Thank you guys so much for being here. Im niki coffman, director of events and marketing at parnassus books. Where delighted to have you here. If youre not already please join us, like us on facebook. With so many exciting things coming down the pike. I just let this one out of the bag last night. Roxanne day is coming. I know. In july. Its very exciting and shes one of many, many, many brilliant basically to events a day between now and the indigent. Make sure youre on our email list or follow us on facebook. Tonight author has been a friend to us for the whole time he has been we watched his kids go from really small guys to birdie awesome guys who are deeply, deeply interested in star wars and mine craft, and this is her second event with him. Its always a pleasure to host summit in your community. So it gives me great pleasure to give you guys daniel sharfstein. [applause] thank you, niki. Its so wonderful to be here at parnassus books. These kind of places, i think of parnassus bo
Areas history and literary scene. We speak with author robert gross on his book the minuteman underworld. My rude rage of the flood, its april 3 unfurl. Here once the farmer stood and fired a shot her around the world. There is in the morning of april 19 that this exchange of fire took place. With just 2 to 3 minutes and yet, the 2 to 3 minutes, if you accept Ralph Waldo Emersons cover, with the two minutes exchanged the world. The shot heard around the world. The was historic. It was kind of a problem here and in the world i focus my story very much around everybody to this dramatic encounter, it was traumatic in that when the patriots marched with the kings troops, they dont actually know whats happening to them. They heard that there were people seeing flashes in the pan but the scout, he sticks around long enough to find out if they were firing bullets or not. So nobodys really certain whats going on. People have often said, what could inspire these farmers and shopkeepers and labo
Tonight softer did author we watched his kids from guys who could not read that all and to be deeply interested in star wars and mine craft. Is always of pleasure they give me great pleasure to introduce. [applause] this so wonderful to be here. These kinds of places with a Cultural Institution and we remember very well of the dark days of 2011 when there was no bookstore in town. And now fastforward through today the National Endowment for the humanities is under the existential threat and i am taking a page from tucker who was here a couple weeks ago in she was talking about those public conversations the dollar supported by the nih and the southern festival of books efforts would not exist without the nih fellowship by received that the independent scholar back in 2004 which took me on of the practice of law to give me the time in the space to begin work, first book to have a career as a professor here in asheville. To be one more lawyer in the world that is probably something we do