Hi. Welcome to the boston book festival and todays session. My name is christine, and i am a board member of the boston book festival, and i am just one of dozens which feels like hundreds who work behind the scenes and truly believe that the festival is a wonderful source of inspiration and eyedsharing. Idsharing ideasharing. We have been gifted a beautiful new vespa, its under the welcome tent, and all donations will go towards keeping the festival free for you all. Donations are just 10, and i would love to see one of you riding around the city in that beautiful thing. So thank you so much. One other administrative thing is we will have a book signing right across the hall where you can ask the presenters any additional questions. So please enjoy todays session. Thank you. [applause] hello. Im Alexander Danner of the writers room of boston. I will be your moderator for tonights presentation with hillary chute and Sarah Glidden. I myself am an author, im also a writer of comics with
Today in newtown, connecticut, more sad reminders of what happened just a week ago. Funerals are being held today for students Emilie Parker anna marquez green, joe feen gay. Yesterday morning at 9 30, people paused to remember the loss. They held a moment of silence and in the town Church Bells Rang 26 times. The National Rifle association is finally speaking out on the pass ker in newtown, but the group isnt addressing the idea of banning or limiting guns used to kill the students and teachers at sandy hook elementary. They say the answer is deploying armed guards at schools. I call on Congress Today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put Armed Police Officers in every Single School in this nation. It the only that i can stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Some politicians were quick to slam their proposal. The nra, i would say that they were tone deaf, but its beyond that. Theyre just deaf. I mean, they have completely ignored, dont understan
SHENANDOAH JUNCTION, W.Va. (WV News) – Martinsburg was undefeated and very talented. Hedgesville finished as state runners-up in class AAA a year ago. And Jefferson, well, Jefferson is known as
During the interwar years, “folk art fever” swept the Northeastern United States.1 Early transmitters included Robert Laurent, Charles Sheeler and other artists who contracted the fever in rural outposts like Ogunquit, Maine or the Pennsylvania German enclave of Bucks County and brought it back to New York City, where the Whitney Studio Club put objects from their collections on display in 1924.