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Barnstorm,ing and cowriter and director of the law faith as to jail. He is the author of to swing through the sky, and musical theater piece commissioned and produced by George Mason University about the history of jazz empowered flight. He was a longtime member of the right experience team an executive director of the discovery flight foundation. Paul is a graduate of Washington University in st. Louis with a degree in visual arts. In addition to aviation history and documentary filmmaking. His career covers classical drawing, stem in steam education. Exhibit design and photography. With that i would like to turn the stage over to paul, thank you all again so much for coming tonight. Hello. Thank you so much for having me. Can everyone see me okay . Hear me okay . Great. Im going to make sure i turn this thing on correctly. Okay, thank you kathy, and to every ....
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Instagram booktv is our handle. Were kicking off today with an author discussion on Eleanor Roosevelt with emily wilson and National BookAward FinalistPatricia Bell scott. This is booktv on cspan2. Its live coverage of the southern festival of books. [inaudible conversations]. Since this session is being taped live, if you please use the microphone if we have time for questions at the end of the session, the microphone is over there, we will need the to end the session at 12 50. After that we will head to the book and author signing area where you will have an opportunity to meet the authors and have them sign your books. We cannot linger in this room. Thank you for your assistance. Professor of women studies at the university of georgia. She is a former contribu ....
[inaudible conversations] hello, welcome to this afternoon session. I am matt holloway, director of collections at the Tennessee State museum. Its a pleasure to welcome you to the 29th annual southern festival of books. As you know, this all sessions in the entire program is free of charge. If youre interested in helping out in the future, you can make a donation to the Tennessee Humanities Council either facebook or on site here or on their web page. After this session is over, our authors will be at the signing table, and we invite you if you haventha already acquired a coy of their book to do so and be there where they can sign the books. My remarks here are going to be very brief because weve got a lot to cover in one hour. I will, first, introduce Kathy Farnell who is, grew up in montgomery, alabama. A ....