. >> next speaker >> i'm linda thomas i've lived in inform since 1975. marcus books is important to me because i don't want to go into the store and spell i want to go to the shelf and find a celebration of books. i don't want to have to special order so i want to find is on the shelf available, easy for me to give it to somebody to read when they're trying to understand something and i'm trying to talk about that comes from my past. a lot of young people those days don't understand anything about black history. a lot of young white people don't understand much about market street. they hadn't had an opportunity to experience some of the things i've had an opportunity to experience. mixing the different razes that have ground up so i try to turn them on to literature and without marcus books i won't have any place to get them books to tell them to read. so i'm on the printer on this special icon for myself selfishly and for others. thank you >> thank you. next speaker. . >> thank you for staying late. i'm gail i'm the director - that's better right repor

thomas apple also injured his knee playing high school sports. and these days, while he can still shoot hoops with his son, stairs and driving are increasingly a challenge. his wife linda says their social life has also suffered. >> we can't really do those kind of physical things that people do on vacation in terms of let's say hiking and exercise. >> we're living on borrowed time. it is hurting more and more. it is time to get it fixed. >> reporter: while both tom and brian have had other procedures to alleviate the pain, doctors caution this surgery alone is not a solution. here is a look at what any one thinking about total knee replacement should consider. the surgery takes an hour and a half with a hospital stay of about three days. following that, patients must do knee strengthening exercises several times a day to restore mobility. you will be using a walker or crutches. next, plan on missing anywhere from three weeks to three months of work depending on how physically demanding your job is. after six months to a year, most people will be fully recovered and can resume all activities. two of the big secrets to the success for this surgery, one, being ready for

host: linda from maryland on our line for parents. good morning. thomas good morning thank you. close friend of mine one day was telling me that her son who ison in west eci pr over, maryland was asked to fill out an application, and he and it was in cursive. when he was in school the last , they had dropped the cursive teaching of writing. he pushed through school those last three years, but he never gained that knowledge of cursive writing. because of that he cannot complete his application on a couple of the pages. so he asked them if he could bring his application home and he had to get his mom to help him do that. that is so sad. -- my opinionver is that should have never been taken out of the school system. military tofrom their families, their loved ones, the memories years ago of families putting their letters, their memories, and a shoebox to pass on and share with their grandchildren, great- grandchildren -- we are losing the true values. that has discouraged me the past couple years. and she was so upset. , we'reark schneider talking about the cost of college and high

linda, bloomington, minnesota, you're on. >> good evening. i have a question that relates to my own family. i had a grandmother whose name was kate harrison and then she married and her name was thomashe grew up i believe in missouri. there was a story that her mother had been married in the white house and i don't know if there's any truth to this, but i thought perhaps you might know if there was a wedding in the white house during benjamin harrison's term there. >> it would not be surprising but i don't know that name. local newspapers would probably carry it. both in washington and wherever they were from. that's where i would look for it if i were looking for it. but i don't -- i know in lincoln's time there were marriages in the white house. john adams' and some others but i don't know any in the harrison tenure. >> one more question and then we'll learn more about the first lady's artistic endeavors. charlotte from olympia, washington. what's your question? >> hi. i just wanted to mention i had had the fortune of going through indianapolis last fall and got to visit the harrison home and it's a beautiful house and i've been able to go to several presidential homes but they ha