Business Along the Brandywine

welcome to the national iron and steel heritage museum i'm jim ziegler the executive director tonight we'll hear from bob holliday as the lecture series continues virtually bob grew up in campbell ohio outside youngstown where the first steel mill was shut down in the u.s the campbell works of youngstown sheet and tube company he worked in united engineering and foundry one summer as a vacation relief worker after seeing the lucan's rolling mill model he realized that he was a helper on machining processes related to every piece of equipment in the mill including the massive frames holding the rollers and the 30 foot high double helix gears driving the rollers bob earned a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering at ohio state university and an mba at the university of michigan he worked in industry for over 30 years in operations management and organization and systems development roles starting at procter gamble 14 years scott paper 10 years armstrong flooring five years plus some consulting bob enjoyed 10 years at the united way of chester county as a development director in the last 10 years he's pursuing the brandywine regeneration project aimed at regenerating the spiritual heritage of our nation and democracy bob's lived in chad's ford for 40 years on what is now recognized as a brandywine battlefield site he's been married for 51 years with three kids and five grandkids the oldest being 16. please welcome bob holliday thank you jim and thank you for asking me to make this presentation i really appreciate it a lot and i am here with a friend of mine named silas millwright who's looking at me as one of the like the cutouts from a that you see in the stadiums today but it happens to be a perfect image for being here today because i'll be speaking about the importance of mill rights in the generation of our businesses and i also welcome all the people who are at home in your offices in your rooms or wherever you are i welcome you here as well and the subject of tonight is businesses along the brandywine and the perspective that i will provide is how the brandywine as you read the statement there created the spiritual base of the united states and that's what we're going to be looking at tonight and got my little just starting to learn this here so the focus is also how this can be a source of rebirthing our nation so the brandywine from a national heritage perspective is considered a the most powerful watershed in the country heritage wise as i said that that so much happened on it in the generation of our nation that it's finally been recognized at the highest priority level as as a as the battlefield the most important battlefield site left in the nation to be protected and two themes of the battlefield that that of the nation that we'll be bringing out that happened along the branded wine was first of all the brandywine was the savior of our nation that to battle the brand wine we lost the battle but we won the war and it was key to the formation of the spirit of the patriots when they left there they knew they could win the battle and that also that they could hold their own against the regulars from the british army which led to other other countries in europe joining to bring about help bring about our independence so while it it it and it demonstrated to people that we had the strength and the will and the determination to do that it's also recognized as the cradle of innovation that the amount of technology the generation of technological improvements here and innovations revolutionized industries and generated industries in our country so from both themes the brandywine was key in the formation of our country and one more thought if you look if you go to the brandywine river museum which is where that painting is and you look in the eyes closely at the in the eyes of the patriots you can see their soul and you could see the fierce determination that they held for what they were about and we'll talk more about that so today is an opportunity for for creating a rebirth in our nation while that generative force of the brandywine still potentially exists so the purpose of the presentation tonight is education education from two perspectives we want to learn about the role of the brandywine as the spiritual source of our democracy and its businesses and what does that mean secondly we want to learn about the transforming of the power of the brandywine in our lives and in our pursuits today how do we bring that forward today so it's not just looking back in history it's looking at today and what the critical situations are that we face today so what i plan to do is describe the evolution of life in businesses along the brand wine as seen from the eyes of the brandywine starting with the lenai lenape industry indians and the perspective i will be taking is one of the heritage of the brandywine not the history so it's a heritage as it relates to the being and spirit of something whereas history deals with the functional aspect it deals with the dates and the and the times that events took place and the names of the people and it's very critical so it's not better or worse they both go together but then this from the being and spirit standpoint it's looking at why did that happen so i'm not an historian and don't pretend to be one i talked to gene diorio who is fabulous as a historian and and somebody who's still around sharing his wisdom before giving this talk and that was very helpful so and what what i hope this produces is that it stimulates you it stimulates your imagination and dreams and it helps you to form a vision of what you can we can pursue in today's world why this is important to us for me it's important for us to rejuvenate the indomitable hope of our founders and as i use the word hope hope is not an emotion it's not an optimism or having a positive attitude hope is a force for good it's a product of our will and it's something that gives more force to what we're living about we make that choice hope is a choice we make we could live in a hopeless