00:21 - HELLO MY NAME IS JOE KOLOSKI I'M DIRECTOR OF GRAY TOWERS

00:24 - NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE IN MILFORD PENNSYLVANIA GREAT

00:27 - TOWERS IS THE ANCESTRAL HOME OF GIFFORD PINCHOT

00:31 - WHO WAS THE FIRST CHIEF OF THE USDA FOREST SERVICE

00:34 - AND ALSO A TWO-TIME GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA

00:38 - GREAT HOURS WAS BUILT BY GIFFORD'S PARENTS JAMES

00:41 - AND MARY PINCHO AND COMPLETED IN 1886 IT WAS

00:45 - DESIGNED BY RICHARD MORRIS HUNT WHO ALSO DESIGNED

00:48 - THE BILTMORE ESTATE IN ASHEVILLE NORTH CAROLINA

00:52 - AND ALSO DESIGN THE BASE OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY

00:56 - THE HOUSE IS 19,000 SQUARE FEET AND IS MODELED

00:59 - AFTER A FRENCH STYLE CHATEAU THE HOUSE WAS MODELED

01:03 - AFTER THE HOME OF THE MARQUEE DE LAFAYETTE

01:07 - WHO WAS NOT ONLY A FRENCH WAR HERO BUT

01:10 - A US REVOLUTIONARY WAR HERO AS WELL GIFFORD PINCHOT WAS

01:14 - VERY INSTRUMENTAL IN THE EARLY CONSERVATION MOVEMENT

01:17 - IN THE LATE 1800S FORESTRY WAS NOT PRACTICED IN NORTH

01:21 - AMERICA THERE WAS NO APPLICATION OF ANY TYPE OF SCIENTIFIC

01:25 - FORESTRY THAT WAS HAPPENING AND THE RESULTS OF THAT WERE A

01:29 - LOT OF ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE THAT TOOK PLACE GIFFORD'S PARENTS

01:33 - CONVINCED HIM TO GO TO EUROPE AND RECEIVE AN EDUCATION

01:37 - IN FORESTRY IN EUROPE WHERE IT WAS AVAILABLE SO

01:41 - THAT HE COULD BRING THAT KNOWLEDGE BACK TO THE

01:45 - UNITED STATES AND APPLY IT HERE WHERE IT WAS REALLY

01:49 - NEEDED AT THE TIME GIFFORD WAS ALSO ASSOCIATED WITH THEODORE

01:53 - ROOSEVELT AND WHEN THEODORE ROOSEVELT WAS PRESIDENT HE APPOINTED

01:57 - GIFFORD AS CHIEF OF THE USDA BUREAU OF FORESTRY AT

02:01 - THAT POINT WHICH LATER BECAME THE US FOREST SERVICE

02:05 - GIFFORD SERVED AS THE CHIEF OF THE US FOREST

02:09 - SERVICE FROM 1905 TO 1910 AND ALSO SERVED TWO TERMS

02:13 - AS GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA GREAT HOURS WAS DONATED TO

02:16 - THE USDA FOREST SERVICE IN 1963 AND WAS ACTUALLY DEDICATED

02:20 - BY PRESIDENT KENNEDY HERE ON SITE IN MILFORD THE

02:24 - PURPOSE OF THAT DONATION WAS SO THAT THE FOREST SERVICE

02:28 - COULD PERPETUATE THE CONSERVATION LEGACY OF GIFFORD

02:31 - PINCHOT AND THE PINCHOT FAMILY AT LARGE TODAY WHAT WE DO AT

02:35 - THE SITE IS WE INTERPRET GIFFORD PENCHO AND THE PINCHOT

02:39 - FAMILY AND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO CONSERVATION IN THE UNITED

02:42 - STATES AND WE ALSO OPERATE AS A TRAINING AND

02:46 - CONFERENCE CENTER WHERE WE BRING GROUPS IN AN OFFER

02:50 - TRAININGS AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT FOR FOREST SERVICE

02:53 - EMPLOYEES AND ALSO OTHER GROUPS THAT ARE NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THE

02:57 - US FOREST SERVICE SO AGAIN WELCOME TO GRAY

03:01 - TOWERS AND I HOPE YOU ENJOY YOUR VISIT OF THE

03:05 - TODAY

03:21 - HELLO MY NAME IS JARED SEMESTER AND I'M THE INTERPRETIVE

03:24 - CENTER DIRECTOR HERE AT GRAY TOWERS NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE

