Id like to thank my aunt and although who also helped quite a bit in setting this up. My publisher and the Preservation Alliance for their donation and olivia who has been wonderful and theres been my support throughout all the. Im sure theres a lot of other people i want to thank all of you as well but i know youd like to see the presentations i dont want to take up the whole time so thank you. But again im grateful you all came out tonight. It means a lot to me. So basically in terms of how ive done presentations for those of you whove seen in the past, i enjoy doing things that offthecuff and talking about the places that ive been too. What i would like to do is just show you a little bit of what some of places are not in the book and tell you a little bit about them as we go. So the first place i wanted to show you is the packard plant which is in detroit. Its probably one of the most famous and also the largest abandoned site in north america. Its sprawling. Its been out of commis