Good evening everyone. Welcome to town hall and thank you all for being here. We will adjust a little bit. We are still experimenting in this space. Thank you for the suggestion. Im a curator of lectures here town hall and on behalf of town hall and pleased to welcome me to tonights appearance by author fear and freedom at the oregon standoff discussing Anthony Mccann discussing his new book shadowlands. Im happy to say the taxpayers of Washington State as part of the project. I love all of our funders but i especially love public funding for the arts. Im hoping this might be a return to town hall for some of you who are familiar with this building but havent been back for couple of years. During that time we have been renovating this is the soft watch for the space for barn cat Phase Service yet to come on line so bear with us. September is the formal launch of town hall with the big festival of programs we recently announced a consumer web site town hall seattle. Org. We hope youll c
Since 1911 preservation virginia has shared the chief justices life and legacy. We are grateful to many descendents who have over the years returned books furnishing tableware and personal items. These objects bring the room alive and it doesnt take much to imagine the activities of the family the household and the many guests who visited. There are no artifacts that better define marshalls career than the robe he wore for his tenure as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. The room is cared for by generations of descendents before finding its way into our collection. The robe is a witness object and if robes could talk what a story this one could share. John marsh award this robe is a prison guard presided over Supreme Court cases during which time the Supreme Court was elevated to an equal branch of the federal government and today the simple black robe is a recognizable icon at the american judicial system and as our curator collection put it this iconic image of the ame
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Mississippi festival board of directors, i had the pleasure of working with scott on the board. Hes something of a lifer. Hes been on the board since the very of the book festival in 2015. Scotts also a member of the mississippi arts commission, the Mississippi Institute of arts and letters hes an ardent champion of arts. Hes the coowner of books and cat island coffee, house and Pass Christian and gulfport gulfport. Thank you very much and welcome to our session this morning on nature and the environment for of my life, my entry to america in history was through the biographies of our founding fathers, washington, jefferson, franklin, and then through to lincoln, frederick douglass, Theodore Martin luther king, chisholm, henrietta lacks, james baldwin, eisenhower, among many others. But then two years ago, i was fortunate enough to read jack davis as the bald eagle. And then a whole new world opened to me and missed the little earth upon which our country was founded and without which
Cox, along with these television companies, support cspan2 as a public service. Having recently joined the mississippi book festival board of directors, i have the pleasure of working with scott on the board. Hes something of a lifer, hes been on the board since the very beginning of the book festival in 2015. Scott is also a member of the Mississippi Arts Commission and the Mississippi Institute of arts and letters. He is an artist, champion of the arts, a coowner of cat books in gulf port. Thank you very much, and welcome to our session this morning on nature and the environment. For most of my life my entry to American History was through the biographies of our founding fathers, washington, jefferson, and then threw to lincoln, frederick douglass, theodore roosevelt, Martin Luther king, shirley chisholm, henrietta lacks, james baldwin, dwight eisenhower, among many others. But then two years ago i was fortunate enough to read jack davis the bald eagle. And then whole new world open