A scholar takes a trip across the ocean — and down memory lane — to celebrate John Quincy Adams

The Cincinnati Observatory will celebrate its move to Mt. Lookout 150 years ago in November, an event that drew national attention to the city known as "the Birthplace of American Astronomy," and home to the historic Mitchel telescope. Former president and avid sailor John Quincy Adams was an advocate for a national observatory and traveled to Cincinnati in the fall of 1843 to speak at the cornerstone-laying for the place he called the "lighthouse of the skies" at its original location.

On Cincinnati Edition, we’ll learn more about John Quincy Adams with scholar and Professor Willard Sunderland, Ph.D., and discuss Adams' passion for the sea and night sky. Sunderland recently followed the sailing route that Adams first made across the Atlantic to St. Petersburg as the first American ambassador to the Russian Empire.