We thank you so much for being here with us today. We hope you will return on other occasions. Usually, i play game with the audience and i will do it quickly. Is this your first visit v, please, raise your hand . Higher. Thank you. Over here . Our presenter must have a fan club. Thank you. In the interest of equality, so that the rest of you can exercise one of your arms, if you are a regular, if you attend programs all the time as one of our members, please raise your hand. Thank you so much. Thank you. Of the folks who raisee your hands the first time around presenting my word for it, ask anyone else w around you whose hand went up the second time why they support this institution, why they come here on a regular basis, why i know many of them by their first name and those whose first names i have not learned i will do my best to learn them. Also come i suggest or those of you not been there with our organization to pick up one of our quarterly calendar calendar of events brochures
I think for folks who live in maryland, her folks in baltimore, who have that connection to that history. I dont think people have stopped talking about Harriet Tubman. One of my Favorite Places in the city is a place called tubman house. Has anybody been to tubman house . You should really check it out on one of their volunteer days. These are folks after the uprising, after the murder of freddie gray, took over a house in west baltimore. They took over i house, took turned it into a community center, at a neighborhood where people had really little ofy anything. In the Community Came together to take Something Back for themselves. They subsequently, the house had to bee demolished but subsequently they have taken over multiple lots in the area. Theyve got chickens, farms, this amazing Youth Program going on. Its really just a center of hope for a neighborhood that needs it. And they did all of that under the name of tubman house because of the story of the Harriet Tubman had been one
Check out the exchanged website. For any members we think you for your ongoing support. We are very pleased to walk up to that smithsonian elizabeth cobb. The author of eight books including the nonfiction the newest novel is available for sale. Its available outside the lecture hall. I know we are all in for a fascinating talk this evening. I am really honored to be here i cant think of any better place to launch a novel like this here in washington dc. Thank you so much for being a part of my first audience. To talk about Harriet Tubman. Im really very honored we begin with the mistry that we all love mysteries. On june 1, 1863. Two u. S. Gunships crash up a river in South Carolina. In a river that started with under water mines. The river leads deep into that part of america is that is known as enemy territory. 300 uniformed African American men in a small handful of white officers that were led by colonel he once who once rode with john brown. They are creeping half of which is str