Good evening. Welcome to the boston public local history lecture series. As part our program, we want to read the following statement to bring attention to the land we use for our buildings and events, we acknowledge that the Boston Public Librarys Central Library stands on land that was once a water ecosystem, providing sustenance for the indigenous massachusetts people and as a place which has served as a site of meeting an exchange nations, we are to land acknowledgments for all locations which we operate. We reaffirm this commitment to set the context, planning, deliberations and Public Engagement which will take place in the spirit of welcome and respect. Found in our motto free to all tonight. We are very pleased to have Stephanie Schorow here to talk her book, the great boston fire the inferno that nearly incinerated the city Stephanie Schorow is a journalist, writing instructor and, the author of eight nonfiction books, a variety of topics in boston history. They include the Co
The crisis in the middle east. Usually oil spikeses when that happens. Not today. Thats a great point. Options pit. Com founder Mark Sebastian in the, in the pits of. Ashley webster on floor of the New York Stock Exchange with the selloff. Ashley, what happened . Interesting, melissa, just to davids point. Tells you what kind of day it was when the dow finishes down 270 points. Hey, nice comeback. We were down 400 points several times throughout the session. We knew it was coming. We saw a big selloff in china. Weak Economic Data out of china. That spread to europe. We knew at opening bell today we would kick off the new year on adown note. We were off 300 points literally five minutes into the trading session. Weve been down there throughout the day. At last i would say five to ten minutes we saw some people perhaps jumping back in to to up bargainsselling was broad based across the board. Financials and tech stocks particularly hurting. I want to mention oil, something david mentione