Library and our collection over a number of years, both in our prior building on University Place and in this building where we moved in 1937 from the surviving charging records, we know that both cather and her partner, edith lewis, visited the and checked out quite a few books, both for research and for general reading. Our 2017 2018 exhibition, the new york world of willa cather uncovered a lot about cathers life in new york and her use of this library so feel free to speak to a staff member or take a look at our website to learn more will also continue our cathers sesquicentennial celebration with a special featuring Benjamin Taylor on his brand new biography, chasing bright uses a life of willa cather coming up on november 14th. Because of that historic connection. Were particularly honored evening to present this special event celebrating the sesquicentennial of cathers in cooperation with the National Willa Cather center. Our great to Peter Cipkowski from its board governors who
Books, both for research and for general reading. Our 2017 2018 exhibition, the new york world of willa cather uncovered a lot about cathers life in new york and her use of this library so feel free to speak to a staff member or take a look at our website to learn more will also continue our cathers sesquicentennial celebration with a special featuring Benjamin Taylor on his brand new biography, chasing bright uses a life of willa cather coming up on november 14th. Because of that historic connection. Were particularly honored evening to present this special event celebrating the sesquicentennial of cathers in cooperation with the National Willa Cather center. Our great to Peter Cipkowski from its board governors whos brought us this event. I will now hand the stage over him. Thank you and enjoy. Thank you. Good evening. Im with the National Weather center and im here with some of my colleagues. The center, particularly olsen, our executive director from red cloud, nebraska. We are so
Member writers included willa cather, sir, who used the library and our collection over a number of years, both in our prior building on University Place and in this building where we moved in 1937 from the surviving charging records, we know that both cather and her partner, edith lewis, visited the and checked out quite a few book both for resech and for reading. Our 2017 2018 exhibition, the new york world of willa cather uncovered a lot about cathers f this library so feel free to speak to a staff member or take a look at our website to learn more will also continue our cathers sesquicentennial celebration with a special featuring Benjamin Taylor on his brand new biography, chasing bright uses a life of willa cather coming up on november 14th. Because of that historic connection. Were particularly honored evening to present this special event celebrating the squicentennial of cathers in cooperation with the National Willa Cather center. Our great to Peter Cipkowski from its event.
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Once in a while. R] [inaudible] okay. Testing, one, two. And he has written several wonderful books. In harms way about the singing of the indianapolis. Horse soldiers, about the first batch of american troops who went into afghanistan after 9 11 on horses. Soon to be a Motion Picture which we might talk about a little later. And his new book, the odyssey of echo company which is about a subject thats been part of my life as well, the vietnam war. So im delighted to have a conversation about that and also about writing tonight. So doug, why dont we start, just sort of with how this idea sort of washed over you in the first place, for this book. Thank you for the nice introduction. Thank you everyone for being here this evening. The idea for the the odyssey of echo company came to me in afghanistan, which would have been our most recent foray into counterinsurgency in the 21st century with vietnam obviously in thevi 20th. I was standing in a a helicopter trying to go to the Pakistani Bo