As many of you know, we are a nonprofit but were dedicated to preserving and celebrating the history of tennis and its greatest champions to inspire fans globally. In addition to presenting the ultimate in tennis induction into the International Tennis hall of fame, we also how is the largest collection of tennis artifacts in museum, which hopefully many of you saw as you came through this evening . Were home to the atp in both this hall of fame opened in july we run a year round tennis club. We have a National Junior tennis and learning chapter for 50 plus at risk youth here in local community. And that all resides in our seven acre property that is National Historic landmark, the building that youre all sitting in was built in 1881 and the grounds out your right were home to the very u. S. National lawn tennis championship as that event grew to be too large here for newport, it moved to the west side tennis center, which is where in 1957, Althea Gibson, the first black person, woman
As many of you know, we are a nonprofit but were dedicated to preserving and celebrating the history of tennis and its greatest champions to inspire fans globally. In addition to presenting the ultimate in tennis induction into the International Tennis hall of fame, we also how is the largest collection of tennis artifacts in museum, which hopefully many of you saw as you came through this evening . Were home to the atp in both this hall of fame opened in july we run a year round tennis club. We have a National Junior tennis and learning chapter for 50 plus at risk youth here in local community. And that all resides in our seven acre property that is National Historic landmark, the building that youre all sitting in was built in 1881 and the grounds out your right were home to the very u. S. National lawn tennis championship as that event grew to be too large here for newport, it moved to the west side tennis center, which is where in 1957, Althea Gibson, the first black person, woman
I wanted to take a moment and share a little bit about the International Hall of fame and our mission. As many of you know, we are a nonprofit but were dedicated to preserving and celebrating the history of tennis and its greatest champions to inspire fans globally. In addition to presenting the ultimate in tennis induction into the International Tennis hall of fame, we also how is the largest collection of tennis artifacts in museum, which hopefully many of you saw as you came through this evening . Were home to the atp in both this hall of fame opened in july we run a year round tennis club. We have a National Junior tennis and learning chapter for 50 plus at risk youth here in local community. And that all resides in our seven acre property that is National Historic landmark, the building that youre all sitting in was built in 1881 and the grounds out your right were home to the very u. S. National lawn tennis championship as that event grew to be too large here for newport, it move
Next from st. Paul minnesota with the help of our local cable partner comcast we talked to carole connolly. I turned a corner and suddenly without warning i stand this whole amir and there it is my mothers face staring back at me in disbelief. The phase i once swore i would never have. Carole connolly the poet laureate of st. Paul minnesota. What is a poet laureate of st. Paul minnesota . Guest at all sort of started when a legislator put a bill in the legislature to make a poet laureate since many states have one. The governor at the time vetoed saying next youll be asking for a poet dancer and a poet potter and even though making a poet laureate cost no money to the state because it goes through commission. Theres absolutely no cost to anyone. A friend of mine had a meeting with Chris Coleman and she said we should have a poet laureate and he said done. Thats how hard i had to work to get appointed. Host what is a poet laureate do . Guest you can do whatever you want. People do Diffe
Those of you who are already mes supporting the Los Angeles Public library, our thanks to you. If youd like to find out more about how the work of the Los Angeles Public library all over the city from resources for veterans, this is were honoring veterans this month to Adult Literacy programs to childrens programs, theres a great way to support the library. And if you do become a member tonight for the first time, we do have a couple of jills books that we could gift you with, if you want to choose a book from our allowed book shelf. Our format is a conversation between jill lepore and alex cohen, and after their conversation they will open to questions. Well have time for some questions, and we ask that you really do ask a question and that you just ask one per customer. We would appreciate it. And afterwards, jill will be signing her books in the lobby courtesy of our library store. And when you do buy your book on site tonight, that also helps support the lie area, so thank you libr