03:28 - I'M LUCKY ENOUGH TO GET TO HELP TO RUN THE

03:31 - SITE AND ALL OF OUR PUBLIC PROGRAMS AND WORK

03:34 - VISITORS SUCH AS YOURSELVES I'M STANDING HERE TODAY UNDERNEATH

03:38 - OF TWO OF GIFFORD PINCHOS BELOVED EUROPEAN COPPER BEACHES

03:41 - TO ME THESE TREES ARE NO LESS IN THE GREATEST LIVING SYMBOL OF

03:45 - THE PINCHO CONSERVATION LEGACY THE IDEA OR THE ACT OF PLANTING

03:49 - A TREE WHO SHADE THAT WE WILL NEVER GET TO ENJOY OURSELVES ENCAPSULATES

03:53 - THE IDEALS OF CONSERVATION THAT WE STILL TRIED TO MAINTAIN TODAY

03:58 - I'VE BEEN LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE A VISITOR AT A GREAT

04:01 - TOWER SINCE I WAS ABOUT 8 YEARS OLD AND I NOW HAVE

04:04 - THE HONOR AND THE PRIVILEGE OF WORKING HERE AND HELPING VISITORS

04:07 - INTEGRATE THE STORY OF GRAY TOWERS INTO THEIR OWN PERSONAL LIFE STORY

04:11 - BEHIND ME IS THE HISTORIC LETTER BOX INITIALLY CONSTRUCTED TO HOUSE

04:14 - THE SECRETARIAL STAFF AND CORRESPONDENCE TO THE GOVERNOR PINCHOT

04:17 - TODAY NO VISIT TO GREAT HOWARD IS COMPLETE WITHOUT A

04:20 - QUICK STOP IN THE LETTERBOX AS WHEN TOURS ARE OFFERED

04:23 - OF THE HISTORIC MANSION THIS IS WHERE TICKETS MAY

04:26 - BE PURCHASED AND IT ALSO HOUSES OUR MODERN GIFT SHOP

04:30 - I'M SPEAKING TO YOU NOW IN THE AMPHITHEATER BUILT BY THE PINCHILL FAMILY

04:33 - TO BETTER ENTERTAIN AND ENGAGE WITH THE PUBLIC DURING PINCHOS TIME AS

04:37 - PINCHO'S TIME IS GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA THIS SPACE WAS USED

04:40 - TO HOST MUSICAL PERFORMANCES AND ICE CREAM SOCIALS AND IS

04:43 - ALSO WHERE PRESIDENT JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY GAVE ONE OF HIS FINAL

04:47 - PUBLIC ADDRESSES ALMOST EXACTLY TWO MONTHS BEFORE THE ASSASSINATION

04:53 - DURING PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S VISIT TO GRAY TOWERS OVER 10,000 INDIVIDUALS

04:57 - PACKED THE AMPHITHEATER HERE TO COME AND HEAR THEIR PRESIDENT SPEAK

05:01 - AS PART OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY SPEECH HE HONORED THE WORK