state or state filled with hope and that's what this is about so how did we unfold the history here in looking at the evolution and how the soul of our nation was brought about by the life of the brandywine this little chart here starts we're going back with the lenny lenape indians which we'll talk uh about and then the swedes landed in 1638. now when did the lynn island oppa indians yet here they've been here for at least 20 000 years and as i talked to my friend chief quiet thunder he says the recent carbon dating of footprints date back to 50 000 years ago this is not to get into an argument either one trust me that they were here thousands of years before any recorded history came to these shores and so that's the starting point of the brand wine because that's where our history started 1638 with the swedes then along came the city of wilmington the battle of the brandywine lukens dupont and howard pyle illustrative art those are the seven spots where to me are most significant along the brandywine that doesn't mean it's all of them but it's ones i felt were most significant in terms of the generative force that they brought about so how has the brand new wine been shaped by the spirit and motivation of the people as manifested in its businesses that's what we're about to begin a journey on so the first step of that is to say well what did the brandywine cause in our country you know if you look at the quote on the right national geographic in the year 2013 had a whole section on the brandywine and it described the brandywine and said that it was our founding river that it powered technological revolutions which really captures in a nutshell the core of the brandywine and what it did is it provided that capacity to capture and utilize power in order to drive technology so the underlying there is really important it's responsible for creating a nation able to develop technologies that utilize natural resource power now as we know right now looking back on how we did that and how we're still doing that our way our the way we've developed technologies not only utilize natural resource power it degrades them and in fact is really slowly destroying them it is destructive in the way that we are currently developing our technologies and that's the revolution of thinking and revolution of technologies that are being called for today and that our country has a choice of stepping up to and once again creating that in our country so that today it can cause us to do that again but at a different level at a level that we're working in harmony with nature's processes and how nature regenerates itself so the aim that i hope you would share is uh symbolized by the liberty bell and ncys if you picture that ringing again in your life reawakening the spiritual heritage of our democracy along the brandywine where it really shine it shines just so beautifully such that we become a regenerated nation with a regenerated spirit so that's our challenge and that's what what i believe that we're being called to this chart shows in another way the brandywine just in its natural power and the question is what is the brandywine when we say the brandywine what is its essence every one of us everything that exists here has an existence but it also has an essence that inner force and the essence as we have seen it with the group i was working on is to be the spiritual source of the essence of democracy that's what we're trying to bring about is to bring that back to life and everything that we are creating and in our lives themselves so let's take the journey and see what we can learn the first step of the journey as i said is the lenai lenape and their essence was to live they saw everything that existed was a sacred obligation to care for and to care for it for future generations it was not for me it was for all of us and also for those of us in the future that that we uh know are coming after us and that's how they lived their life and hopefully the images convey that to you uh and the and the quote from uh my friend chief quiet thunder i think beautifully describes how they lived their lives they said he said he we didn't worship the son we worshiped the great creator spirit that created the sun so their sacred obligation they realized there's nothing that they saw here that they could create themselves so that's what made it sacred and that's how they viewed it their story of creation was symbolized in the symbol down at the at the bottom left of this let me try to cover two different images this symbol here was their story of creation which i can't tell you as well as the chief can tell you but it really is a story that that resonates with a lot of our own beliefs here but that's what led them to see everything as so sacred and that's how they live their lives now if you look at what was the spirit of that what was the generative force that they have left for us to live up to today the next chart here is trying to symbolize that and also bring it out in the statement what their life was about was to care for all who are present and all who someday may become present everything was was in the community and was was for the purposes of the community children from the age of three had roles for participating in the community everybody had a role where they started to learn create something of value and create themselves in the process so they can be contribute more value in the future and and during that time they had no homelessness everybody had food and had productive work and constructive work and work that was valuable to the person doing it and valuable to the person they lived by a principal called the seven generation principal and my friend the chief is writing a book called the seven generation principle picture that you know my grandkids are the third generation from me if i want to be able to carry that principle out i have to think about four more generations after them what are their kids going to see life as what are they and then they seven generations out it's a very demanding principle and one that they practiced in their lives