The program begins with a video of Walt Whitman interviewing Marshall Field. Field then then begins his keynote presentation in the year 1785 when fur trader Jean Baptiste Du Sable began Chicago's hist-ory. Other familiar names flash across the screen: fur trader John Kinzie Fort Dear-born territorial legislator Ninian Edwards Gurdon Hubbard, the first meat packer, banker, state legislator William Ogden, the first mayor who had booming real estate and railroad businesses. Field then outlines the business innovations of he and Potter Palmer. He describes the Great Fire of 1871 and his dramatic attempts to save his store. Fields talks about two of his great managers Harry Selfridge and John G. Shedd. At the fairgrounds of the 1893 World's Colum-bian Exhibition, a video of the Fair's Director of Works, Danial Burnham, shows Burnham and Field in conversa-tion. The program ends with a glowing testimonial from Millie the store shop lifter.

Ben Franklin has much to say. And one time when Johns Adams was listening, John fell asleep. Ben's keynote slide pre-sentation traces his youth as a young printer who eventually becomes the larg-est paper wholesaler in the colonies the Royal Deputy Postmaster publisher of the Pennsylvania Gazette which earned him half his business profits and publisher of Poor Richard's Almanac with its wise sayings such as "Keep you eyes wide open before marriage and half shut after." Ben describes his electricity experiments and his invention of the lightning rod. Ben's discussion of the revolution begins with the French and Indian war of 1753 which sets the stage for the American Revolution. He relates his troubles with the British government as Pennsylvania's representative to England. Along the way he studies and names the Gulf Current and formulates a geologic theory that is the precursor to Plate Tectonics. Then he relates his work as Ambassador to France bringing the French to our side.

"Science changes the way we see the natural world. We have to be open to change our view." (William Hammond). Union Surgeon General, Dr. William Hammond, in a Keynote slide program reviews the courageous individuals in the past who challenged medical beliefs of their day 16th Century Amboise Pare replacing cauterization with ligation 17th Century William Harvey discovering the circulation of the blood 19th Century Rene Laennec inventing the listening tube, the precursor to the stethoscope. Hammond outlines the medical challen-ges and advancements during the Civil War and shares stories of courageous nurses who stood up to the generals and surgeons to get the best medical care to the wounded. Photos of the instruments in a surgeon's basic kit are shown and their uses explained

President Lincoln naturally begins with some of his humorous stories. He then reviews his childhood, attendance in a blab school, and his desire for books. He was elected to Congress in 1846 and then ran for the Senate in 1858 against Stephen A. Douglas. In the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln puts forth his strong views on slavery. He proceeds to the riots in Maryland and his sending in the Union army and the first battle of Bull Run, a disaster for the Union forces. Examination is made of Generals McClellan, Grant and Lee. Comment is made that "We cannot have a free government without elections." He visits a battlefield hospital and relates a touching visit with a confederate soldier who said, "There should be no enemies in this place." He concludes with a statement made as he raised the flag in front of theTreasury building "The part assigned to me is to raise the flag, which if there is no fault in the machinery, I will do and when it is up it will be for the American people to keep it up."

The founder of Oldsmobile, R.E. Olds, narrates a Keynote slide program with stories about early auto inventors: Benz, Olds, Winton, Ford, Dodge and auto racing at Evanston, Illinois and Cleveland Ohio with Barney Oldfield and Bad Luck Baker and especially the first cross country trips from San Francisco to New York City. There were only 141 miles of rural roads that were paved, so it’s dirt, sand, mud in 1903. Three teams raced across the country. Dr. H. Nelson Jackson with Sewall Crocker and Bud the bulldog in a Winton (63 days). Bud didn't drive. Tom Fetch and journalist Marius Krarup in a Packard (61 days). Lester Whitman and Eugene Hammond in an Olds Curved Dash (72 days). In 1909 Alice Ramsey and three other women drove from New York City to San Francisco in a Maxwell (59 days). The three teams are followed up mountains, across deserts, in rain-storms and broken auto parts.

​National Park Director, Stephen Mather, the creator of the Twenty Mule Team Borax ad campaign, takes you on a Keynote slide tour of the national parks. From the first park Yellow-stone to Glacier, Lassen Volcanic, Mauna Loa, and Yosemite. Mather speaks of influentials who campaigned for the establishment of Rocky Mountain Park: Enos Mills (the Father of Rocky Mountain Park), F.O. Stanley of Stanley Steamer auto company, Mary Belle King Sherman (the Park Lady), she was essential to Rocky Mountain, Grand Canyon, Mount Olympus, Sequoia and the Everglades parks. He also takes you on a Mather Mountain Party, a ten day camping trip with editors, writers, and congressman and other influentials showing them the natural wonders that needed new parks to preserve them for all generations. During his tenure the park system doubled in size and more Americans visited than ever before.