HI I'M COMMISSIONER BRUCE ARE

00:56 - JOINED TODAY BY COMMISSIONERS

00:57 - TERRY THOMAS EDDIE AND TED

00:58 - BEAM. I WANT TO WELCOME YOU

01:00 - TO THE HISTORIC BLAIR COUNTY

01:02 - COURTHOUSE IN DOWNTOWN HOLIDAYS BURNED.

01:05 - WARE COUNTY LIES AT THE FOOT

01:07 - HILLS OF THE ALLEGHENY

01:08 - MOUNTAINS ABOUT 90 MILES EAST

01:10 - OF PITTSBURGH.

01:11 - WHEN THE FIRST COLONIAL

01:12 - SETTLERS CAME HERE IN THE

01:14 - 1760'S. THEY FOUND WHAT THEY

01:16 - WERE LOOKING FOR PLENTIFUL

01:18 - EMERGENT TIMBERLANDS TEEMING

01:19 - WITH WILDLIFE, A GREAT WATER

01:21 - SOURCE FROM THE CHURNING OUT A

01:22 - RIVER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES.

01:25 - AND 1768 2 BROTHERS AND

01:28 - WILLIAM HOLIDAY CAME TO THE

01:30 - AREA AND FOUND ITS SETTLEMENTS

01:31 - ON EITHER SIDE OF THE JOURNEY OUT A RIVER.

01:34 - AND WHAT IS NOW HOLIDAYS FOR

01:35 - JUST A FEW BLOCKS FROM HERE.

01:37 - THERE WASN'T MUCH GROWTH IN THE

01:38 - AREA FOR DECADES BUT IN 1832.

01:42 - THE PENNSYLVANIA CAN

01:43 - NOW OPEN AND THAT BROUGHT

01:45 - GROWTH OF THE AREA WHICH WAS

01:46 - FOLLOWED BY AN 1834 DEPORTED

01:48 - RAILROAD TO CARRY VISITORS

01:51 - ACROSS THE ALLEGATIONS.

01:53 - THIS CREATED GROWTH AND

01:54 - HOLIDAYS, BURKE AND PROVIDED AN

01:56 - OPPORTUNITY FOR HOLIDAYS FOR

01:57 - HIM TO BE CALM AND BLAIR COUNTY

01:59 - A TRANSPORTATION CENTER FOR

02:01 - THIS WAS THE WESTERN TERMINUS

02:03 - CAN NOW AND PASSENGERS AND

02:05 - FREIGHT TRANSFERRED HERE.

02:06 - THE PORTAGE RAILROAD TO CROSS

02:08 - THE ALLEGATIONS SON PLAY.

02:10 - THE AREA THAT WAS WHERE COUNTY

02:11 - BECAME A GATEWAY TO THE WEST.

02:14 - RAPID GROWTH INCURRED IN THE NEXT 10 YEARS

02:16 - OR SO, AND IN 1846 THE STATE

02:19 - LEGISLATURE DETERMINED THAT A

02:20 - NEW COUNTY WOULD BE APPROPRIATE

02:22 - AND SO THEY TOOK PIECES OF

02:23 - BEDFORD AND HUNTINGDON COUNTY

02:25 - AND CREATED BLAIR COUNTY WHERE COUNTY WAS

02:28 - NAMED FOR JOHN BLAIR WHO WAS

02:29 - THE SIGN OF CAPTAIN THOMAS

02:31 - PLAYER, ONE OF THE EARLY SETTLERS OF

02:33 - THE AREA. TODAY FOR COUNTY HAS ABOUT A

02:36 - 124,000 POPULATION. AND OUR

02:39 - MAJOR CITY IS OUT TO KNOW WHICH

02:41 - IS KNOWN FOR ITS RAILROAD HISTORY.

02:43 - I GREW UP HERE AND HOLIDAYS,

02:45 - BURKE AND THIS IS A VERY

02:46 - IMPORTANT AREA TO ME

02:48 - PARTICULARLY THIS NEIGHBORHOOD.

02:50 - TO ME THE COURTHOUSE, THE MOST

02:51 - STRIKING FEATURE OF IT IS THAT

02:53 - HALL CLOCK TOWER WHEN WE WERE

02:55 - KIDS AND WOULD PLAY AT THE

02:57 - LOCAL SCHOOL PLAYGROUND.

02:58 - THE CLOCK CHIMED REGULARLY IF

03:00 - IT HIT 5 O'CLOCK WE KNEW IT WAS

03:02 - TIME TO BE HOME FOR DINNER, AN 8 O'CLOCK AT

03:04 - MEANT THAT WE MISSED OUR CURFEW.

03:07 - SO I ASK YOU TO SIT BACK RELAX AND ENJOY

03:10 - THE SHOW ENJOY THE BEAUTY ENJOY

03:13 - THE CRAFTSMANSHIP AND JOINS THE

03:14 - STORIES YOU'LL HEAR OF THIS

03:16 - HISTORIC HOME OF OUR COUNTY

03:18 - GOVERNMENT. WELCOME TO

03:21 - BLAIR COUNTY TODAY WE'RE GOING

03:23 - TO TELL YOU THE STORY ABOUT THE

03:24 - RESTORATION.

03:26 - OF OUR HISTORIC COURTHOUSE.

03:28 - MY NAME IS TERRY THOMAS SAID

03:29 - HEY I'M COMMISSIONER HERE NOW

03:31 - IN MY 12 YEAR.

03:33 - THIS IS A PROJECT THAT STARTED ABOUT

03:35 - 6 YEARS AGO, LET'S TALK A

03:37 - LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE COURTHOUSE

03:39 - ITSELF. WE HAVE AN 1877

03:41 - STRUCTURE, SOMETIMES REFERRED

03:43 - TO THE 1875 COURTHOUSE.

03:46 - WHAT WAS THE ORIGINAL AND TO

03:47 - THE REAR WERE STANDING IN THAT

03:49 - REAR PORTION NOW IN 19 OH

03:50 - 6 EDITION IS IT WAS AND IT IS

03:54 - THE ARCHITECTURAL GEM OF

03:56 - CLARA COUNTY. AND IS ALSO THE

03:59 - MOST IMPORTANT BUILDING IN

04:00 - BLAIR COUNTY HISTORY. IT IS

04:02 - STILL THE SITE OF BLAIR COUNTY

04:04 - GOVERNMENT AND THE

04:05 - ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE NOW FOR OVER A

04:08 - 140 YEARS. WE ARE FORTUNATE

04:11 - ENOUGH SECURE THE ORIGINAL ON TALKING ABOUT

04:16 - THE DEDICATION. AND

04:18 - INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH NEWSPAPER

04:20 - THE DEMOCRATIC STAG STANDARDS

04:22 - ARTICLE WAS ON JULY 4TH, 1877.

