impacting farmhouses and meatpacking facilities and there's also the news about how there's going to beon the shortage . it's interesting because that also reveals to us how the senate we are across the country on people who live far away from us. >> yeah. >> all other places in the book. >> the idea of who is essential has become such a important question. >> and the coverage of who is essential which i understand, it was always medical people and medical personnel . these farmers sat as long on their hands as long asthey did it all because that is essential . >> right, yeah. here's an interesting question from the audience. was it hard to spend so much time with people who were so different from you and in ways was not so hard? before you answer that, how long were you on the road with the crew and were you camping alongside them? can you talk more about the process of the book and answer the question about spending time with people who are different. >> i was on the road with the harvesters for about five months total . from may all the way through toseptember . it might have been a li

time, and there are even comedic moments, it just feels like i was a part of something that's never beoneh: one thing that i remember everybody was talking about when it came out was, people like myself, who had never been taught about the tulsa race massacre of 1921. and you know, as the events unfolded in the past month, i do think that was a helpful tool for people to realize this is not new. this is something that's been going on for a long time and you know, you talk about the inherited trauma of something like that. was that something even you were aware of, tulsa, before taking on the project >> yeah, i was definitely aware of tulsa i'm -- my mother is a teacher. and so, while that wasn't taught in school, that school is not where i learned about it but, i think that we have this wonderful thing called google now. and so, when people did type in "tulsa massacre," they were able to discover that it wasn't just at tulsa there was a rosewood there was, you know, another -- incident like that in florida. in arkansas, you know. so, it just opened people up to correct the wrong that has