19th amendment, the [inaudible] serves as a destination for discovery and inquiry and to introduce our audience to new narratives and themes in american history. We cant wait to see you again when the library opens to engage in new conversations about womens history, equality, democracy and the right to vote. [background sounds] good afternoon. My names nathan, and on behalf of humanities tennessee, i want to welcome you to the 32nd annual southern festival of books. Humanities tennessee would also like to say a special thank you to their key sponsors, the Metro National arts commission, the ingram group, tennessee arts commission, Vanderbilt University and parnas us books. Before we get started, i want to share a bit about our session. Theres these are unique times, and the book festivals also unique this year. So we we really appreciate everyone being here, and humanities tennessee carrying on with the event. If youd like to purchase a book, please use the parnas saws book link, and
Rebuild a symbiotic relationship with ian botham that this is really going on and im sorry but im. More and more people being to cities in search of a better life the United Nations estimates that more than 2 thirds of the worlds population could live in a city by 2050 as a result areas are empty threatening traditional farm life and the Food Production we always rely on one farmer is bringing new techniques to heel farming hoping to migrate to the locals to come back home. It is rare for a mr modi to have the chance to lend his wife and father to the family tons of farm in the hilly village of bugger daughter in the northern indian rock in the state. Farmers in the region were once able to make a living from their feeds but for this family those days are gone. People were so little dependent on the other man and so they invested more time and theyre fighting now against people so their fields and get busy with other work and cant come back to their crops for months the fields are left
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