Then ill do a little reading from the book, a certain passage or two from the book to give you a sense of the flavor of whats between these coffers. And covers, and maybe at the very end ill say a little bit about what drew me to the project in the first place and why i think it was worth spending quite a few years working on. It might even be worth reading a book about. How i got to the project. It was by total chance, serendipity. I have an old friend who has a house in the town of cornwall not too far from here, and one day in the mid 90s this was quite a while back my friend invited my wife and myself down for dinner. And as i recall it, we were standing around in the it was a summer evening, we were standing around outside with gin and tonics in our hands, i think, and one of the neighbors who was also a dinner guest started to tell us a little, what he called a piece of local history. He said, you know, its just a piece of local history, but im a history guy, so maybe i would be