This is about an hour and ten minutes. All right. Sounds like the mic is on. Thank you so much for coming out tonight folks on behalf of hidden city philadelphia. I would like to welcome you to this event the celebration his new book abandon america, the age of consequences. I would like to. Out that this event is actually being recorded. Everything that happens tonight will eventually appear on teesixteen. Book tv. But we need you to do is turn off your cell phones. Its like going to the ritz. And to remember that we are going to have a q a session after the event. After after matt is done speaking. And also when you have a question we we will be around with a microphone for you. Dont be dont be that kid calling out in class. You know, i have known that for a while now. The 1st time that i really i really understood kind of you know, just how good he was at what he does is when we made plans to go see the willow steam plan which is this really monstrous brick and rusty smokestack buil
Inalternativement camp. Booktv, 48 hours of books and authors. Television for serious readers. Next on booktv from the gershman y in philadelphia Matthew Christopher presents photos from his book, abandoned america. Mr. Christopher spent ten years documenting ruined institutions throughout the country from schools and churches to factories and military installations. This is about an hour and ten minutes. [inaudible conversations] all right. Sounds like the mics on. Thank you so much for coming out tonight, folks, on behalf of hidden city philadelphia. Id like to welcome you to this event, this celebration of Matt Christophers new book abandoned america the age of consequences. Before i forget, id like to point out that this event is actually being recorded by cspan. Everything that happens tonight will eventually appear on booktv. Now, what they need you to do is turn off your cell phones. Its like going to the ritz. [laughter] and to remember that were going to have a q and a session
Id like to thank my aunt and although who also helped quite a bit in setting this up. My publisher and the Preservation Alliance for their donation and olivia who has been wonderful and theres been my support throughout all the. Im sure theres a lot of other people i want to thank all of you as well but i know youd like to see the presentations i dont want to take up the whole time so thank you. But again im grateful you all came out tonight. It means a lot to me. So basically in terms of how ive done presentations for those of you whove seen in the past, i enjoy doing things that offthecuff and talking about the places that ive been too. What i would like to do is just show you a little bit of what some of places are not in the book and tell you a little bit about them as we go. So the first place i wanted to show you is the packard plant which is in detroit. Its probably one of the most famous and also the largest abandoned site in north america. Its sprawling. Its been out of commis