Folks, i guess we are going to start here. So, thank you so much for coming and i hope you are comfortable because im going to talk for a bit here. My name is Mark Pendergrass as a about a third of the people in the audience do because that is their name, also. They are related to me. This is the bookstore i love to come to all independent bookstore with great hearts and is also close to where the pendergrass enclave has lived for many many years. I grew up he or in atlanta. I live in vermont, now. I come back here frequently to see my mother who is right here in my father who was very much involved in my research for this book. Read most of the manuscripts and who died last year at the age of 99 and a half and i just want to dedicate this whole talk to him. He was a wonderful, wonderful, kind, generous man and i dedicate the book to him into my mother into my made, my africanamerican maid whose name was willie mae and whom i call me and i will be talking about her maybe i should talk
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