now it is time to tell you about one of my partners, radnor historical society, president of radnor historical society , jennifer beacom, and she brought her history living members with her today and our other partner is main point books. elliott is out there in the lobby. they are our local independent bookstore. these days, most towns are not so lucky to have an independent bookstore. if the library has readers and the historical society has history lovers and the booksellers have books, it follows that publishers have authors. there has never been a time when two prominent historians and authors of two new books have come to visit radnor memorial library got the same time . it is our independent bookstore, main point books, working behind the scenes with publishers and publicists to make this kind of magic. this is magic happening for us today. this special author event becomes a celebration where we can strengthen our connections to one another and build community at the same time. i know that some readers download books. today, you may be interested in a physical copy of the books for the

i am president of the radnor historical. i would like to thank the radnor memorial library. c-span main point and both of our authors for their wonderful partnership in putting together putting together today's event. and i am honored to introduce dr. jon grinspan, the curator of political history at the smithsonian's national museum of american history, which my husband and i visited about six weeks ago, and ironically, we have something the historical has something in common with dr. he's at the museum most days i would assume, and we actually have a piece at the historical society that was once exhibited at the american history museum. it a tapestry that had been created for the centennial exposition. and then when they did the bicentennial here in america, the smithsonian looked for things that had been celebrated there. so we loaned it to them. yeah. it's a very cool story. part of is got real human hair in it. it's it's really interesting. but more interesting things today. dr. greenspan's book, why wake the forgotten force that elected lincoln and spurred the civil wa

i'm president of the radnor historical society. i would like to thank pam , the radnor memorial library, c-span main point books and both of our authors, for their wonderful partnership in putting together today's event. and i am honored to introduce dr. guelzo, the curator of political history of the smithsonian's national museum of american history which my husband and i visited about six weeks ago, and ironically, we have something the historical society has something in common with dr. grinspan. is at the museum most days, i assume and we have a piece at the historical society that was once exhibited at the american history museum. it was a tapestry that had been created for the centennial exposition and when they did the bicentennial, here in america, the smithsonian looked for things that had been celebrated there and we loaned it to them. it is a very cool story. part of it is human hair and it is really interesting. but more interesting things today. dr. grinspan's book wide awake, the forgotten force selected lincoln and s

i'm curious what you knew going into this about radnor. young. truly, one of the funniest performers. not just on the show but in the history of entertainment. >> to my shame, i did not know before i auditioned. she such an icon. and like you said, not just an amazing comic mind, but also an extraordinarily generous, empathetic person who really left a mark on us that is still rippling outwards today. but it really was a crash course for me. >> dillon, where did dan ackroyd fit into this cast? where did dan fit into this? >> you don't really know, do you? make exactly. >> that's what i hear, how i got the part. he's just floating through this space i guess is how i would put it. >> secret sauce. >> secret sauce? >> i think so. >> yeah, absolutely. i would think he's a true genius. he was a guy that the writers could go up to and just pitch one word of the sketch. he would start rattling the sketch off in real time. and writers would say, you have to have a pen ready when he started because you need to sketch in real time. >> they called it

to, you know, when i was out during the general election in the new constituency, which is brecon, radnore didn't think that we delivered for the hard working people of this country, regard to tax rather than jobs and everything else. but robert has the right policies to address that . and at policies to address that. and at the senate election, it's going to be very, very important that we have a leader who can take the fight to reform that can put reform to bed. you know, we need to be the party unapologetically. the party that supports hard working people, those people who pay their taxes to fund our public services, that fund the nhs, fund our education system. we need to be on their side. we're the union for the working people. they don't have no lobby group supporting them, they said. we are the party that supports the working people and i think if we can get that message across with a strong leader in westminster, and i sincerely hope that that's robert jenrick, because i think robert jenrick, because i think robert will be first and foremost supporting us here to get labour out of