05:04 - DONE BY THE PINCHO AND ROOSEVELT FAMILIES AND ALSO LAMENTED

05:07 - MUCH OF THE STRUGGLE THAT THE CONSERVATION MOVEMENT WORKS

05:10 - AGAIN A VERY POWERFUL QUOTE DELIVERED AS PART OF THAT SPEECH

05:14 - IS THAT IN THE FIELD OF RESOURCES OPPORTUNITIES

05:17 - THAT ARE LOST TO US CAN NEVER BE ONE BACK THAT

05:20 - IS UNFORTUNATELY STILL VERY RELEVANT MESSAGE TODAY

05:23 - MUCH AS IT WAS IN THE 1960S WHEN THE HOME WAS DEDICATED

05:28 - I'M STANDING HERE IN THE LONG GARDEN THIS FEATURE WAS ADDED TO THE

05:31 - GROUNDS IN THE MID-1920S TO HELP TO ENJOYING THEIR SON'S PLAYHOUSE

05:35 - THE BAIT BOX SO NAMED BECAUSE HIS NICKNAME WAS MR FISH WITH

05:38 - THE MAIN PROPERTY THAT SURROUNDS A MANSION THE POOL OF WATER

05:42 - HERE BEFORE ME IS A WONDERFUL EXAMPLE OF TRUMP LLOYD OR

05:45 - TRICKER OF THE EYE AS A WATER FEATURES CAPERS DOWN OVER ONE

05:49 - FOOT IN WIDTH THAT TAPER IS MEANT TO ADD SOME OPTICAL ILLUSION

05:53 - AND HELP TO GUIDE THE EYE TO THE MORE FAR-FLUNG PLAYHOUSE

05:57 - WE'VE ARRIVED NOW ONE OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING AND UNIQUE FEATURES AT

06:01 - GREAT TOWERS THE OUTDOOR DINING ROOM TABLE KNOWN AS THE FINGER BOWL

06:04 - WE BELIEVE THAT THIS FEATURE WAS INSPIRED BY WATER TABLES FROM ITALY

06:08 - PARTICULARLY FROM THE FLORENCE REGION AND THE WAY THAT YOU WOULD ENJOY

06:12 - A MEAL HERE IS RATHER UNIQUE MEALS WERE SERVED FAMILY STYLE BUT

06:15 - AS OPPOSED TO A TRADITIONAL TABLE SETTING ALL OF THE FOOD AT

06:19 - THE FINGER BOWL WAS SERVED IN LARGE WOODEN BOWLS OR RAFTS AND

06:22 - SERVED ON THE SURFACE OF THE WATER TO ENCOURAGE A MORE SOCIAL

06:26 - ATMOSPHERE SO CONVERSATIONS WOULD FLOW YOU WERE ENCOURAGED NOT

06:29 - JUST TO PASS TO THE LEFT OR THE RIGHT BUT TO USE A SURFACE OF

06:33 - THE WATER ITSELF IF YOU DID NOT GET YOUR DESIRED FOOD ITEM YOU

06:37 - WOULD BE REQUIRED TO TALK TO OTHER PEOPLE ATTENDING THE DINNER

06:41 - GREAT HOWARD'S WAS KNOWN DURING THE TIME OF DIFFERENT CORNELIA AS A POLITICAL

06:44 - BOARDING HOUSE BECAUSE NO MATTER YOUR POLITICAL AFFILIATION IF THE PINCHOS FELT THAT

06:48 - YOU WERE A WORTHY CONTRIBUTOR TO THE CONVERSATIONS THEY WERE ATTEMPTING

06:52 - TO FOSTER HERE YOU ARE MORE THAN WELCOME TO JOIN THEM FOR A DINNER

06:55 - PARTY IT'S A LEGACY THAT WE ARE VERY HAPPY TO CARRY ON TODAY IS A MODERN

06:59 - DAY CONFERENCE AND TRAINING CENTER OR CONSERVATIONISTS ARE WELCOME

07:02 - TO JOIN TOGETHER AND TRY AND SOLVE THE ISSUES OF HER OWN DAY

07:05 - MUCH OF THE SPACE WITH YOU DURING THE TIME OF DIFFERENT CORNELIA

07:10 - WE TRY AND HAVE SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY HERE GREAT TOWERS

07:13 - NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE IF A TOUR OF A HISTORICALLY KEPT HOUSE

