The country exploring the american story as we take book to be an American History tv im the road. With the support of the local Cable Television provider, we visited only four cities in the last year. And over the next two hours, we will look and highlight from some of the stops. We begin our special feature in milwaukee. So this is the photograph of the lynching that occurred im august 7th, 1930, near indiana. James cameron was 16 at the time, was supposed to be the third person hanging from the tree. But he miraculously survived the lynching. His two friends abe and tommy, it was like 18 and 19 years old, they were killed that day. By mob. Between ten and 50000 angry white people. This was actually in North Central indiana. Join lynching took place. So you end up writing the book they called the time of the survivor story memoir of the memories of the surviving lynching. Actually started his life that when he was in jail. I was a mistrial that he was finally convicted and sentenced.
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