Thanks for joining us so 1st I want to ask you about the person that you dedicate your book to Clark Stinson a person that you write about that makes this also I understand for you a deeply personal issue he was your best friend tell me a little bit about Clark what happened to him Clark was my best friend through junior high school and high school. And after we got out of school we we went up to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan together. With a couple of 12 foot tepees that we had bought through the Whole Earth Catalog and spent the whole summer in the middle of the Cherokee and it was a 3 day walk back there and all the. Trapper let us back in the middle of this very very dense forest in the upper peninsula and we put up our teepees and we spent 3 or 4 months there doing spiritual practice you know we d be silent for days and we can you know we brought a bunch of books and you know 100 pounds of dried fruit and grains and that s what we hate and. You know Clark Clark. He and I just d
The central Arkansas library system Mr Dumas has written a book a political memoir called The Education of Ernie dimiss through the eyes of this revered journalist we re deeply personal untold stories and learn about the fragilities and strings of some of Arkansas most controversial and colorful public figures how this young boy Ernie born in a rural south Arkansas town that had a little book learning in the town grew up to be the associate editor of the largest newspaper in Arkansas is the story of what makes America great with no further ado I ll say it s a pleasure to welcome to the tiple political journalist 1st turned author or writer and now historian Mr Ernie Dumas Thank you Kerry you re welcome before we get into politics and your life s work let s talk about your rural town you grew up in your mother and your father and I asked you right before we came on to pronounce the name of the town and you said it s not even there anymore it s culture shift and it s c h j m p h you kn
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