Good evening and welcome. My names emily and im the adult programs librarian. Tonights event is the last of the author talks. For anyone who is not been in our library since our renovation, welcome back. Before we begin have a few housekeeping things to mention. I would ask everyone to silence her cell phones. If youre looking for the rest of their three upstairs and down the hall. Across lobby. Although we do not allow food and drink, if you like to continue your conversation after the event the cafe is often a 10 discount on food and nonalcoholic beverages. Without further do ill give the podium. [applause] thank you for being here for this essential, sadly sensual event. Limited be very brief, theres a lot to come tonight. I want to begin personal if thats okay tied it with the subject. Like all of you, we all are poor violence. I know violence fairly intimately. I had a violent youth, a lot of violence. I was a victim of a lot of it and i victimized victimizers and it was all ugly.
Bear with me. Number one, please silence cell phones obviously unless you are looking for a haubted one haunted one and have no control. After this event, this is the last event. Finally, chance for questions and we really, really ask you to use the microphone we have right here because cspan is here recording and our videographer is recording. Its a whole new development, it looks amazing, really cool, so go down there and check us out. If you live in southwest and you can prove it in anyway, show your id to one of bookstores and youll get a sixmonth trial membership which is really, really convenient because the present giving time is coming up and you can check website for information. We have events there starting next week, so finally im very excited to introduce colin dicky. This is not obviously his first into strange and unusual things, hes written two books and he also has short essays in the new republic, quarterly and contributes to la review books. How many of we here on th
The museum this evening to talk about her most recent book, the winchester. We are having this taped bases penciled during the question and answer, if you could step to the microphone in the middle and speak loud and clear into it, that would be fantastic. Based in new york city with her husband and three children she has worked for the bbc since 1993. Currently, she is the bbc world news america anchor. Her her first book, a very british family chronicled her english roots. We are excited for her to share with her tonight. St having read the book she has written arise about the winchesters and those associated with the company so well that i have learned and retain the most interesting thing about the family in new haven history. A few weeks ago, i met group of people around the site and camek across the name of thomas e add a spirit if not for her but i would not have known what his symbol to stone meant for the. Role in the winchester. The traveler, as his tombstone read is merely o
Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies and brought to you as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. And now on booktvs after words program, historian pamela haag provides a history of guns in america. Host were here today with pam a la chicago, author of a new book called the gunning of America Business and the making of american gun culture. Hello, pam a la, how are you . Guest hello, im fine. Host pamela, exactly why did you write book, and when did you decide that we needed a book like this . Entering well, its an interesting story. Today most people who talk about guns love guns or hate guns. But when i started this project, i had never owned a gun or even used one. Nor had i been involved in gun control politics. Instead, i came to this story through a ghost story. When i was in graduate school in new haven, a friend of mine told me the story about Sarah Winchester who was Oliver Winchesters daughterinlaw. Now, Oliver Winchester was known as the rifle
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