07:16 - MUSEUM IS NOT YOUR SPEED WE INVITE YOU TO TAKE A STEP

07:19 - BACK IN TIME ON OUR BEAUTIFUL FOREST DISCOVERY TRAIL

07:23 - ON PROPERTY STILL OWNED BY THE PINCHO FAMILY THE FAMILY HAD ENDOWED

07:27 - AND CREATED A SUMMER CAMP FOR FORESTERS TO HONE THEIR SKILLS HERE

07:30 - IN THE UNITED STATES SO THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO TRAVEL ABROAD FOR THEIR

07:34 - EDUCATION AS GIFFORD PINCHO IS FORCED TO BECAUSE OF THIS ENDOWMENT

07:37 - THE FIRST FIVE CHIEFS OF THE US FOREST SERVICE AS WELL AS FAMOUS

07:41 - NATURALIST AUTO LEOPOLD SPENT SOME VERY FONDLY REMEMBERED SUMMERS HERE ON

07:45 - THE GROUNDS OF GREAT TOWERS HONORING THE FORESTRY SKILLS IN ADDITION TO THE

07:49 - BEAUTIFUL TRAIL ITSELF THERE ARE SOME HISTORIC FEATURES THAT YOU'RE ABLE

07:52 - TO TAKE IN SUCH AS RECENTLY RESTORED DIG POCONO FIRE TOWER

07:56 - THAT SAT ATOP OF CAMELBACK MOUNTAIN FOR MANY YEARS AS WELL AS A

08:00 - REPRODUCTION OF WHAT THE ACCOMMODATIONS OF THESE YALE FORESTERS WOULD HAVE

08:03 - LOOKED LIKE MANY OF THEIR DAYS ARE SPEND PLAYING BASEBALL GAMES AGAINST

08:07 - LOCAL TEAMS OR GOING TO DANCES DOWN IN TOWN THIS WAS

08:10 - VERY MUCH AKIN TO A SUMMER CAMP FOR MANY OF THE STUDENTS

08:15 - WELCOME TO THE GREAT HALL THIS INTERIOR SPACE IS THE FIRST INTERACTION

08:19 - WITH THE HISTORICALLY CAB MANSION THAT MANY OF OUR VISITORS HAVE TODAY'S

08:22 - VISITORS CAN EXPECT TO MEET JAMES AND MARY PANCHO THROUGH THEIR PORTRAITS

08:26 - AS WELL AS A SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN LIFE STATUE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

08:30 - THE PINTO FAMILY IS FRENCH BY HERITAGE AND THEY WERE

08:32 - SUPPORTERS OF NAPOLEON AFTER THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO WAS LOST IN

08:36 - 1815 AND THE BOURBON MONARCHY WAS RESTORED AND KICKED OFF

08:39 - A PERIOD KNOWN AS THE WHITE TERROR BY 1819 THE PINCHES

08:43 - HE RELOCATED TO MILFORD PENNSYLVANIA IS WHERE THEY LARGE

08:46 - FRENCH ENCLAVE THAT IT WOULD FEEL AT HOME WITH THE REASON FOR

08:49 - THIS RELOCATION WAS A PINCHO FAMILY WISH TO KEEP THEIR

08:52 - WEALTH INTACT AND THEIR HEADS FIRMLY ATTACHED TO THEIR BODIES

08:56 - BEHIND ME IS A HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL PAINTING

08:59 - BY THE ARTIST KNOWN AS JOHN FERGUSON

09:01 - WEIR HIS BROTHER IS THE ARTIST BEHIND THE

09:04 - FAMOUS WE'RE FARM NATIONAL PARK IN CONNECTICUT

09:07 - THIS PAINTING IS OIL DONE DIRECTLY ONTO THE OAK

09:10 - PANELING THAT MAKES UP THE GREAT HALL THE LATIN

09:12 - AT THE TOP READS A YEAR OF OUR LORD

09:14 - 1886 THE YEAR THAT THE HOUSE ITSELF WAS

09:17 - HOUSE ITSELF IS COMPLETED THE FLORIDA LEE REPRESENT THE PINCHOS FRENCH

09:20 - HERITAGE WHILE THE RHODODENDRON CLUSTERS ARE REPRESENTATIVE OF THEIR NEW

09:23 - HOME HERE IN NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA WELL THE TWO FIGURES

