Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the princeton Public Library, it is my honor on behalf of the executive director, assistant director erika beth and the rest of the staff to welcome you to this eachs program. Before i introduce our speaker, things in order, first and foremost thanks to Incredible Team for teaching out to library and hosting talk. We knew we wanted to be a part. As im sure everyone in this room is well aware, michelle attended pris tone University Just up the street from 1981 to 1985 so seemed fitting to have photographs in Public Library and take part in book tour that looks at her life in the white house. Thanks also to the arts council of princeton for hanging photographs in reading room for us. The exhibit will be on view through december 3rd and, of course, things also in order. We invite everyone to visit the reading room which is across the hallway so you can see the photos up close and personal once we are finished with the formal part of the evening. My g
To write about the comanches in the great plains which is as far from connecticut as the frozen moons of jupiter. I will not bore you with the details of my past but to put it as briefly as possible i had my little epiphany in the spring of 1970. I had just been admitted to Princeton University and i was traveling there for a weekend where you see if you want to go there. It was a glorious day. Kind of like this morning actually. The spring was in full bloom per full bloom. I had taken a train and the last leg was on a smaller train which was the princeton to Princeton Junction that took the right to the campus. On the trip, i happened to be reading a book by f. Scott fitzgerald called this side of paradise. It was about life in princeton. At the time, it was absolutely magical. I happened to finish it as the train was pulling into the station. It is cute as a button. I was finishing it just as the train old in and i walked out and up onto the campus and i walked by 12 University Place
Day in may. Just like this morning and the spring was in full bloom. I had taken a train and the last leg was on a smaller train which was the princeton to Princeton Junction that took the right to the campus. I happen to be reading of book by f. Scott fitzgerald called this side of paradise. About life there princeton in it is absolutely a magical book for me. I cannot even read two smell. Cannot read even two paragraphs now. But at the time it was magical i finished it just as the train pulled into the station. Princeton is as cute as a button. Finishing just as the train pulls then and i walk up to the campus and i remember thinking there is absolutely nothing in the world that i would rather do than to write like scott fitzgerald. It was all downhill from there. For the next 15 years i wrote a bunch of fiction and publish some of it, got a graduate fellowship call mom fellowship, but none of what i did was much good unfortunately. Not great stuff. I worked, i had jobs was a banker
From out studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. System sister Rosemary Nyirumbe is here. She provides help for the victims and uganda. Thehas been named one of 100 most influential people in the world. She is the subject of a documentary called sewing hope. Young girls especially. Killerse catholic used as sex slaves for commanding officers. Eventually, these girls became mothers themselves. Some as young as 13 or 14 years old. Fled,ars after ckony these girls were released but they still remained enslaved carrying scars from their time their captorsd children on their backs, they had nowhere to turn. The guns have stopped firing but the war still remains for one woman who directs a small school in uganda. Girls usingor these sewing machines. The fate of girls abducted by terrorist groups in africa have been in headlines. The group kidnapped more than 30 schoolgirls last month and promise to sell them into slavery. The president promised u. S. Assistance to find the girls. Im
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