Industry, americas Cable Television company, as a public and brought to you today i your television provider. Good evening. My name is leslie kavasch and im here to introduce our guest, clyde ford. Client is former assistant engineer with ibm. He graduated from university of Western State here in portland as a doctor of chiropractic, and he is a trained psychotherapist. He the awardwinning author of 12 works of fiction and nonfiction. Clive is recipient of the rate award, in African American literature as well as numerous other awards for his books. Hes been a guest on the oprah show, npr, and radio and tv programs across the nation. Clyde is here tonight to speak about his latest book think black which was just released shortlisted for the 2019 book prize in social justice. Wed you please join me in welcoming to the planetarium at the Oregon Museum of science and industry clyde ford. [applause] thank you leslie and thank you all for being here. I cant tell you how special it is to bee
Here in portland as a doctor of chiropractic and hes a trained psychotherapist. Hes also the Award Winning author of 12 works of fiction and nonfiction. Hes the recipient of the award of africanamerican literature and numerous awards for his books. Hes been a guest on the oprah show, npr and radio and tv programs across the nation. Clyde is here tonight to talk about his latest book think black which was just short listed for the 2019 goddard resso book prize. Would you welcome him at the science and industry, clyde w. Ford. [applause]. Thank you, leslie and this you all for beinger hoo being here. And i cant tell you how it is to be here again and reliving my First Experience here over 40 years ago when it was up at Washington Park and i was a volunteer and working with a group at omsi with software. Id gone to Chiropractic College and i needed to do that, and i was able to get computer time exchanging my work for the omsi compiler, and anyone who knows how it is dates yourself. And i
We appreciate it. Even though sometimes you dont say thank you. Thank you. I will carry on until i drop dead. Hi my name receive linn and im so glad to welcome you to the store this evening and were excited to welcome david barron, hes the author of american eclipse which is why youre is thing here. And were very, very excited because this is a really interesting book where the wild west meets the stars essentially, and if i was reading a little bit about it and about the time and the e and i thought how interesting 100 years ago 99 years ago was the last time we had a total eclipse that went from coast to coast. And it it was right over colorado. But you think about colorado 100 years ago it was a different place. It was known for it was a wild west. You know. Who would come to colorado well they wanted to come because you could stand on mountain and see eclipse better than anywhere else. So all of a sudden california took on a new place in science and a place that was the beginning o