American civil war emirates at the university of virginia and the founding director of our cosponsor john l mal iii studies at university of virginia. And knowing is that gary was about to retire number of years ago and move west ive been writing about every introduction for him in the last few years as if it were the last time wed see him in richmond, i apologize to gary to frying to kick him out of the state every time he speaks. Im very happy to have been wrong in my assumption that garys retirement meant farewell and very surprised he remains a fixture in the commonwealth. Im sure everyone knows garys contributions to the field of study are many and varied including writing more than 30 books and hundreds of artic thes and reviews articles and reviews and a frequent contributor and columnist in prominent civil war magnificent zee magazines and editor of the most popular civil war books civil war series and mentor to scores of students at penn state university. And university of vir
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Thank you janice and thank everyone for being here. The weather has been difficult. Sorry about that. We have got parking challenges but appreciate you all being here. Tonight we are featuring a journalist and New York Times bestselling author Janice Kaplan enter fascinating book the genius of women from overlooked to changing the world janice will be in conversation with the ceo of the womens fund of central ohio and this is going to be an illuminating evening ill say that right now. I want to thank our venue fantastic friends and their wonderful Committee Partners and all these organizations for helping us get the word out. I want to introduce janice and kelly and just minute that i want to ask you to silence your phones or any other noisemakers he might have with you tonight so we can just share everything. I hope many of you have visited gramercy books. We are right down the street. We invite any of you who have not been there before to come in we have been open for just over three
Bestselling author Janice Kaplan and her fascinating book the genius of women from overlooked to changing the world. She will be in conversation with the ceo of central ohio and this will be on eliminating evening. I want to thank our venue partner and our Wonderful Community partners, all these organizations that helped us get the word out. I will introduce janice in a moment but let me ask you to silence your phones or any other noisemakers you have with you tonight so that we can hear everything. I hope many of you have visited, we are right down the street a few blocks down and we invite any of you who have not been there before to browse. We have been open for three years and hosted 300 book related events. [applause] besides being an independent bookstore for central ohio our mission is to connect the community with talented authors. That is what we are doing tonight. You received the program, i want to give a shout out to three Upcoming Events can we produce eight events every m
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