09:27 - ARE MEANT TO REPRESENT JAMES AND MARY PINCHOT AS ROMAN DEITIES

09:31 - WHILE THE AESTHETICS OF THIS ROOM ARE QUITE VICTORIAN AND APPEARANCE THIS IS VERY MUCH

09:35 - THE WAY THAT GIFFORD AND CORNELIA KEPT THE HOME ALTHOUGH THEY THEMSELVES WERE PRODUCTS

09:39 - OF THE GILDED ERA IT IS SIMPLY THEY DID NOT FEEL THE NEED TO MAKE SO MANY

09:43 - CHANGES TO THIS PARTICULAR ROOM ALTHOUGH GIFFORD'S WIFE CORNELIA DID SWEAR TO

09:47 - JAZZ UP WHAT SHE FOUND TO BE A BLEAK CASTLE ON A BEAR HILL WHEN

09:51 - SHE FIRST ARRIVED TO THE HOME MANY OF THE PIECES IN THIS ROOM

09:54 - WERE PROCURED BY THE PINCHOS FROM AN AUCTION HOUSE IN SCOTLAND AND ARE DONE

09:58 - IN THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE STYLE THE MAJORITY OF THEM HAND CARVED OUT OF OAK

10:04 - WE'VE NOW MOVED INTO THE LIBRARY A FAVORITE

10:06 - SPACE OF MANY OF OUR VISITORS TO GRAY TOWERS

10:09 - TODAY'S LIBRARY HOWEVER IS VERY DIFFERENT THAN THE LIBRARY

10:12 - THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HERE IN THE DAYS OF JAMES AND MARY PINCHOT

10:15 - RIGHT AROUND WHERE I'M STANDING A WALL WOULD HAVE SPLIT THIS INTO TWO

10:18 - VERY DIFFERENT ROOMS BEHIND ME WOULD HAVE BEEN A MUCH SMALLER LIBRARY

10:22 - AND SALON WHERE LADIES WERE SENT FOR THEIR AFTER DINNER ENTERTAINMENT

10:25 - FOR THE EVENING ACROSS FROM ME WOULD HAVE BEEN THE BILLIARD AND SMOKING

10:29 - LOUNGE WHERE GENTLEMAN WOULD HAVE GONE FOR THEIR NIGHTLY ENTERTAINMENT

10:32 - GIFFORD AND HIS WIFE CORNELIA ACTUALLY MET ON THE CAMPAIGN OF THE BULL MOOSE

10:36 - CAMPAIGN AND WE'RE INTRODUCED TO ONE ANOTHER BY THEIR MUTUAL FRIEND TEDDY

10:39 - ROOSEVELT ONE CORNELIA FIRST MOVED HERE TO GRAY TOWERS AND LEARNED OF

10:43 - THIS ARRANGEMENT NEEDLESS TO SAY DID NOT WORK FOR HER THE WALLS

10:46 - WERE KNOCKED DOWN AND THE ROOM THAT WE ENJOYED TODAY WAS CREATED

10:51 - SOME OF THE FEATURES OF THIS ROOM ARE INCLUDE

10:53 - THE 1872 PORTRAIT BY ALEXANDER CAVANEL BEHIND ME

10:56 - GIFFORD PINCHOS ORIGINAL COPY OF MAN IN NATURE

10:59 - WHICH HE RESERVED RECEIVED FOR HIS 21ST BIRTHDAY

11:02 - PRESENT FROM HIS FATHER AND BROTHER AND HELP

11:05 - TO INSPIRE HIM TO A CAREER IN CONSERVATION

11:08 - THIS ROOM ALSO HAS MANY ARTIFACTS THAT APPEAR TO

11:11 - BE EAST ASIAN AND INFLUENCE AND ORIGIN MANY OF THEM

11:13 - ARE HOWEVER DURING THE RENOVATION OF THIS PART OF

11:16 - THE MANSION THE CHINWAR OR SHINWASRI STYLE WAS VERY

11:19 - POPULAR SO A GOOD PORTION OF THESE ARTIFACTS ARE

11:22 - ACTUALLY MADE IN THE UNITED STATES TO APPEAR FOREIGN

11:27 - A FAVORITE FEATURE OF MANY OF THE VISITORS HERE TO THE

11:29 - LIBRARY IS PROBABLY THE CLOSEST THING THAT WE HAVE TO A

11:32 - SECRET PASSAGEWAY HERE AT GREAT TOWERS BEHIND THE PANEL

11:35 - ON MY RIGHT HAND SIDE WHICH CAN BE OPEN BY A QUICK PRESS

11:38 - IS STORAGE AREA FOR PINCHOS VAST COLLECTION OF FISHING RODS GIFFORD

11:42 - WAS AN AVID FLY FISHERMAN HE'D ACTUALLY WRITTEN A BOOK CALLED JUST

11:45 - FISHING TALK AND SAID IT'S BETTER TO A FISH THAN LOST

11:48 - THAN TO HAVE NEVER FISHED AT ALL HE ALSO WORKED WITH THE

11:52 - DEPARTMENT OF WAR DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR TO DEVELOP AN

