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Adams. And i must say being here today i feel like ive come home, because ive come to john and abigails home and also home that all Three Sisters spent a lot of time in. But the other two sisters that i think you know less about, i argue in my book, are even though they didnt can marry president s they didnt marry president s, theyre equally important and remarkable women. First, theres the oldest sister, mary cranch, and she was sort of the uncrowned queen of the family because, in the puritan family, hire hierarchy s very important, and she was born first, so she was the first born. She was very important. And especially after her brother was disinherited by their father, she was really the one who inherited the first sons role. Because there was no brother. Finish and then when she grew up, she proved hes to be just a wonderful administrator. So even though she was a woman and couldnt be elected to any position, she was the de facto mayor of quincy. And her husband would be appointed to positions, but really even would know mary would take care of everything. And then theres Elizabeth Shaw peabody who was the youngest sister and always thought that neither of her older sisters gave her enough attention, and she was constantly clamoring, listen to me, listen to me. And she was also the most literate and the best educated of the three of them. She had the ambition when she was young to grow up and become a published writer, a published letter writer. It was the golden age of letter writing, and she wanted her letters to be published, and ill let you read the book to find out whether that actually happened. But she did become, with her husband, the founder of the second coeducational school in america. So that itself was pretty impressive. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Hes a look at some books that are being published this week watch for the authors in the ner future on booktv and on booktv. Org. Bend is a timber town. You wouldnt know it to look at it today. The timber qualities are almost completely removed, but, yes, bend was a timber town to begin with. At the height of the timber industry, so if you were to drop into bend in, say, 1928, you would have smelled the mills, you would have smelled sawdust if you went through certain parts of town, youd get saw on your clothes. You would hear periodic mill whistle les from the two gigantic supermills that were on the banks of the river. It would have permeated everything. It would have been ten minutes off from the Downtown Core where all the shops were, but you would have seen the smoke from the smokestacks and the barners, you would have smelled it, you would have heard the whistles, you would have known right away that you were in the middle of timber town usa. Next weekend, booktv and American History tv look at the history and literary life of bend, oregon, on cspan2 and 3. Actually, the film comes from the spanish, and at the beginning [inaudible] which has wandered off the farms and by extension, it was used for runaway slaves. So in spanish [inaudible] and it becomes maroon in english. Now, what is interesting also is that even though the term is used maroon and cimarron as any kind of runaway, then it became useful for people who settled in the swamps, the [inaudible] but in the United States maroon was actually reserved for, you know, large communities of surname and jamaica. And in the United States maroons were actually called runaways simply or outliers. But these normally when we think of runaway slaves, we think of people coming up to the north, getting to canada. But youre talking about people who established communities in the south. Yes. So communities or also individuals, families who remained in the south and decided to leave in an non live in ab anonymous way in the swamps. Now, how did you get interested in this subject . Because its a very interesting and unusual one, but not that many people have written about it in the United States. In the United States, absolutely. How did you get into it . Actually, you know, i really didnt start wanting to write a book, i wanted to really read books on maroons in the 1960s. Id been reading a lot about the maroons in jamaica and brazil, in cuba, suriname, and i was looking for information on maroons in the United States. I was interested in who they were, what they were doing, where they lived. And really i couldnt find anything. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. And now, booktv on cspan2. 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. Here are some of the programs to look out for this saturday and sunday