this is called the interesting by meg wallaceer and it starts with a group of teens in a arts camp it takes them forward to their 40s and others. >> thank you everyone for being here. i see friends and family, colleagues. library of congress and staff, influential to put book together. i am nervous. so i will just say thank you so much again for being here. so yeah, frederick douglas in d.c. fred lick douglas moved to emancipation hall. we will not get much past the talking points. we do not scratch the surface of who douglas was as a grand father and a newspaper. so i try tried to get into that. and to get into the element. and of his life in the book. and as he talked about kind of a revelation to help me to put the book together. i will share -- this is assign for the douglas historic site. 16th and w street. southeast. and it is a rough-and-tumble corner. so i worked in the united planting organization 1649 good hope road. and basically was a poverty worker and i worked in social services. would i take the metro there and i would walk from the metro station and mlk. w street and m