11:55 - EMERGENCY FISHING KIT FOR SOLDIERS AND SAILORS WHO WOULD BE OUT

11:58 - ON THE SEA THE GREAT INNOVATION OF THAT KIT WAS THAT HE

12:02 - INCLUDED A CHEESECLOTH SO YOU WERE ABLE TO SQUEEZE SOMEWHAT

12:05 - OF GIFFORD CALLED FISH JUICE OUT OF A FISH TO FIGHT OFF

12:08 - DEHYDRATION AS IT WAS MORE BENEFICIAL THAN DRINKING OCEAN WATER

12:12 - I'M NOW STANDING IN GIFFORD'S OFFICE LOCATED JUST OFF OF THE

12:16 - LIBRARY IN ADDITION TO PINTER'S WORK IS FOUNDER AND FIRST CHIEF OF

12:20 - THE US FOREST SERVICE HE WAS ALSO A TWO-TERM GOVERNOR OF

12:23 - PENNSYLVANIA AND MUCH OF HIS GOVERNING WAS DONE FROM RIGHT HERE AT

12:27 - GRAY TOWERS HIS FIRST TERM WAS FROM 1923 TO 27 ON WAS

12:30 - MARKED BY MANY OF THE HALLMARKS OF THE GILDED ERA LOTS

12:34 - OF SUCCESS HE WAS ABLE TO WIPE OUT THE DEFICIT OF THE

12:38 - STATE AND LEFT IT WITH A 3 MILLION DOLLAR SURPLUS PINCHOS

12:41 - NEXT TERM AS GOVERNOR WAS FROM 1931 TO 35 WHEN THE GREAT

12:45 - DEPRESSION WAS GRIPPING THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA DUE TO PINCHOS

12:49 - INFLUENCE AND HIS CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ROOSEVELT FAMILY GIVE HER

12:52 - WORK VERY CLOSE WITH THEM PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT TO ACQUIRE

12:56 - MANY CCC CAMPS OR CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS CAMPS HERE IN PENNSYLVANIA

13:00 - WE HAD THE SECOND MOST IN THE COUNTRY BEHIND ONLY CALIFORNIA

13:04 - SOME MEMENTOS AND GIFFORD'S

13:05 - OFFICE FROM HIS TIME AS GOVERNOR

13:08 - INCLUDE VARIOUS BOXES OF SWEETS AND CANDY AS PINCHOS A GREAT

13:11 - SUPPORTER OF TIME PRINCE AND PROHIBITION HE'S ACTUALLY THE ONE WHO

13:15 - FOUNDED THE PENNSYLVANIA LICK CONTROL BOARD CALLING AN EMERGENCY MEETING

13:18 - OF THE PENNSYLVANIA GENERAL ASSEMBLY SHORTLY BEFORE PROHIBITION WAS TO BE

13:22 - REPEALED STATING IF THEY COULDN'T BAN THE SALE OF ALCOHOL HE

13:25 - WANTED IT TO BE HIS INCONVENIENT AND EXPENSIVE AS POSSIBLE

13:29 - SOME OF THE OTHER ARTIFACTS ON DISPLAY IN THIS ROOM ARE MEMENTOS

13:33 - FROM PINCHOS JOURNEY TO THE SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN SUCH AS THE

