Marianne andre is here taking photos for jane. Among them some of the milky way i dont know if you saw that it was absolutely beautiful. There are some other photographers. So we ar are kinder than a litte fishbowl today. This is great. I also want to recognize stephanie. Shes going to be helping with the book signing afterwards. We will try to kind of streamlined process a little bit. How the agenda is going to go, you are going to get introductions of people that will talk about the book. There will be a qanda and then afterwards, you will be able to meet the author and have your books autographed. And at that point, there are a lot of people here dont quite know what you were waiting i would invite you to explore the shop, there are great books, we have some treats in the shop. Jane brought amazing cookies you have to see before they get gobbled up. Restroom is down the hall to the right if anyone needs it, and book sales will be at the counter with pat. But i also have a credit car
5 17. With that, directors, we have. Director chang is sitting in for director haney. Additionally, we have two new members that were welcoming, director forbes, who is representing the San Francisco mayors office, and tom lynne is representing the municipal transagency. With that, director chang . [roll call] and noting that director debars is also absent. With that, we have a quorum. Item three, communications. Directors, im not aware of any. Seeing none, well move into item four, board of directors new and or old business. I believe we have director lipkin with some information. A small update. Yesterday the highspeed Rail Authority released our draft 2020 plan. This is an every other year tradition for us, that we do, the Business Plan sets out the progress that has been made on the program, where were at, what is coming up in front of us, updates a lot of the numbers and figures for the project. The draft that was released is the management recommendation. It is now out for a 60da
Tonight, we have tremendous honor of hearing one of the most veteran world reporters feels a little silly he has an incredible, incredible record and id like to share of Stephen Kinzers background with you. He joined the New York Times in january of 83 after serving several years as latin american correspondent for the boston globe. From 1983 to 89, stephen was firsttime bureau chief in nicaragua. He covered war and social upheaval in central america. He next spent six years in germany as chief of the New York Times bureau in bonn and in berlin. He covered german unification and events in other parts of europe including wars in the former yugoslavia. In 1996, the New York Times opened a new bureau in istanbul in order to provide readers with insight into turkey, a country which as you well know has become increasingly important in world affairs. Times named Stephen Kinzer as the first Istanbul Bureau chief. Prior to moving, stephen spent four years in istanbul for the New York Times. F
Was founded in 1894 and has been continuous ever since. Today well be going into the immersive West Virginia state museum. Well be talking about the early frontier and settlement period, the development of the state, becoming a state, the industrialization of the state, and well go into the later century, the 21st century, and see where West Virginia is today. Were in the West Virginia state museum settlement and frontier period. These are some of the earliest settlers of the land. Were standing beside George Washingtons case where it has specific artifacts such as his sword, his powder horn that he carved during the American Revolutionary war, and the telescope that he used to survey land here, as well as in the eastern panhandle. George washington would have been here in the mid 1700s. During this time period frontier and early settlement, this was western virginia. It was part of the state of virginia at the time and it was an area that wasnt greatly developed. A lot of the ideas of
Booktv. Org. Joining us now on book tv is megan roper, shes the author of this book, unfollow, a memoir of loving and leaving, the west borough Baptist Church, where did you grow up and how . I grew up in kansas at west borough Baptist Church, started by my grandfather and, you know, at west borrow we had the normal life in some place, i went to public schools, made cookies with my parents, all wonderful memories but then there was this, our lives were organized around the picketing ministry, from the age of 5i went out to protest gay people originally and then from there it morphed to everyone outside ofin our church was headed for hell and we had a duty to go and warn them of the consequences of their sins and our whole lives were organized around that ministry. How did the picketing ministry begin, you talk about the loving family that you have and a normal childhood, when did the god hate fags come . In 1991 when i was 5 years old an incident occurred, shortly before that, incident