For the month of july on behalf of the mount vernon ladies association. Of course, the Ford Motor Company thats been funding these free and open to the public talks for quite some time. Welcome. This is something that i am particularly excited to do because. I have ive known mark talbot some time and before that i knew his work. Mark talbot is, the director of collections and a great curator masonic collections at the George Washington Masonic National Memorial in alexandria. Hes been an active for more than 20 years and in nearly all that time hes been an active historian of american ism. In to the work well be discussing tonight his i think monumental work american freemasons centuries of Building Communities is a massive step forward in our understanding of masonry in american civil society. A book i used to crib from and writing my own lectures when i taught at the university of oklahoma. And i told mark this. Mark is a past president of the masonic and museum association, fellow a
Good evening, everyone. My name is kevin butterfield. I am the executive of the Washington Library here at, mount vernon. Welcome to our forward evening book talk. For the month of july on behalf of the mount vernon ladies association. Of course, the Ford Motor Company thats been funding these free and open to the public talks for quite some time. Welcome. This is something that i am particularly excited to do because. I have ive known mark talbot some time and before that i knew his work. Mark talbot is, the director of collections and a great curator masonic collections at the George Washington Masonic National Memorial in alexandria. Hes been an active for more than 20 years and in nearly all that time hes been an active historian of american ism. In to the work well be discussing tonight his i think monumental work american freemasons centuries of Building Communities is a massive step forward in our understanding of masonry in american civil society. A book i used to crib from and
I wont go back too far. I think, with the damage youd be looking more like £600 to £800. On a good day, it might get itself up to the £1,000, which, lets face it isnt bad. Youve still gone ten times profit. Thats not bad going. Thats not bad going. The thing is, you obviously love it and enjoy it so hopefully, ive not spoiled it for you. Thank you very much. How nice to see two rather unusual works by rex whistler. I only know him as a painter of murals. We can see its clearly signed here. R. Whistler. Rex whistler. And a date, 1921. So he must be very young because he was born in 1905. Yes, he was about 14 when he did this at school with my fatherinlaw, and he was his fag at haileybury. He used to, in lieu of beating him he used to make him draw pictures. Its straight out of tom brown, isnt it . Absolutely. Tom brown. The fag system was a Public School term for. Barbaric stuff. When you acted as a servant to a senior boy. Polished the older boys shoes. Or did, but they dont anymore
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