and one that we can learn from we didn't learn from it at the time but we can go back and learn from it now excuse me by the way i just also recently found out what was the indian's name for the brandywine which was not the brandywine certainly it was wallace and you know the huawei's that are so predominant but it was wawasan and i checked with the chief and the meaning of that is wild river not wild goose says the wawa symbol but the wild river so the brandywine was a wild river so we've taken the wildness out of it out of it for the most part but we need to allow it to come back in in a in a in the right kind of way another point for the indians was that they were very enterprising people so we're here to talk about businesses along the brand wine it started really what the indians as you can see from the picture that i maybe went off too soon you know that that they were always making something or creating something they were always building something and they traded with other tribes the the brandywine was known more for its the fertility of its soils and its foods and the susquehanna was for animal life so there was a lot of trading back and forth to be able to to feed themselves and do what they needed to do and i just needed to make sure i'm covering the points i wanted to so key is now what's that mean for today if if going the wrong direction if we were to care for all of our president what could we start with today what we could we bring back and recently we had a discussion with actually tony buck and donna seltz from the chamber we were talking about a food hub and education center it's a selection center for the purchase of foods good for the health and well-being of each person and that educates people about healthy food selection preparation and healthy meals and how to eat meals as a family it's estimated as a new branch of medicine called lifestyle medicine it's estimated 85 percent of diseases in our country today are caused by lifestyle and the vast majority of them are caused by the foods that we eat good foods equal good health and this could be a food hub and education center for bringing back and educating people about good diets in our lives and good foods next in the journey are the are the swedes and they came aboard uh who came to our country in 1638 on the on a ship named that kalmar nickel and i love the quote from the uh on the church there saying light from on high shines in the darkness that was really a theme of their of their uh coming to uh america and what they were they their essence was universal acceptance you'll see that more as we went to it but you could see in the images there that they didn't fight the indians they joined with them they came here for economic freedom and they quickly saw that the indians could do things make things that they couldn't make and that they could sell over in europe and so from an economic standpoint they joined with them and began to trade with them and to be able to sell their goods overseas and they also recognized that for their creativity to continue to develop they needed to practice their own religion the way they practiced it and so religious freedom was also brought about at that time due to the realization on the swedesport that that was key to develop the capacity of the person at that time so the pictures really bring out that there was no weapons that they were pointing at each other they had them there but they were joining each other the other part that was key for the swedes was craftsmen craft people of all variety from the business standpoint they came in and as they grew and established themselves they set up little shops in wilmington so wilmington was filled with little skilled shops individuals or groups of individuals using their their craft skills and selling their craft skills and again that was part of the business development along the brandywine was the flourishing craftsman that came in and set up shops and helped to build our country at that level now if you look at the spirit of the suite the wrong direction again sorry about that if you look at that picture there that really brings out to me beautifully but with their spirit which was be accepting of all walks of life and enable their manifestation of purpose and spirit so that started to establish at that point the spiritual value of work that people were working on and so that began really between the swedes and the indians but then that was really brought alive quite a bit in the in the wilmington area so what could the swedes be about today if that was alive in our country that spirit that force what could it be generating for us and if you think about the craftsman and the mar and the skills it'd be a center for the development of marketable skills for people with underutilized or unused or people that just want to advance themselves be a center for marketable skills that people could you could actually pay people to do that but then they had a marketable skill they could go out and employ themselves and begin their own creating of things that we need for our society and it's not just marketable skills for the jobs that exist but what are the jobs we need today to deal with the issues that we're facing and so it can be a great source of bringing back the marketable skills that are at the source of generating our businesses next in our journey is wilmington and its essence was about altruistic entrepreneurialism altruistic entrepreneurialism i'll work on that more but i'd like to read you the definition of altruism that i thought really fit what wilmington was about it's a principle and altruism is a principle and moral practice of concern for happiness of other human beings resulting in the quality of life both material and spiritual that's what took place in wilmington and that's what the city of wilmington was about and the quote there is also very instructive and that again was from the national geographic article and it compared the brandywine valley to silicon valley it said brandywine valley was to automation what silicon valley was to the computer