Retired cspan journalist and board member of the society. If you will join me in silencing all of your electronic devices, lets welcome bill and connie. [applause]. Hello everybody. Thank you you so much for coming this evening. While i was preparing a little bit for tonight to introduce bill walker, i googled a little so so the veracity of any of this is in question. The first thing i googled was the average number of people who come to a book signing event. I will tell you, it is in single digits, so please give yourself an applause for being here this evening instead of being home watching meg and kelly, and and donald trump on television. [applause]. The second thing i googled is the average age of a firsttime author who gets published by a traditional publisher. That average average age is 37 years old. So, i will tell you bill, you are skewing the numbers very much. , bill walker grew up in knoxville tennessee, he went to the university of virginia for both his undergraduate and
Started changing and they started becoming the first computer programmers. They had these incredibly long careers at nasa, 40, 50 years. One of them still works at nasa today. After words airs on book tv at sunday at nine pm eastern. You can watch all previous after words programsms booktv. Org. Good evening and welcome to the Rr Smith Center for history and art in stanton, virginia. I am the president of the augustine county Historical Society which is the sponsor ofh tonights event. The Historical Society has been preserving and promoting the history of Augusta County virginia for over 50 years. As many of you know, our our county was created in 1738 and at one time, it extended all the way to the mississippi river. Y we have a great deal of historical heritage to be proud of. We are also very proud of our20 20thcentury history. Tonight we are very pleased to welcome you and are cspan viewers to an event featuring residents and members of the society. A great evening on the great war
Published by a traditional publisher and that average age is 37 years old. So, i will tell you, bill, you are skewing the numbers very much. Bill walker grew up in knoxville, tennessee and went to the university of virginia for his undergraduate and masters and went off to teach at College Teaching at the university of new orleans and at Lamar University in texas. Then he went into the administration to be a Public Information officer, associate Vice President for Public Information. He was at Gettysberg College and Virginia Tech and finished up his work at william and mary. I first met him in a class on Woodrow Wilson world war one and i know some people in the audience were in that class and other classes like it. As he told the stories of world war i and specifically making thosef o those of us that live in wilsons birthplace understand the meaning of that man and world war i. He talked about the research he was doing for his book in the classes and later on i would see bill around
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