I am laura shepard, director of events and im pleased to welcome you to our author event for comers new book grothman. In conversation with San Francisco columnist, we are pleased to have them here for the first time. I would like to find out how many of you have been to the Mechanics Institute before and how many are new . Please come back and we will give you a free tour of the library and show you the Incredible Library on the second and third floors. The International Chess club is down the hallway and we will tell you about our history. We were founded in 1854 and at the Mechanics Institute we have ongoing author events like this one, the International Chess club with their ongoing lectures and tournaments and book clubs and writers groups and on friday nights, we hope you will join us for all our cultural events. I would like to introduce our guest Roland De Wolk, an Investigative Reporter in print, broadcast and online journalism and a historian university adjunct and author. Du
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