M. I. T. And harvard university. Her first book was cured, the people who defeated hiv. Shes written for publications including the new york times, los angeles times, the atlantic, slate, Popular Science an time magazine. In 2016, she published the work thats the basis of her talk tonight titled the rise of the rocket girls, the women who propelled us from missiles to the moon to mars. That work was a best seller and was widely praised by critics including one who described it as immersive, evocative and superbly readable, holts poignant narrative should be required readingment another called it a marvelous book, adding when Neil Armstrong made his giant leap for mankind, there was womenkind in the control room. Its a pleasure indeed to welcome to fredricksburg to the university of Mary Washington and to great lives, nathalia holt. [ applause ] thank you so much. I really appreciate you having me here tonight, and im excited to talk with you about the rocket girls. This is a group of p
Thank you janice and thank everyone for being here. The weather has been difficult. Sorry about that. We have got parking challenges but appreciate you all being here. Tonight we are featuring a journalist and New York Times bestselling author Janice Kaplan enter fascinating book the genius of women from overlooked 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 ill say that right now. I want to thank our venue fantastic friends and their wonderful Committee Partners and all these organizations for helping us get the word out. I want to introduce janice and kelly and just minute that i want to ask you to silence your phones or any other noisemakers he might have with you tonight so we can just share everything. I hope many of you have visited gramercy books. We are right down the street. We invite any of you who have not been there before to come in we have been open for just over three
We travel to bryanCollege Station texas. Coming up will feature the citys local authors including Nikki Van Hightower. Then 12 minutes would visit the museum of the american g. I. And about the role Elvis Presley played in the Cold War Army in the 1950s. Later in about 45 minutes the story of the the hello girls of world war i. We begin our special feature with the mayors of bryan and College Station. One of the wonderful thinks about bryanCollege Station come get to cities, one community. The universe you start in the 1870s, the city of brian start a couple years before. Really right after the civil war. There was a railroad from houston that was marching its way here come stop before the civil war and then after the civil war it continued on and brian for the first years after the civil war struggled to get it selfcreated but was able to do that. In 1876 the University Got its first six students and the city of brian was really getting going and airy you see around us today are still
Wonderful Community Party america, the womens fund, Columbus School for girls. I would introduce janice and kelly. But first met me ask you to silence your phones or other is nomakers you might noise makerred continue so we can hear everything. I hope you have visit the were right down the street and two blocks down and we invite any of you who have not been there, before to come and browse. We have been open for just over these years and we hosted 300 book related events during that period. [applause] besides the curated full service independent become store for central ohio, our mission is to connect the community with talents authors, launching important book and. You received a program when you came in and i want to quickly give a shutout to three Upcoming Events listed there. We produced eight events every month. First literary legend James Mcbride, called a modern day mark twain by the new york times. His latest novel won the National Bark award for fiction. The good lord squishe
I am so glad you are here tonight. I am going to say a few words about before i welcome to knights guests. For a moment of history the strand was founded 93 years ago by my grandfather, benjamin bass. [applause] he founded this story in an area that was known as book row come along fourth avenue, just along the corner from here. It was the storm of the depression come and he defied the odds by surviving while all the other fortier bookstores them book row shuddered. The store was then passed on to my late father, fred who grew the story to his scale and popularity he never thought possible. Now, i am the owner and some critics said as a woman its going to be hard to run the store and i get wiped out in this digital age. So, i want to thank you, and the book Living Community on this audience of for helping not only survive, but thrive through the ages. [applause] it is impossible to read to knights book, watergate girl without drawing parallel to todays headlines. At the crossroads of t