[cheering] [applause] [applause] now, something we have all been waiting for. It is my great b honor to introduce her excellency governor of the commonwealth to deliver the state of the commonwealth address. [applause] [applause] good evening massachusetts. [cheering] good evening massachusetts. President , speaker, leader tara, leader jones, members of the senate and the house, secretary galvin, attorney general campbell, treasurer goldberg, chief justice and members of the judiciary and the governors counsel. Governor dukakis, governor swift. [applause] [applause] [applause] good to see you here. It is also good to see governor swift. [cheering] [applause] [applause] mayor and local officials,. [laughter] [cheering] it is a rowdy bunch. Leaders from business and labor, clergy and guests, thank you for being herenk tonight. Thank you as well to myy partner in the commonwealths first, first partner. [applause]pp thank you. Thank you for all of your love and support. And thank you to my
And you can watch full programs on our website, booktv. Org. Welcome back everybody. Lets get started. Imdealer kites, your room host of the day. Were a little weary by this time but im glad to be here. Im also chair of the brick 11 literary society. Turn your cell phones off, thank you all for coming. Lets thank our sponsors, we need to do that in every session because they are so important to the success of the fair so thanks to knight foundation, poway gel, or a gain of construction, bachelor foundation, the degroot foundation. As always, thank you to all the friends of the book fair. We hope everybody who is in this room will be a friend by next year so you can enjoy all the activities that are available for friends during here. We thank our volunteers, we thank the staff of the book fair and super big thanks to miamidade college. Thanks to all. [applause] we have a big crowd for a mighty important author to let me start by introducing his introducer. Marcia dunn is a longtime miam
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Reserved for special people like you. Its an honor, maam. Thats real drinking liquor. Understand you and some friends are planning to sail around the horn. Yesm. Major seth adams and bill hawkes and me. You see, weve never, uh. Weve never been on a. A real, for sure. Sailboat before. You will be, beardy. Bon voyage. You know, major, if charlie didnt get into a fight and end up in jail, hes bound to be here. Whod wanna leave anything like this . clears throat evening, guvnor. Like a table close up to the pretties . Yeah, sure. Hold it, bill, hold it. We came here looking for a friend of ours, supposed to meet us here. Little short fella with whiskers, name of wooster. You seen him . Sure. Say, ill bet youre major, uh, the wagon train master. Yeah, im seth adams. This is bill hawkes. How are you . How do you do, sir . I think hes still up with miss belle, spinning yarns about the wagon train. She took quite a shine to him. Come on, ill show you to her parlor. Ember . No harm in looking,
Reserved for special people like you. Its an honor, maam. Thats real drinking liquor. Understand you and some friends are planning to sail around the horn. Yesm. Major seth adams and bill hawkes and me. You see, weve never, uh. Weve never been on a. A real, for sure. Sailboat before. You will be, beardy. Bon voyage. You know, major, if charlie didnt get into a fight and end up in jail, hes bound to be here. Whod wanna leave anything like this . clears throat evening, guvnor. Like a table close up to the pretties . Yeah, sure. Hold it, bill, hold it. We came here looking for a friend of ours, supposed to meet us here. Little short fella with whiskers, name of wooster. You seen him . Sure. Say, ill bet youre major, uh, the wagon train master. Yeah, im seth adams. This is bill hawkes. How are you . How do you do, sir . I think hes still up with miss belle, spinning yarns about the wagon train. She took quite a shine to him. Come on, ill show you to her parlor. Ember . No harm in looking,