Text of Speeches

We found some good lecture descriptions in the Caledonian today, including a nice set of notes on a presentation given by Thomas Nast, illustrator.

I've just received a book called The World's Great Speeches that includes speeches by the following members of the Fairbanks St J history p. 320 list: Henry M. Stanley (his Dark Continent speech), Henry Ward Beecher, Booker T. Washington. I also have Russell Conwell's speech "Acres of Diamonds" (he gave others as well). Any thoughts about how much of a given speech we might want typed up? Two or three paragraphs maybe?

Note that Bob has the Fairbanks speech from the opening of the Athenaeum.

How can we think about speeches in a way that fits with what the docents like to do? QUESTION: Should we invite the docent chairperson to our May 28 session, to help us think about this?