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Visited with Historic Sites and talks with local authors. With the support of our Cable Partners is weekend we traveled to Traverse City michigan known as the cherry capital of the world and its responsible for two thirds of the cherry production in the us. Over the next hour we will learn about the cities industry and feature local authors. We begin with martin and her book boots forever. The year leading up to my divorce and postdivorce, a lot of struggles happened in a very compressed time. So over oneyear , i got divorced, i was suddenly a single parent, i was also unemployed this grand plan to make my life as a writer and in the midst of all this i had this goal of raising my children in a rural setting. And so there was quite a bit of drama. There was certainly alot of suffering but there was also a lot of togetherness. We formed the four of us against the world and i wanted to document that. So i call it the big valley. Thats my kind of nickname for my house because name named a
Governor mcauliffe, thank you for your kind words of introduction and your thoughtful opening remarks. Governor rolando, thank you for your warm welcome in this and this extremity hospitality. In rhode island. I must say i am a little bit flattered and a little bit surprised that so many of you in the audience have chosen to be here rather than at the beach. Maybe that is on the agenda for this weekend. Or maybe, like me, you agree with Wallace Stevens, that are haves the truth depends on a walk around the lake. I have to tell you, Wallace Stevens is my favorite american poet. By day, he worked in insurance, up the road in hartford, connecticut. By night, he wrote some of the most thoughtful poetry that this country and our world has ever seen. As i get to know this beautiful, historic corner of america a little better, the neatly tended fields and the low stone walls, the apple orchards and spectacular ocean vistas, i have been thinking a lot about what Wallace Stevens and his poem. T
Governor mcauliffe, thank you for your kind words of introduction and your thoughtful opening remarks. Governor rolando, thank you for your warm welcome in this and this extremity hospitality. In rhode island. I must say i am a little bit flattered and a little bit surprised that so many of you in the audience have chosen to be here rather than at the beach. Maybe that is on the agenda for this weekend. Or maybe, like me, you agree with Wallace Stevens, that are haves the truth depends on a walk around the lake. I have to tell you, Wallace Stevens is my favorite american poet. By day, he worked in insurance, up the road in hartford, connecticut. By night, he wrote some of the most thoughtful poetry that this country and our world has ever seen. As i get to know this beautiful, historic corner of america a little better, the neatly tended fields and the low stone walls, the apple orchards and spectacular ocean vistas, i have been thinking a lot about what Wallace Stevens and his poem. T
Governor mcauliffe, thank you for your kind words of introduction and your thoughtful opening remarks. Governor rolando, thank you for your warm welcome in this and this extremity hospitality. In rhode island. I must say i am a little bit flattered and a little bit surprised that so many of you in the audience have chosen to be here rather than at the beach. Maybe that is on the agenda for this weekend. Or maybe, like me, you agree with Wallace Stevens, that are haves the truth depends on a walk around the lake. I have to tell you, Wallace Stevens is my favorite american poet. By day, he worked in insurance, up the road in hartford, connecticut. By night, he wrote some of the most thoughtful poetry that this country and our world has ever seen. As i get to know this beautiful, historic corner of america a little better, the neatly tended fields and the low stone walls, the apple orchards and spectacular ocean vistas, i have been thinking a lot about what Wallace Stevens and his poem. T