. >> susan miller and stephen hoffius are the authors of of people of charleston.tv spoke with them when we visited south carolina on of recent city store. >> august 31st 1886 was the largest of earthquake ever to hit the east coast of the estates. there were three epicenters. they were all within ten and 50 miles of charleston, south carolina. the at quake itself was all over the east coast. there was panic in new york city, chicago, detroit, richmond's, a riot because all of the prisoners and state penitentiary demanded to be released. the story when out that there was a right going on. 10,000 people descended on the penitentiary with guns try to put down what they thought was an uprising. all through the south and even down to cuba there was flashes of light that came from the earthquake and glasses were shaking off of the self. so, it was used. >> in fact, it caused a lot of havoc in the area around charleston. it was not known outside charleston. some interesting times for the earthquake to hit because this city and the world is sort of on the cusp of modernit

. >> susan and miller are the authors of upheaval of charleston. booktv spoke with mr.ams and mr. hoffias when we went to south carolina on our recent cities tour. >> august 31st, 1886 was the largest earthquake ever to hit the east coast of the united states. there were three epicenters. they were all within 10 or 15 miles of charleston, south carolina. but the earthquake was felt all over the east coast. there was panic in new york city. in chicago, in detroit. richmond had a riot because all the prisoners at the state penitentiary demanded to be released and the story went out that there was a riot that had gone on. and there was guns trying to put down what they thought was an uprising all through the southeast and even down to cuba they were seeing flashes of light that came from the earthquake and glasses were shaking off of the shelves. so it was huge. >> and, in fact, it caused a lot of havoc in the area around charleston that was not known outside of charleston at night. it's an interesting time for the earthquake to hit because the city and the world is sort o

susan or linda. i read years ago that there was a briefcase of hemingway's writings that was misplaced or lost in europe. i wonder if you can elaborate on that at all? >> thanks very much. linda miller>> yes, that's a very famous and very important incident. hadley had been carin carrying e train to meet up with hemingway in austria and she brought with her on the train all of the manuscript copies that hemingway had left behind in the apartment in paris. and while she was on the train, she got off at a stop, briefly, and came back on and the briefcase was gone. you can imagine what that would be like for a writer to lose all of his writings. hemingway records in "a moveable feast" that he went back to paris that night believeing that they couldn't all be gone. she couldn't have taken all the manuscripts, maybe there were coppies there. but everything was gone. he said he couldn't even record what he did that night in the apartment. in the end, it was probably an important loss for hemingway because i think it forced him to go back to all of that material and commit it fresh and probably the loss of those manuscripts, many of his early literature, the important concept of his writin