the theater audience before the main event started got to see kathryn tucker windham telling harper lee stories. you mentioned kathryn tucker windham in your book, about listening to her audiotapes. tell us what brought that on? >> you know, really all i needed and monroeville -- let me back up by giving you the context in which i move to monroeville. i had known the lead scissors for about three years at that point. they've been very helpful in what became a long newspaper store and sidebars are prepared for the tribune. and it encouraged me to come back, which i did. and then spoke with him about the possibility of spending longer, actually spend some time living in monroeville. people in birmingham who know real estate prices here will appreciate maybe that i had the idea that maybe i could just find an apartment over someone's garage. i really didn't need very much, didn't want very much but in a small town like that an apartment, a rental is harder to come by than a house, for example, to rent. and a good friend of theirs have suggested that i look at the house two doors down from

i can't introduce everybody we have so many celebrities in the audience but kathryn tucker windham's children and ben windham sitting over here. so glad to see them. [applause] and they have written a new afterword, catherine's original book, 13 alabama ghosts, jeffrey, is approaching its 52 anniversary, univ. of alabama press has reprinted and the children ever written, a perfect book. i know where you can get a copy. >> guest: barnes and noble. >> host: no more vodka. >> guest: you are not going to town. my impression was they had such admiration for their father and the roles he played in their small town and that seemed to be one of the things. >> certainly true. >> was true there too. >> host: you gave me another great introduction. those of you who have read lori and brent, two of the greatest books of all time, sea biscuit and unbroken, many of you knows that for most of the time she wrote those books, she never left her room. she had chronic fatigue syndrome, and road literally most of those books in her bed. health has been a factor with you in the time you spend in monroevi