microprocessing one thing that that i think it's important to keep in mind at that point in time automation did not mean the elimination of people from jobs at the time and this was alive in our country to the point that i worked in industry uh back in 67 i mean that in terms of the innovation and the automation of processes the things that were brought in were meant to extend the capacity of people not take the place of it and and eliminate them so that was a different form of automation at least as i experienced it in procter gamble when i worked there in fact i had a savings project that was going to pay off in in four months i thought it was the greatest thing going and the general manager said he kicked me out of his office really he said unless you come back and tell me how it's going to produce a quality product and develop your people i want to prove it so that was still alive in our country then and our corporations some of them is that's the best ones really we're still practicing that so on the picture there let's kind of get more out of the images here on the bottom left here was the first automated flower mill in our country and that was generated along the brand new wine and the person sitting here the image of a person had a milling machine or a millwright at least that's the closest i could get to it was was key to the formation of that automated flower mill and it turns out the person's name was martin poole who did this and he worked on the milling process to produce a roller it took him one year to produce a roller that was essential in the grinding process he dedicated himself to perfect that to a point that that roller could allow the milling process to perfect the grains of flour to a level of grain that was desired in europe brandywine superfine and that was produced by the flour mills that were along wilmington and that was the brand name brandywine superfine and it was the finest flour in the world but it started with this with martin poole at the mill right working one year on one roll and then after that they were able to get it down to where it would take two or three days for the rolling for the for the milling process to be able to produce the role of that quality so silas i thank you for the dedication to your craft and what you were able to create because that was key to starting to bring about that level of perfection a quote here says it was role maker the role makers work as art and science it was performing upon ponderous iron as delicate work as a watchmakers or that employed by the finest scientific equipment so this is a common example that in many different individuals came perfected what they were doing and that was the source of generating a new industry so let's look at what were the business sets were generated along the brand new wine during that time the ones that and i could have had a dozen charts of all the different industries but in particular ship making ship building rather and this book here i know sam can get it but it's a the city that launched a thousand ships would you believe that up until the middle 50s or the 60s more ships were being built in wilmington the rest of the country combined so it had the ship building industry rail card manufacturers competed with pullman they had the first continuous rolling paper mill at gilpin mill metal working industry silversmith the silversmithing here was again exportable to to europe cotton milling textile industry all the products that were made tanning was the finest in the world all the products made were of exportable value that had distinctive value around the world that was a key aspect of what was being done in wilmington also in that picture you'll see that there is harriet tubman and thomas garrett uh picture and and the question is okay how did they fit into the industrialization that was going on well the the the enslaved africans were were came here for for work and for freedom and so they were a source of valuable labor to the industries and they were admired for their skills for their determination and for their strengths and that led to the growth of of many of our industries including here in coatesville at lukans in a talk once at lucan's i found out that there were a thousand african-american workers employed at lucan's in the year 1900 so at the start of the 1900s there were a thousand african-american workers here and a comment by by skip houston who was the last family member who was the ceo charles lukens houston made the statement that that they enabled the growth of lukans that it would not have happened elsewhere so it was very powerful to forming the industries along the brandywine and then further on as you know in detroit and around the country now the spirit of wilmington to me was symbolized best by the picture there which was to enable man to develop his potential self through his work again it was bringing out the spiritual value of work work was a source of self-regeneration not cheap labor to be able to create something of value for the community and nation and to become more valuable in the process was a virtue for people that they deeply honored and wilmington was recognized as the creativity capital of our nation at that time so what could they do today well back to the foods and the foods that are not generating health for us is the development of health generating foods and fooding processes that are good for the body soul and spirit not just our bodies we have to be feeding all parts of us to really be healthy and that's to me a key innovation that that that force could bring about in the city of wilmington so the people growing the food are also growing their spirits so it's not just how do we mechanize it down to the point that there's no human growth and no human interference and they're growing and then we can better understand the holistic growing processes next in the uh we're doing on time okay next in the flow of history came the battle of the brandywine which took place september 1st september 11th i slipped and said told you my birthday september 11 1777. is when the battle