04:27 - SPEAKING AT THAT TIME WAS OUR

04:28 - FIRST JUDGE FIRST PRESIDING

04:30 - JUDGE OF OUR COUNTY JEREMIAH

04:33 - BANKS WHO HAD LONG LEFT WORK

04:35 - OUT. HE WAS JUDGING THE LATE

04:37 - 40'S AND HE CAME BACK IN 1877

04:40 - TO SPEAK, HE'S ONE OF OUR I

04:42 - SHALL WE SAY ALL-STAR JUDGES

04:45 - AFTER HE BLAIR COUNTY BECAME

04:48 - CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE PENNSYLVANIA

04:49 - SUPREME COURT. AND LATER YEARS

04:52 - HE WAS ATTORNEY GENERAL AND

04:54 - SECRETARY OF STATE FOR

04:56 - PRESIDENT JAMES BUCHANAN

04:58 - AND EVEN THE IN THE EARLY

05:00 - 1870'S, HE WAS ON THE LEGAL

05:01 - TEAM FOR SAMUEL TILDEN

05:04 - IN CONTESTING THE ELECTION THE

05:05 - PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF RUTHERFORD B HAYES

05:08 - SO HE WAS OUR FIRST JUDGE AND

05:10 - OBVIOUSLY A VERY VERY

05:11 - SIGNIFICANT JUDGE IN OUR

05:12 - HISTORY. WHEN HE CAME BACK AND

05:14 - WHAT DID HE SAY ABOUT

05:15 - OUR COURTHOUSE. HE SAID THAT IT

05:17 - WAS THE MOST PERFECT STRUCTURE

05:19 - OF ITS KIND IN THIS COUNTRY SIMPLE AND THE

05:22 - ABUNDANT WEALTH OF ITS BEAUTY.

05:24 - HE WENT ON TO SAY IT'S THE MOST

05:27 - COMPLETE CONVENIENT AND

05:29 - APPROPRIATE THAT HE EVER SEEN

05:31 - GRANTED IT'S AN APPROACHABLE

05:33 - SIMPLICITY NEATNESS AND COMFORT

05:36 - WELL TODAY, WE TELL YOU A STORY

05:37 - ABOUT HOW ALL THIS. COURTHOUSE

05:39 - STARTED OUT AND WHERE IT'S BEEN

05:42 - AND WHERE IT'S GOING.

05:43 - BUT SOMETIMES ARE NOT EXACTLY

05:45 - SURE WHEN ABOUT THE 1950'S

05:47 - WE BELIEVE THAT STEPS WERE

05:49 - TAKEN THAT DID NOT

05:51 - MAINTAIN THE GRANDER AND MORE

05:52 - THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS BUILDING

05:54 - FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF

05:55 - JUSTICE AND WE FOUND FOR

05:58 - EXAMPLE OR CEREMONIAL COURTROOM IN THE 1875

06:03 - BUILDING. EVERYTHING

06:05 - WAS PAINTED BAYS THE THIS SOLID

06:07 - WOOD CEILING WITH THE AIMS OF

06:09 - STENCILING PAGE VERY ORNATE

06:12 - RELIEF BEHIND THE JUDGE'S BENCH

06:13 - BAY. VERY VERY

06:17 - FOR STANDARDS QUITE FRANKLY.

06:19 - THE OWNER RATION HOWEVER WAS SO

06:20 - BAD THAT ALL OVER WILLIAMS WHEN

06:22 - HE WROTE A BOOK 2001 ON THE

06:24 - COURTHOUSES OF PENNSYLVANIA.

06:27 - REGRETTABLY WROTE THIS ABOUT

06:28 - BLAIR COUNTY AND THEN

06:30 - PARTICULAR QUARTER THAT

06:31 - COURTROOM. IT IS BEEN DESECRATED BY

06:34 - 1970'S ALTERATIONS. IT IS ONE

06:37 - OF THE MORE INSENSITIVE

06:38 - BUTCHERING JOBS IN THIS PART OF

06:39 - PENNSYLVANIA WHICH TAKES HIM

06:41 - DO IT WHEN HE SAYS THE GO TO

06:44 - THE REAR AND SIT DOWN THE

06:46 - DESECRATION IS OBVIOUS IN

06:48 - THE FRONT. SO WE WANTED TO MAKE

06:51 - THIS BUILDING OR EVERY STORE

06:53 - AND SAY THAT BECAUSE OF ITS

06:54 - SIGNIFICANT WATER INFILTRATION

06:55 - PROBLEMS WE WANTED TO LOOK LIKE

06:57 - A COURTROOM AGAIN.

06:59 - AND I SHOULD ADD WE HAD OUR

07:00 - CONSERVATOR JOHN RITA

07:02 - AND OUR ARCHITECT DAVID

07:04 - ALBRIGHT IN 2014 DO A STUDY HAS

07:06 - TO THIS EXTENT AND SCOPE OF THE

07:08 - WATER INFILTRATION THEY BOTH

07:11 - CAME BACK IT WAS A STUDY THEY

07:13 - DID TOGETHER AND INDICATED THE

07:14 - DAMAGE HAD BEEN SO SIGNIFICANT

07:16 - AND VERY IMPORTANT IN SEVERAL PARTS OF

07:18 - THE COURTHOUSE. THAT WE WERE AT

07:20 - RISK OF LOSING THIS BUILDING WITHIN

07:22 - SEVERAL YEARS. SO WE LOOKED AT

07:24 - THIS PROBLEM, THE COMMISSIONERS

07:26 - IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S GOING TO

07:27 - COST OVER 20 $25 MILLION WELL

07:29 - OVER THAT TO REBUILD

07:31 - THIS BUILDING. AND OF COURSE WE

07:32 - LOSE OUR HERITAGE THIS IS AKIN TO OUR

07:34 - INDEPENDENCE ALL SO WE SET UP

07:37 - OUR WITH THIS ONCE-PROUD

07:38 - BUILDING ON HIS DEATH BED AND

07:40 - HOPING TO RESTORE ITS GRANDER

07:42 - AND AVOID THIS UNNECESSARY

07:44 - EXPENSE TO THE TAXPAYER.

07:45 - WE STARTED ON THE RESTORATION

07:47 - OF THIS BUILDING AND FIRST WORK

07:50 - ACTUALLY BEING DONE IN

07:51 - 2014 AND NOW IN 2019 IT

07:53 - CONTINUES. WE'LL SHOW YOU SOME

07:55 - OF THAT STORY TODAY AND WE HOPE

07:57 - YOU ENJOY IT.

