this month alone we have justice sonia sotomayor, debut author arnold kline and i see it to jen for washington black, which is less did. the last two events are unity market. so that's pretty fun. it's now my pleasure to introduce oral smith, author of chastity greco income a year with the water meant a vanishing tangier island. he's written five books including the big roads, the untold story of the engineers, visionaries and trailblazers who created the american superhighways. a former fulbright fellow in new zealand he's been a residential fellow at the virginia foundation for the humanities at the university of virginia since 2012 player so what makes the community were saving? is it guys, history, location and his swift spent most of two years an offshore fishing community in the virginia waters of the chesapeake bay. this detailed and empathetic portrait from the uncertain economics and ecology of the blue crowd to the communities stanch evangelicalism and rejection of climate change showing how complicated -- shows how complicated the question actually is. as jack davis, author of the m