Thank you for coming. I am pleased to be here at the national archives. I became a great lover of archives by going to institutions smiley ended up taking rare maps out of. I got to see a lot of the old documents myself. There is nothing like being able to see an original document and touch it and see it with your own eyes. It is a Wonderful Service buildings like this provide in providing access to these materials. Im going to dive in with a reading from the beginning of my book. With the first sentence in the first chapter so there is nothing you need to know going in. The im going to talk about same character i got to know well over the past three years and show you images of some of the maps he still, particularly focusing on the virginia and washington, d. C. Area. Let me dive right in. This is the beginning of my book, the map thief. No matter how much you try to suppress it, the tickle cap freaking out into a cough kept breaking out into a cough. The Manuscript Library at Yale U
Common and i always liked him very much as a human being. So, i talked to the family and the archives or in process but they were let me willing to let me in, and i did that for a couple of years. I think the real surprise in terms of the archives is that he seemed to be very open man and had in fact vetted his archives quite considerably committing much of his correspondence and also anything that diluted to his personal life. I didnt expect that. That was the first for me and all of the biographies that ive done. We will start with his earlier life where you were able to get information from family and friends. So i wanted to ask about some of his formative political experience, starting first with his family life, growing up as the son of immigrants, russian jewish immigrants in brooklyn. Guest well, as i think i say in the book, he was in a sense born conscience because both of his parents had very little education, and his father worked extremely hard as a waiter come as a window
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The Connecticut LGBTQ film festival, organized by Out Film CT, will take place at Trinity College in Hartford and screen a George Platt Lynes documentary.