Intervals and then there will be 15 minutes for all of you to ask any questions that you may have of them. The first panelist is dr. Thomas g. Burton, he is a Professor Emeritus of english at east Tennessee State university. He has produced three documentaries on sir spent handling and is the author of serpent handling believers, the serpent and the spirit, and Beach Mountain man, the memoirs of rhonda helix, his most recent book, voices worth the listening, three women of appalachia, is out now from Mercury University press. Please join me in welcoming tornado thomas burt dr. Thomas burton. The next person i would like to introduce is sarah smarsh. She is a kansasbased journalist who has reported for the New York Times, the guardian and other approximations. Per book pout working hard and being broke in the richest country on earth, very relatable title, let me tell you, what finalist for the National Book award, 2018 Research Fellow at Harvard Universitys center on media politics and
Of vehicular manslaughter and hit and run. Im very angry and i dont understand it. Reporter kristen says her dad was an incredible father and grandfather. The sharks fan loved to surf and read, but it was his kindness that set him apart. Anybody that knew him, he would help anybody. Reporter she first met bob in kindergarten. They had been married 43 years. We lost bob. My children and my grandchildren, everybody who was in bobs world, we lost bob. Reporter the family says they plan to honor bob by working to slow the traffic in the area and doing all they can to make sure the driver who hit him is convicted. We are committed to making sure that nobody else gets hurt. Reporter the family says as frustrated as they are that the driver didnt stop to help bob after he hit him, they say theyre also touched that more than a dozen strangers ran to assist him after he had been hit. Reporting live in san jose, nbc bay area news. Thank you. The major earthquake has come and gone, but the ground
[inaudible conversations] encouraging people to take their seats. Good evening, everyone. My name is cia bird. Im in the new executive director of the leon leavy center for biography, which is celebrating the ten inch year now, all due to shelby white and the leon leave levery foundation, and i want to advertise our new alliance with bio, our first joint we sponsor the event with them and also curtsy of will swift here, of the president of bio, we have our also going to be doing cosponsoring their great annual conference on biography next way. That will also be happening here at cuny. Should be a great event with over 200 biographers. Also want to advertise i put out the word, we have a december 15th deadline for the new the annual fellowship, and there are four fellowships given out every year of 65,000 a pop. For aspiring biographers. So if you know anyone who is aspiring, encourage them to apply. Im really thrilled were able to do this event to honor bob weil, and i introduced now w
So, again, encouraging people to take their seats. Good evening, everyone. My name is kai bird, im the new executive director of the Leon Levy Center for biography which is celebrating its tenth year now all due to shelby white and the leon levy foundation. And i want to advertise, first of all, our new alliance with bio. This is our first sort of jointlysponsored event with them, but we are also, courtesy of will swift here the president of bio, we are also going to be doing, cosponsoring their great annual conference on biography next may. And that will also be happening here at cuny. Should be a great event with over 200 biographers. I also want to advertise and put out the word, we have a december 15th deadline for our new, our annual fellowship, and there are four fellowships given out every year of 65,000 a pop for aspiring biographers. So if you know of people who are aspiring, please encourage them to apply. And finally, i just, you know, im really thrilled that were able to do
Good evening, everyone. I am the new executive director celebrating its tenth year now and i want to advertise the alliance with the bio. Courtesy of the president bio we are going to be cosponsoring their conference will also be happening here. For the new indigo fellowship there fellowships given out every single year. Im thrilled to this event and owner bob and i introduced now go swift will take it from here. Those of you who dont know it stands for the Biographers International organization and i want to think before we such a good friend and those whom ive mastered now for being so helpful and also cathy curtis is amazing and put this whole event together. But she already has so much to do because she is so amazing. It is as well as the biographers are masters of the field and we are excited to inaugurate a New Fellowship that allows people to apply and travel if they win the fellowships traveled to have the funds to go to the places their subjects lived so they could get a more