In the summary of the book Frank Cagle will be talking about tomorrow (The Bridge at the Edge of the World), the author James Gustave Speth says that people like to say that it is a mistake to emphasize the gloom and doom of an issue because being positive is more motivating (Martin Luther King did not say, "I have a nightmare!"). Speth's response is that King did not need to say he had a nightmare because his people were living one. Speth says that instead we are living a dream and need to be reminded of the nightmare ahead if we do not change our ways.

The book proposes a transformation of our economic system so that it and the environment get along better. I am looking forward to hearing Mr. Cagle's talk.

12 noon in the East Tenn History Center auditorium.