08:06 - 6 YEARS AGO WE DISCOVERED

08:08 - PROBLEMS WITH OUR COURTHOUSE

08:10 - AND REALIZE THAT BEFORE WE

08:11 - COULD UNDERTAKE THE RESTORATION

08:13 - OF THE INSIDE. WE HAD PROBLEMS

08:15 - WITH THE OUTSIDE OF

08:16 - WATER FILTRATION. THE MOST

08:18 - SIGNIFICANT PROBLEM WAS HERE IN

08:20 - THE FRONT OF THE COURTHOUSE,

08:21 - THE FACADE AND YOU CAN ACTUALLY

08:23 - SEE SOME DISCOLORATION STILL

08:24 - FROM THE WATER DAMAGE TO THE YEARS.

08:27 - THE CE SIGNATURE OR SYMBOLIC

08:29 - FIRST EFFORT WAS THE

08:31 - RESTORATION OF THE STATUE OF

08:32 - LADY JUSTICE UP BEHIND US HERE

08:35 - AND JOHN REID ARE CONSERVATIVE

08:37 - ARE WHO HAS CONTRIBUTED SO MUCH

08:39 - TO SEPARATE WERE SO INDEBTED TO

08:40 - HIM. TOOK IT UPON HIMSELF TO

08:43 - RESTORE THAT STATUE NOT ASKED

08:45 - JOHN TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT

08:46 - WHAT WENT ON THERE.

08:47 - THANKS ONE OF THE

08:49 - INTERESTING THINGS ABOUT THIS

08:50 - BUILDING IS THAT IT HAS A LOT

08:52 - OF SCULPTURAL ELEMENTS TO IT

08:54 - AND THE PREMIER SCULPTURE OF

08:56 - COURSE WAS STATUE OF LADY

08:57 - JUSTICE UP IN THE TOP MATCH.

08:59 - ABOVE US HERE.

09:01 - AND INVESTIGATIONS FOR THE

09:04 - WATER DAMAGE. WE WERE ABLE TO

09:06 - OBSERVE HER UP CLOSE AND FOUND

09:08 - THAT THE CHIN ON HER FACE HAD

09:09 - BEEN BROKEN AWAY. SHE'S CARD AN

09:11 - UNUSUAL WITH TEARS CARBON IN

09:13 - SANDS, THE SANDSTONE OF THE

09:14 - BUILDING AND IT'S A VERY SOFT

09:16 - POROUS STONE, VERY UNUSUAL YOU

09:18 - CAN GET A LOT OF DETAIL WITH IT

09:20 - THE CHURCH THAT THE CHAIN WAS

09:21 - MISSING IT BUT AS WELL,

09:24 - THE SCALES OF JUSTICE IN THE

09:25 - SWORD WERE VERY DISK HOLLERED.

09:28 - DISFIGURED

09:29 - THEY WERE MADE IN COPPER BUT WE

09:32 - TOOK THEM INTO THE LABORATORY

09:33 - TO PIN DOWN TO COME IN THE

09:34 - LABORATORY. WE DISCOVERED

09:36 - DURING MICROSCOPIC ANALYSIS

09:38 - UNDER A LOT OF PAINT OVER THE

09:40 - YEARS THAT THEY HAD ORIGINALLY

09:41 - BEEN DONE IN GOLD LEAF. AND SO

09:43 - WE WERE ABLE TO THEN RESTORE

09:45 - THOSE TO THE THE GOLD LEAF, THE

09:47 - BRILLIANCE THAT YOU SEE THERE

09:48 - WHICH IS A LIGHT SHINING A

09:50 - BEACON FOR THE FRONT OF THE

09:51 - COURTHOUSE AND THE CHAIN WAS

09:53 - CAR IN A PIECE OF THE STONE

09:56 - THAT WAS ACTUALLY CUT OFF FROM

09:58 - THE BACK OF THE SCULPTURE ITSELF FROM

09:59 - THE PEDESTAL OF THE OF THE

10:01 - SCULPTURE ARE ABLE TO EXTRACT A

10:02 - PIECE SO THAT THE STONE HAD THE

10:04 - SAME PATINA ON THE SAME

10:06 - COLORATION AND WE WERE ABLE TO

10:08 - INTEGRATE THAT AND CREATE THAT

10:09 - STATUE BACK INTO HER PUT HER BACK INTO HER

10:12 - ORIGINAL APPEARANCE.

10:14 - PARTICULARLY ON SUNNY DAYS, BUT

10:15 - EVEN TODAY WHEN IT'S OVERCAST

10:17 - IT TO SHINE FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE AREA.

10:19 - WHILE THE OTHER PROBLEMS WE

10:20 - HAD WAS JUST FAILURE TO MAINTAIN

10:22 - THE COURTHOUSE AND THE WINDOWS

10:24 - RIGHT BELOW THE STATUE WERE IN IN

10:27 - TERRIBLE SHAPE. THE LIKE GLASS

10:29 - WAS BELIEVE IT OR NOT COVERED

10:30 - WITH YELLOW DUCK PAPER THERE

10:32 - ARE CRACKS THERE WERE PIECES

10:33 - MISSING AND ALWAYS PAINTED

10:35 - YELLOW YELLOW AND BAYS WHERE

10:37 - THE PREMIER COLLARS FOR THE

10:39 - EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR THIS

10:40 - COURTHOUSE, COVERING UP THE

10:42 - GRAND JURY FROM YEARS GONE BY.

10:44 - THERE WAS ALSO A PROBLEMS WITH

10:47 - WHERE THE BUILDING WAS BUILT AT

10:49 - THE INTERSECTION OF

10:51 - 2 TOWERS WITH THE SECTION

10:53 - BETWEEN AND MAYBE JOHN YOU CAN

10:54 - TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT.

10:56 - ONE OF THE PROBLEMS WAS THE

10:58 - SPACE BETWEEN THE TOWERS IN THE

10:59 - MAIN ROUTE. AND OVER THE YEARS

11:03 - THERE DRAINS THAT WERE PUT UP

11:04 - IN PLACE THEY MUST OF CLOGGED

11:06 - AND EVENTUALLY WHAT HAPPENED

11:07 - WAS. WORKERS MAINE IS WORKERS

11:09 - ACTUALLY DISCONNECTED THOSE

11:11 - DRAINS COVERED OVER THEM AND SO

11:14 - WATER HAD BEGUN AN ICE BEGIN TO

11:15 - FORM DAMS AND CAUSE DAMAGE TO

11:18 - THE STONE IN BETWEEN BECAUSE IT

11:20 - COULDN'T GO DOWN INTO ITS

11:21 - INTERNAL DRAINS SO AS PART OF

11:23 - REDOING THAT IN A LOT OF STONE

11:25 - AND IT'S AMAZING WHAT HAD TO BE

11:27 - DONE PART OF THE COPING THOUGH

11:28 - THAT THE AIR THAT THE PEDIMENT

11:30 - THE TOP OF THE PATENT ON THIS

11:31 - CENTRAL GABLE HAD TO BE AT THE

11:33 - STONES OUT TO ACTUALLY BE

11:34 - REMOVED. AND NEW COPPER REPLIED

11:37 - YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE COPPER

11:38 - IN THE VALLEYS THERE NOW THAT

11:39 - NOW SECURE THOSE AREAS AND THE

11:41 - DRAINS ARE RESTORED SO IF THE

11:43 - BUILDING FUNCTIONS BETTER THAN

11:45 - THAT IT WAS BECAUSE IT WAS SORT

11:47 - OF A DESIGN FLAW AS HOW THEY HAD THE COPPER

11:49 - PLACE IN THE VERY ORIGINAL

11:51 - CONSTRUCTION OF THE BUILDING.

