Good afternoon, were going to go to head get started we would like to welcome you to the skeleton in the closet decision im president Trinity University here in san antonio and this is my colleague lidia pine and we want to first of all, say thank you for coming to the session, and we want to thank the San Antonio Public Library as well as Southwest School of arts and craft ares for opening up their facilities for this great event today, and we are also supposed to encourage everybody to please post any of your photos were your tweets and things please put them up on social media. And use the hashtag hrveg sa book fest civil for twitter so please put those out there out into the internet i should say. I would first of all like to ask everybody to please silence your cell phone if you havent done that please put those off and informed us that flash photography is not permit masters degree the room. The way that the seventh going to work today is is that im goinged to a brief introductio
Good afternoon. Were going to go ahead and get started. We like to welcome you to the skeletons in the closet session. My name is jennifer im a professor at an apology here in san antonio and this is my colleague, lydia pine. We like to thank you for coming to the session and we want to thank the San Antonio Public Library and the Southwest School of arts and crafts for opening up their abilities for this great event today. We are also supposed to encourage people to post any of your photos, tweets, put those up on social media and use the as a book festival. Idea have those to hand out so definitely stop by and pick up your where copy of the child from today. Absolutely. So let me introduce lith lidia pine shes in the culture she got undergraduate degree in anthropology from arizona state. Sorry. [laughter] and also received a ph. D. In history at asu as well. She has done archive work and southwest, africa, eat yoap why and uzbekistan and iran, and countrily living in austin where sh
San antonio and this is my colleague, lydia pine. We like to thank you for coming to the session and we want to thank the San Antonio Public Library and the Southwest School of arts and crafts for opening up their abilities for this great event today. We are also supposed to encourage people to post any of your photos, tweets, put those up on social media and use the as a book festival. Idea have those to hand out so definitely stop by and pick up your where copy of the child from today. Absolutely. So let me introduce lith lidia pine shes in the culture she got undergraduate degree in anthropology from arizona state. Sorry. [laughter] and also received a ph. D. In history at asu as well. She has done archive work and southwest, africa, eat yoap why and uzbekistan and iran, and countrily living in austin where she has a position as a visiting tell fellow at the studies texas in austin. Seven skeleton is a readable book and brings to light celebrity of fossils is her third book. And her
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