as it was delivered, gentlemen, like joe chesnutt here, would pick up a compactor and his job was to pack the concrete down and make sure there were no air bubbles. you can see it is a pretty stiff, dry mix. it is not very fluid. so if you end up with an air pocket, that would end up collapsing on itself is you put more weight on top of it. his job was important. imagine doing that all day long. they would pay big box, $.90 an hour or $7.20 a day to do that in the summer sun, rain it did , not matter. once it started, to did not stop for 4.5 years. 20 47. -- 24/7. by this time point, they had built a permanent home for the train and use that same tunnel they used for the train as a diversion tunnel to move the water through so they could dry out this area for the spillway. they did this spillway the same section. block on top of block. once they got to write about here, but placed the four lower valves. those valves allowed the river to take its natural course and they could plug up that tunnel. you might think why would they , do that? what they wanted to do was get the lake full. f

as it was delivered, gentlemen, like joe chesnutt here, would pick up a compactor and his job was to make sure there were no air bubbles in the concrete. you can see it is a pretty stiff, dry mix. not very fluid, so if you end up with an air pocket, that would end up collapsing. his job was important. imagine doing that all day long. hour would pay 90 cents an thee able to do that in summer, sun, rain, it did not matter. it did not stop. by this time point, they had built a permanent home for the train and use that same tunnel they used for the train as a diversion tunnel to move the water through so they could dry out this area for the spillway. they did it block on top of lock on top of block. of block.n top once they got to the spillway, valves allowed the river to take its natural course and they could plug up that tunnel. why would they do that? what they wanted to do was get the lake full. the superintendent in charge of construction, same guy who builds hoover dam and others, thought the most prudent thing was to start filling the late as they were building it. he was an engin

the most famous one with was charles chesnutt. i was interested in the motivation of these guys.you're talking about family men, good fathers and husbands and in one case a pastor of a church. i was trying to imagine my way into their imagination and mindset. the practical question was there 70 or 80 people figured into the narrative what i did was put representatives of each of the facets, the planners, victims and using those to tell the story. i was as scrupulous as i could be. so within the novel you read about someone being shot at a certain intersection, that happened. where i took liberties was creating composite characters that can move back-and-forth into the seeker council because these guys did not leave minutes of their meeting. i knew they went in and knew what happened when they came out. i was very much interested in imagining my way into their morality and way of thinking and trying to pull some truth about how that character behaved while remaining true to the basis of the event. that's why wrote -- is a novel. many people had the reaction that he just made that

[laughter] i don't understand that chesnutt argument but i sense it is a very good argument. [laughter] [applause] >> with the most enormous appreciation. [applause] >> this is my favorite part of the event to report the results of all of you i would start by thinking again to the associates at the table when we had to take on a tough argument to make sure it would be well represented we knew nobody that we could turn to that do better other than you we appreciate that. [applause] if there is any group of people of that definition of weird we pick the right people at the table. [laughter] [applause] the bad bags are filled with the votes that said the lower court did not air and the verdict should stand the blue corn means a lower court was an error and should be reversed. [applause] >> however taking the lead of the suggestion of the council to have argument next work -- next week to see if the of priestess has acted in violation of the tax laws. have a good evening thanks for being a part of the show's. [applause] >> this concludes the trial of the weird sisters reid-hillvi