13:37 - TAXIDERMY SEA TURTLE THE PARROT FISH HEAD AND DOLPHIN SKULL PINCHOT

13:41 - WAS ALSO VERY PRO LABOR DURING HIS TIME AS GOVERNOR AND PROUDLY

13:44 - DISPLAYED IN HIS OFFICE IS A CHUNK OF CARVED ANTHRACITE COAL

13:48 - GIVEN TO HIM BY COAL MINERS WHO STRIKE HE HELPED TO SETTLE

13:52 - ALSO IN DISPLAY IS A BUST OF GIFFORD'S

13:54 - MATERNAL GRANDFATHER AMOS RICHARDS

13:57 - FAMOUS RICHARD'S EMAIL DURING HIS LIFETIME HE WAS ONE OF THE WEALTHIEST

14:00 - LANDOWNERS AND REAL ESTATE DEVELOPERS IN NEW YORK CITY BUILDING SOME OF

14:04 - THE INITIAL ATTRACTIONS AND WHAT ARE NOW THE FLAT IRON AND MEAT PACKING

14:08 - DISTRICTS OF MANHATTAN INITIALLY THESE PROPERTIES WERE CONSIDERED SO WORTHLESS

14:12 - THE NEIGHBORHOODS WERE ACTUALLY NICKNAMED HE KNOWS FOLLY BECAUSE

14:15 - SPECULATORS THOUGHT IT WOULD SPELL THE RUIN OF THE ENO FAMILY

14:20 - WE'VE NOW ENTERED INTO THE SITTING

14:22 - ROOM AT GRAY TOWERS ONE OF THE MOST

14:24 - COLORFUL ROOMS IN THE ENTIRE HOUSE AND

14:26 - WE'RE CORNELIA PINCHOS PRESENCE IS BEST FELT

14:29 - CORNELIA HAD A GREAT FONDNESS FOR BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS IN HER

14:33 - LIFETIME BOTH LITERALLY HERE AT GRAY TOWERS AS THIS WAS INITIALLY TWO

14:37 - ENTIRELY SEPARATE ROOMS AND ALSO FIGURATIVELY AS A VERY PROMINENT MEMBER

14:40 - OF THE WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT MANY OF THE PAINTINGS DISPLAYED IN THIS

14:44 - ROOM TODAY FEATURED NOT TO CORNELIUS DUTCH HERITAGE HER FATHER LLOYD

14:48 - BRYCE ACTUALLY SERVED AS A US AMBASSADOR TO THE NETHERLANDS UNDER THE

14:52 - PRESIDENCY OF PRESIDENT WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT THIS ROOM IS ALSO A

14:55 - WONDERFUL EXAMPLE OF THE RESTORATION WORK DONE HERE AT GREAT TOWERS

14:59 - AS THIS ROOM WAS SUBJECT TO MASSIVE WATER DAMAGE ONLY TWO

15:03 - OF THE PAINTINGS IN THE ROOM ARE TRULY ORIGINAL THE OTHERS

15:07 - WERE RESTORED IS NEAR TO THEIR ORIGINAL STATUS AS WE WERE ABLE TO

15:10 - DURING A MULTI-YEAR MULTIMILLION DOLLAR RESTORATION THAT TOOK PLACE

15:14 - DURING THE LATE 1990S THIS ROOM ALSO FEATURES SOME OF THE

15:18 - OLDEST ARTIFACTS IN THE ENTIRE HOUSE SUCH AS THESE HANG DYNASTY

15:21 - ERA FUNERALS THAT ARE NEARLY 1,300 YEARS OLD VERY SIMILAR IN PRACTICE

15:25 - TO THE FAMOUS TERRACOTTA SOLDIERS THESE FUNERARY ITEMS WERE MEANT

15:29 - VERY ANY GOOD THAT SOMEONE WOULD

15:31 - WANT TO HAVE WITH THEM IN THE AFTERLIFE

15:34 - THE TOWER ROOM LOCATED OFF OF THE SITTING ROOM

15:37 - HAS BEEN CONVERTED FROM OUR FORMER GIFT SHOP INTO

15:40 - A NEW TEMPORARY EXHIBIT SPACE THROUGH THE END OF

15:42 - THIS YEAR WE'RE PROUD TO DISPLAY SEVERAL NEVER BEFORE

15:45 - SEEN OUTFITS WORN BY CORNELIA PINCHOT THAT WERE RECENTLY

15:48 - DONATED TO US BY DESCENDANTS OF THE PINCHOT FAMILY

15:53 - WELCOME TO PINCHOS SECOND FLOOR TOWER BEDROOM WHERE EVERY ITEM

15:57 - TELLS A STORY OF PINCHOS LONG AND ILLUSTRIOUS CAREER AND LIFE

16:00 - FROM TENNIS RACKETS USED AS A MEMBER OF ROOSEVELT'S TENNIS CABINET TO PRIMERS ON

16:04 - FORESTRY TO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL ARTISTS PONCHO ACCUMULATED

