dorothy kingery thank you for your time. >> guest: i appreciate to tell his story accurately because it is a fascinating story. thank you for coming. >> i have a list of books but the first book i am working on is the book about whole issue of central asia over the next 25 years and i have read chapters when i travel to different parts like indonesia but i want to read the whole book och and i started in february. another book is given to me buy a fellow from the american academy of mechanical engineers i said what are the problems with water over the next 20 or 30 years? this book and said read it i could never write a perfect report but it is a good book to read about the question of water and in congress we do need to think about this in the future. and over the next 100 years the book is fascinating looking at who the major allies would be those who have trouble with and when he came out with the next book the figuring that is within my lifetime i better get that red to see what will happen from the perspective of people who look at trends one of the fascinating things and then t

c-span local content vehicle staff stop there to talk with dorothy kingery sister of jim williams and owner of a home how her brother was represented in the book and the impact of "midnight in the garden of good and evil" on her family and the city of savannah. >> "midnight in the garden of good and evil" is a book whose main character, my brother so it is a book story i am familiar with. >>host: why was it written about him? >> i think because gm was such an amazing person if you met him you would never forget him. he was the electric. when he entered a room, you knew he was there. he was good-looking, a bright, well read, and very essentials. he enjoyed people. i have many stories that i could tell of people who are adults and say when i was a child my dad did some work and he played the pipe organ for me in the ballroom when he found out i liked music so generally related to the book has had a huge impact and it has had an impact on my family. starting by saying it should have been marketed as fiction and was not. and i actually had a conversation with the author before it was publ

georgia with events on c-span 2 including the home of flannery o'connor, a conversation with dorothy kingery, and also a tour of urban slavery sites with civil war savanna co-author and on american history t.v. on c-span 3, travel to the founding days of savanna as we visit the site of a plantation and explore civil war savanna. c-span's local content vehicles in savanna, georgia, next weekend on c-span 2 and 3. a discussion now on the future of media and telecommunications. you will hear remarks from cable executives on how they are adapting to new technologies and come petition from on-line disstrib tors and hear from representatives of time warner, comcast cable, cox communications, viacom and news corporation. this is an hour. good morning. this is a big crowd. we have the cable guys and the content guys, too, but before we get started, i wanted to say how lucky we all are in the cable industry to have this new leader, michael powell. i mean, he is unmatched in his ability and his expertise to really just feel everything that matters to the cable industry, so let's hear it for michael po