Cell phones, please feel free to take any pictures and if you would like, we would love to have you send them to hashtag Literary Lawn Party or hashtag ms book festival. I would like to introduce you to the sponsor of our session today. Our sponsor today is humanities council, Mister Stewart rockoff is the director. [applause] thank you very much. Im here to do two things. One is to say the session is sponsored with the National Endowment for the humanities as part of their race initiative. And then pamela junior, was previously the director of the Smith Robertson museum down the street and several months ago, the director of the mississippi civil rights museum. Which will be open to the public and to the people of mississippi, december 9th, who better . Pamela. Thank you so much. I am a big fan of these folks. What i decided to do is ask individual questions than a general question. Very good. I will introduce everybody, Charles W Eagles and i was told your students would be in here.
Legacy and the fact that it started with doctor billington, the 13th librarian of congress, i am the 14th and laura bush, the first lady at the time. It emphasizes the prominence of the joy of reading and promoting reading and it was outside and there were concerns that if it gets rained out it has moved to the Convention Center in washington dc, you dont have to worry about rain. It is bigger, there are all kinds of venues that it has that mall feel, you walk around and there are all types of things, you can buy the book and have the books autographed by the author and as always a thrill. When does planning for the start . It starts as soon as one festival is over, within a week, what happened, what works, what didnt work, was we want to do and improve and start working on it right away. Do you have direct involvement or get updated on what is happening . I have to tell you i have more involvement than you might think because this is the essence of what we are about at the library of
Little bit about john. John is a professor of American History and the chair of the History Department at messiah college. He received his ph. D. From suny stonybrook in 99 and has been at messiah since 2002. His book examined the relationship between kal vannism, cosmopolitanism and enlightenment in 18th century america. He coedited the book confessing history, explorations in Christian Faith and the historians vocation with jay green and eric miller in 2010 and his book, why study history, reflecting on the importance of the past was published in 2013. Most recently hes written the bible cause, history of the American Bible Society with Oxford University press. John has published in the Christian Century and i christianity today along with the Washington Post and New York Daily News and has done article in the journal of presbyterian history and 19th american 19th century history. Tonight, dr. Fea will be speaking on material from his 2011 book, was america founded as a christian nat
Amy for now were live in northwest, amy aubert, abc7 news. Larry thank you. In the 6 00 a. M. Hour of good morning washington we showed you when the protesters began climbing a construction crane north of the white house. At 10 00 they unfurled a banner that read resist. Stephen tschida picks up the coverage now live. Stephen . Stephen they are still up there. Lets get to it. You can see high up above 15th on the towering crane. They unfurled a banner that from a distance appeared to hang over the white its crazy. Its crazy. Also the weight commenced for the seven activists to descend and face charges. But on the ground, many stop to take photos. To express support for the activists. I hope they are safe. I got to think about it. Its put a big smile on my face. Two of the activists handcuffed themselves to the stairs to block the wa the Police Officers at the ready to apprehend the activists. They will be arrested and they could face a slew of charges. But at this time, the disruption
Citywide problem especially during the School Dismissal hours of 3 00 to 7 00. In the very near future, were going to have officers riding every train at School Dismissal time. And were going to have our text flying coming out very shortly so kids can let us know when they see problems brewing and we can intervene. Reporter nestel says this violent behavior is not only the result of bad parenting but rather groupthink generated by a few rotten apples. He points to last nights horror story at the 46th and market el. It was round two of a dispute police say between teenage girls from as far away as north philadelphia, mt. Airy in germantown. There was an attempted stabbing. Then this. A 16yearold victim had a aerosol can that was lit, firing at her like a torch that burned her hair. This is serious, serious stuff thats occurring with our young kids. Reporter indeed, jim. And with the coming of consistent springtime weather, the problem of violence only frequently increases. Live in cente