I am so glad you are here tonight. I am going to say a few words about before i welcome to knights guests. For a moment of history the strand was founded 93 years ago by my grandfather, benjamin bass. [applause] he founded this story in an area that was known as book row come along fourth avenue, just along the corner from here. It was the storm of the depression come and he defied the odds by surviving while all the other fortier bookstores them book row shuddered. The store was then passed on to my late father, fred who grew the story to his scale and popularity he never thought possible. Now, i am the owner and some critics said as a woman its going to be hard to run the store and i get wiped out in this digital age. So, i want to thank you, and the book Living Community on this audience of for helping not only survive, but thrive through the ages. [applause] it is impossible to read to knights book, watergate girl without drawing parallel to todays headlines. At the crossroads of t