Accomplishments she is also a staff writer at the new yorker and the host of a brandnew podcast. She has won prizes for her work as a professor of history and also numerous awards for her books including the International Bestseller a big truth the next book how the corporation invented the future published september 2020. Talking about the volatile times and how the coronavirus pandemic will go down in history the center from library of congress jill and john its a great pleasure to welcome you to National Book festival presents. Hello jill. Good to have you with us despite the circumstances. It would be better to be there but its nice to be here. Said again a fascinating piece in the new yorker of the contagion of fables that the earlier works poses the masque of the red death and the scarlet plague might be relevant to us. Where the pleasure it is to be at the National Book festival in the library of congress. This just isnt a piece from the new yorker and then to have the chance to
What a glorious day. Welcome to the library. It is my pleasure to be here for todays celebration. I would like to thank our people from the opera house. In particular i would like to give the executive director of the opera house a round of applause here. Where are you . How about that wonderful m. Music. They are led by mohammed bhangra. Lets give them a round of applause. It wasnt too long ago that we had our wonderful Ground Breaking ceremony and at that ceremony we were led in a beautiful invocation by the past or oral yus walker. Hes back to lead us. With that, pastor walk er. To our distinguished leaders and city officials, brothers and sisters. Before i do the invocation i would like to talk real quickly, a young man in the greek culture, he wanted to be wide and was determined to gain wisdom. So socrates, he said i want wisdom. Socrates walked down to the beach, walked to the water and deducted him in the water and said what do you want. He said noble socrates, i want wisdom. W
Has the library with double number of computers and importantly how we put it together. It took longer and the reason it took a little longer was because people who lived in this community wanted the input they hadnt had in a long time. They wanted this building representative of them. Its more than a library. It is a community center, it is an example of how you get a contractor like freddie carter, [ applause ] to become romantic after 50 years of struggle. How he and working with public works and the architects and the library and the commission were able to get some 68 percent local businesses involved, 25 percent from bay view alone. Is this what we mean by invest in our neighborhoods . Absolutely. So, when you look at this library, think of the people that put it together. Think of the hours, think of the many hours that the kids and families will spend here safely learning, increasing their knowledge, improving themselves. Think of the friends of the library that will continue t
And pleasure to introduce our mayor, mayor ed lee. [ applause ]. Morning, everybody. Welcome to our bay view. As our poet said, hes about to wear a hat, so i was looking for a hat this morning. And i have a trunk full and i was looking for something that was representative, a world series type of hat because this is a world series event. When you look across our neighborhoods, you know its probably one of the best examples of building a community center. And you know as much as this brick and mortar is beautiful, its got a communicate Center Community center that is useful when the library is not even open. It has the library with double number of computers and importantly how we put it together. It took longer and the reason it took a little longer was because people who lived in this community wanted the input they hadnt had in a long time. They wanted this building representative of them. Its more than a library. It is a community center, it is an example of how you get a contractor
The Downtown neighorhood is the focus of a free program Oct. 29 that will tell the stories of the hundreds of Chinese immigrants drawn to the Golden Triangle.