He is the awardwinning, icelandicdanish artist he is the awardwinning, iceOlafur Eliasson. Tist he believes that art can change the world by, for instance, helping to tackle Climate Change. This is one of his exhibits, a giant wall made of moss, and the idea iet people thinking differently about the environment. For instance, could oubuildinge with more sustainable materials. Is this f thinking visionary or just sily farfetched . Olafur erdasson, welcome to halk. Thu, zeinab. You had a fairly unorthodox upbringing. Yoy parents were extremung when they had you your mother 20, you father 19 born in iceland, moved to denmark. Your mother was a seamstress, your father a cook. Hodid your early life influence you and your work . Well, my father moved back to icand, and so i always spent my vacations in iceland, whcking around in nature he was out painting. He also worked as an artist, actually, and my mother, then, in demark would make sure i would go to school, and wer ould say that my motr
Preservation and the literary editor of civilization a former book editor and odcolumnist and former editor at the Washington Post. His essays and reviews of fiction have appeared in numerous publications including americann scholar , american short fiction the Atlantic Monthly the new republic and the smithsonian and Washington Post magazine and on the atbat one oped open in pages the New York Times and usa today and the Washington Post he lives in virginia please give a warm welcome to robert wilson. [applause] thank you. I appreciate your introduction work i hope your app works better than the iowa caucuses. [laughter] thank you to all of you for coming this morning on this cold morning its good to see so many of youou here and i want to thank cspan for all it does to support but culture in america. I would be tempted to say normally its very easy to be optimistic about the state of books. I love being here in savannah. We live outside of washington dc with a place on panhandle of f
The cspan cities tour travels the country exploring the american story as we c takec booktv and American History tv on the road with the support of local Cable Television provider we visited 24 cities in the last year and over the next two hours we will looknd at highlights frm some of these stops we began our special feature in milwaukee. So this is a photograph of the lynching that occurred august 7, 1930 in marion, indiana. James cameron to a 16 was supposed be the third person hanging from the tree but he survived the lynching. His friends, abe and tommy, were killed that day by a mob estimate between ten ten and 10 angry whites. Often misidentified as 1000 lynching. It it was a northcentral indiana when the lynching took place. So y we ended up writing a book that he called a time of he actually started to write those when he was in jail awaiting his trial and then when he is finally convicted and sent to prison he finished writing the book. James cameron was born in wisconsin in
To add to that also the congressman has been working very hard with us to get the building on the National Register of. We have been working on that for a long time and the reasons for why we are here today because we are still talking about pt barnum relevant in our lives today. Robert wilson is here to talk about the fact you can contextualize him in a modern way and its something to be looked at and examine and reexamine and brought into modern culture. He is the father of the Entertainment Industry that he was a philanthropist. The doer of good eats many tim times. But enough about me. Thank you for coming to the museum. Please support us. We do programming all year the museum is open during the week the couple of days even during the big historic construction project thats going to be happening soon but with no further ado let me introduce you to bob wills. The editor since 2004 that won the National Award for the best feature in may of 2006 and Digital National magazine for comme
I dont like to always shut people out at the very beginning that walking in right now is the great, great granddaughter eleanor and her husband. [applause] its special to have them but welcome everyone to the museum. I know many of you have been here before but is this everybodys first time . We are delighted to have you on this Beautiful Day in downtown connecticut. It is in fact the last museum for the community that we serve many are familiar in 2010 we were hit by a tornado because that is the kind of stuff that happens and then the year after that was hurricane irene and super storm sandy so thank you to the delegation who support the bonding appropriation because we are just about to embark on a major historic rehab of that building from 1893. To add to that also the congressman has been working very hard with us to get the building on the National Register of. We have been working on that for a long time and the reasons for why we are here today because we are still talking abou