Thoughts and prayers go out to everybody in the lake charles in Cameron Parish and the whole area. I know we were speaking earlier saying, there will probably have many weeks if not months of no power and having trouble with her water system. Even people as far north as shreveport and monroe are still without power. Our thoughts go out to them. Anyway, we are here today with jack davis, will be in conversation with the author and jack is a professor of history specializing in environmental history and sustainability studies. And also the author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning the gulf the making of an american sea. The New York Times book review called this book a beautiful march to a neglected see. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize it was a New York Times notable book for 2017 and that several other this list that you including the washington post, npr and forbes. Jack, welcome. Its a pleasure to have you here with us today. My pleasure to be here. Im going to turn the floor over to jack
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Opportunity. You may or may not know that tulsa is one of six chapters throughout the country to host a pen america chapter, we have pen america tulsa, im really proud to say im the leader of that group and its been a relationship that just gets better and better. We had the opportunity to do several events with pen, probably even prior to our affiliation as an actual chapter. It really started laying the groundwork for this relationship moving forward. Its something that if you dont know the work that penn does, its a very inextricably linked to what we are talking about tonight in many ways. Pen is an organization that advocates for authors, for freedom of the press, for all kinds of important things that are tied to the mission we have through magic city books and the tulsa literary coalition. If you dont know their work i would invite you to go to pen. Org and see every thing they are doing. There is so much going on with limitations to press freedoms, every day something is happen
Six chapters that the country to host a pin america chapter, we opinion america tulsa and im really proud to say im the leader of the group and its been a relationship that gets better and better. Weve had the opportunity to do several event with pin and prior to affiliation as an actual chapter and started laying the groundwork for this relationship moving forward and its something if you dont know the work that they do, its been veranamazing organization advocs for authors and freedom of the press and all kinds of important things in the mission that we have with the Tulsa Literary Coalition and it is a membership driven program and organization and i would invite you to go to pen. Org and see everything that they are doing especially right now. There is so much going on with limitations to press freedoms, everyday something is happening that we didnt probably know about in the work that is happening. We have a special membership promo and if you go to the website you can use the cod
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