Good evening. Welcome to this wonderful program. As most of us, all of you, no, know, each year the partnership has a themed series of events after september 7. September 7 is the day on which boston, georgetown, and watertown were named and we always commemorate date. We have a series of events each year. This years theme is that medicine and mortality. Im here to tell you it is the most successful charter day we have ever had. Tell me if you have been to other events this year . Would you raise your hand . That is what i thought. This is a wonderful. Excellent. In addition to our fall activities, we have lectures, Reading Group discussions, and tours from april through november. We are an allvolunteer group that cares passionately about telling the forgotten history of boston from 1630 until the revolution. We do have three more programs coming up. Rescheduling the anticipated talk at the old statehouse by dr. David jones. It will be a wonderful closing to this whole theme and we wil
We are so excited to be hosting pamela for her book. She will be speaking before i turn it over to them i have a couple of housekeeping things. Please take this moment to turn off or silence your cell phones and also note we are grateful to have cspan here for booktv. Please be aware you may be on camera and passing around a microphone during the qanda. We have flyers available at the register as well. The other people we marry and most recently the novel modern lovers which has been named the best book of the year by npr Entertainment Weekly among othet authors. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in the news york times. Most recently she along with her husband Michael Stroud opened the bookstore which is open for business. S she will be speaking with pamela paul the editor of the news york times book review anddyort overseas books at the news york times and choose a host newo york times and host of valaika podcast inside the news york times book review pages the author of
Survivalist book, its about a young man whose family life with off the deep end for sure. Try to get come a very well read smart guy, graduated with honors from Emory University and he just disappeared and obviously heartbroken family but talks about his struggle and he couldnt be any before it so they went to the journal and talk to people who he had made a positive impact on as he hitchhiked across the country and try to survive and ultimately died in alaska in the wilderness of starvation. And i see have lights out. Well, this is a book that was recommended to me. Lights out by ted koppel. We all know who ted koppel is. He wrote a book as to how vulnerable are electric grid really might be. Its a pretty quickly. It takes only a couple hours but it will scare the willies out of you. And one of the things that he talks about is what can we do to protect our grid. Of course we chairman as Energy Subcommittee thats very important to look at Bipartisan Legislation to protect the grid bot
Series of these interfaith lecture series here in the hall of philosophy. Im especially pleased that diane winston, who holds the night chair in media and religion at the school, is here with us. I dont know how many of you know about journalism education, but to hold a night chair, that is like the nobel prize in journalism education, so we are glad diane is here. I will talk more about her in just a moment in her topic, but i will spend just a moment, as i traditionally do, setting up this discussion series and how it fits into the rest of the programming we are having this week. An underlying theme we have been having, a background presence for all the discussions in the amphitheater, here in the hall of philosophy, and Panel Discussions, has been how the News Business and Civic Society can do its part, the News Business do as part, to give us the information and values and perspective we need as a Democratic Society to find our way. I was picking about this morning during nancy giv
Series of these interfaith lecture series here in the hall of philosophy. Im especially pleased that diane winston, who holds the night chair in media and religion at the school, is here with us. I dont know how many of you know about journalism education, but to hold a night chair, that is like the nobel prize in journalism education, so we are glad diane is here. I will talk more about her in just a moment in her topic, but i will spend just a moment, as i traditionally do, setting up this discussion series and how it fits into the rest of the programming we are having this week. An underlying theme we have been having, a background presence for all the discussions in the amphitheater, here in the hall of philosophy, and Panel Discussions, has been how the News Business and Civic Society can do its part, the News Business do as part, to give us the information and values and perspective we need as a Democratic Society to find our way. I was picking about this morning during nancy giv