And i thank you for coming governor thompson will be here momentarily. If you can believe this is the first time that he did call from the car and will be here shortly thank you for coming one thing we probably will not get to in our conversation how the book came about and what it was like to be the coauthor somebody said getting two people together to write a book is like three people coming together to make a baby. [laughter] it really wasnt like that for us. [laughter] i think we worked pretty well together. But seven years ago in 2011 we met at the club the esquire club and had a late breakfast and talked about a collaboration. And i interviewed him about the first race for governor we had to do a sample chapter for our publisher and that went pretty well and the press seemed happy and then decided to run for senate and we got sidetracked and never really got engaged until about three or four years ago. s was still has been quite a while. I did about 30 hours of interviews approxi
Us to bring authors to madison and for us to make it available to everyone for free. Take you to them and all our sponsors for putting on wisconsin book festival this year. Part of my job as director of course is selecting the books but one of my favorite things about that is being able to find that wisconsin authors doing incredible work. Thats what we are going to start with today. I came across this book, the gift of our wounds by party coleco and otto michaelis. Tells an incredible story that doesnt matter where you are from its incredible story but the fact it tells an incredible story about wisconsin is even better to me. abcame together and he formed a friendship and the hardest of times after the shooting of the sikh temple in milwaukee in 2012. The book, the gift of our wounds, tells that story and its my distinct pleasure today to welcome parties and arnaud and listen to their conversation. [applause] thank you. Good morning. My name is Arnold Michaelis and disses party colec
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Join the Bedford Hiking Club at beautiful Spring Mill State Park and help kick off National Walk Week ( April 1-7) Participants can do either a 5 or a 10K