Joining us my name is gavin and the director of programs exhibitions and partnerships for the National Historic society. I would like to extend a special welcome to anyone who might be attending a Virtual Program for the first time. Considering the size of our virtual crowd in the geographic diversity of the people who signed up, im sure there are some people who are in for the first time. If youre not familiar with nhs we are the oldest Historical Society in america. Founded in 1791 and have been an independent Nonprofit Institution dedicated to collecting, preserving, publishing and sharing our nation and States History the past 229 years. In these days of social distancing we are taking to hosting Virtual Events we have Online Events for every week through july. Next week we will be hosting a virtual tour the tour is titled misled and a look at historic a a these include mimic houses suspicious ain a marker that denotes the side of the famous vikings bar if youd like to join the tou
Good time come on, come on everyone together summer feels fit forever come on, come on everyone together its a late show with stephen colbert. Tonight sicko de mayo. Plus, stephen welcomes stephen king and musical guest sheryl crow featuring jon batiste and stay homin. And now, live on tape from a safe distance, its stephen colbert. Stephen oh, hi and welcome to a late show. Im your host, stephen colbert. Happy Cinco De Mayo to all of our mexican, mexicanamerican, and mexicurious viewers. I just want to say, have a wonderful day, in spanish. Cinco de mayo is really handy this year, because its the first time ive been sure of the date in two months. Thanks to Cinco De Mayo, i know its the cinco of mayo. But this tweet i posted last Cinco De Mayo has not aged well happy Cinco De Mayo 2019 i cant wait to go to a crowded bar and get some corona in me oh, big news from the endangered world of listening to scientists, because we learnedts to wind down the Coronavirus Task force. No dont do t
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