11:52 - WE ALSO HAD TO TAKE CARE OF

11:54 - REPLACING THE SLATE AT THE TOP

11:55 - OF THE TOWERS.

11:56 - AND WE WERE ABLE TO GET

11:57 - APPROVAL TO SPEND THE MONEY TO

11:59 - DO IT THE RIGHT WAY.

12:00 - BUT SOMETHING WE LEARNED FROM

12:03 - RECORDS THE FEW RECORDS WE HAD

12:05 - HIM BASICALLY OLD PHOTOGRAPHS

12:07 - IS THAT THERE WAS CRESTING ON THE TOP OF

12:09 - EACH TOWER. AND SO JOHN WHAT

12:11 - ABOUT LOOKING FOR APPROPRIATE

12:13 - CRESTING AND WE WERE ABLE TO

12:14 - GET THAT INSTALLED AT THE TOP

12:16 - TO GIVE SOMEONE OF A MORE.

12:19 - OUR ORIGINAL LOOK TO THE CHORUS

12:20 - BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT IT HAD IN

12:21 - THE BEGINNING WE REALLY SAW THE

12:23 - TOPS OFF BOTH THOSE TOWERS.

12:26 - WHEN I FIRST CAME INTO THIS

12:27 - SPACE 6 YEARS AGO THE CONDITIONS WERE VERY

12:30 - DEPLORABLE. FROM NEGLECT AND

12:34 - FROM WATER INFILTRATION THERE

12:35 - WAS MUCH DETERIORATION.

12:37 - AND WHEN I FIRST VIEWED IT I

12:40 - THOUGHT THAT THE ROOM HAD SUCH

12:41 - A GREAT POTENTIAL, BUT IT WAS VERY ASKED BY

12:45 - THE FACT THAT THE LIGHTING IN

12:46 - THE ROOM WAS FLUORESCENT

12:47 - LIGHTING. AND YOU COULDN'T

12:49 - REALLY SEE THIS THE CEILING THE

12:51 - BEAUTIFUL STRUCTURES THAT WERE

12:52 - UP THERE, ALTHOUGH THEY HAD BEEN

12:53 - PAINTED OVER. IN SOMEBODY HAD

12:56 - MADE AN ATTEMPT AT SOME SORT OF

12:58 - DECORATION ONE OF THE THINGS

13:00 - ALONG THE WAY AND INVESTIGATING

13:02 - THE SPACE WHICH IS SOMETHING

13:03 - CONSERVATOR DOES IS THAT WE HAD

13:05 - THIS REALLY KIND OF GOOD STROKE OF LUCK

13:08 - AND THAT WAS THAT THERE WERE

13:09 - BOTH CASES THIS WAS USED AT

13:11 - ONE. THE POINT IS CALLED THE

13:12 - LAWYERS LOBBY, BUT AT ONE POINT

13:15 - IT WAS CALLED THE THE LAW

13:16 - LIBRARY AND IT HAD BOTH CASES

13:18 - THAT WERE ORIGINAL

13:19 - THE SPACE. BUT FORTUNATELY WHAT

13:21 - HAPPENED WAS BECAUSE AS BILL

13:22 - CASES WERE AGAINST THE WALLS.

13:24 - THEY MASSED PART OF THE ORIGINAL PAINT. THE

13:27 - ORIGINAL DECORATION AS WE CAN

13:29 - SEE THAT EVERYTHING HAS BEEN

13:30 - PAINTED AROUND AND

13:31 - DETERIORATED, BUT WHEN WE

13:32 - EXAMINED BEHIND THEN WE FOUND

13:34 - PART OF THE BORDER.

13:35 - THE YOU SEE HERE BEHIND ME ON

13:37 - THE WALL STILL INTACT

13:38 - CONDITIONS WHICH WAS AN

13:40 - AMAZING THING. JUST TO SURVIVE

13:43 - FROM THE DATE OF 19 OH 6.

13:45 - SO AS THE CONSERVATOR WHAT WE

13:47 - WE ENDEAVORED THAT TO SAY

13:50 - HISTORICAL ARTIFACTS WE WERE

13:52 - ABLE TO PRESERVE PART OF THAT.

13:54 - BORDER AND IT'S IT IN HIS ORIGINAL

13:56 - CONDITIONS BY CLEANING IT AND

13:58 - IN PAINTING IT AND THEN

13:59 - REPRODUCING IT AND THE REST OF

14:01 - THE SPACE ALONG THE WAY IN THE

14:03 - PROCESS OF DOING THE ROOM.

14:05 - THERE IS MUCH WATER

14:06 - DETERIORATION AND WE HAD TO MAKE MOLDS TO

14:08 - CREATE PLASTERWORK ON THE

14:10 - CEILING THAT HAD ACTUALLY WAS

14:12 - THREATENING THE PUBLIC AT ONE

14:13 - POINT I MEAN WE HAD TO.

14:15 - BLOCKED OFF PART OF THE ROOM SO

14:18 - IT WAS SAFE FOR

14:18 - THE PUBLIC. I'M IN THE PROCESS

14:20 - OF THAT REDISCOVERED A AS WE

14:23 - DID MICROSCOPIC ANALYSIS, THE

14:25 - ORIGINAL COLOR SCHEME

14:27 - AND HAVING PUT BACK A LOT OF

14:28 - THE STRUCTURES WE'RE ABLE TO

14:29 - GIVE THE ROOM ITS ORIGINAL APPEARANCE. THE

14:33 - EMBLEMS THAT YOU SEE ON THE TO

14:35 - MY RIGHT BEHIND ME WERE

14:36 - ACTUALLY DISCOVERED. IN THE

14:39 - PROCESS OF DOING SOME OF THE

14:41 - PLASTER WORK SCALE JUSTICE WITH THE SWORD.