came about and the i'd like to read to you the poem that's on the left there in the red if you can't read it from there and because to me it's a very very powerful statement of what was captured on the brand new wine this this plaque is at valley forge and so as you know the troops retreated from the brand of wine to valley forge spent the winter there and here in the place of sacrifice in this veil of the shadow of that death out of which the life of america rose regenerate and free let us believe with an abiding faith that to them liberty union will seem as dear and liberty as sweet and progress as glorious as they were to our fathers and our to you and me and that the institution what's made us happy preserved by the virtue of our children shall bless the remotest generation of the time to come and the title on the page that might be hard to read is it's a military history of the battle that lost philadelphia but saved america and you probably know that when they captured philadelphia it was a hollow victory because our government had escaped to out in the lancaster area and then went on from there to other other areas but they were able to continue governing the country and i'd like to bring out that in the uh i'm going to read something here from a magazine that identified from the american battlefield trust in the north american land trust have have both given the brandywine battlefield its highest priority in our nation and the recently buying 72 acres at 38 million dollars which shows how it's important to be recognized and their statement is that at the brandywine the continental army under general george washington proved that it could hold its own against british regulars in an all-day stand-up fight other powers in europe took notice helping forge the alliance that led to the american independence it was the largest battle of the revolutionary war so it was very significant in our nation's history and actually a little little aside if you go to the battlefield park and chad's ford the deed there was misread by a factor of 10. so at the roughly 67 acres there should be 670 acres more the size of valley forge little dot there they missed so what is the spirit that we need to bring forth today from that battle and it's captured in that statement we the people not them not they not the government if you look at this the picture by by howard pyle they were not looking to the government in their eyes to solve anything they were looking in their souls and what what the idea was they left the battle saying that their the idea of that they were pursuing was more powerful than any army in the world and the idea was inculcating the belief that government was of the people by the people for the people and that spawned the constitution something to reflect on now we're on to lukan's home here and i'm sure you know uh more about that than i do so i got a little bit ahead of my papers here the essence to me as i looked at it of of lukens was eternal hope if you uh i read a quote from rebecca lukens that really told me that on one of the letters that were written i think it was a letter to her daughter might have been some other letters that when she was asked why did you take over the mill a woman run it for over 20 years she said i looked into the eyes of the workers and i knew then that they depended on me for their families and their futures i knew i could not let them down that's a powerful statement and also very powerful is in the quote her quote was that in 1834 they had completely remodeled and rebuilt the mill who rebuilt it the people in the mill it was not outside consultants that came in to do it and the whole metallurgy field was then formed in this area which leukens came to dominate through the technological innovations and creative spirit of its workers demonstrating again a quote the greatest care and attention to making the best no better on the market and and if you look at the major industries that were able to profit from it the locomotive industry if you think of local boilers were blowing up at that time and they were not considered safe to rise on and and lucan's produced the first seamless boiler and that allowed the whole locomotive industry to generate to expand across our whole country and they were making plates in this mill that no one in the world could make now some people can make it but at that time no one in the world can make and became a source of our national security in in our ships and battlefields and all the way to the point that the first the the trees as they're called that were still standing from the world trade center came from coatesville because no other alloys in there in the country had the strength to form the first nine floors of the world trade center and uh and and also in terms of how did that come about what i have pictured down here is a uh that's a about a 30 foot high at least 30 foot high drying drum for the paper industry and again talking to skip he told me about the fun of the running the steel mill when you were always creating something new he talked about going to the paper industry and saying what would you need to be able to evolve your paper making process to another level think of that question and then they would come back and create the alloys that would enable them to do that so he was selling something they couldn't now create but he knew that the workers had the capacity to create it and they had a metallurgy research battle lab here for doing that so from a business standpoint the locomotive railroad industry as i mentioned ship building military businesses national security power generating industry you can see the nuclear power symbol there there was a point in time that that if you were going to build a nuclear power plant you had to get steel from here for some portion of the process so the key there was also as you can see from the skipped statement it was market driven it was not just to improve efficiency and cost it was market driven what would create greater value in the market and for customers and that generated the the creative spirit