Mississippi historical society. Two of the groups are responsible for the series she will moderate this penal. Thank you very much. I want to begin by recognizing our sponsors, bradley and cummings and Mississippi State university, thank you very much for making this panel possible. I want to thank you all for joining us here in the Mississippi State capital. We are very proud of this building and it was recently designated a National Historic landmark which is very appropriate. [applause] in our bicentennial year. Im really pleased to host this discussion about the heritage of mississippi series which was also a bicentennial initiative. The series will cover mississippihistory and 17 volumes , seven of them have already been published and there are seven scholars working their fingers to the bone right at this minute on the next volume and then a few to be signed. This series is as i said meant to cover the whole history of the state and its aimed at a wide audience. Dollars, teachers
Oh, the hand mike. That one. Gotcha. Hi, everybody. Welcome. Thank you for coming out tonight. Hope we are providing refuge from the heat but also some intellectual stimulation in the form of an excellent book, the long haul. I read the book with completely wrapped fascination. Theres so much in here. But i wanted to start at the beginning. And you talk in the book about how youve got trucking as a young man, that basically bear basically out of high school. It was a century close to the other entrance. Thats what i did summers between college, i worked as a local mover. I had always been sort of bewitched like trucks. I really like the work. I liked working with machines. I liked working with trucks. In the household i grew up with, my father couldnt distinguish of the business end of a screwdriver from another thing. Actually working with machinery was a new and really exciting thing to do. Thats how i started. With apologies, you are not that big and yet you clearly are very strong