14:48 - IS ACTUALLY SEEN IN A STAIN

14:50 - GLASS WINDOW IN THE ADJACENT

14:51 - COURTROOM AND THE ARTISTS AND

14:53 - DOING THE DECORATION MUST HAVE

14:54 - PICKED UP ON THIS AND AND USE

14:56 - THIS IN THIS ROOM. ONE OF THE

14:58 - OTHER THINGS THAT OCCURRED THE

15:00 - TIME WAS A IT DURING THE

15:02 - DETERIORATION OF THE OF THE

15:04 - ROOM THROUGH THE MARBLE HERE ON

15:06 - MY LEFT THERE WAS A WINDOW

15:08 - SPACE CUT THROUGH SOME

15:10 - SORT OF A SERVICE WHEN DONATE

15:11 - CUT THROUGH THEM ARE BORN

15:12 - THROUGH THE THE WALL ITSELF.

15:15 - AND OF COURSE THE DISFIGURED

15:16 - THE SPACE AND THERE WAS NO

15:18 - LONGER A NECESSARY ELEMENT, A MARBLE

15:22 - RETRIEVED THAT WAS THE SAME

15:24 - SORT OF CARRARA MARBLE

15:28 - WE'RE LOOKING AT DIFFERENT

15:29 - COREY'S AROUND AND WE WERE ABLE

15:30 - TO RETRIEVE THAT MARVEL

15:31 - AND ACTUALLY REPAIR THAT BACK

15:33 - TO ITS ORIGINAL CONDITIONS.

15:35 - WE ALSO DISCOVERED IN THE

15:37 - PROCESS BY MOVING THE BALL

15:38 - CASES THAT PART OF THE ORIGINAL FLOOR PILE

15:41 - WAS HERE NOW THIS IS NOT

15:43 - POSSIBLE TO REPRODUCE THIS ROOM

15:45 - WILL ULTIMATELY HAVE CARPET BUT

15:48 - THE CARPET WILL KIND OF MIMIC

15:49 - THE PATTERN THAT THAT YOU SEE THAT IT'S

15:51 - EXHIBITED IN THAT

15:52 - FLOOR TILE THIS SPACE IS A

15:56 - GLORIOUS EXAMPLE OF

15:58 - AMERICAN RENAISSANCE AND I HAD

16:00 - DONE IN THE 19 OH 6 THE

16:02 - DECORATORS WERE FROM

16:03 - PHILADELPHIA AND THEY DID AN

16:05 - ABSOLUTELY MARVELOUS JOB THE

16:07 - THE COLORS THAT YOU SEE IN HERE

16:09 - PREFIGURE THE COURT RIGHT ROOM

16:11 - ADJACENT TO THIS SO THIS A SORT

16:14 - A PREAMBLE TO THAT SPACE AND ALTHOUGH IT

16:17 - LOOKS TO MANY LIKE IT'S

16:18 - LAVISHLY DECORATED, THE

16:20 - ORIGINAL COURTROOM NEXT TO

16:22 - WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH MORE DECORATED.

16:27 - I AM JOLENE GROVE CA PRIMA I

16:29 - SERVE AS A SENIOR JUDGE.

16:30 - HERE IN BEXAR COUNTY. I

16:32 - SERVED AS A ATTORNEY

16:35 - AND A JUDGE FOR OVER 40 YEARS.

16:38 - SO THIS IS MY HOME AWAY FROM

16:39 - HOME. AND I WELCOME YOU.

16:43 - I'D LIKE TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT

16:44 - ABOUT WHAT THIS COURTROOM.

16:45 - YOU STILL LOOK LIKE BEFORE WE

16:47 - STARTED TO RENOVATE AND RESTORE

16:50 - AND THIS COURTROOM. ACTUALLY

16:53 - SERVED MANY MANY DIFFERENT

16:56 - PURPOSES TRIALS

16:58 - JURY TRIALS, DOMESTIC RELATIONS

17:01 - HEARINGS CUSTODY CASES

17:03 - IT WAS A COURTROOM THAT WAS USE

17:06 - FOR ALL PURPOSES.

17:07 - BUT THAT JUDGES GREW IN NUMBER

17:10 - AND THEY DIDN'T HAVE SPACE 4

17:12 - AND THE JUDGE CHAMBERS SO THEY

17:14 - ACTUALLY TOOK THIS

17:16 - MASSIVE COURTROOM AND PUT A BOX

17:18 - INSIDE HERE BEHIND ME THAT CAME

17:21 - OUT TO ABOUT THIS.

17:23 - LEVEL AND THEN IT MOVED THE

17:26 - JURY BOX BACK IN THAT MOVED THE

17:27 - SEATING BACK. AND UNFORTUNATELY

17:29 - ALTHOUGH I GAVE SPACE IT RUINED

17:31 - THE ACOUSTICS OF THIS

17:33 - COURTROOM. SO FOR MANY YEARS

17:35 - SINCE 1970 REZA RENOVATIONS.

17:38 - THIS COURT HAS SUFFERED GREATLY

17:40 - BY THE ACOUSTICS.

17:43 - DIFFICULTY IN HEARING WAS

17:44 - UNIVERSAL. IT WAS UNIVERSAL TO THE JUDGES.

17:48 - ATTORNEYS AND THE PARTICIPANTS

17:51 - AS WELL AS THE PUBLIC

17:52 - AND JURORS SO WE HAD A LOT OF

17:55 - DIFFICULTY AND WE WOULD CONTINUALLY TRY TO.

17:59 - BRING IN PIECES OF EQUIPMENT

18:00 - THAT WAS SOLD TO US SAY WELL

18:02 - THIS WILL HELP YOU

18:03 - BUT 10,015 $1000 AND NONE OF

18:06 - THE THE SUGGESTIONS WERE

18:08 - HELPFUL SO WE'RE DELIGHTED THAT

18:12 - FINALLY THE BOX HAS

18:14 - COME OUT AND THIS KOREAN GETS

18:15 - TO BREATHE AGAIN AND TO HEAR

18:18 - ITSELF THE WAY IT WAS DESIGNED TO BE.

18:21 - WE HAVE MANY MANY INSTANCES,

18:24 - BUT ONE OF THE MOST PAINFUL

18:25 - INSTANCES OF THE HEARING AND

18:26 - WHAT EFFECT IT HAD WAS

18:28 - A JURY TRIAL THAT I ACTUALLY

18:30 - TRIED AS AN ASSISTANT

18:31 - DISTRICT ATTORNEY WITH AN OLDER

18:33 - JUDGE AND THE VICTIM WAS YOUNG

18:35 - AND SHE HAD TO DESCRIBE WHAT

18:36 - HER FATHER HAD DONE TO HER AS A

18:38 - SEXUAL-ASSAULT AS SOON AS SHE SUR TESTIFY

18:41 - SHE JUST KEPT ROLLING BECAUSE

18:43 - SHE WANTED TO GET IT OUT AND

18:45 - OVER AND AS SOON AS SHE

18:46 - FINISHED, UNFORTUNATELY, THE

18:48 - JUDGE LEANED OVER AND SAID I'M

18:49 - SORRY GARY I DIDN'T HEAR ALL

18:51 - THAT COULD YOU SAY THAT AGAIN

18:53 - AND I REMEMBER JUST PHILLY HORRIBLE FOR

18:56 - THIS CHILD. AND THERE WERE MANY

18:58 - MANY INSTANCES LIKE THAT SO

19:00 - HEARING WAS VERY VERY IMPORTANT

19:02 - ALONG WITH THAT A COURTROOM HAS

19:05 - TO HAVE RESPECT

19:06 - IF YOU WANT PEOPLE TO RESPECT

19:07 - JUSTICE IF YOU WANT PEOPLE TO

19:09 - RESPECT THE WORK OF JUSTICE.

