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oh my well, i ve finished and good afternoon indeed mr. light and to all of our friends welcome once again here to our house to to monticello mr. light as you refer, of course to patriots day, so we have heard it now referred to our sales in virginia. nothing could please us more in virginia to be reminded if you will about our initial associations with massachusetts. yes, patriots day is something that we are happy to be reminded of as i know all of our friends and massachusetts continue to be reminded of that occasion in which the citizen body there stood staunchly against the further encroachments of the british upon their rights upon their property. if i remember it occurred in tickler villages lexington and concord and let it not be forgotten a metatomy. i believe that they now refer to metatome is arlington, and i hope it s not forgotten because that is the one of the three where the british actually surrendered. i think they lost about 25 souls that day, but over ....
up next on the presidency, a talk about the marital and political partnership between james and dolly madison. we hear from the vice president for museum programs, and curator for montpelier, she discusses their early lives, their marriage, and how dolley madison s political skills bolster the career of james madison. hello, again. is the sound good? ok. i m not going to introduce myself. [laughter] i will just kind of start talking. what i am planning to do today is to talk about james and dolley madison s lives before they were james and dolley madison. then consider their partnership and how it worked to both of their great advantage, because of it being such a wonderful partnership. so these are the gilbert stuart portraits of james and dolley painted when james was secretary of state. it s actually my favorite portraits of the two of them, i think they capture the sort of sense of personality that i see in them. and they have, i think, in large measure sort of ....
columnist tom friedman, best selling authors j.d. vance and michael lewis, astronaut leland melvin and many others. now, for a complete schedule visit booktv.org, and you can follow us on social media for updates and behind-the-scenes videos. we re on facebook,visit facebook.com/booktv, @booktv is our twitter handle and on instagram, we re at book underscore tv.. this year s festival kicks off with librarian of congress carla haden making opening remarks, and she ll be followed immediately by author and historian david mccullough. you re watching booktv on c-span2 live from the 17th annual national book festival. [applause] wow, i was so worried [cheers and applause] i was so worried. it was raining [laughter] and i thought, book lovers are going to want to stay in bed concern. [laughter] and read. [laughter] well, here you are. thank you and good morning. [applause] and welcome to the 2017 national book festival. i m carla hayden, and i m so honored to be able ....
[applause] his raining and i thought booklovers are going to want to stay in the henry. but, here you are. thank you, and good morning welcome to the 2017 national book festival. i am carla and i am honored to sam the 14th librarian of congress. as you can see, pretty excited to open this event. our 17th consecutive celebration of books and reading. it is wonderful to see a full house in our largest presentation space. not only will we have a full house at the convention center, but we also have millions of people joining us live on facebook. so thank you wherever you are for joining us. [applause] we have a fantastic linus of mainstage authors this year. what better way to kick off the festival than with one of our nation s most beloved historians, mr. david mccullough. [applause] mr. mccullers here for his sixth national book festival appearance and we hope you ll continue to make this a habit. he will be followed by diana. [applause] she is the author of the wildly ....
all san franciscoern can appreciate and demonstrate whether expressic their opinions at public meetings like this or protesting in front of city hall. san francisco will join international cities in displaying the art work. it will further or reputation as a cull chrm destination and connect the port to the next im international art and idea festival this summer sponsored by the mexican conslet. the art commission thanks and cumnds support for your on going support of public art that represents a diverse range of artistic styles from both local and international artist. we think this project is a winner on all accounts. thank you so much for your time thank you. you re welcome now, is there public comment? so moouved second. public comitant. seeing none public comment is closed. colleagues thank you this looks like a wonderful idea and wonderful hch it weighs so much, how will they get it here? i have one question, what is sth fee we are wavering we are ....