tell us about your dhaka on mary mcleod bethune. estimate is about her as a washington resident from 1943 to 1949 and became in the 1930's to work with the fdr administration and she served as the director of the national deily commercial use administration and she was taken by her leadership can deter the director of the actual organizations itself. by the conservative right to vote in the house, they have lost their funding by by at that time she was able to grow the council of women in the organization. >> what did he learn about her in this book and we probably didn't know before? >> we learn she's not only a local figure here in washington bg, ka she is a global figure and because of jim crow in d.c., the city that it was she purchased a property at

tell us about your dhaka on mary mcleod bethune. estimate is about her as a washington resident from 1943 to 1949 and became in the 1930's to work with the fdr administration and she served as the director of the national deily commercial use administration and she was taken by her leadership can deter the director of the actual organizations itself. by the conservative right to vote in the house, they have lost their funding by by at that time she was able to grow the council of women in the organization. >> what did he learn about her in this book and we probably didn't know before? >> we learn she's not only a local figure here in washington bg, ka she is a global figure and because of jim crow in d.c., the city that it was she purchased a property at vermont avenue cat to entertain the entire world as a citizen and as a human being said there were pictures of the syrian ambassador as well as indian women visiting from various parts are not the world, a british parliamentary women can to visit so she basically became doubled for

he liked this is bethune was a figure. he sought to bring the idea and he's an amazing figure that is everywhere and nowhere at the same time. hopefully the past will gladly have the concept that is fair. >> thank you are a match for your time. >> thank you match. .. [applause] >> good afternoon, everyone, and i'm sure you have any number of welcomes to the book fair but 're going to give you oneanay. we're very glad you're here. this is a discussion about who the most significant periods ere the -- before america first as a nation, and then the runup and the aftermath of the civil war, when america experiences near death as a nation. and bunker hill, nathaniel philbrick chronicles boston in 1775 when british troops occupied the city and engaged a patriot militia in the bloodiest battle of the revolution and the point of no return for the rebellious columnist. nathaniel lives in nantucket where he is a recognized authority on the history of the island, though he told an interviewer i don't think it's possible to plumb the

sarah delano roosevelt is the person who takes mary mccloud bethune to meet eleanor in the '20s.ey will call each other their closest friends in their own age group. eleanor will become good friends and colleagues with a. phillip randolph, especially when they begin to work together in 1939 over the marion anderson concert which is not just about the resignation from the d.a.r. so that marion anderson could perform in the district. but it's her ability to say why curse hitler and support jim crow? why curse mon and silence marion anderson. so marion anderson, a. phillip randolph, one of the leaders of the marion anderson event as well as the first march on washington which is planned for to ban -- to force fdr to ban discrimination -- federally -- i'm sorry, to ban discrimination of the defense industries. eleanor is right in there with him too. she's close. >> we only have a half hour left. and as you mentioned, eleanor roosevelt did travel to the pacific. here's a speech she made to some of the troops. >> also very sad, looking very upset that he could not come out to the troop

joining us is the co-founder andrew bethune. people ask if there's room for physical photos. last couple of years, there's been a huge explosion in photos being captured, because most cameras aren't a nikon, but it's an iphone. it's right in the pocket. in the last three years we've taken more photos than the entirety of history. >> i talked to shutterfly about this a bunch, and the big challenge is people start photo books but have trouble moving it around. shutterfly has its own software out there that's supposed to arrange the photos for you. what's your secret sauce? is it you pull in photos from various networks? >> that's a great question. if you want to set the context, only 10% of the people in the u.s. have made a photobook. it's an early market. the reason for that is it takes too long. it takes on average ten hours to make one of the books. that's the problem we've been about solving. that's why we created the mobile app mosaic, and recently a new product that lets you make it extremely fast. it's what we've done, taking the deep technology of research that we've c

. >> when you live in this community called bethune fa vista., as i understand it. i know it sounds like they have really put their arms around you. >> yeah, i have always had a caring community. we've always had each other's backs. you know, after this happened, there was so much support that was given to me and like even just like including like they did, were really nice. you know, those are rivals. you know, we have a battle with them. they were just really caring and comforting to us. it's just kind of amazing how it brought everybody together. >> they were there when it matters. speaking of that, your aunt, uncle did an extraordinary thing. you moved from your town with your son tyler to gracie's town to all living together. how is that going darryl? >> it's going great. you know, you run into a lot of people in the grocery store that know us. that's kind of weird. the town is great. we got just everybody supporting us up there. you don't know how many times you hear anything we can do for you, just give us a call. and so it's from everybo

he liked this is bethune was a figure. he sought to bring the idea and he's an amazing figure that is everywhere and nowhere at the same time. hopefully the past will gladly have the concept that is fair. >> thank you are a match for your time. >> thank you match. ..