Good evening, everyone and thank you all for joining us tonight. On behalf of carmichaels bookstore, i am delighted to welcome you all to tonights events, if we could take a moment before we began to silence our phones, i would appreciate that. Tonight we are joined by cassie chambers whose honored her child hood in appalachia and the strong women who raised her preacher went on to earn a degree from harvard law and has worked extensively with Domestic Violence survivors in kentucky. She lives with her husband. Please join me in giving a warm welcome to cassie. [applause] thank you all, first off i want to thank everyone for being here and coming out in the rain on a cold night, mean so much to have everyone from all the different stages in my life, it is wonderful to see you all here. I wanted to carmichaels for hosting this event, please, carmichael so, so much for this community, please purchase books if you want to have independent bookstores and use our dollars to do that. Please
Guest i welcome that. We have beend that through darkness before. What will the rest of this look like when we get beyond this . Guest well, god willing, we will look back on this as a moment where we came together as united,y, where we were mentioned, astine complicated thought, but the best definition of a nature i have ever come across. Multitude of rational beings. So we are driven by reason, driven by facts, however unconfirmed, united by the common objects of their love. We love enough to sacrifice for one another. We have had a lot of conversations about this is more time, this is like pearl harbor, like september 11. Actually, it is not particularly. That is a National Feeling is analogous, but this is something the closest thing i can think of as an analogy, this is as if we were all english men and women in london in 1940 during the blitz, or in 1944 and 1945 when hitlers was firing the rockets at london. We are all combatants, and we did not choose to be a combatant. So my h
Good evening, everyone and thank you all for joining us tonight. On behalf of carmichaels bookstore, i am delighted to welcome you all to tonights events, if we could take a moment before we began to silence our phones, i would appreciate that. Tonight we are joined by cassie chambers whose honored her child hood in appalachia and the strong women who raised her preacher went on to earn a degree from harvard law and has worked extensively with Domestic Violence survivors in kentucky. She lives with her husband. Please join me in giving a warm welcome to cassie. [applause] thank you all, first off i want to thank everyone for being here and coming out in the rain on a cold night, mean so much to have everyone from all the different stages in my life, it is wonderful to see you all here. I wanted to carmichaels for hosting this event, please, carmichael so, so much for this community, please purchase books if you want to have independent bookstores and use our dollars to do that. Please
Bookstore im honored to welcome to you this event. If we could take a moment before we begin and silence our phones, id greatly appreciate that. Tonight we are joined by cassie chambers whose debut memoir hill women honors her childhood in appalachia and the women who raised her. And she went to harvard law and works with Domestic Violence in kentucky she currently lives in louisville with her husband. Please join me if giving a warm welcome to cassie. [applause] thank you all. First off, i just want to thank everyone for being here and coming out in the cold rain, and it means so much for me to see people from different stages of my life and carmichaels from this event. Please, please, please, purchase books, if we want to have independent book stores, lets support them and use our dollars to do that. And please at the end of the night if you would purchase your book and i will be signing them after this wraps up. So what i want to do tonight is i want to im going to read some excerpt
Many years, jim downs, and we put together a series. We had a panel called history and headlines, we got historians to talk about how we wanted to make sure that we were plugged into these larger issues. We put out a book a year on a topic thats a burning issue, certainly the confederate statues and memorialization when we put it together. A roundtable of scholars in 2017, published in 2019, wanted to really address something that would be contemporary and fresh. We discuss silent sam, the statue on the university of north carolina. The protest against it wanted to pull it down. The board of overseers taking a position against removing it and more protests to follow and then eventually the sale of it is a really interesting issue. Money being donated for the her mobile. This end of happened at vanderbilt as well. You had a confederate memorial hall. Iony paid for the erect of the hall. When it was determined by the university to move it really the century later he paid you name the peo