Teacher. He was born in nevada county. He is the grandson of cornish hard rock gold miners. He is also the author of distant horizon, documents from the 19th century american west. Illuminated the also, the Award Winning sierra story. You can find it in our stores night as well. Store tonight as well. This was just published this year, it is amazing. Members can i get 20 off the books. It is dont have a copy of either, i suggest you grab them and get them signed by gary. The value will skyrocket afterwards. If you want a more complete biography or to learn more about the book, go on his website. He is a lovely person, it is such a treat. His stories, the way they tell them it are really compelling. Also, to let you know, think of your russians, there will be a q a portion. Cspan is here tonight. It is really important you go to the mic and ask the question. Now i will hand it over to him right now. Thank you, gary. Gary thank you for the lovely interaction introduction. I spoke it once
Teacher. He was born in nevada county. He is the grandson of cornish hard rock gold miners. He is also the author of distant horizon, documents from the 19th century american west. Illuminated the also, the Award Winning sierra story. You can find it in our stores night as well. Store tonight as well. This was just published this year, it is amazing. Members can i get 20 off the books. It is dont have a copy of either, i suggest you grab them and get them signed by gary. The value will skyrocket afterwards. If you want a more complete biography or to learn more about the book, go on his website. He is a lovely person, it is such a treat. His stories, the way they tell them it are really compelling. Also, to let you know, think of your russians, there will be a q a portion. Cspan is here tonight. It is really important you go to the mic and ask the question. Now i will hand it over to him right now. Thank you, gary. Gary thank you for the lovely interaction introduction. I spoke it once
The present. He was born in nevada county. He is the son and grandson of hard rock gold miners. The oregon california trails association and National Historical society selected him as the educator of the year. He is the author of distant horizon, documents of the 19th century american west, coeditor of the illuminated landscape, a and theevada anthology, awardwinning sierra stories, tales of schemers, dreamers, which can find in our store tonight. His most recent books he will talk about tonight, which are goldrush stories, which was published this year. It is amazing. Members tonight get 20 off the book, so if you do not have a copy of them, i suggest you grab them, get them signed by gary and the value will skyrocket afterwards. [laughter] if you went a more complete biography and to love more, you can go on his website, garynoy. Com. He is a lovely person. Such a treat. His stories and the way he tells them are compelling. Think of your questions because there will be a q and a por
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For serious readers. [laughter] good morning. My name is kirsten carter, senior archivist at the president ial library. On behalf of the library i would like to welcome you to the roosevelt reading festival. Fdr planned for the library to become the premier Research Institution for studying the entire roosevelt era. The Library Research room is consistently one of the busiest of all the president ial libraries and is europes group of authors reflect the wide variety of Research Done here. If you love the roosevelt reading festival and want to support this and other programs we do here, i encourage you to become a Roosevelt Library member. You can join today at the membership table in the hall or online at fdrlibrary. Org. If you havent already, please do go see our new special temporary museum exhibition, images of internment, the incarceration of japanese americans during world war ii. Let me quickly go over the format for the festival session today. At the top of each hour a session