Good afternoon and welcome to the historic Trinity United Methodist church. We feel fortunate to be in this beautiful space which was made possible by the generosity of jack and mary, im honored to serve as volunteer for the 11th annual savanna book festival and so glad you also participated in this years festival. It is presented by george power, david and nancy cintron, the shia Family Foundation and mark and hats. We want to thank our literary members and individual sponsors and donors who made and continue to make saturday at the book festival a free event. 90 of the revenue comes from donors like you so thank you very much. We are excited to have a savanna book festival apps available this year. Look in your program if you would like information on downloading that apps to your telephone. A couple housekeeping notes. Following this presentation, our author, deanne stillman, will sign festival purchased copies of this book. If you want to stay in this venue for the presentation tha
The theme of this years event is ordinary people, extraordinary times. Historians explore how the war affected a Diverse Group of american people. The event is cohosted by the library of virginia, university of Virginia Center for Civil War History, and the American Civil War museum. In the first session, james robertson, Virginia Tech history professor emeritus, and the author or editor of more than 20 books will give a talk titled civil war echoes from the common folk. But first, the director of the center for Civil War History at the university of virginia will welcome the audience. This is live coverage on American History tv on cspan3. Good morning, im Gary Gallagher and i very pleased to welcome all of you this morning. To our symposium titled ordinary people, extraordinary times. I do this and welcome you on behalf of the library of virginia, the American Civil War the center for Civil War History at the university of virginia. Treadway, they library and would perform this task,
And by being heard. We have about 25 minutes left. I can keep talking, but there are usually a lot of questions. [laughter] so im going to go ahead and take questions if you have them. If there arent any, i will keep going. Celeste, over here. Far back. Oh, i see you. Here. [laughter] a couple years ago you came to savannah, and you did a ted talk, and it was one of the best ever. Thank you. Thirteen million views, ladies and gentlemen. [laughter] [applause] tell us, if you would, something you learned doing a ted talk. Next time get a haircut and put on makeup. [laughter] [applause] that is what i learned. [laughter] other people will be watching this. Brush your hair. [laughter] yes. Oh, wait, they want me to here and here. Theyre going to bring you a microphone. [inaudible] okay. You talked a lot about the challenges to great conversations, but you didnt say anything specific about how to have great conversations. Well, thats because i wrote a book about it. [laughter] and it took m
That may never happen. Why he says Richie Sambora left the band. And Tiffani Thiessens date. Sharing stories they might want to keep to themselves. Do you remember we have seven glasses of wine. How old were you . 16. Now this is entertainment tonight. Happy holidays, everyone. We have a very special gift for you this weekend. Were unwrapping e. T. s best reunions of the year. Some of your favorite stars from television and music have gotten back to together in 2016. Lets start with the tv movie who now has a much fuller house. You dont have to be a full house fan to know that the Tanner Family lived among that famous row of houses in san francisco. This house is so iconic, and its the first time weve all been here together. Jeff franklin, the man behind full and fuller house brougou the bay area home in august for a whopping 4 million. The previous owners had made it unrecognizable with a paint job. Now its back to how we always knew it. I thought it would be fun to bring back the ori
Oh, its not that bad, tim. We should know. E. T. Was there for the first ever taping of Home Improvement back in 1991. Are you saying the cars not running . We now own a 4,000pound fourdoor boulder. It was so much fun on set. We would just crack up, i mean, and just lose it and not be able to get it together. One of the most watched sitcoms of the 90s, the show launched the career of one Pamela Anderson and made tim allen a household name. And when we first met the boys, Jonathan Taylor thomas was 10. Zachary ty brian was 9, and Taryn Noah Smith was all of 7 years old. This is my ship. It was your ship. I see zac quite a bit because he kind of works with my oldest daughter and they kind of hooked up in the production business. I see debbing dunning a lot. Its so cool to see patricia and tim working together again. Shes reprised her role as tims neighbor on his show, last man standing. We both matured a little bit, but its like being around family. I think you matured a lot. Hes very ma