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Good evening. Welcome to mt. Vernon. My name is kevin butterfield. And it is my pleasure to welcome you here tonight on behalf of the Mount Vernons lady associations and Ford Motor Company which sponsors a free monthly book talk to learn from the greatest historians. Thank you for being here tonight. Were thrilled to have you. To begin the Program Shortly well hear a brief presentation from susan swain, copresident and executive officer of cspan and coauthors of the president s. Shell be joined by brian lamb, the founder and executive chairman of cspan and moderating and esteemed group of hist...

York town, including liberty fever,. She developed exhibitions for your, town and jamestown, including ken asieh women, which i highly encourage you to go see before it closes in january. Also, forgotten soldiers, African Americans in the revolutionary war. Open until march 22nd, 2020. She will present a tailormade revolution. Please welcome kate grubber. Good afternoon. You have to get through me before you can get too happy hour, so i promise i will make it happen quickly. Mark twain said it best, as he usually does. Close make the man. Naked people have little to no influence on society. Al...

Today. Thank you to Historic Alexandria for hosting and for the happy hour after this. We are going to try to keep it as close to 4 00 as possible. We can all get our beer we are looking forward to afterwards. This is the first inaugural, emerging revolutionary war symposium. We thank cspan for coming to film this. Hopefully, we will be an annual event. Keep your eyes out for next years symposium. To keep up with emerging revolutionary war and everything we are doing, check out our block, emergingrevolutionar emergingrevolutionarywar. Org. Find out everything we are up to. Check out our books....

This is American History tv, featuring events, interviews, museums, and historic places, his exploring our nations past every weekend on cspan three. Had to close my 14th two all visitors. Momentan historic because we had not closed for an extended time since the u. S. War all stop 160 years, we welcome people to the estate. We put in place all the protocols of social distancing. We still have important work to in the state. You do for lambs being born every day, plants and gardens that needed to be maintained. Buildings that need to be maintained. At this moment, we are outside. We had to bad...

The immediate concern was the safety of the staff and the families and the visitors at mount vernon. We put in place all the protocols of social distancing, but having to shut down, we still had some work to do here at the estate. We had some lambs being born every day. Plants and gardens that needed to be maintained. Buildings that need to be maintained. At this moment, we are outside. We had to bad and down the hatches in our collections spaces and administrative offices. Transferquickly quickly to a Skeleton Crew on and then transferred to remote work to continue the mission. Has had has be...