19:10 - THEN YOU HAVE TO LOOK LIKE

19:12 - HERE. WE ARE RESPECTFUL PLACE.

19:14 - UNFORTUNATELY THIS COURTROOM

19:16 - WAS PERMITTED TO DETERIORATE

19:18 - TO A GREAT THE BLANDNESS AND

19:21 - THE PAINTING TO JUST MAKE

19:22 - EVERYTHING GENERIC AND NEUTRAL.

19:25 - BUT IT WAS IT WAS ALSO PEELING

19:28 - PAINT AND HOLES AND.

19:32 - DIFFERENT REPAIRS THAT WERE

19:33 - DONE WITH DUCT TAPE AND PERHAPS TAR EVEN

19:37 - SO IT DID NOT GIVE THE

19:38 - APPEARANCE OF. RESPECT OR

19:42 - CONFIDENCE THAT PEOPLE HAD THAT

19:44 - THIS WAS A PLACE. WE'RE

19:45 - IMPORTING WORK WAS BEING DONE.

19:47 - SO WE ARE DELIGHTED THAT WE NOW

19:51 - HAVE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WHO

19:52 - ARE WILLING TO INVEST

19:54 - AND UNDERSTAND THAT ALL OF THAT

19:57 - IS IMPORTANT

19:58 - AND ALL OF US SHARE IN THE

20:01 - VALUE OF HAVING A COURTROOM WITH RESPECT.

20:06 - THIS

20:07 - REPRESENTS THE LARGEST A ROOM

20:10 - IN THE COURTHOUSE

20:11 - BUILDING ITSELF AND WE AND

20:13 - PREDATES OF COURSE IN ADDITION

20:15 - THAT WAS ADDED THAT WE WERE

20:16 - JUST IN. WHEN I FIRST

20:18 - CAME HERE. I CAME HERE WITH THE

20:21 - PURPOSE OF EXAMINING A PORTRAIT

20:23 - THAT WAS DETERIORATING ON THE WALL OF

20:25 - THE COURTROOM. THIS PORTRAIT OF

20:27 - JUDGE KARA HAVE A THE JUDGES

20:30 - PICTURE RIGHT HERE WAS IN VERY

20:32 - DETERIORATED CONDITION. A LOT

20:35 - OF THE PAIN HAD BEEN

20:37 - WORN AWAY FROM WATER INFILTRATION FELL OFF

20:42 - THEIR WATER STREAKS BECAUSE THE

20:43 - PAINTINGS IN THIS COURTROOM

20:44 - WERE ACTUALLY GLUED TO THE WALL

20:46 - WHICH IS VERY COMMON DURING

20:47 - THAT TIME TO ACTUALLY A FIX

20:49 - THEM TO THE SURFACE ITSELF.

20:52 - AND SO WHAT HAPPENED WAS I

20:53 - RECOGNIZED DURING THAT TIME IN

20:56 - LOOKING AT THIS PAINTING

20:57 - THAT THAT COURTHOUSE ITSELF

20:59 - THE ROOM AND THE BUILDING

21:00 - ITSELF WAS IN DIRE CONDITION

21:02 - BECAUSE THERE WAS MUCH WATER

21:03 - DETERIORATION JUST WALKING

21:05 - THROUGH THE SPACE I COULD SEE

21:06 - THE EVIDENCE OF IT

21:07 - AND I MET HERE WITH THE

21:09 - PRESIDENT JUDGE IN ONE OF THE

21:10 - COMMISSIONERS AND WE DISCUSSED

21:11 - THE FACT THAT IN ORDER TO

21:12 - RESTORE THE PORTRAIT WE'RE

21:14 - GOING TO HAVE TO RESTORE THE

21:15 - BUILDING. AND SO THIS

21:16 - JOURNEY BEGAN. THEIR ROOM WAS

21:19 - HAD BEEN VERY VIOLATED BEHIND

21:21 - ME THERE WERE HAD BEEN BILLED

21:23 - IN SOMETIME IN THE 70'S.

21:25 - CHAMBERS RUSE FOR JUDGES THAT

21:26 - WERE ACTUALLY INTERJECTED INTO

21:28 - THE COURTROOM SPACE ITSELF.

21:30 - A LOT OF THE FEATURES IN THE

21:32 - COURTROOM HAD BEEN COMPLETELY

21:33 - MASS THE ALL OF THE BEAUTIFUL

21:36 - GOTHIC WOOD CEILING HAD BEEN

21:37 - PAINTED OVER. WHICH IS BASED

21:40 - PAIN AS WELL AS THE WALLS.

21:42 - THE PHILAE GRIESE THAT ARE HERE

21:44 - IN ON THE WINDOWS ABOVE

21:46 - THE WINDOWS. THE GLASS ON THE

21:48 - OUTSIDE WAS ACTUALLY PAINTED

21:49 - OVER SO THAT LIGHT WOULD NOT TRANSMIT

21:51 - FROM THEM DRAPERIES AND BEEN

21:54 - APPLIED OVER THE TOP OF THE

21:55 - GOTHIC ARCHES SO YOU COULDN'T

21:56 - EVEN SEE THE ARCHITECTURAL

21:57 - FEATURES ALL OF THE WOODWORK

22:00 - THAT YOU SEE THE ELABORATE

22:01 - WOODWORK ABOUT DOORWAYS THE WAYNE'S COATING

22:03 - ACTUALLY BEEN PANELED OVER THE

22:06 - THAT WAS EXPOSED WAS PAINTED

22:08 - OUT. SO THE ENTIRE SPACE WAS

22:10 - KIND OF NEUTRALIZE AND MADE TO

22:12 - LOOK LIKE SOMETHING THAT NEVER

22:13 - WAS NEVER INTEND TO.

