Whatever gadgets you may have. So they dont interfere with our system here. Thank you, now, as you know warehouse tonight is Justice Sonia sotomayor, we are very pleased to have the justice with those tonight. I want to thank her on behalf of the society for giving her time, when we call upon her to participate in events like this. Because its quite important to us, and quite important to you. And we marry much appreciate it. Ill tell you briefly a little bit about the justice. She is a native new yorker, born in the bronx, very unhappy about last nights baseball game i guess, the boston red sox. She did her undergraduate work at princeton, and then to yell last school. Then joined the District Attorney in new york county, as an assistant District Attorney. After several years there in private practice in new york she was a litigator in the International Commercial law. That attracted attention and before long she had become a Federal District judge on the Southern District of new york
Of the sinking of the Black Diamond down at Saint Clements river down on the potomac in maryland. I was invited by my colleague here karen stone who has done an amazing job of continuing to tell the story and to bring the story out from the darkness and into the light. A little bit about karen. She is the director of she oversees redistinct sites and that county for strategic planning, fundraising, creating strategic partnerships, overseeing Museum Partnerships and more. This is especially exciting. I love this article she recently published an article about this disaster in American Civil War magazine entitled peril on the potomac. Thank you for joining us on zoom this afternoon. Dir. Stone this is very exciting, jake. I am excited to be here. This actually took place today, dir. Wynn this is a really important event that has been overshadowed by many of the other events happening in april 1865, including other maritime disasters. A bad timing event for news coverage. Were other thing
I was invited by my colleague here, karen stone, who has done an amazing job of continuing to tell the story and to kind of bring this story out from the darkness and into the light. A little bit about karen. The director of the news seems division of saint marys countys government. She oversees three sites in that county, is responsible for strategic planning, fundraising, creating partnerships like this overseeing like this one, overseeing Museum Operations and more. This is exciting. Love this article she recently published an article about this disaster in American Civil War magazine potomac peril on the. Thank you for joining us on zoom this afternoon. Himn i am glad to tell people the story. The incident actually took place ago. , april 22, 155 years a great day for us to be talking about it, and there are a number of connections. Between our two institutions. The incident took place off of colts point, the site of one of my museums in maryland. That is why i am involved. It is n
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