Tonight, we are featuring aid journalists and near times bestselling author, Janice Kaplan and her fascinating book the genius of women from overlook to changing the world. Janice will be in conversation with the ceo of the womens fund of central ohio and this is going to be an illuminating evening. I will say that right now. Eni want to thank our venue partners and our fantastic friends and our Wonderful Community partners and all of these organizations have helped us get the word out. I want to fully introduce janice and kelly in a moments, but first i just want to ask you to silencer t phones, or any other noisemakers you might have with youou tonight. So we can just hear everything. I hope many of you have visited the books we are right down three, two blocks down we invite any of you who have not been there before to come and browse. We have been open for just three years and have promoted over 300 books during that period. [applause] besides being a fullservice independent bookst
About the American Experience in world war i. , fivemains of company d lieutenants, i will hold. He is the winner of the colonel Joseph Alexander award for biography from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation and the polar bear expedition the heroes of americas forgotten invasion of russia, 1918 to 1919, which you will be learning more about in his lecture today. A graduate in journalism from the university of minnesota, nelson has worked as a staff writer for the miami herald of the lastred some three decades major stories, so he can expand even further on that concept. He is an active member of the western Front Association and currently lives in eden prairie, minnesota, where he is working on his fifth book of world war i nonfiction. Please join me in giving a round of applause for james carl nelson. [applause] james is this thing on . Oh, good. I have my swag here. Thanks for coming. Im going to talk about the polar bears. Thats a lonely photo, isnt it . In theme with the 1919 piece
Across america. Here is a recent program. Altworks dickinsons sa is the revival of a family business. My sister started evaporating and crystallizing salt with 50 manufacturers in the region which made this Little Valley in West Virginia the largest producer. We are on top of a trapped ancient sea, a 600 millionyearold source. This has been dissolved by a freshwater aquifer which means it runs under us like a salty river. This was pushing up in springs and places, which is how it was discovered, mainly by large animals. Deer and elk and buffalo were here. Native americans came for hunting and gathering salt for themselves, and as european settlers moved west across Allegheny Mountains they found this valuable source of salt, which we take for granted today, how important salt was before refrigeration. The salt industry really started to grow in the early 1800s. The ruffner family, the dickinsons, really started to grow this industry. It was an industry that grew on the backs of slaves.
Carol so as you know, on monday we ended with the freedom rides. Those freedom riders were being funneled into parchment prisons as a way to hush them up. To hush them up quietly without the cameras rolling. The visual image was essential for movement, to be able to see the violence of jim crow. But it wasnt over. Bobby kennedy and jack kennedy knew it. So check kennedy is giving his state of the union jack kennedy is giving his state of the Union Address and president kennedy is all, we are fighting for democracy and freedom and there is an opportunity for what is happening here on the globe because we have all of these people. It was the middle of decolonization. Africans, asians arabs, latinos, those nations are getting free. Imperial bonds are loosening and he sees this as an incredible moment for freedom in the global south. But he didnt mention the american south. In this freedom struggle. A kind of silence there. But he needed that silence, because what he was dealing with, he h
Invasion of russia, 1918 to 1919, which you will be learning more about in his lecture today. A graduate in journalism from the university of minnesota, nelson has worked as a staff writer for the miami herald and has covered some of the last three decades major stories, so he can expand even further on that concept. He is an active member of the western Front Association and currently lives in eden prairie, minnesota, where he is working on his fifth book of world war i nonfiction. Please join me in giving a round of applause for james carl nelson. [applause] james is this thing on . Oh, good. I have my swag here. Thanks for coming. Im going to talk about the polar bears. Thats a lonely photo, isnt it . In theme with the 1919 piece, i am going to start off with a story of a guy named kerry mead. He was a lieutenant, commander of the fourth platoon, company a, 330 night infantry regiment. The morning of january 19, 1919, he and his men were stationed on a river 250 miles south of arkha