That bpl is honored to be presenting in partnership with and with the wisdom and leadership of the Lenape Center. Titled will not be hoking. This Initiative Includes new yorks first ever la not be curated exhibition of lenape cultural arts, which is now on view at bpls Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education center as well as many future programs on topics like the myth of the purchase of manhattan. Seed remitriation well have poetry readings and theres an upcoming published anthology of essays on lownape history. Its quite ambitious. I am humbled. To represent my bpl colleagues who have led this ambitious effort. Its truly my honor to introduce tonights discussion on their behalf. In a few moments youll hear three perspectives on a history that has too long been overlooked misrepresented and lied about for 10,000 years the not be lived and will not be hooking an area that includes parts of what are now the states of pennsylvania, connecticut to york and delaware. And through wa
Panel will. Now get to really ask the questions i wanted to ask all day. And you guys are in a captive audience. So know if anybody does have questions for the panel. We like to keep this open for us. But they spent a lot of their time doing research. So now time to make them a little more personal. So i would like to the first question i have for you guys is, do you weve studied outwards of the American Revolution in the national sphere. What made you decide to study this aspect, this niche . What was that defining moment, if there was one, ill take it. Ill start it off. So the easy answer for me, if i mentioned were doing an exhibition, this topic is a significant sound that that opens up. We knew that we wanted to do an exhibition about the stuarts. We thought we were going to do one about james. The first two, of course, is the namesake for jamestown, where we have one of our one of our museums. And then we realized that the exhibition would really be incomplete if we just focused
Panel will. Now get to really ask the questions i wanted to ask all day. And you guys are in a captive audience. So know if anybody does have questions for the panel. We like to keep this open for us. But they spent a lot of their time doing research. So now time to make them a little more personal. So i would like to the first question i have for you guys is, do you weve studied outwards of the American Revolution in the national sphere. What made you decide to study this aspect, this niche . What was that defining moment, if there was one, ill take it. Ill start it off. So the easy answer for me, if i mentioned were doing an exhibition, this topic is a significant sound that that opens up. We knew that we wanted to do an exhibition about the stuarts. We thought we were going to do one about james. The first two, of course, is the namesake for jamestown, where we have one of our one of our museums. And then we realized that the exhibition would really be incomplete if we just focused
Well, with that, id like to invite up our five speakers to the where well have our half an hour ish panel where everyone will get to talk about all the great things that weve learned today. Pull on some of those common threads, a fun side note this very room where were in and you can visit at the lyceum. In 1841, John Quincy Adams was speaking in room about society and, civilization. So now you have to come to the lyceum learn more about his speech here in 1841. So if we could have our speakers chris up and im excited to introduce Phil Greenwell again again who will be moderating our panel will. Now get to really ask the questions i wanted to ask all day. And you guys are in a captive audience. So know if anybody does have questions for the panel. We like to keep this open for us. But they spent a lot of their time doing research. So now time to make them a little more personal. So i would like to the first question i have for you guys is, do you weve studied outwards of the American R
Hello. Great to be back with you all. I hope you had a delicious and enjoyable lunch. So many wonderful places here in alexandria. I want to extend a special thanks and appreciation to Historic Alexandria and the american or the emerging revolutionary war for inviting me to be part of this symposium and spend some time with all of you today. I also want to extend a special welcome to all those participating remotely. Thank you for joining us. And of course, a special thanks for all of you for being here today. Im very, very happy and very honored to be here today. I learned a tremendous amount and thoroughly enjoyed all of the presentations from this morning and really just looking forward to spending a little bit of time this afternoon talking with you about george mason, his ideas, and most particularly the virginia declaration of rights and their Global Impact. So just to get us started in building off some of what we learned this morning. Our George George mason, the fourth was a f