I would like to turn the program over to dr. Patrick spero executive director of the washing john president ial library. Pat joined mt. Vernon in june. Comes to us after serving as library and and director of the library and museum of the american phyllis affordable society in philadelphia to a library founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743 and homemore than 14 million pages of manual groups, including franklins personal papers. We are thrilled that p is here with us and leading the special library dedicated to the father of our country dr. Earned his b. A. From ph. D. From the university of pennsylvania. He is the author of several books including frontier country the politics of war in early pennsylvania. Frontier rebels the fight for independence in the american west. A winner of the winner of, the philadelphia atheneum literary award and a finalist for best book by the journal of the american revolution. His new book botany and betrayal, Andre Michaud Thomas Jefferson and the kentuck