16:08 - A GREAT WEALTH OF ITEMS AND ARTIFACTS THROUGHOUT HIS TIME WORKING FOR

16:12 - CONSERVATION AND IN THE STATE GOVERNMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA TO MY RIGHT YOU CAN

16:16 - SEE A MARBLE REPRODUCTION OF GIFFORD SISTERS LUCY'S HAND WHICH WAS

16:19 - DONE IN MEMORIAL AFTER SHE PASSED AWAY OF SCARLET FEVER AT TWO AND

16:23 - A HALF YEARS OLD SCULPTED BY LAWN THOMPSON THE SAME GENTLEMAN WHO

16:27 - SCULPTED THE STATUE OF NAPOLEON THAT GREETED YOU IN THE GREAT HALL

16:31 - TO MY LEFT YOU CAN SEE THE VERY VIBRANT ORANGE LETTER E THAT

16:35 - REPRESENTS PINCHOS SCHOOLING AT THE PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY WHERE HE

16:39 - ATTENDED FOR HIS SCHOOLING PRIOR TO ENTERING INTO YALE UNIVERSITY

16:43 - IN THE 1880S ABOVE ME IS AN HONORARY DEGREE FROM MCGILL UNIVERSITY

16:47 - WHERE FORESTRY REALLY HAS ITS ROOTS IN CANADA AS PINCHES LEGACY

16:51 - IS RECOGNIZED INTERNATIONALLY NOT JUST HERE IN THE UNITED STATES

16:55 - BEEN SHOWING HIS WIFE CORNELIA DID KEEP SEPARATE BEDROOMS AS THEY HAD SUCH BUSY

16:59 - SOCIAL LIVES THAT THEY FOUND ONE ANOTHER COMING AND GOING AT ALL HOURS AND DID

17:03 - NOT WANT TO DISTURB EACH OTHER ALTHOUGH GIFFORD WAS NEARLY SIX FOOT TWO SO

17:06 - HIS BED MAY NOT HAVE BEEN ALL THAT COMFORTABLE FOR A VERY LONG OVERNIGHT STAYS

17:34 - I HOPE YOU'VE ENJOYED THE TOUR OF GRAY TOWERS

17:38 - SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU CAN DO IF YOU

17:41 - VISIT THE SITE IS EXPLORE OUR TRAILS THAT WE

17:44 - HAVE ON SITE YOU CAN TAKE A MANSION MUSEUM TOUR

17:47 - AND YOU CAN ALSO COME TO AN EVENT WE HAVE A PARTNER

17:50 - ORGANIZATION CALLED THE GRAY TOWERS HERITAGE ASSOCIATION

17:54 - THAT HELPS OUR OPERATION HERE AT GRAY TOWERS TREMENDOUSLY

17:57 - WE HAVE A SMALL STAFF WE WE CAN'T DO EVERYTHING

18:00 - WE DO HERE ALONE SO WE LEAN INTO THAT PARTNER ORGANIZATION

18:04 - AND THEIR VOLUNTEERS VERY HEAVILY THROUGHOUT THE YEAR

18:07 - YOU CAN CHECK OUT THEIR EVENTS ON THEIR WEB PAGE OR LOOK

18:11 - AT OUR PEP WEB PAGE TO SEE A LISTING OF UPCOMING EVENTS

18:15 - WE ALSO HAVE MEETING SPACE AVAILABLE NOT ONLY FOR AGENCY EMPLOYEES

18:19 - TO COME HERE AND RECEIVE TRAINING AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT BUT THAT

18:23 - MEETING SPACE IS ALSO OPEN TO OUTSIDE GROUPS ON A RESERVATION

18:27 - BASIS SO IF YOU HAVE A GROUP THAT'S INTERESTED IN IN

18:30 - HOSTING A MEETING HERE AT GRAY TOWERS PLEASE DO

18:33 - GET IN CONTACT WITH US AND WE'LL SEE IF WE CAN WORK

18:37 - WE'LL SEE IF WE CAN WORK WITH YOU TO ACCOMMODATE

18:39 - THAT NEED THANK YOU AGAIN FOR VISITING

18:41 - WITH US TODAY AND WE HOPE TO SEE YOU

18:43 - SOON AT GRAY TOWERS NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE