At the Roosevelt Library, we completed a full redo of our permanent exhibit in 2013. And joining me today to discuss how these projects are done is clay bauske, the supervisory curator at the Harry S Truman president ial museum in missouri. Clay and his team are in the final stages of redoing their permanent exhibit. Where do things stand right now and what is your projected opening date for the new permanent exhibit . Clay we are probably within two months of having the new exhibits done and ready to open. The big question with all the libraries is when will the libraries actually open to the public. We are not really sure about that, but the work on our new permanent exhibits we are within two months of being done. Herman so the exhibits are being installed as we speak . Clay yes. Essentially all of the general construction in our museum we went in and had contractors literally rip out everything in the museum and start from scratch. That included installing all new walls in the exhi
Eberhardt from the friendly d roosevelt president ial library and clay bauske of the president truman president ial library talk about the factors that led to the remaking of their museums and the thought that goes into overhauling their exhibits. The two discuss what their job as curators entail. The fdr president ial library hosted the conversation and provided video. The am Herman Eberhardt at franklin was of a president ial library and museum and i want to welcome you to a new series of programs featuring conversations between me and curators at other president ial libraries. In this series we will explore the various jobs and roles of museum curators. Today we will be talking about one of the most important and complicated jobs of a curator, developing new Museum Exhibits. Curators are responsible for providing new changing exhibits on special topics on a regular basis in their museums. They also make periodic alterations to the museums larger permanent exhibits to reflect changin
Washington post columnist and thriller writer and then the Pulitzer Prize winner last month and this month we are joined by jeff shaara military historical fiction author. Ranging from the American Revolution to the korean war and we will talk about all those in just a minute but we will start with a facebook comment that a viewer has posted on our facebook page. What exactly is historical fiction . Guest i have had this conversation with other authors it is an accurate historical setting but the people are totally made up thats a little different from what i do because i take you to these places with a lot of the real people with historical figures with names that you know like George Washington or Dwight Eisenhower were robert e. Lee it is fiction by definition because i put words in their mouth. My job is to tell you a story and not just do a textbook or names dates places facts and figures but to put you in the hands of the characters to tell you the story the way they would tell i
Dave barry and scott turow. [inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen please give a warm welcome to scott turow and dave barry. [applause] [inaudible conversations] at afternoon and thanks for coming. We cant believe you are still coming to these things. This is scotts fifth panel. Scott will be doing his part fully in mind. But i want to start, im going to tell you some things about scott turow. My friend and bandmate and you all know that he is probably the most accomplished legal thriller writer fall times and im sure there are very few who didnt. You know everything about him now and you probably all have samples. But there are two things you dont know about scott. First of all i performed at his wedding. I hope we can get some point to discuss it. Scott got married last summer in wisconsin and asked me if i would perform the ceremony. I am a notary public in the state of florida. [laughter] and floored it means i can do anything. I can sentence people to death in florida. [la
[inaudible conversations] at afternoon and thanks for coming. We cant believe you are still coming to these things. This is scotts fifth panel. Scott will be doing his part fully in mind. But i want to start, im going to tell you some things about scott turow. My friend and bandmate and you all know that he is probably the most accomplished legal thriller writer fall times and im sure there are very few who didnt. You know everything about him now and you probably all have samples. But there are two things you dont know about scott. First of all i performed at his wedding. I hope we can get some point to discuss it. Scott got married last summer in wisconsin and asked me if i would perform the ceremony. I am a notary public in the state of florida. [laughter] and floored it means i can do anything. I can sentence people to death in florida. [laughter] but it didnt have a lot of legal standing in wisconsin. Scott wanted me to do it and we got into this scott sent me the emails that the