Library of Congress -- Event: Lynda Carter (w/Carla Hayden):
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Description of Pictures: Library of Congress Presents: Library of Awesome: Lynda Carter:
During "Library of Awesome," a pop-up exhibition featuring items from the Library's comic-book collections presented in conjunction with the Washington, D.C. Awesome-Con comics convention, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden interviewed Lynda Carter, the actress known for her role as Wonder Woman in the 1970s television series, to a packed house in the Library's Coolidge Auditorium.
Speaker Biography: Actress Lynda Carter is best known for her role in the 1970s Wonder Woman television series. Following her role as Wonder Woman, Carter has performed as an actor and singer. She has appeared live in Las Vegas and has made guest appearances on television shows such as "Law & Order," "Smallville" and "Two and a Half Men." In 2005 she appeared in the film version of The Dukes of Hazzard and played Mama Morton in the West End London production of "Chicago." Most recently, Carter played the role of President Olivia Marsdin in season two of the CW's "Supergirl" series.
The event was introduced by Roswell Encina, the Chief Communications Officer for the Library of Congress.
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CARTE1_170616_015.JPG: Lynda Carter arrives
CARTE1_170616_201.JPG: Roswell Encina, Chief Communications Officer, Library of Congress
CARTE1_170616_208.JPG: "I'm not sure if you can tell, I'm completely nerding out here, and it doesn't end there, you know, so."
CARTE1_170616_248.JPG: They arrive!
CARTE1_170616_348.JPG: Carla Hayden
CARTE1_170616_356.JPG: Carla Hayden, Lynda Carter
CARTE1_170616_415.JPG: She had some wonderful comments about her early life.
>> Carla Hayden: But how did growing up Latino influence your life?
>> Lynda Carter: I was -- the question is about growing up in a Latino family. My grandmother came over as an infant from Mexico. And it was a very rich heritage. Those of you who know any kind of ethnic family, that there's a lot of food and music and interactions and all of that. That's what it meant to me. And it was a lot of fighting, a lot of, you know, a lot of tamale making and menudo making and tortilla making. And it was really wonderful and my memories are very rich in that regard. I wish that my own children had had some of that -- which they didn't because we lived on the East Coast. But I'm still in touch with many of my cousins over the years. And, you know, I have a simpatico, I have an understanding of the immigrant experience. And I have an understanding of being with my cousins. And my mother came from a family of 10. And in those days in these mining towns where my grandmother was from -- her first husband died in and the second had darker skin. And so the children that came after had darker skin. And so the cousins and that, so they had darker skin. And we would be together, and I experienced this racism and this hatred of others, the other. And it was so confusing to me. It was so unfair. It was -- my grandmother had asked me to take something, return something, at the store. And I said, why doesn't he do it? And she would say, because they won't take it from him. I would take it back and they would take it from me. But they wouldn't take the return from the darker skinned cousin. And, you know, it hurts you in a place that -- you know, it hurts you in some raw place that unless you've experienced it, you don't understand. Now, personally, did I experience -- my children are Jewish. So how far -- how many steps removed are we from the pogroms of Europe and, you know, people yanking people off the streets like is happening with ISIS right now. It's scary stuff. So anyway, that is my Latino experience and most of it is absolutely brilliant and I loved it, I loved -- that's what I take from it is a great amount of understanding and love for hard-working immigrant families.
CARTE3_170616_023.JPG: Lynda brought gifts to give to the library
CARTE3_170616_106.JPG: Signed copy of the "Wonder Woman" movie script
CARTE3_170616_293.JPG: Michael Cavna was doing an interview with Lynda afterward
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2017 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
Civil War Trust conferences in Pensacola, FL, Chattanooga, TN (via sites in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee) and Fredericksburg, VA,
a family reunion in The Dells, Wisconsin (via sites in Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin),
New York City, and
my 12th consecutive San Diego Comic Con trip (including sites in Arizona).
For some reason, several of my photos have been published in physical books this year which is pretty cool. Ones that I know about:
"Tarzan, Jungle King of Popular Culture" (David Lemmo),
"The Great Crusade: A Guide to World War I American Expeditionary Forces Battlefields and Sites" (Stephen T. Powers and Kevin Dennehy),
"The American Spirit" (David McCullough),
"Civil War Battlefields: Walking the Trails of History" (David T. Gilbert),
"The Year I Was Peter the Great: 1956 — Khrushchev, Stalin's Ghost, and a Young American in Russia" (Marvin Kalb), and
"The Judge: 26 Machiavellian Lessons" (Ron Collins and David Skover).
Number of photos taken this year: just below 560,000.
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