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
Good evening, everyone. The floor people shot survived and were taken to the hospital. It happened on interstate 580 in oakland. The car was heading eastbound, approaching 106th avenue. Live coverage from ktvus amber lee who spoke with frustrated drivers today. Reporter drivers tell me these are difficult times already dealing with the pandemic, so they cannot understand why there are some people out there deliberately hurting others. The california Highway Patrol says around 3 30 wednesday afternoon black infinity sedan was shot at while on interstate 580 eastbound near the 106th avenue exit in oakland. Four people inside the car suffered injuries. All four were taken to the hospital. I was pretty shocked. It wasnt anything i thought, i thought there was a wreck or something. Im kind of disappointed Something Like this is going on during a pandemic right now. Its scary. Its just mild. Reporter the incident led chp to close all lanes of traffic eastbound as they investigated the shooti
Good evening, im ken wayne and im pam moore, thank you for joining us on kron 4 news tonight at 8. Another big story tonight as the number of covid19 cases and hospitalizations continues to rise governor Gavin Newsome announcing several new restrictions across the state to try and slow the spread of the virus. We have live on 14 coverage from details on the latest order from the governor to how it affects parts of the bay area kron fours justine waltman live in our newsroom with more on todays announcement just sing. Well pam Governor Newsom announced today the state is shutting down many indoor businesses thats because hospitalizations have increased by 51 . Over the last 2 weeks with these statewide Hospital Capacity now at 60 . So now restaurants bars wineries museums zoos card rooms and movie theaters must closed in 19 counties for 3 weeks now this includes santa clara. Contra costa and solano counties here in the bay area, 72 of the golden states population is now part of a Commun
Growth of the u. S. Beef industry. The Watkins Museum of history and lawrence kansas hosted this event. Good evening everyone. Welcome to our latest book chat at the watkins. I am will hickox. I thank you for joining us tonight. Im starting to sound like a broken record before every event, but these days, when there are so many options for things to do with our free time, and you can just sit on your couch every evening. It is very encouraging and exciting for us here at the museum to have folks come in for our events. We really appreciate it. I know that the staff of the bookstore appreciates it as well. I will introduce tonights guest speaker. James sherow is University Distinguished professor at the department of history at kansas state university. He specializes in researching and teaching environmental history. Kansas history. North American Indian history and the history of the American West. Professor sherow sherow has written six books and numerous articles. It is a familiar re
American history of the civil war. She has published numerous books and articles, including the heart of the eagle, irishamerican volunteers in the union army, and the soldiers of most celebrated unit. This book will be on sale. She will sign it for you and after this presentation. You can get a copy at the gift shop and there will be an opportunity for her to sign. Shes a past president of the Mississippi Historical society, a member of the board of trustees for the society of military history and serves on the Editorial Board of civil war times magazine and the Advisory Board of the National Civil war museum. Her most recent research involves civil war governors of mississippi project, which she directs, this is a Collaborative Partnership between the Mississippi Department of archives and history, the Mississippi Digital Library and the university of southern mississippi, which will scan, stateribe, annotate and civil war era governors papers. About 50,000 documents spanning nine ad