At the mississippi book festival in jackson to talk about literacy and american libraries. [inaudible conversations] good morning everyone. Welcome to the third mississippi book festival. In the Mississippi Department of archives and history. Ive been asked to remind everyone that you are more than welcome to take photographs, post to social media, and the hash tag is literarylongparty. This is the conversation with the library of Congress Panel sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council and friends of the library. Mississippi is fortunate to have so strong a supporter as its literature, music and art as congressman greg harper. Now in his fifth term in the United States house of representatives, congressman harper chairs the committee on House Administration and serves on the House Committee on energy and commerce, the joint committee on printing and perhaps most pertinently for us here today, as the chair of the joint committee of the library of congress. Here is congressman gre
25year intervals, do you want to be independent of britain . And if you remember, the graph like nd of like this over the years. In other words, as the colonies move along from jamestown to this more and more people time decide that he are handle this on their own, they dont need to be ruled from westminister and eventually of course some of them decide to produce a declaration of independence. That graph would make the revolution pretty easy to understand, right . Its just like you growing up. When youre 2, the last thing you want is your parents to thump you out the door and say ok, now you got to run your own life. By the time youre 12, it might look pretty good. By the time youre 18, there you are. So if this grass is right, the colonies are going through the normal process of maturing and the smart parents, of course, will keep an eye on things and as the child gets more confident, ease up on the rings and in that case dedication can come about reasonably nicely. If the parents do
Department of archives and history. Ive been asked to remind everyone that youre more than welcome to take photographs. You can post to social media and the is this is the library of Congress Panel sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council and the first mississippi friends of the library. Mississippi is fortunate to have so strong a supporter of the literature, music and arts as congressman gregg harper. Now in his fifth term in the United States house of representatives, congressman harper cochairs the committee o House Administration serves on the house many of energy and commerce for joint micommittee printing and perhaps most importantly, for us today, the chair of the joint committee of the library of congress. Here is congressman gregg harper. [applause] thank you so much. What a great day for mississippi. The third annual mississippi book festival. All of the work that has been done, you cannot say not to all of the people that have participated. It is my honor to have in
Chris mississippi archives and history, i have been asked to remind everyone that youre more than welcome to take photographs to social media. This is the conversation of library in Congress Panel and sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council and the southern mississippi friends of the library. Mississippi is fortunate to have so strong a supporter of literature, music and arts as congressman greg harper, now in fifth term, harper shares the committee on House Administration and serves House Committee of energy and commerce and joint committee on printing an more pertantly chair committee. Here is congressman gregg happen harper,. What a great day. All the work thats been done, you cant say enough to all of the people that have participated, but its my honor to have in mississippi dr. Carla hayden 14th librarian of congress. Still new on the job. We had an incredible day yesterday with her here at the state Library Commission and also we we had just an amazing day, didnt we. I wa
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