Prouder to watch the festival grow into the incredibly popular and impactful event and has become. I wouldnt be surprised [applause] thank you. I wouldnt see us surprised to move some bestsellers on the needle today. It is important to keep the book festival a free event that serves the community. The library of congress and the book festivals real purpose is literacy which leads to learning an opportunity, which matches our goal of helping our community succeed. Learning to love books and learning to Love Learning are what the book festival is all about. In this session, ron chernow will discuss his biography of ulysses s. Grant. If we are lucky, certain other popular founding fathers. One thing i learned from this story of president grant was how people can evolve through persistence and hard work. Acknowledge and overcome their imperfections. An incredible story that reminded me a person of good will can learn from their mistakes and reach their potential. I hope you enjoy this sess
For those sleeping here and neighbors living nearby and now for possible future neighbors around homes like this. The question is how its going to be run and how its going impact the neighbors. 811 davis is one of three homes Sonoma County is looking at purchasing and turning into shelters for some of the 200 plus Homeless People living along the joe rodota trail. The board of supervisors want it cleared by the end of this month. After next tuesday, Barbie Robinson is likely to be the interim person in charge of that process. Our goal isnt just to throw individuals into houses. Our goal is to stabilize them to improve their wellbeing. Reporter she said shes not had a single day off in weeks. She already runs the county Health Department and says she plans to take a holistic approach by establishing shelters and treating symptoms ranging from drug abuse to mental issues. The county has given her 12 million in seed money. Can 12 million solve this countys problem . Absolutely not. I see
Director of the documentary. He is the author of to swing through the sky a musical theater piece about the twin histories of jazz and powered flight. He was a longtime member of the wright experience team and was executive director of the discovery flight foundation. Paul is a graduate of Washington University in st. Louis with a degree in visual arts. In addition to aviation history and documentary film making, his career covers classical drawing, s. T. E. M. Education, exhibit design and photography. With that, id like to turn the stage over to paul and thank you all again so much for coming tonight. [ applause ] hello. Thank you so much for having me. Can everybody see me okay . Hear me okay . Great. Great. Let me make sure i turn this thing on correctly. Okay. Thank you, kathy, and to everyone at Smithsonian Associates for having me back. Im very happy to be here. Again, and share this story with you. Its, i think, a its a really fun story in a local kind of a way. Its a story of
In at the de young. Raquel garcia del real yeah, so this exhibition is really, really unique. Its about over 20 years of collaboration with Mexican Government and el inah, which is the National Institute for anthropology and history. And what we have for you at the museum is over 200 artifacts, many of them recently excavated, new findings, so stuff you have never seen before from this city of teotihuacan, which is a city that is in central mexico and it predates the aztecs. This city was flourishing around the year 400 common era. And we have beautiful murals from them, we have objects made up of obsidian, seashell, jade. And this exhibition is really good cause its really showing you a lot of their culture and a lot of the art that they were producing, but also how teotihuacan was a city. Damian now, ive been to teotihuacan, ive climbed one of theor walked up to one of the pyramids there. Raquel yeah. Damian talk about [speaking in foreign language] talk about how you feel when you e
Exercise caution if you are in the water. We had beaches closed in avalon because of the rough surf. It will be another rough afternoon if you are doing boating or swimming down there otherwise, fantastic day in the 60s and 07s right now. There is no humidity, very comfortable. The just slightest breeze out of the northeast at five to 10. Al than town at 63. Philadelphia is better. Millville 62. Fiftyfive in the poconos. Trenton checking in at 64. Satellite six with action radar we had a coastal storm develop off the del marva that threw back included cover across interior south jersey but that is all pushing east and we have nothing more than just a combination of sun and clouds. The out there right now. That is what you can expect throughout the day. Combination of the sun and cloud, we will call it pleasantly warm. Eightythree. By 3 00 oclock 86 and by 6 00 s anticipating a high of 86. Sun silhouette at 8 06. We have much needed rain in the seven day forecast. I will go overtiming a