22:15 - PART OF THE JOB WAS THEN TO

22:16 - DO THEIR THE HISTORIC RESEARCH

22:18 - AND WE WERE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO

22:19 - FIND A. AN OLD NEWSPAPER FROM

22:23 - 1877 THAT DESCRIBED WHAT THE

22:25 - COURTHOUSE WAS IN GREAT DETAIL,

22:28 - PART OF IT WAS WRITTEN BY THE

22:29 - ORIGINAL ARCHITECT, AND IT

22:30 - DESCRIBED THE CEILING.

22:33 - HOW IT WAS DONE IN VARIOUS

22:34 - WOULD ZAHAU HAD DECORATIONS IN

22:36 - VARIOUS COLORS AND IT ALSO TALKED THE THE

22:40 - JUDGES RECESS, WHICH IS BEHIND

22:43 - ME WHICH IS IN A STATE FOR A RESTORATION AT

22:46 - THE MOMENT, THE ORIGINAL COLORS

22:47 - ARE BEING PUT BACK IN ITS

22:48 - REALLY JUST AND IT'S BASED

22:49 - UNDER CALLERS NOW,

22:51 - AND IT WILL BE VERY THERE ARE

22:53 - SOME VERY BRIGHT COLORS AND

22:54 - INTO CENTER FIELD.

22:56 - THERE WOULD BE A PANEL THAT WAS

22:58 - ALUMINUM LEAFED WHICH WAS VERY

23:00 - IN VOGUE AT THE TURN OF THE

23:01 - CENTURY. THE USE OF ALUMINUM

23:03 - RATHER THAN GOLD OF THE

23:04 - ALUMINUM WAS GLAZE THEN TO LOOK

23:06 - LIKE GOLD LEAF

23:07 - AND THEN A LAB OR STENCIL

23:08 - PATTERNS WERE PUT ON TOP THIS

23:10 - IS ALL GOING TO BE RECREATED AS

23:11 - PART OF THIS RESTORATION PROCESS. THERE IS

23:14 - ALSO IN BLAZING ON THAT WAS A

23:16 - VERY EARLY COAT OF ARMS FOR THE

23:18 - STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.

23:20 - THIS PREDATED COAT OF ARMS THAT

23:23 - WE NOW HAVE WHICH IS THE

23:25 - STANDARD COAT OF ARMS FOR THE STATE

23:27 - OF PENNSYLVANIA. WHICH WAS JUST

23:29 - BROUGHT IN RIGHT AROUND THOSE

23:31 - SHORTLY AFTER THIS THIS COAT OF

23:33 - ARMS WAS PAINTED

23:34 - THE DEMANDED THAT THERE BE A

23:36 - UNIT UNIFIED ONE AND THEY

23:38 - CREATED THE ONE THAT IS

23:39 - NOW SEEN. THIS SPACE IS JUST A

23:42 - MAGNIFICENT SPACE AND IN A FEW

23:45 - SHORT MONTHS, IT WILL

23:46 - BE READ RETURN TO ITS ORIGINAL GLORY.

23:51 - NOW WE'RE GOING TO TALK

23:52 - ABOUT A VERY SPECIAL FEATURE

23:54 - THE COURTHOUSE, THE 1877 COURTHOUSE.

23:57 - AND THOSE ON THE CARVINGS YOU

23:58 - SEE ON THE OUTSIDE

23:59 - THE BUILDING AND IN PARTICULAR

24:02 - THE CARVED HEADS THERE ARE OVER

24:03 - 50 OF THEM. JOINING ME FOR THIS

24:05 - SEGMENT IS JARED FREDERICK

24:07 - JERICKA HISTORIAN HERE LOCALLY

24:10 - AND ALSO AN INSTRUCTOR AT PENN

24:12 - STATE ALTOONA CAMPUS.

24:14 - IN HISTORY. HE

24:17 - SOME OF THE GO TO GUY QUITE

24:18 - FRANKLY FOR HISTORY IN THIS

24:19 - AREA OR SO PLEASED THAT JERRY

24:21 - JOYCE THANK YOU JERRY, THANK

24:23 - YOU WANT TO TELL FOLKS THAT

24:24 - THOUGH THE SCULPTED HEADS IN

24:29 - BACK IN 1877 AND ON THE 19 OH

24:31 - 6 EDITION THAT WERE WELL-KNOWN

24:34 - PROMINENT CITIZENS. ALSO

24:37 - WORKGROUPS AN ETHNIC GROUPS

24:38 - WILL SEE INDIANS UP THERE

24:40 - YOU'LL SEE A MYTHOLOGY GODS AND

24:42 - GODDESSES WE FOUND SOME JUDGES, I'M VERY

24:45 - INTERESTING AND THEY ARE ALL

24:46 - WHAT'S REALLY UNIQUE IS THESE

24:48 - CARVED HEADS. WE'RE DONE AS I

24:50 - SAY LIKE MICHELANGELO DID

24:52 - DURING THE RENAISSANCE. THEY

24:53 - TOOK THE BLOCK. THEY CHOOSE

24:55 - WILL DOWN THE HEAD

24:56 - AND THEN THEY JUST PUT THIS

24:57 - TOWN BACK IN A MARVELOUS

24:59 - MARVELOUS FEATURE WHICH WE'RE

25:01 - VERY PROUD. WE DO NOT HAVE WE

25:03 - DO NOT HAVE A LISTING OF WHO THESE

25:05 - PEOPLE ARE AND SO NOW I'M GOING

25:08 - TO TURN THIS OVER TO JARED BUT

25:09 - BEFORE I DO SO GIVE YOU A

25:10 - LITTLE SETTING FOR A

25:11 - CONVERSATION WE HAD WE WERE

25:13 - GOING OVER TO 4 LEAGUE IN THE AIR.

25:16 - TO VISIT FOR LEAGUE IN THERE

25:18 - AND WE WERE TALKING ABOUT

25:20 - I WAS TALKING ABOUT THE

25:22 - SCULPTED HERE HEAD ON THIS CAR WHICH IS A

25:24 - A SLIGHT. AND IT STUNNED ME AND

25:26 - THE SLAVE HAD CHAINS AROUND

25:28 - ITS NECK. THEN WE REALIZED THAT

25:30 - THE CHAIN'S HAD LINKS THAT WERE

25:32 - SEPARATED. AND AS ALWAYS TIME

25:35 - THE STORY JARED CAME OVER AND

25:37 - SAID TERRY I THINK I KNOW WHO

25:39 - THIS IS SONG OR TURN THIS

25:41 - FASCINATING STORY OVER TO GERRI

25:43 - THE CARVING HERE IN THE FRONT

25:45 - CORNER OF THE COURTHOUSE.

25:47 - WE CAN'T SAY WITH ANY DEGREE OF CERTAINTY.

