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Good even, evening. Im the director of the work life project of the Wisconsin Humanities Council. Thank you all for coming tonight to see Amy Goldsteins book presentation. Janesville, an american story. And i thank amy for coming here today to talk about the lives of the hardworking people of janesville, you so beautifully document in your book. The book festival comes to life every year thanks to hard work and dedication of our friends at the Madison Public Library and the Madison Public Library foundation. This event could not be possible without the sponsorship of so many of our friends, so i would encourage everyone of you to go to the festival web site and find out more about our sponsors tonight. The Wisconsin Humanities Council is proud to sponsor amy this evening. Its a wonderful opportunity for us to continue to what our organization has done statewide for 45 years, which is to support and promote programs that use history, culture and discussion to strengthen Community Life i
Fair, yes . [applause] thats great. A few more of our fairgoers are coming in but were going to get started in the interest of time. I am malou harrison. As many of you know very, very pleased to welcome all of you to Miami Book Fair and to this next session. Miamidade college is very proud to bring this book fair to miami and thehe community that come to this Miami Book Fair each and every year. As you know the fair would not be possible without the collaboration and the support from many, many volunteers, actually hundreds of volunteers, many of whom are students of miamidade college, and also students from our local high schools, middle schools, as well. So were tremendously grateful to, our young people for the support that they provide and being so generous with their time. Theyre also many corporate sponsors and i would like to acknowledge ohl, and the many corporate and Community Sponsors that have also come together to make this book fair what it is today. Our circle of friend,
The second time addressing the members of the press club was in support of the documentary film brothers at war. And a third time as john said four years ago, when we first launched the foundation. So i guess i havent burned any bridges at the press club yet. You keep asking me back. I would like to speak today about how far the foundation has come in those four years with the work the foundation is doing and what the future looks like as we continue to grow and i would like to emphasize how important it is to have nonprofits in the military support space as the military men and women continue to confront the dark forces of this world on many fun with long and many fronts with long and very tough deployment. At first i would like to acknowledge a few people here today, one of our board members. Thank you for coming. I appreciate you being here. [applause] i have a very distinguished guest that john introduced, a friend of mine that is here today, general livingston was awarded the Unit