Jointly by me and dr. Caroline newhall, my colleague. Shes the postdoctoral fellow here at the center and you can type your questions into the q a box at any time now if you already have a question, but any certainly anytime during the lectures are at the end during the discussion session and i really want to let you know how much we appreciate your responses and questions that come in through the q a box, you know, sometimes people just type a little note saying i really enjoyed this talk and thats great. Of course for the speakers to hear and whatever your response or question. Were really glad to have it and of course especially over zoom if we dont get any questions or responses, it really makes us question whether theres anyone out there at all. So please do keep those. Some responses coming. We really look forward to the conversation after the lectures. So our first speaker is going to be extremely familiar to anyone whos attended Virginia Tech civil war weekend before William C
Check of our weather. To clarify headline in the first alert forecast and the story on this heat wave is, we havent started yet. Sunday, monday and tuesday but especially monday of all days and tuesday, think about that n that when we get into like the big plans for the holiday weekend. Those are the days you will really have to be thinking about the heat. First here is today. It is hot today. It is not excessively hot but it is still hot. We will be around 100. San jose has to go to 90. T 90. It will be 94 in santa rosae santa rosa. We will keep the temperatures in the mid 80s. It is the next few days. Especialy few days. Especially here. The inland east bay valleys that is where this is an issue. For comparison, today is 99. It will take off. By monday we are at 110. By tuesday we are stile still close to that mark. By wednesday it is a little bette. But no means are we out of the. There is a lot to look at here. T is the main item. We will talk t your part of the bay area as wel as
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Annual planning board, please help me give a special thank you to all the sponsors. Before we begin. And the camera flashes. I will introduce today, in conversation proud smith with rick cogan. And with chicago great fire. And and please join me, please welcome rick hogan. You are good to come out on a hot day like this. A big part of this book, the paperback edition was just out and in the current of that addition, simply put, the best book ever written about my father who i admired tremendously wrote a book about the fire and i still say this. My brother is here. Where we have run out of things, you knew my dad. I came to chicago, just finished graduate school in yale in newhaven connecticut. What i was most interested in was history and culture in the second half of the nineteenth century. And weve got this job on northwestern. I was teaching a heavy load but in the spring, i went to teach a course on chicago literature and i dont remember the exact way it happened and somehow befor
And the camera flashes. I will introduce today, in conversation proud smith with rick cogan. And with chicago great fire. And and please join me, please welcome rick hogan. You are good to come out on a hot day like this. A big part of this book, the paperback edition was just out and in the current of that addition, simply put, the best book ever written about my father who i admired tremendously wrote a book about the fire and i still say this. My brother is here. Where we have run out of things, you knew my dad. I came to chicago, just finished graduate school in yale in newhaven connecticut. What i was most interested in was history and culture in the second half of the nineteenth century. And weve got this job on northwestern. I was teaching a heavy load but in the spring, i went to teach a course on chicago literature and i dont remember the exact way it happened and somehow before the internet and emails, there he is. Your book is better. Sitting upstairs at the Chicago Press cl