Our program andrew welcome and thanks so much for being here with us. Thanks, dan. Its a really good to talk with you all. Let me give andrew a quick introduction as i mentioned. Hes a professor of history at western Carolina University where he teaches courses on native american and United States history. He participates in their Cherokee Studies Program as you might expect he is the author of this book published by the university of North Carolina, press its called monuments to absence cherokee removal and the contest over southern memories. I mentioned published by the university of North Carolina, press in 2017. So andrew as i mentioned the theme and ill give the official title here of the Georgia History festival for 2021 and 22 is from marshes to mountains. Georgias changing landscape geography history and community really talking about the importance of place and the way the land has helped Shape Community and people over time. So lets start by talking about the cherokee if you
History buff but unlike a lot of people who make that claim the history buff in my family was not my father. It was my mother and of her four children i seem to have been the only one she passed that gene onto. She took advantage of that one day we were driving into the city from westchester and she pointed out a big building up on a hill. She told me that was the bronx va hospital and then she said something that i have never forgotten. She said there were still men in that hospital who had never recovered from being gassed in the First World War. And this made quite an impression on a seven or 8yearold me. Even though i was a small child i knew enough about world war i to know that it happened a really really long time ago. 60 years at that point and it really struck me that there were men who had lived entire lifetime since then still frail from what they had endured in that war. I didnt know very much about the war at all. I knew what it was about. Pretty much i knew that snape u.
Well, he lived up fairly selfish life. He became a drug addict when he was about 17. See, he had such an incredible well that he was able to still continue to master the saxophone and master the art of playing jazz. From there he was actually able to find his own way to go. So powerful that he and flaws lot of others. And we have been talking with stanley crouch, columnist for the New York Daily News and author of this book coming up in september, kansas city lightning the rise and times of charlie parker. This is book tv on cspan2. Book tv continues with richard rubin. Richard rubin presents a collection of interviews conducted with menus served in the American Expeditionary forces and world war i. This is a little over an hour. [applause] thank you. That was a wonderful introduction. I started this book back in 2003. So it has been at 10year odyssey, but the seed for this book was actually planted many years earlier. It was back in the mid1970s when i was seven or eight years old. An
[applause] thank you. That was a wonderful introduction. I started this book back in 2003 so its been a a tenyear odyssey but the seed for this book was actually planted many years earlier. It was back in the mid1970s when i was seven or eight years old. There was a day till i grew up in Westchester County new york a suburb just west of the city and the son of a history buff but unlike a lot of people who make that claim the history buff in my family is not my father. Its my mother and of her four children i seem to be the only one she passed the gene onto. She took advantage of that one day we were driving into the city from westchester and she pointed at a big building up on a hill. She told me that was the bronx va hospital and then she said something i have never forgotten. She said that there were still men in that hospital who had never recovered from being gassed in the First World War. This made quite an impression on the seven or 8yearold even though i was a small child. I kno
Now on bbc news lightsjoin now on bbc news lights join Victoria Derbyshire for the best of her show this week. Letsjoin. Hello and welcome. For the next half an hour, we will show you some of the highlights of our Award Winning journalism over the last week. On thursday, we revealed that some people who want to come off antidepressants, which are not addictive, by the way, are being sent to street drug charities for support. That is according to the Mental Health charity mind. It is estimated that at least 16 of adults in england, that is about 7 Million People, take antidepressants. Alex gatenby has this report. Inner restlessness, insomnia. Stabbing pains inside my body. Slurring my words. Waking up on and off all night. Itching all over my body. Brain zaps. No motivation, apathy. These symptoms are common with street drug withdrawal. But some people feel like this when coming off anti depressants. And weve discovered that theyre feeling forced to turn to street drug charities for he