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This is about an hour and 20 minutes. Lets see if this mic is hot. It is. Good evening. Right on cue. I am jake reese with alabama booksmith and on behalf of our dedicated staff of awesome booksellers and this entire crew at the magnificent alabama theater and the geniuses at Penguin Press who have published the book the literary world has anticipated for half a century. It is my privilege and pleasure to welcome you to a mockingbird tribute. We also say a big hi yall to the viewers on cspan. The theater audience has enjoyed watching and hearing catherine check in with them on the big screen t...

This might take the rest of the evening. What things did you find inspired harper lee . She had such an appreciation for how hard people work. Especially as someone who knew the depression and captured it in such an iconic way in to kill a mockingbird was always impressed. Whatever somebodys bat round, whatever their Family History with people who had the perseverance to work hard, a lot of times for not very much pay provides for families. It was i think there were values from their father that they both talked about the ec and not vote, the ec and the way they live in now as the ones that wa...

It was refreshing. And everything wonderful perception that so many of us think of her as mysterious but you made her seem as normal as Blueberry Pie and many aspects. Getting a sense of them in that town where they grew up, one of the great pleasures for me is there was a story for of them, on a drive to every property we drove by, the story of a family that lived there and a feud that had started three generations earlier and the way it had been patched over and all the stories that lurked in that landscape and i also would just try to get a sense of what it was like for them growing up thei...

Question i have regards accountability. You were saying before someone in the private sector has a certain job description. They are hired to do a job. They dont do the job come under fire. If youre in the government and you dont do the job you move to another division. Plus i learned in college there are games played with the budget. So youve got a certain amount of budget and youve only used 70 of that, you better figure out how to spend 30 next week. Exact way. Youre voting on a bill that will cost 200 million. You need to see the feasibility of the money youre spending and how it will affe...

I had the idea that maybe i could just find an apartment over someones garage. I really didnt need very much, didnt want very much. But in a small town like that, an apartment, that kind of a rental was actually harder to come by than a house, for example, to rent. And a good friend of theirs had suggested that i look at the house two doors down from theirs where by that time i had spent a lot of time with both of them as something that i could rent for a time in monroeville. And i did say to both nell harper and to alice, i wonder if that wouldnt be too close for comfort . I dont want to even...