Have been coming to again and again this month. This is the fourth installment of the series. We have focused mostly on architecture. You might recall we had House Speaker on the folklife, but this one is different to me. It speaks very clearly and closely to my heart as a historian. I know visitors that come to d. C. , they want to go to library of congress, they are in on and they should be. Researchers cannot wait to read in the main reading room. It lands a certain something lends a certain something to the seriousness of what they are doing. Scholars that really know the score walk right past the Jefferson Building and go into you may not like the way it looks, but the madison ling is where it is at. That is where the manuscripts is where it is at. That is where the manuscripts are. I am getting this from the website. 60 million items over 11,000 separate collections, truly the greatest manuscript treasure of American History and culture. To talk to us about that collection is Jef
In the main reading room. It lends a certain something to the seriousness of what they are doing. That is the way it should be, but scholars are really know the score walk right past the Jefferson Building and go into you may not like the way it looks, but the Madison Building is where it is at. That is where the manuscripts collection is, and there are 60 million items. This is from the website. 60 million items over 11,000 separate collections, truly the greatest manuscript treasure of American History and culture. To talk to us about that collection is Jeff Flannery, an old friend of the society in particular friend of scholars who work in American History, like my former colleagues and i. For 40 years, put together a document history project, and it brought us to jeff virtually every week. He and his staff helped us produce those volumes. Jeff is the head of the reference and services section. He has been in the management for 31 years, and that is all i will say. I know you are mu
States are making very different sorts of calculations from people who are born here. I guess im not spin clarion. I think theres probably a lot more hope than just saying its culture. And, of course, the other thing is once you say its all culture, thats kind of like, its a big thing and its kind of like we cant talk about that. I think we can talk about this. What do you make of the increase of the labor force increase in alderman . And women, too. I think its terrific. I think its really the single glimmer of sunshine we see in the labor market over the past 25 years, this turn up from the 55 plus group. Its what should happen with a more educated, more healthy american population. When all these guys to and 56 they would to work . If you look at jason and the work on the age of cohort by cohort, we would have to lift and a lot of hope for that. So there were two questions that were actually union yang questions. One is to adjust cut these guys off . The other is if theyre not going
To watch previews the festival coverage click the book fairs that on our website, bookt booktv. Org. [inaudible] there we go. Ill start over. Welcome. Thanks for coming today. O my name is Susan Barribeau and then work for the madison u libraries as a specialas a collections librarian come and englishlanguage Managers Library in. Welcome to the wisconsin bookies festival. I would like to introduce today our offer, andrea mays who will be talking about her book as this fantastic cover, the millionaire and the bard. Tell you a little bit about andrea mays. Like henry folger been possessed by a lifelong obsession with shakespeare and his times. Andrea spent much of her manhattan girl could hold up and new public labor listening to vinyl of the recordings of performances by the royalo vinyl shakespeare company. A graduate of dispatches that only a protege of frank mccourta but also of his own mentor, the legendary new York Public School teacher. And are has degrees in economics, from State
Associate director at the air and space museum. This week veteran space correspondent jay barbree and his latest book Neil Armstrong a life in flight. And at the nbc news man and a bestselling author examined the life of the first man to walk on the moon on the 45th anniversary of the moon landing. The program is about an hour im a curator at the museum here to talk to the author of Neil Armstrongs life in flight a new biography of Neil Armstrong. Im very familiar because he was a voice on the radio and a face on tv in my years as a space buff in the 1960s it was nice to talk with you today. Why did you decide to write this book . We talked about it for about 20 years because we had a close friend for half a century and i wrote a book with alan shepard which did well in the New York Times best seller list and he did the introduction of that. So we had to talk to because he didnt want a biography. He wanted the story of his life and flight and he felt like anything that he did commit an