Write that it had all begun with a dropped pass. Exactly. A dropped pass. I was a wide receiver on a rung team, and that mean i block a lot versus catching passes. We were at our homecoming game. I was run downing the sideline their ball was perfectly thrown any hand and i dropped the touchdown pass in my hands. And the thing is, a scout was there from the university of richmond looking to see if could i play football for the team. He walked out of stadium, my coach, jimmy green, believed in me, he said get back out there spring same play. This time i caught the ball. That one catch resulted in 180,000 scholarship to the university of richmond because the coach said he didnt give up. He consistent going. That was the grit the persevere and a second chan. Host high dud you get from playing for the university of richmond spiders to two Space Shuttle missions. Guest i think the turning a season from 010 around to 38, to 85 and playoffs, brought the College Scout the pro scouts down, and t
Esthetic, maybe amendment hesic, maybe a better word would be snobbery. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Welcome to lynchburg, virginia, on booktv. Located in the foothills of the blue Ridge Mountains along the james river, it has a population of about 80,000 people. Founded in 1757, lynchburg was named more its founder for its founder, john lynch. The city is home to poplar forest, Thomas Jeffersons private retreat. And with the help of our Comcast Cable partners, for the next 90 minutes well feature the citys Literary History beginning with poet ann spencer. Ann spencer was a poet, an american poet mostly associated with the harlem renaissance period in 19241945. How she becomes part of the harlem renaissance is how harlem comes to lynchburg. Unfortunately, theres a whole group of people who are associated with that period of time like ann spencer that people dont know about. Ann spencer was born in 1882 in henry county, virginia, which is southwestern vir
Which no one in either party, establishment of Neither Party responded to. And donald trump reached out to them. Whether they were wise to look to him as their trip and thats another can we can debate that. I have debated my relatives and friends in west virginia, but he noticed that those people were forgotten, or left behind, or look down on, were held in contempt, war was waged on their economy and he benefited. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Welcome to lynchburg, virginia, on booktv. Located in the foothills of the blue Ridge Mountains along the james river and has a population of about 80,000 people. Founded in 1757 lynchburg was named for its founder john lynch. The city itself to poplar forest, Thomas Jefferson and private retreat, and Jerry Falwells Liberty University. With the help of our Comcast Cable partners come for the next and humans will feature the cities local authors and its Literary History beginning with poet anne spencer. Anne spencer
Actually been in space and that is astronaut Leland Melvin and, mr. Melvin, you write that your book is called chasing space and you write that it had all begun with a dropped pass. Yeah, exactly. A dropped path, i pass. I block a lot and we were at a homecoming game. The ball was perfectly thrown in the game and i dropped a touchdown pass in my hands and the thing is a scout was there from the university of richmond looking to see if i could play football for the team. He walked out of the stadium, my coach green believed in me, this time i caught the ball, that one catch resulted in 180,000dollar scholarship to the university of richmond because the coach said he didnt give up, he kept going. That was the grits and the first and the second chance. How did you get from playing from the university of richmond spiders to Space Shuttle missions . I think the turning of season from 010 around to 38 in playoffs brought the College Scout and then all of the hard work and dedication and disc
And no one saw it. I started writing the book and i asked my question again. Why are you requesting that question . And answer became clear to me, for two reasons, the first happened just last year. I think 2016 was the year when we started living 51 of our lives in cyberspace. Thats where we went to get a news, buy a book, buy a car, meet with our friends, find a date, find a spouse, we are now living in the developed world at least 51 of our lives in cyberspace. My definition of cyberspace its a realm where we are all connected and no one is in charge. Its the ultimate god free realm, no stoplights, no police, no ethics code, no 1800please stop putin from hacking my elections. We are living our lives in a realm thats ethics and godfree. And at the same time because of these accelerated powers ive written about, we are now standing at a moral intersections we have never stood at before as human species. One country could kill all of us post hiroshima, im glad it was mind. I believe we