[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Welcome to the museum of art. My name is ellen and i am a senior manager of adult programs. Its good to see everyone here today. And as many of you know, lunch and learn as a Monthly Program where we invite Community Experts to share their knowledge of interesting cincinnati history, culture and arts. This program was started on the suggestion of one of our members, one of you all. And at this institutions history for nearly 200 years the Historic House served as an Important Community Gathering Place for prominent cincinnati families such as those of martin boehm, nicholas longworth, david and of course charles and anna taft. Each played a role in shaping the history, art and culture of cincinnati and this series i ses rights that legacy as well as the new way of our city continues to evolve and change. The complete schedule of all of the programs including our upcoming lunch and learns are available on the website, which is www. Taftmuseum. O
[applause] im happy to introduce the moderator for the session. Hes not only im sorry, i skipped over. The moderator is curtis wilkie, associate professor of journalism at the university of mississippi, and hes also a fellow at the university over the center for southern journalism and politics. If you will take over. Thank you. And thank you all for coming. We appreciate the presence of the guests on the panel here at the mississippi book festival it is Getting Better and better every year. Im going to start off by introducing very briefly overcast and we will carry on a discussion i hope that you will have some questions for the panel towards the end of the hour. Karen is a bestselling author of several books, and her newest eden park is aof pick for august. Maybe some of you read it said it captures the bill of the age and the gangsters. They also call her but a well researched highly engaging work filled with intrigue, infidelity and headline catching courtroom drama. Its good to h
Manager adult programs it is great to see everyone here today at lunch and learn for as many of you know this is a Monthly Program where we invite the experts to share their knowledge of history culture and art this program was started on a suggestion of one of our members and for nearly 200 years of Historic House served as a Gathering Place such as those of Nicholas Longworth and of course charles and anna each played a role to shape the history art and culture of cincinnati to celebrate their legacy as a way we evolve and change. The complete schedule including our upcoming lunch and learn and i would like to tell you about our talk today our author of the newly released book the bourbon king prohibitions evil genius. Bob batchelor is here today to share about the criminal mastermind and bootlegger who built a bourbon empire across america at the dawn of prohibition. A critically acclaimed bestselling cultural historian and biographer it is published widely on American History and l
Thank you for coming to this panel. At 2 45. True crime across america. Im the graduate dean at jackson state university, and im happy to be here as a room coordinator. Well have 45 minutes for the session and then leave 15 for q a. The sponsors for our panel are cecile and nancy brown. Are they with us . [applause] im happy to introduce our moderator for this session, james, at i skipped over. Curtis wilkie. An associate prefer of journalism at the university of mississippi and fellow at the university oses center for southern journalism and politics and will take over. Thank you and thank you all for coming, and we appreciate the presence of our guest on the panel here at the mississippi book festival. Its getting bigger and better every year. Im going to start off by introducing very briefly our guests, and well carry on a discussion and i hope you all will have some questions for the panel toward the end of hour our hour. Karen abbott is bestsale august authorize of several books a
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