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Next, more from the 27th annual southern festival of books with a panel a Panel Discussion on race in americ pl good morning. Everyone can hear me . Wonderful. Good morning and and welcome to thet,015 southern festival of books. I am jim mccarrons, a writer and teacher from philadelphia by way of los angeles, now, now based here in nashville. It is long story. All you need to know is i am your prod host for this mol. Ings session. A brief note of business, this incredible threeday celebration of the written word depends heavily on donations. Not15ust to keep going every year but to also remain free. Free of charge. Do you keep that in mind, donations of whatever level can be made by mail or online through various socphl medph platforms, or even a person through actual time live, persontoperson communication. Any, and all are greatly apprecphte. Second your authors today will be heading to and signing books at the signing table i ....
You mentioned coming up to the light. Is this truth . I dont know. Somebody else asked, to me, the writer is the big one, figuring out the truth. Speaking of truth, last night, are these two women here from last night . Stand up. Stand up. These two women latched onto me and invited me for a glass of wine. They had two glasses and i paid, i do my generosity, 60. Its good to its good to see you all again. [laughter] [applause]. Thank you all. Thanks pat for talking about truth with us today. He will be at the bar. We will see you in the signing well. [inaudible conversation] this is the 2015. Diana writer based in nashville. Its a long story. All you need to know is that i am your proud host for this discussion. A brief note to business, this incredible threeday celebration depends heavily on donations. Not just to keep going every year but to remain free of charge. So do keep that in mind. Donations can be made by mail or online through social media platforms or in person through live ....
Thank you very much. [inaudible conversation] thanks for being here. Thanks for your support. [inaudible conversation] next up from nashville southern festival of books, he talks about my southern journey. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Okay, good. I sound like the commercial, dont i. Can can you hear me now . Good afternoon. My name is faye rivers and it is my pleasure to welcome you to the southern festival of books and especially to this session. I will ask you at this time, if you have a cell phone, would you please silence your cell phone. Thank you very much. I also want to extend a very special thanks to cspan for taping this session and it will be broadcast later this month. I remind you also that immediately following this session, the author is going to be signing books. If you havent purchased the book, you may do so at the Parnassus Book tent. The proceeds will go to the festival if you purchase your book there. We ap ....
If youre as inspired as i am, by his presentation tonight. I highly recommend you participate. This concludes our program this evening. Thank you for being here. God bless our veterans, and god bless the United States of america. Thank you. [applause] every weekend on cspan2, lockheed offers programming focus on nonfiction authors and books. Keep watching for more here on cspan2. Now on the tv want to introduce you to brian murphy. His book is called 81 days below zero. Mr. Murphy, who was leon speak with amazing story. This is a kid from west philadelphia, was assigned to an airbase outside fairbanks from the years 1942, the winter of 1942, and what they were doing among other things was cold weather testing of aircraft. An idea was they were worried the next warfront may be greenland, norway, things like that. So he went up with five members on the plate in the be 24 bomber and theyre going to do something called prop testing whi ....