Watching my dad, learning the little tricks to being a good wildlife officer. Like dont slam the door when you get out of the car, that sort of thing. Because they hear you and its over. So i couldnt wait when i got old enough and i graduated from college, i wanted to be a fish and game warden myself. And hear about reddings writers forum. Coming up next month we have elements of fiction and after that the craft of writing a memoir. And then following up with that we have were going to have a presentation on writing biography. So we keep it as broad as posable to keep the writing interests. Sunday at 2 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv, tour the shasta dam. 2 3 of a mile from one end to the other. Its 883 feet thick. So its actually thicker than it is tall. So from here when we look up at the dam we really get an idea of just how massive shasta dam is. Its like a 60 Story Building standing in front of us. Weighs 15 million tons. Redding, california on cspans book tv and sunday on cspan 3. Working with our cable affil yates and visiting cities across the country. Sunday night on afterwards. Pulitzer prize winning journalist Helene Cooper in her book madam president , the extraordinary journey of Ellen Johnson surleaf. Sheez rr interviewed by karen bass of california. When did you first meet madam president . Known about her all my life. She became famous well, she was minister of finance in 1979 1980 when the coup happened. By that time im 13 or 14 and knew who the minister of finance was. She knew my parents. She was somebody that, as a child growing up in liberia id heard of. She was always criticizing the same government that she worked for and in 1985 when she was arrested and thrown to jail by samuel dough i heard all about that and she became at this time