Our members, our revolution society, this is a wonderful people who are great supporters of our music. We are pleased to partner with harvard for trust, you will see him up on the screen here. I know tim but all i can see is darkness out there. So lets thank them for making these possible. [applause] its a real pleasure to be welcoming doctor Vincent Brown this evening as is sometimes the case but not all that often, we are welcoming a good friend to the museum here this evening. Prince was one of the group of scholars who consulted with us during the development of the exhibitions and interactants of the present here. Long before jacques was in the ground and the steel began rising here in philadelphia, we were tapping his brain for stories of the American Revolution. It turned into great personal stories and our core exhibition here. Prince is a Charles Moore professor of africanAmerican History. And Harvard University. If you have an opportunity to go online, dont do it right now on
In the near future on booktv on cspan2. Welcome to you all, im scott stevenson, im the president ceo of the museum of the American Revolution. Its wonderful to have so many familiar faces in the audience and im pleased were live stream the program this evening and we will be on booktv so we will live on forever and ever as 3 00 a. M. When you cant sleep. I will get a text from my father the following morning that says youre on television again. Im curious a show of hands id like to ask how many of you are visiting the first time this evening to the museum. Welcome to all of you. You are surrounded by many of our members, members of our founding members of the museum, members of our Revolution Society and this is a wonderful fellowship of people who are great supporters of the museum. We are very pleased to partner with Haverford Trust you will see them up on the screen here. I know tim glaspie but all i can see is darkness out there, tim and joe mcglocklin. Lets thank them for making r
Tv. So, we will live on forever and ever after 3 a. M. When you cant sleep. [laughter] i will get a text from my father the following morning saying you are on television again. Im just curious a show of hands i like to ask how many of you are visiting for the first time this evening to the museum wax wonderful. Welcome to all of you. You are surrounded by many of our members, members of our founding members of the museum and society into this is a wonderful fellowship of people who are great supporters of the museum. We are pleased to partner with trust and you will see them up on the screen. I know Tim Gillespie but i know all i can see out there is darkness but lets think them for making the revolution possible. [applause] it is a pleasure to be welcoming doctor Vincent Browne this evening. As it is sometimes the case but not often w that often we are ay welcoming a good friend to the museum here this evening. Vince is one of the group of scholars have consulted in the E Development
We will turn to the business of building the memorial next week. So, were glad that youre here and were excited to be talking about the memorial and lets get right to it is with me is harvey pratt with. Hes a citizen of the tribes of oklahoma. He is a piece chief and has been a career Law Enforcement official. He is a working artist and he is a marine and vietnam veteran. Please greet for harvey pratt applause what caused you to submit a proposal, a proposed designed for the memorial . Our veterans director just kept after me. I had no i really had no hope that i would even come closer, submit a design. He just kept after me and said, do it for the tribe and i said let me dream on it and i said i have to dream. Some of my best creativity is done early in the morning in that dream period and so thats what i did. I went home and i dreamed about it and i got my big chief tablet out and got some sketches and it just came to me all of a sudden that morning. In order to touch they 576 federa
Its wonderful to have so many familiar faces in the audience and im pleased were live stream the program this evening and we will be on booktv so we will live on forever and ever as 3 00 a. M. When you cant sleep. I will get a text from my father the following morning that says youre on television again. Im curious a show of hands id like to ask how many of you are visiting the first time this evening to the museum. Welcome to all of you. You are surrounded by many of our members, members of our founding members of the museum, members of our Revolution Society and this is a wonderful fellowship of people who are great supporters of the museum. We are very pleased to partner with Haverford Trust you will see them up on the screen here. I know tim glaspie but all i can see is darkness out there, tim and joe mcglocklin. Lets thank them for making read the revolution possible. [applause] its a real pleasure to be welcoming doctor Vincent Brown this evening. As is sometimes the case but not