# @macjournalism on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C_-m-GHR4gD
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/23295313-macjournalism-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-09-16T12:36:44.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** McCallum Journalism (@macjournalism) — https://gondola.cc/macjournalism

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THE SHIELD BRINGS YOU MOMENTS FROM #TRIBFEST2024: In the latest post to our website, macshieldonline.com, photojournalist Lillian Gray takes you on a photo walk through the 2024 tribunefest. Gray attended all three days of the festival and took some great notes along with her great photos.

Here’s one:

Early on the morning of Friday Sept 6, students at the texas_tribune Festival had the chance to hear Maryland Gov. Wes Moore speak at a student breakfast held in the Omni Hotel. As students gathered around Moore, they heard him speak about a variety of different issues. For one, Moore touched on education and the importance of understanding American history as a whole and not trying to cover any of it up. 

“Loving your country does not mean lying about it,” he said. “We still stand here today in this moment with an opportunity to continue to build a more perfect union. That is the greatest love story of America that I could ever understand.”

Moore took a moment to tell his experience during the events on March 26, 2024 when a container ship hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge on the Patapsco River in Maryland, causing it to collapse, killing six construction workers.

“I learned at 2:02 in the morning that we were hours away from realizing that that bridge that nearly 40,000 people took to get to work every day, was gone,” he said. “We were hours away from thousands of workers realizing that the port of Baltimore that they relied on, that represents 13% of our state’s economy, was shut down.”

With a difficult and tragic situation at hand, Moore explained the goals he hoped to accomplish following the incident and how he achieved them.

“We were gonna make sure that we could support the workers who woke up that morning and now realized they didn’t have a job,” he said. “We were gonna make sure that we got the port of Baltimore reopened as soon as possible. And we were gonna make sure we rebuilt the Francis Scott Key Bridge. People said it would take 11 months to reopen the port of Baltimore and it took 11 weeks.“

To see the rest of Gray’s photo essay, please visit macshieldonline.com or click the first link in our bio.

#tribfest24

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