Im chris goodwin. Welcome to the heritage of mississippi series panel. Katie blunt is the director of the Mississippi Department and a longtime member of the Mississippi Historical society. Two of the groups are responsible for the series she will moderate this penal. Thank you very much. Pleased to be here. I want to begin by recognizing our sponsors. Thank you very much for making this panel possible. I want to thank you all for joining us here in the state capital we are very proud of this building in it was recently designated a National Historic landmark. Its very appropriate in our bicentennial year. Im pleased to host this discussion about the heritage of mississippi series which was also a by centennial initiative. The series will cover the mississippi history in 17 volumes. Seven of them have already been published and there are seven scholars working in their fingers to the bone on the next volume and then a few yet to be signed. The series as i said it is meant to cover the
And you can watch full programs on our website, booktv. Org. Welcome back everybody. Lets get started. Imdealer kites, your room host of the day. Were a little weary by this time but im glad to be here. Im also chair of the brick 11 literary society. Turn your cell phones off, thank you all for coming. Lets thank our sponsors, we need to do that in every session because they are so important to the success of the fair so thanks to knight foundation, poway gel, or a gain of construction, bachelor foundation, the degroot foundation. As always, thank you to all the friends of the book fair. We hope everybody who is in this room will be a friend by next year so you can enjoy all the activities that are available for friends during here. We thank our volunteers, we thank the staff of the book fair and super big thanks to miamidade college. Thanks to all. [applause] we have a big crowd for a mighty important author to let me start by introducing his introducer. Marcia dunn is a longtime miam
National correspondent, our guest today is correspondent for the st. Louis postdispatch and the author of emperor union the aftermath of the battle of gettysburg. We welcome our guest and Live Audience today as well as cspan tv. In his new book, chuck explores one of gettysburgs most famous stories, that of a father, a journalist searching for his older son in the haze of battle. We will also touch on the journalism practices of the day, Battlefield Medicine and the overarching cost of the ultimate sacrifice for the full measure. The famous documentarian and press called mentor ken burns set of imperfect union, chuck raasch has written an important important book, one that contains an aerial view of the greatest battle ever fought in north america. Chuck was one of the five original longform writers at usa today when it began in 1982, served as a correspondent forget thatnews nervous and a graduate of south Dakota University legally completed as journalism at stanford is a proud member
Seen heart breaking images of what this storm can and did do, there was a bridge collapse making it impossible for survivors to get help and the death toll continues to rise, into the hundreds. Good day it is a friday, tgif, october 7th, 2016 and this morning the storm is our big story. We have Live Team Coverage of the effects, time line and we have dave kinchen at Philadelphia International with the flight updates. Jenny joyce over at peco where volunteers are heading south to help those in the path but lets begin with sue serio with the forecast, sue. Karen, even though we are not getting the hurricane, itself, just about all of us know people down to the south, in florida, georgia, South Carolina, being affected by this storm and this is it, Hurricane Matthew, live 3t satellite picture and through can see the eye, it is still moving in the northwesterly direction but this thing has continued to move parallel to the coast all night, and continuing this morning, well it make land fal