Opportunities that we think of around. You know i take i mean 128 around boston or Silicon Valley or for that matter, in northern virginia. Now, im afraid that time is. And chariot has flown it being 50 minutes after the hour of. Please respond to. The applause for our authors. My name is bradley sides im going to be the host of the session this morning. Im the author of the short story collection those fantastic loves and the upcoming collection, crocodile tears they can cause the flood. Its my pleasure to host the session this morning. Were here for welcome capitol hill. As you can see, were with authors joel ebert, Erik Schelzig and were going to talk much more about this book for the next 45 minutes or so. So a couple of housekeeping notes before we get started and im going to read these so i make sure i get everything. Please consider checking out humanity. Tennessee literary website. Its w ww dot chapter six dawg. You can find reviews interviews, all kinds of things with tennesse
1974 when the new opry house was built. But during the run of the 40s, 50s, 60s and early 70s, some of the most famous people in all of Country Music history debuted here at the grand ole opry including hank williams, george jones, dolly parton, all these brand names of Country Music cut their and got their start in this wonderful building. The Ryman Auditorium almost didnt happen because of the 1884 president ial race versus Grover Cleveland versus blaine. And the democrats had lost literally six president ial races and had not won since 1856. And tom ryman, who was a river boat captain here in this town, was a very bad gambler. And he was walking the streets of downtown nashville and got goaded on to start betting on the president ial election. And the blaine people were all out thinking that blaine was going to win, and ryman basically took all bets or people that thought that blaine would win. So hed say ill bet 100 to you, 500 to you, 1,000 to you. And before captain ryman knew wh
Welcome to nashville, tennessee located on the car lumbered in the river, 650,000, the second largest city in the state. National is known as the Country Music industry only get the nickname music city usa. With help of Comcast Cable partners we will travel the city and surrounding areas and talk with local authors about the history of national including stories of escaped slaves on their way to freedom. Wherever slavery existed the point in the 1850s what you see happening is slaves running away in groups. It presupposes an organization, not just family units but groups of people not necessarily related who may Work Together. We will learn how negative campaign ads can affect president ial races. One of the things people assume is a tax i made up. You go after somebody because you go after them. That is not quite right. You need to have a basis of evidence for the attack to work. There has never been anybody who attacked bill clinton for not being informed on Public Policy because he
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We are marking 15 years of booktv on cspan2. Here are some programs to watch this weekend on booktv. All weekend we are live from the 2013 southern festival of books in nashville would some of the operas featured are kitty but the run end of light care, the removal of tennessee governor ray blanton in 1979. And the jfk association. See a complete schedule of the days events and also a look at a late alexander cockburns book a colossal wreck. Aero difficult political scandals and American Culture at 9 00 on sunday. A 00 p. M. Sunday your thoughts what does not apply here. Up next representative john lewis, a democrat from georgia. The 14 term congressman talks about his role in the Civil Rights Movement, Race Relations in the obama event political partisanship on capitol hill, he has written wind a memoir of the movement, across that bridge life lessons and a vision for change and march book 1. Congressman john lewis, who is elwin wilson . Guest id met him in 1961. I was part of the fre