of people so taking a little bit but it's worth it it's long here what was the spirit of lukens about and this to me is the most powerful image on all this whole whole slide people with locked arms sitting around the globe that's the image that we need to work toward and the spirit of lukens was about work should be directed toward the common good of all the living systems common good meaning what's enabled what's needed to enable the growth and development of all living things both human and in nature that's what's needed today living systems again from skip putting water back into the brandywine cleaner than they took it out that was their challenge and we can continue with that challenge of looking at how do we bring back that wild river and bring back the creative spirit that was generated around it's not just about the water because we're not separate from the water it's the water and what it generated so what could that create today for me what comes to my mind is what i would title a living materials design center today we're using materials that last 450 years as one-time throwaways what kind of sense does that make as chief firethunder says how could you be so stupid and we're designing things for their obsolescence not for their eternal value not for their regenerative value can we see the regenerative value of what we're producing and you know think of that seven generation principle so it takes a different way of thinking that we're putting into design today so this can be a source of regenerating that that living material design center and that would be a a source of also bringing back a lot of new creative enterprises and entrepreneurs which is what we need to bring about each of the ones that i mentioned so moving on to dupont dupont was the sixth point along the brandywine pretty close in time to lukens and what their essence was about was a noble duty that e.i dupont pictured there when his it was part of the aristocracy in france and his family was facing the threats of the revolution in france and he came here but his dad said before he left you have a noble obligation you are given much you now have to give back much and that's how he came here and started building his mill and that was his motivation you know what what uh what he was about was to develop the soul of the person he was looking at developing their inner spirit and will and he saw that that would overcome all obstacles and he actually died disappointed that he wasn't able to do that better than he did but at one point in its history it was the largest enterprise in the entire world they owned general motors during world war and during world war ii they were responsible for designing building operating the production of plutonium for atomic bar and bombs because they knew more about hazard management they learned the hard way by mills blowing up and killing people and they eventually mastered the the science of managing hazards better than anybody in the world and again the milling process as you can see the brand of the gunpowder was super fine but it was super fine it was it was milled to the grain that fit your purpose so it wasn't just one size fits all what were you going to do and they would mill something to fit that that purpose perfectly but long about the time that they continued to do that someone the head of research came to the to lamont dupont at that time and convinced them that the company needed to pursue a totally new strategy which was to create new sciences sciences that don't exist and not and direct their research that direction not just directed towards improving the efficiency effectiveness of processes and they saw the magic of the research and manufacturing integration and they came to the the belief that we in dupont can create innovations to create solutions to any issue facing society and that led to the the to the innovation of nylon which came about and started their their theme of better things for better living through chemistry but the story of nylon you know that at that time soap was being used for for uh stockings they had become extremely expensive and most women could not afford it and then during the war there was no uh silk available and nylon was being directed toward the war efforts for parachutes and things like that so they they dedicated all their products to being able to support the united states in the war so after the war there was an article about the nylon riots it was like when the when the iphones and the apple was introducing new products and the way people crowded macy's had people crowded around it the same way for the nylon stockings but that enough on that but it led to textiles and high-tech clothing of today as far as businesses another business that dupont developed was electronics for automobile industry that led to driverless cars today paints for the automobile industry fibers of all times kinds of kevlar nomax tyvek that you might have heard about they're going to construction businesses manufacturing business safety businesses so all those fibers help to spur all those businesses you know so it was a second tier effect it created new industries from that standpoint making gloves that you couldn't cut through making fire protective equipment no fire could touch kevlar was this absolutely most shock absorbent material in the world and that changed industries that led to developing new industries so they were real generators of that so the dupont the spirit which were captured here is the most complex of all the statements and it's you have to really kind of absorb it but if you if you look at the key statement there it's to see our salvation and glorification what do we take glory in today and what do we see is going to save us today just the next day or is taking a longer term view of what our life is about in the emulation and evolution of creation processes so if you look at emulating creation processes the process the creation processes of the world have to do with the with the earth isn't about creating us in water and air and fire those four basic elements of all