The eighth annual savannah book festival and to thank the 2015 presenting sponsors Georgia Power and barack and jean aircrosser. We are blessed to host such as celebrated sorry. At Trinity United Methodist church. A beautiful historic venue made possible by the generosity of an and jim howard, the International Paper foundation, the Savannah Morning News and savannah magazine and we also would like to saying cspan for coming to the festival and filming here live today. We would like to extend special feeling to our individual donors to make the free festival event possible. If you would like to lend your support we welcome your donations and provide yellow x for books at the door as you exit. Take a moment to be sure your phones are off and we would also ask you not to use flash photography but the question and answer portion we ask you line up down the center of the aisle. And we will be there without microphone. Please note that if you are coming tomorrow, the time is 3 00. Immediate
Neighborhood you grow up in there is always that kid who is kind of a wild kid, who will do anything and in my neighborhood that was teddy hannibal. One day we were sitting out there on the roof feeling very daring and he is like what is up . Next thing you knew, his head popped out the window and he started climbing out, never asked permission just started climbing out and as he did so he goes have you ever jumped off the roof . Are you kidding . I dont even like to get close, almost fell off. I dont even like to get close to the edge of the roof. Go like that, you want to get really close to use to get on my hands and knees and crawl out so teddy animals that have you ever climbed off, jumped off the roof as he is climbing out the window and as he says that he starts walking to the edge and keeps walking and walked right off the edge of the roof and we all went running over teddy had double was gone and next thing you know his head pops out the window again and this time he didnt eve
Some going to start with a story. When i was a kid probably when i was 11 or 12 just entering adolescence, i lived in a house and we had a big front porch. A and i discovered one summer that if you open the window to my ope bedroom you could go out onto the roof of the front porch. The you know for a kid at that ageemed rea that seemed a real daring thing to do. Ego out on tfihe summer afternoon, their feet with your shirt off. Off and i wasnt that while the kids so that was a wild thing to do. We like to do it but in the neighborhood you grow up in there is always that kid who is kind of a wild kid, who will do anything and in my neighborhood that was teddy hannibal. One day we were sitting out there on the roof feeling very daring and he is like what is up . Next thing you knew, his head popped out the window and he started climbing out, never asked permission just started climbing out and as he did so he goes have you ever jumped off the roof . Are you kidding . I dont even like to