And a dream come true. Viola davis takes us inside the new Virtual Reality exhibit recreating the historic 1963 march on washington. I cant wait to see that. Its friday, february 28th, 2020. Here is todays eyeopener. Your world in 90 seconds. Coronavirus sending shock waves through the markets. It seems like a frantic selloff. This is panic. This is what panic looks like. Global markets brace for another wild day. This administration seems to be dealing with the coronavirus as if its a political problem. We have seen this before. They know they cant beat them. They bash them. This time its about coronavirus. 33 turkish soldiers have been killed in an attack by Syrian Government forces by russia in the region of syria. This massive storm pushing through parts of the northeast. Some areas saw whiteout conditions from lakeeffect snow. Just winter again. Youre in upstate new york. Business and schools shut down in houston after a massive water main break. There was so much water it flooded
Our second presentation this morning is by jake wynn. Jake is a director of interpretation of the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office museum. Also the National Museum of civil war medicine. He worked on a number of civil war related jobs and in fredericksburg and spotsylvania. This talk is entitled discovering Clara Bartons missing Soldiers Office. Mr. Wynn. Thank you very much. Hello everybody. Good morning. I am so excited to be here this morning, talking about something i am very passionate about. The story of clara barton and her role during the american civil war. I am the director of interpretation at the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office and museum and the National Museum of civil war medicine. I will explain how that connection works in just a bit. I wanted to introduce what i am going to be discussing today. Can we see a show of hands, how many of you have heard of the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office museum before . How many have been there . Excellent. I am glad to s
As a collection, make it scream, make it burn and they are so smart, so nuanced and its fascinating to hear about and to read about the ethical complications of being a writer. Theres tension between making art making beauty and exporting the people you write about. Thats one of the recurring themes, all of these essays. Theres also a lot else as well so its great to have the here. Its wonderful to be here. One thing that so striking to me about this collection is this a very different kinds of answers. Some are journalism, summer what i would callst criticism and thn you very personalal essays, revealing essays. Arere you equally comfortable wh all those different kinds of writing or do you have a favorite type ofu essay . Best way to start answer the question would be to say that i am differently uncomfortable with all three forms of writing. I think its usually a bad sign if im feeling too comfortable about a a project or peace and working on but i find, and suddenly and discovered
A couple of notes for you, please silence your cell phones as always. Also, if youd like to ask the question this evening, right over here in front of the wisconsin book festival banner there is a microphone, we are joined across the nation on cspan booktv today so please ask your question from the microphone. Also as a special treat, artist will santino is here and will be graphic recording throughout the event. Writing down things they discussed, questions we ask and then his piece of art will be on display after stop here is Angela Batista from a [applause] abi want to give a big thank you to Madison Public Library, the Madison Public Library foundation and all our amazing sponsors for making this whole thing possible. Thank you. And thank you for coming out to the wisconsin book festival to hear adam rippon talk about his new book beautiful on the outside i dont think he needs an intro, everybody in this room probably knows him. If you dont, get a tv. [laughter] check your internet
Maria a lot to talk about in terms of china, as well as the fed, impeachment inquiry and the fbi scandal, washington is hitting beijing, the United States restricting victims based on restrictions of muslimminority groups. Two sides with another trade talks tomorrow, growing confrontation between nba and china, commissioner adam silver in an effort to heal relationship, it is a real important relationship, the nba, they rolled over, dagen, adam silver is trying to say, look, we are going to protect the general manager of the Houston Rockets and not apologize for it. Dagen wall street journal writes about this today, nba might be in a stronger position and pushing back than even u. S. Businesses because of the popularity of basketball in the country, the most powerful Sports League and it plays to, quote, the journal plays role in local sporting culture that china without the nba is increasingly unimaginable, so i quote from that, but if the nba, theyre a mess right now in terms of the