Eye everyone. I hope you can hear me. I am David Sandberg and thanks for joining us for the series of american ancestors and the Historical Geological society the state labard massachusetts and Publishers Weekly 2020s bookstore of the year. On line and inperson with my limited capacity we ship and at local delivering curse at the given Virtual Events like this one. And a special pandemic newsletter and lots of other stuff so visit us at www. Porter square books. Com. A4 introducer guess the moderators i want to give you a few quick housekeeping notes about using crowd chat which some of you may have used before but many of you havent. First of all the event is recorded. If you only stay for part of tonights talk because your water was boiling or you wanted to share it with a friend will be here as well as on our facebook page. Second of all you have this lovely chat window on the bottom right of your screen were so Say Something nice, please do. Type in there and say hi and people have
Distributed, how will be it done. All of this at a time were hearing about four 45 minutes from now president elect biden and Kamala Harris will detail their own economic plan. What theyre calling their Building Back better plan. I dont know what that means but they have got a lot of union heads there as well as the chairman of gm, the chairman of microsoft, the head of target. Again, virtually, if not in person. So well be monitoring that. When that comes up about an hour 45 minutes from now. Meantime more on this excitement around moderna and what it poses to offer right here. Jackie deangelis own that. Jackie. Reporter good afternoon to you, neil. The vaccine news certainly fueling the markets today. 94. 5 efficacy. That is what moderna is saying. We had excitement from pfizer and biontech last week. The market is saying we would expected or less efficacy. This is a really important number. People are wondering what happens next. How do i actually get the virus, excuse me, the vacci
Hello, everyone. I dont know if you can hear me. Thank you for joining us for this effort between the series of american ancestors of the genealogical society, the state library of massachusetts and us, publishers weekly, 2020 bookstore of the year. We are open online and in person with limited capacity. We do local delivery and have Curbside Pickup and a special pandemic newsletter and other stuff so visit us. Before i introduce the guest and moderators, i want to give a few housekeeping notes using crowd cast and some of you may have not used it before. The event is recorded so you can watch it back if you only stayed for two nights talk because your water was boiling or you wanted to share with a friend it will be here as well as on our facebook page. A second, there is a lovely chat window on the bottom right where it says Say Something nice. Please do, say hi. I see people have been using it since we started, telling us where you are coming from and of course it goes without sayin
Book you are looking for and support independent booksellers across the country. With that out of the way, lets get started. You probably recognize the voices of both of our guest tonight. Our host is laura singular. She has been a producer with npr in washington d. C. International npr reported covering the midwest. Currently, she is producer and Community Engagement report a kansas citys npr. Thank you for joining us tonight. You are welcome. Good to be here. Im jumping in and i guess. Im delighted to be here and introduce you to pam fessler, whos a Award Winning journalist at npr. She has covered poverty and election issues, voter issues, for many years. Now, in the tradition of npr journalists who you recognize as excellent storytellers, podcast and online. She has proven the ability to translate that ability to tell stories on the radio. The platform of the printed word. Of course her new book is called carvilles cure. I have the opportunity to talk to you. Thanks so much. The one
Stuff, visit us before i introduce our guest at our moderators i want to give you a few quick housekeeping notes about using crowd deaths which you might not have used before. The event is recorded so you can watch it if you stay for part of tonights final talk because your water was boiling or you want to share with a friend it will be right here as well is on our facebook page. Second of all there is this lovely chat window open on the bottom of your screen, Say Something nice, please do. Type in, say hi, telling us where you are coming from all over the place it appears, and it almost goes without saying, please keep respectful and we will reserve the right to reserve anyone who doesnt it here to that standard which im sure will be unnecessary. And right next to that little chat box at the bottom of your screen you see the word ask a question, type it in there, chat any questions for david and we will have time at the end of the event to look at those. The event is Live Streaming on