[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Welcome to the museum of art. My name is ellen and i am a senior manager of adult programs. Its good to see everyone here today. And as many of you know, lunch and learn as a Monthly Program where we invite Community Experts to share their knowledge of interesting cincinnati history, culture and arts. This program was started on the suggestion of one of our members, one of you all. And at this institutions history for nearly 200 years the Historic House served as an Important Community Gathering Place for prominent cincinnati families such as those of martin boehm, nicholas longworth, david and of course charles and anna taft. Each played a role in shaping the history, art and culture of cincinnati and this series i ses rights that legacy as well as the new way of our city continues to evolve and change. The complete schedule of all of the programs including our upcoming lunch and learns are available on the website, which is www. Taftmuseum. O
Today. As many of you know, once you learn is a program where we invite Community Experts to share their knowledge of interesting aspects of history, culture and art. This program was started on the suggestion of one of our members, one of you all and it fit into the institutions history for nearly 200 years our Historical House served as an Important Community Gathering Place for prominent cincinnati families such as those of martin home, nicholas longworth, david, and of course charles and anna taft. Each resident played an Important Role in shaping the history, art and culture of cincinnati and this celebrates their legacy is as well as the new wave city continues to devolve and change. The complete schedule of all of our programs including our upcoming lunch and learn sort of rebuttal on the website which is taft museum. Org and i would like to tell you about the talk today. Today we have the author of newly released book the bourbon king of the life and crimes of george remus, pro
Culture and art. This program was started on the suggestion of one of our members, one of you all and it fit into the institutions history for nearly 200 years our Historical House served as an Important Community Gathering Place for prominent cincinnati families such as those of martin home, nicholas longworth, david, and of course charles and anna taft. Each resident played an Important Role in shaping the history, art and culture of cincinnati and this celebrates their legacy is as well as the new wave city continues to devolve and change. The complete schedule of all of our programs including our upcoming lunch and learn sort of rebuttal on the website which is taft museum. Org and i would like to tell you about the talk today. Today we have the author of newly released book the bourbon king of the life and crimes of george remus, prohibitions of evil genius. Bob is here with us today to share the story of george remus the criminal mastermind and bootleg kingdom to build a kinga bo
One of our members, one of you all and it fits neatly into our institutions history. For nearly 200 years, our Historic House has served as an Important Community Gathering Place or prominent cincinnati families such as those of martin baum, nicholas longworth, David Simpson and of course carl and anna taft. Each resident played an Important Role in shaping the history, art of cincinnati and this series celebrates their legacies aswell as the new ways our city continues to evolve and change. The complete schedule of all our fall programs including our upcoming lunch and learns are available on our website which is taftmuseum. Org. Today we have author of newly released book the bourbon king the life and crimes of george remus, prohibitions evil genius. Bob batchelor is here to share with us the story of george remus, the king who built the bourbon empire that stretched from his cincinnati matching mansion across america at the dawn of prohibition. Batchelor is a critically acclaimed be
We have about 45 minutes for this session and then will leave about 15 for q and a. The sponsors for our panel. Are stay with us . [applause] im happy to introduce our moderator for this session. Hes not only an attorney im sorry. I skipped over this. Hes over there. Moderator is an associate professor at the university of mississippi and hes also at the southern journal and positive. Thank you all for coming. We appreciate the presence of our guests on the panel here at the book festival. Its getting big and better every year. I will introduce briefly our guests and will carry on a discussion and i hope you all have some questions for the panel towards the end. Bestselling author of several books. Her newest book is amazons best book. Maybe some of you read this, it captures the bill of that age and its gangsters. They also call her book a well researched and highly engaging work filled with intriguing infidelity, murder and headline catching courtroom drama. Glad to have you with us.