living organisms on our earth you know in terms of how do we emulate them and not conflict with them would be a key opportunity for us and that's what the new science of wholeness would need to bring about and so to me what would that create today is clean energy you know if we're pursuing driverless cars we ought to be pursuing pollution-free cars clean energy as it's generated in a tree emulating photosynthesis photosynthesis and is the is the source of all energy we're taking from it from the oil in the ground or natural gas or whatever we're doing comes from photosynthesis emulating the photosynthesis as it's generated in a tree as a living system creating a science that can do that would be would make a significant difference in europe in our world and would be a worthy investment of our time and energy last spot is it's taken a little bit longer but it's howard pyle howard pyle was the first illustrative artist in our nation a lot of people know the name wyeth howard pyle taught nc wyeth but the source of art and this era came through came about through howard pyle and he was all focused his essence was animating souls animating souls of whatever you were painting of the person of any scene had a soul to him and art was the purpose of art was to animate the soul of what you were trying to paint and the quote that is very is it there or it's on the next chart the next chart [Music] was a quote from van gogh saying that that he doesn't know who this artist is who this pile is but that his art is inspiring him every day and what he essentially did was he took flack static and staged art and brought it to life if you look at all of his paintings they're living they pop out at you and he did that so much that the printing presses could not print it and so he generated the whole printing industry printing technology and advancing the printing technology and also the the art became so much in demand that the books that were written or the magazines that it was was shown in had to be translated in different languages it was shipped around the world that's how van gogh heard about it so it went around the world and and because of the art being so lively and so pyle was was was also a stimulator of industries in our country very much so and he was an author as well of many books so he also stimulated the actual publishing of his own through the books the little known part about himself is down in the left here and you can't read it there but it says dupont institute of art science and industry in philadelphia and and the school of illustration howard powell was the director of it and the statement there he applied to one of his pirates but it really applies to him he was a man who knew his own mind and what he wanted and in terms of the kind of students that he brought he brought over 160 students one third of them were women that was unheard of at that time what he required though was fierce determination because he knew that they were going to be have to have that because of of his teaching process because he realized he spent the whole first year teaching people about their mind he talked about the mind not art that he said if you can't paint the soul of what you're painting you can't paint and and he said to howard pyle one of his quotes all of his archives are a delaware art museum he said a quote to howard through ncy after in one of his sessions you have but you have too many thoughts in that painting it's confusing a great painting can only handle one great thought think about that so it's a combination of art science and industry and one of my favorite people to read is a person by the name of david bowm a renowned physicist nobel laureate took over from einstein he talked about the relationship essential relationship between art and science he said both have a need to understand the totality of something to see the living harmony and beauty of its harmoniously order ordered harmoniously ordered structural relationships once they see that then they go down separate paths wants to paint that and bring it to life and the painting the other to bring it to life and new scientific insights and technologies so when we eliminate art we eliminate a mind and that's what we need to bring back and that's why to me what the what it could serve today is to generate the brand of wine school of living systems so we can open up our minds to see the liviness of life around us and see how that can be a source of generating a lot of new businesses and innovations and creative enterprises and entrepreneurs in our country once again so what's the hope of all this appreciate your patience and going through this whoops so the the picture i'm sorry about that i skipped over that for howard pyle picture the person in the center here which is is again one of my favorite pictures of him is thomas jefferson crafting the constitution declaration of independence if you look down here all the ruppel papers it wasn't a one-time deal it was just continuing to continue and continuing to perfect what he was writing but if you look at those things there you know if you ever feel like you've been marooned that picture on the on the left there to me just really conveys it the feeling of being marooned so what i'd like to leave you with is what's the hope of all this the hope is that a reawakening of the spiritual heritages of our democracy along the brand of wine can once enlighten us and be a spiritual source for regenerating the creative potential and spirit of persons and of our enterprises aimed at creating a more ideal and sacred way of living for all living things such that a revolution of freedom and opportunity is manifested in the world today for which the founders of our democrat democracy sacrificed their lives so thank you again for watching for folding and hopefully for digesting and joining in this spirit and joining in our own ways of being able to contribute to what our country needs to be about and what we need to be about in our own lives thank you you

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Published: Fri Oct 02 2020