25:49 - BUT IT'S CERTAINLY IN THE

25:50 - REALM OF POSSIBILITY THAT

25:52 - THIS STORY LINKS BACK TO

25:54 - OCTOBER OF 18 55 IN INVOLVES

25:57 - AN INCIDENT. INVOLVING A SLAVE

25:59 - BY THE NAME OF JACOB GREEN WHO

26:01 - WAS FROM THE STATE OF VIRGINIA.

26:03 - HE HAD TWICE ESCAPED FROM

26:05 - THE STATE OF VIRGINIA AND

26:06 - PRESUMABLY HE MAY HAVE BEEN

26:08 - INVOLVED IN ANTI SLAVERY

26:10 - ACTIVITIES TOO ASSIST OTHER

26:12 - SLAVES AND THEIR QUEST FOR

26:13 - FREEDOM ON HIS 3RD JOURNEY FROM

26:16 - THE SOUTH INTO PENNSYLVANIA,

26:19 - HIS TRAVELS TOOK HIM.

26:20 - RIGHT HERE TO HOLLIDAYSBURG

26:22 - PENNSYLVANIA AND ONLY A FEW

26:24 - BLOCKS AWAY FROM US HERE A

26:26 - LITTLE BIT TO THE SOUTH.

26:27 - IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT WAS

26:28 - THAT HIS GAZE PORT. HE

26:31 - BOUGHT A TRAIN TICKET ON A

26:32 - PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.

26:34 - PASSENGER CAR. AND LO AND

26:37 - BEHOLD HE SITS DOWN IN HIS SEAT

26:39 - AND SITTING RIGHT ACROSS FROM

26:41 - HIM IS THE NEPHEW OF HIS

26:43 - MASTER. A GENTLEMAN BY THE NAME

26:45 - OF JOHN PARSONS WHO IS HOT IN

26:47 - PURSUIT OF THE SLAVE JACOB

26:49 - GREEN THE SLOW THE TRAIN

26:52 - DEPARTS FROM THE STATION AND GREEN DECIDES

26:56 - TO TRY TO FLEE THE TRAIN IS IN

26:58 - MOTION. HE JUMPS FROM THE

26:59 - TRAIN. PARSONS FOLLOWS

27:01 - IN PURSUIT AND THE 2 OF THEM

27:04 - BECOME INVOLVED IN A SCUFFLE

27:06 - AND THE STREETS OF HOLIDAYS.

27:08 - BERGEN AS YOU CAN VERY WELL

27:10 - IMAGINE THIS GARNERS THE

27:12 - ATTENTION OF THE LOCAL

27:13 - POPULOUS. PARSONS INSISTS THAT JACOB GREEN

27:18 - HAD STOLEN HIS HORSE WHILE

27:19 - JACOB GREEN IS SAYING THAT

27:21 - HE IS INDIVIDUAL WHO IS SEEKING

27:24 - HIS FREEDOM AND WITH THIS BEING

27:26 - A NORTHERN STATE.

27:28 - A STATE THAT HAD OUTLAWED

27:29 - SLAVERY SEVERAL DECADES PRIOR.

27:32 - IT WAS QUITE NATURAL THAT THE

27:33 - LOCAL CITIZENS OF HOLIDAYS,

27:35 - BERG TOOK SYMPATHY ON

27:37 - JACOB GREEN AND TO MAKE A LONG

27:39 - STORY SHORT WHAT HAPPENED IS

27:41 - THAT PARSONS WAS CHARGED ON

27:44 - KIDNAPPING IN THE WAKE OF ALL OF

27:46 - ALL THIS JACOB GREEN WAS ABLE

27:48 - TO ESCAPE PRESUMABLY HE MADE IT TO CANADA

27:52 - WHERE HE WAS OUTSIDE THE REACH

27:54 - OF THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT THAT

27:56 - WOULD HAVE RETURNED HIM TO SLAVERY.

27:58 - PARSONS MEANWHILE WAS

28:00 - INCARCERATED IN THE BLAIR

28:02 - COUNTY PRISON. AND THE GOVERNOR

28:04 - OF VIRGINIA HENRY WISE

28:06 - DEMANDED OF THE STATE OF

28:07 - PENNSYLVANIA THAT HIS VIRGINIA

28:09 - CITIZEN, BE RELEASED OR THAT HE

28:11 - WOULD SEND A VIRGINIA MILITIA

28:14 - AND TO PENNSYLVANIA TO FREE

28:16 - THIS CAPTIVE. AND SO

28:18 - THIS GARNERED INTERNATIONAL

28:20 - NEWS AT THE TIME IT SHOWED UP

28:21 - IN THE NEW YORK TIMES IT SHOWED

28:23 - UP IN THE LONDON NEWSPAPERS AND

28:25 - AS A LOT OF THOSE NEWSPAPERS MADE

28:27 - THE CLAIM. THE CIVIL WAR VERY

28:29 - WELL COULD HAVE STARTED RIGHT

28:30 - HERE IN HOLLIDAYSBURG AND IT

28:32 - ALL HAD TO DO WITH THE FREEDOM

28:35 - OF ONE INDIVIDUAL.

28:39 - WELL ONE OF OUR COUNTY

28:40 - COMMISSIONER TED BEING ALL OF

28:43 - US AND BLACK COUNTY HOPE YOU

28:44 - HAVE ENJOYED THIS LOOK AT OUR

28:45 - COURTHOUSE HERE IN HOLIDAYS

28:47 - FOR. THERE'S BEEN A REAL

28:49 - PLEASURE TO WELCOME PCN

28:51 - AND TO SHOW YOU WHAT OUR

28:52 - COURTHOUSE HAS BEEN AND THE

28:55 - EFFORTS TO RETURN IT TO ITS

28:57 - MAGNIFICENCE ONE. COMMISSIONER

28:59 - WHEN I HAVE ONLY BEEN A PART OF

29:01 - THIS PROJECT.

29:02 - COMMISSIONER THOMAS SAID IT HAS

29:04 - BEEN THE STRONG GUIDING FORCE

29:05 - IN THIS EFFORT ALL WITH THE COURTHOUSE

29:07 - PRESERVATION OBSERVATION TEAM.

29:11 - WHEN THIS MASSIVE UNDERTAKING

29:13 - IS WHAT HAS MADE THIS PROJECT A

29:15 - SUCCESS. WE THANK THEM FOR

29:18 - WORKING SO DILIGENTLY ON

29:20 - THIS COOL WE'RE ALL PROUD OF

29:23 - THE BOYS COUNTY COURTHOUSE.

29:24 - ITS HISTORY AND WHAT IT REALLY

29:26 - REPRESENTS. WE WOULD WELCOME

29:28 - ANY OF YOU TO VISIT US AT ANY

29:30 - TIME IN THE FUTURE.

30:02 - THIS PROGRAM WAS UNDERWRITTEN

30:04 - BY SISI A P THE COUNTY

30:06 - COMMISSIONERS ASSOCIATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.