hi my name is katherine ward, i am part of your care not cash. i do not oppose of the care not cash expect for that i can't pay my phone bill and i am not able to speak to my children at the end of the month. but the part that this is supposed to be part of our housing, we are not allowed toilet paper, no hand soap or hand sanitizer. if you are giving us this money or taking it from us are we not allowed these basic needs. now we are given a 7:00 p.m. curfew to where we can't go with my husband and see him past 7:00 at night because you are fraternizing in the facility but they do not want us standing outside. won't let us go a couple of blocks away. you get a 15-minute break. if you are not in your bed and not on the elevator, in your bed by 9:00 you are out until 5:00 in the morning. two people were thrown out two nights ago for being in the elevator instead of their bed. like today if i am not there until 5:00 it is gone. the stipulations given to us while you are taking our money are sometimes unliveable. no toilet paper? no hand soap. these

important family in 19th century america producing henry ward beecher, the most popular preacher in america, isabella beecher hooker, a suffragist, katherine beecher, leading education reformer. so to me it was so important to locate the book within that human context because, above all, "uncle tom's cabin" to this day remains a human book in the profoundest sense. and et really raid -- it really raises issues of interpersonal relationships. it's a book about relationships between people, between white people, between white people and black people, and it's just such a totally emotional book. and she herself produced it from a very human stand poip. standpoint. so, to me, the book was very much a part of the biography of harriet beecher stowe. >> so you have to tell us which part made you cry. [laughter] >> well, i hate to admit it, this is very, very corny. extremely corny. but the death of little eva. it kind of worked on me this time. and what was, what was funny is that, i mean, it's like an archetypal 19th century scene, the at the time of this -- the death of this child, right? you could name a number of similar deaths. i think the r