Panel, the will make their way to the authors ten next door to that and will be happy to personalize and sign the books for you. Our moderator is timis bell. During his 30plus years as a journalist his has serve as writer, photographer, photo editor, pain designer, and shreddographyer. He researches and writes and photographs books on the civil war, civil rights history, and the gulf coast in 2007 he want inducted be usm communication and journalism hall of fame. Id like to thank all of you for coming. I was going to start the session off with the quote from another mississippi author, shelby foote. Any understand offering this nation has to be based on an noning of the civil war. The civil war deoffendded us as what we are and it opened us to what we game, good and bad. Its necessary if youre going to understand the american character of the 20th century to learn about this enormous catastrophe of the 19th 19th century. The crossroads of our being and a hell of a crossroads. Id like t
Minutes will be back with more live coverage of the mississippi book festival. If you want to see the schedule of events go to book tv. Org or you can visit the mississippi book festival website at ms book festival. Com. First heres more book tvs visit to jackson last year. When i was a writer i think i said in the south that i take for what i know for granted and i feel like i am judged because my eyes have been cleaned by experience so i know where a. M. I have a base to see people moving in that clear lights were in jackson mississippi it is a National Historical landmark and wealthy was a writer she was born in 1909 and died in 2001. She was a writer who won just about every literary prize there was. She studied throughout the world really published in many languages, she wrote wrote short short stories. That was the form she most value. She had four collections of short stories in total in just over 50 stories of that collection. There is onenr writers beginning to look at the tim
Phrases were used to these daysgrant went from rags to riches and did it the hard way. He earned it. And he had to really fight and scrap, but he made it. A question toward tom here. Involves one of mississippis own guys, earl van dohrn, i hear he is quite the ladys man, and suspect, general . Easterly van dohrn is a fascinating individual. He is at the heart of what i do at the Civil War Interpretive Center because he is the army commander, army of west tennessee, his campaign is to retake all of west tennessee but he has to take the garrison at corinth first, and he has got a lot to live up to. Much is thought of him at the beginning of the war. He is the second ranking jenna mississippi, only to jefferson davis. He is placed in command of the transmississippi department, and he leads an army to defeat at pea ridge. He brought across the mississippi river, shortly after the battle of shiloh. He misses a few opportunities to hurt general halaks army group during the siege of corinth.
Mississippi author, shelby foote. Any understand offering this nation has to be based on an noning of the civil war. The civil war deoffendded us as what we are and it opened us to what we game, good and bad. Its necessary if youre going to understand the american character of the 20th century to learn about this enormous catastrophe of the 19th 19th century. The crossroads of our being and a hell of a crossroads. Id like to crow introduce my kole legs. On the far right is timothy smith. Mike mallard, justin solonick, and tom parson and ill pitch it to tim. Its beautiful to be here with you today. I think what well do first is tell you a little bit about ourselves and introduce ourselves. My name is tim smith. I live in tennessee. I teach at the university of tennessee at martin. And mississippian at heart, though. A native mississippian, grew up in carrollton and went to ol mississippi misstate, got degrees from both somehow. Egg bowl day im a winner either way. My publications in ter