[inaudible conversations] hello, everyone. My name is anne. Welcome to the 13th annual savannah book festival. The festival is presented by georgia power, bob faircloth, david and nancy seven terror and the phillip e. And nancy b. Bigman foundation. We are especially grateful to jack and mary romano who are our sponsors for this beautiful venue. Wed also like to welcome our literati members and individual donors today. It is through your support that we are able to make todays festival events free to the public. 90 of our revenue comes from our donors and literati members, and we thank you. Before we get started, i have some housekeeping notes. Kent garrett and Jeanne Ellsworth will be signing festivalpurchased copies of their book at Telfair Square following their presentation. If youre planning to stay for the next author, edward j. Larson, after this presentation please move forward to fill seats as the venue empties. This will help the ushers get people seated for the next session.
and by being heard. we have about 25 minutes left. i can keep talking, but there are usually a lot of questions. [laughter] so i m going to go ahead and take questions if you have them. if there aren t any, i will keep going. celeste, over here. far back. oh, i see you. here. [laughter] a couple years ago you came to savannah, and you did a ted talk, and it was one of the best ever. thank you. thirteen million views, ladies and gentlemen. [laughter] [applause] tell us, if you would, something you learned doing a ted talk. next time get a haircut and put on makeup. [laughter] [applause] that is what i learned. [laughter] other people will be watching this. brush your hair. [laughter] yes. oh, wait, they want me to here and here. they re going to bring you a microphone. [inaudible] okay. you talked a lot about the challenges to great conversations, but you didn t say anything specific about how to have great conversations. well, that s because i wrote a book
editor david enrich talking about his book, the spider network. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. we are delighted that you are participating in the 11th annual savannah book festival presented by georgia power. david and nancy sin terror, the sheehan family foundation and mark and pat [inaudible] many thanks to jack and mary romanos for this glorious venue, the trinity baptist church. we d also like to extend thanks to our individual donors who have made and continue to make saturday s free festival events possible. in fact, 90% of the revenue for the savannah book festival comes from donors just like you, so thank you. we are very excited to have a savannah book festival app available this year. please look in your program for information on downloading it to your phone. before we get started, please let me go over a couple of housekeeping notes. immediately following this presentation, our speaker, david enrich, will be signing festival-purchased copies of hi
good afternoon. and welcome to the historic trinity united methodist church. we feel so fortunate to be in this beautiful space which has been made possible by the generosity of jack and mary romanos. i m honored to serve as a volunteer for the 11th annual savannah festival,o and i m so glad you also are participating in this year s festival presented by georgia power, by david and nancy citron, the sheehan family foundation and mark y and pat suen. we d also like to thank our wonderful literati members as well as individual sponsors and donors who have made f and continue to make saturday at the book festival a free event. 90% of the revenue for the savannah book festival, in fact, comes from donors like you, so thank you very much. we re excited to have a savannah bookik festival app available year, so please look in your program if you would like information on downloading that app to your telephone. before we get started, a couple of housekeeping notes. immediatelys fol
we have a board of directors consisting of judges who sit in three divisions of the eastern district the ox andrea and north which division and we have attorneys to serve on the board as well. by tying the story of the historical society is a story of really some very key people that help society get started in 2006 and i would like to think the specific individuals. the first is u.s. district judge james spencer. he was the chief judge for the same district in 2006 and instrumental in helping our society get it started. there were several judges involved in the project that we will hear about today the society itself but there are a couple that deserve no. u.s. district judge claude hilton who sits in the alexandria division was sentimental and judge henry martin junior who sits in the northern district in u.s. bank bank bankruptcy judge just as the thais who retired in 2013 was a bankruptcy judge in richmond. last but not least on the stage u.s. district judge henry hutso