Me really has carried me through so many challenges in my lifetime. Opportunities in my lifetime and i wanted to tell a story that could be uplifting. People will face challenges throughout their lifetime but we should understand those challenges dont necessarily have to define us. Im blessed to live in the greatest nation, the United States of america and that is what i hope to share in this story with other people. Host the book is relatively revealing and we will go through those things but was that tough to expose yourself like that . Guest it was very hard. Ive been through a number of significant challenges in my lifetime. I was raised when i was a young woman, with my first boyfriend and i really suffered that. Going through an episode of Domestic Violence and difficult time in my marriage and those were all things i did not want to share publicly but i was going through a very public divorce a couple years ago and that information came out through that process. And i had so man
Story that could be uplifting, certainly people will face challenges throughout their lifetimes, but we all should understand that those challenges dont necessarily have to define us. Im just blessed to live in a great United States of america and happy about the opportunity presented to me and thats what i hope to share in this story for other people. Host the book is relatively revealing. What that tough to expose yourself like that . Guest it was. It wasser hard. Ive been through a number of significant challenges in my lifetime. I was raped when i was a young woman with my first boyfriend, and really suffered from that, but then moving on, going through an episode of Domestic Violence and just really difficult time in my marriage, and those were all things i really did not want to share publicly, but i was obviously going through a very public divorce a couple years ago, and that information came out through that process, and i had so many other women and a few men that had reached
We are good to go. Welcome everybody. We are back with chatter on books and happily we already disclosed location, one more page books in arlington we take books, wine and chocolate more seriously than we take ourselves. Thank you so much for letting us be here. Thank you so much for coming. Its going to be out in the open. My name is jeanne mcmanus, later were going to be speaking with wil haygood who im honored to meet. The book will talk about a lot of things that talk about tigerland which is Remarkable Book about some really incredible young man at a very difficult time. A couple of the things on tap, random thoughts, i know youre the you. I kind of obsessed with look at bestseller list you hate. I take the bullet for the team but im always interested in something that pops up unexpectedly, and i talked a couple of weeks ago about these books that were decades old popping up, to kill a mockingbird, was a prime example, and we know why and we know why the handmaids tale was there.
Todays presenter, mark obmascik. Mark is a native of chicago southside. Hes a graduate from the Medill School of journalism at northwestern. He started his career working for the miami herald and after a year or so came to denver as a reporter for the denver post. He was the lead writer for the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for the denver post for covering the tragic Columbine High School shooting in april of 2005. He had been covering the political scene for the post on candidates running for senate and other environmental stories and things get pretty ugly with some of those things. He was exhausted from working the graveyard shift when a colleague suggested he write a feature story for a notable retiring law professor at the university of denver, dr. Thompson marsh who was an enthusiastic, avid ornithologist. Mark himself had always been interested in birds, but it was the birders who fascinated him. Thus he wrote a book about the people who had the time and wherewithal to spend
Megan kate nelson is a writer and historian living in lincoln, massachusetts. She has written about civil war us western history and American Culture for the New York Times the Washington Post Smithsonian Magazine preservation magazine and civil war monitor nelson earned her va in history and literature from the Harvard University from Harvard University and her phd in american studies from the university of iowa, and she has taught at Texas Tech University cal state fullerton harvard and brown nelson is the author of saving yellowstone three cornered war ruin nation and Trembling Earth and were so excited to have her with us today. So before i turn it over to her just a quick note we have sent out an email to everyone this morning that had just a great list of resources like a bibliography that megan had put together so you all should have received that by now. If not that link is posted in the chat. So that please join me in welcoming megan kate nelson. Hi everyone. Thank you so much