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
[inaudible] the lecture is made possible by generous contributions by martha dowd dowrimple in memory of her mother and grandmother and also by the family of eudora welty in her memory. In april 1983, eudora gave a series of lectures at Harvard University, and the lectures were collected as a volume of essays entitled one writers beginnings. Published by the Harvard University press, one writers beginnings stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for almost a year. The essays detailed the inescapable bond between eudoras childhood and her later career as a writer and how her Early Experiences contributed to her distinctive literary voice. Her novels include [inaudible] which was adapted for the stage in a tone awardwinning Tony Awardwinning musical. Delta wedding, losing battles and the optimists daughter for which she was awarded the pulitzer prize. Eudora is a master of the short story, and her stories are collected in many places but notably two, a curtain of green and the golde
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There . Guest well, theres always been, as is typical in all families, a sibling competition there. Alice was a very conservative woman, and about 17 years older than her younger sister, and as a result, she saw herself as surrogate parent, and nell was always extroverted and a little bohemian in her opinions and her appearance, and alice, for all of her life, served as the buffer between her younger sister and the world that was hungry to know more about her. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Now, on your screen, is a live picture of the Old Supreme Court chamber in the Mississippi State capitol. Booktv is in jackson this weekend, covering the first annual mississippi book festival and well be back in just a couple of minutes with more live coverage. [inaudible conversations] one day late in the 2000s i was looking at this library and i asked myself, how did all this music actually get here . How is this actually possible . And i began to investigate this. I
Now, on your screen, is a live picture of the Old Supreme Court chamber in the Mississippi State capitol. Booktv is in jackson this weekend, covering the first annual mississippi book festival and well be back in just a couple of minutes with more live coverage. [inaudible conversations] one day late in the 2000s i was looking at this library and i asked myself, how did all this music actually get here . How is this actuaos [inaudible conversations] one day i asked myself how did they get here in the first place . How is this possible . To investigate and found the most astonishing thing. To be traced back to three people. One was brandenburg who had spent his life investigating the properties of the human ear steadying frequencies that were inaudible. And he came up with the md three encoder to shrink the compact disc by 90 percent. But he could not monetize the invention and was locked out and in desperation 1995 he posted it as a free public down the road to a his website within a c