Table. When i started my journey as a professional writer in 1984, i could never imagined that id be signing books with two recipients of the congressional gold medal, the highest civilian honor in the united states, and i am humbled to be here. But im also proud to be here, to be with them. This book, its an interesting book because National Geographic has a series called remember, and the whole idea is to tell stories as much as possible through eyewitness accounts and through contemporary photographs. Now, the first two books that i wrote in this series were called remember little big horn, and remember the alamo. Now, how i became the expert on eyewitness accounts of battles where everybody died i dont know, but [laughter] but as the curator at the alamo said, everybodys got to have a niche. Also ive written a lot of history, and this is the first book ive ever written where lots of people were still alive. And that was a wonderful, wonderful experience because i got to interview,
Everyone. Fternoon yall find seats and will get our panel going. Good morning. Welcome to the fifth annual mississippi book festival. Im Chris Goodwin with Mississippi Department of archives and history. If you havent done so, please silence your cell phone. This panel on the u. S. Civil war is sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council and Mississippi State university. One of the book festivals Board Members from Mississippi State John Marszalek is on the panel. Is Francis Coleman here . Dean of the libraries . Another strong supporter. As is stewart rock off director of the Mississippi Humanities Council. I do believe hes in the room. We thank them for their support and we are in the room today courtesy of foreman watkins law firm. Our panelists are Jacquelyn Hall, shelby harriel, ben wynne and john nsmarszalek. You can purchase the books ne outdoors. And you can find the times they will be signing in your brochure. We will hear from our panelists for about 40 minutes and then w
Members of the little rock nine recall their experience, joined by robert paul walker, author of remember little rock, the times, the people, the stories. 2009 at recorded in Little Rock Central High School. Now a National Historic site. I have to tell you it is such an honor to be sitting here signing my book at the table. When i started my journey as a professional writer in 1984, i could never imagined that id be signing books with two recipients of the congressional gold medal, the highest civilian honor in the united states, and i am humbled to be here. But im also proud to be here, to be with them. This book, its an interesting book because National Geographic has a series called remember, and the whole idea is to tell stories as much as possible through eyewitness accounts and through contemporary photographs. Now, the first two books that i wrote in this series were called remember little big horn, and remember the alamo. Now, how i became the expert on eyewitness accounts of b
Reggie do not touch my dog. Kumasi a whole moment. Drew reggie the dog is trying to protect my stuff. Jobina trying to make friends so the dog does not come get you. Reggie good morning, we are all back. Kumasi we are starting with the forecast. Drew it is quite beautiful behind us, we have a nice sunrise on the way, we have temperatures on the warm side for this time of morning. A lot of people starting in the 60s and low 70s. Exception at half moon bay, chile at 48. Exploratorium camera, we are fog free. We are probably in store for a warm afternoon, get ready for temperatures to take off pretty fast this morning. Another hot day inland, warm around the bay shoreline. A fair amount of sunshine, temperatures not quite as warm as most cities today. The warm spell is almost over, we turn cooler tomorrow. Let us check in on traffic. Jobina we are starting off with mass transit, everything is on time. No blocking issues on the roadways so far this morning, this is an easy monday commute.
Word of the summer. Several are under a heat wanting while other states could see storms that could produce tornadoes and even hail. The weather even impacting beyonce and all her fans out there. The weather is out of control. Reggie you know what is out of control . We are back. Jobina just saw the onset. Kumasi just saw kumasi we have all the things. Jobina all the things. Reggie you are ready for after school, arent you . Jobina the backtoschool look. It does feel like backtoschool. Truly, because the alarm but we are back with friends. Drew good morning. A warm one today. No fog. As we get the day going, we have so much sunshine. One conditions not only inland but it will feel warm along the coast as well. The exploratori expect the fog to be minimal. Look at half moon bay. Down to a chilly 48 degrees, but you move inland, we are in the 60s and low 70s. 62 in oakland. Holding at about seven novado. Temperatures warm quickly. Already into the war 90s along the coast. We expect upper