Good evening. Thanks so much for coming out my name is andy grayville director of the Clemen Center for southwest studies here at smu let me start by thanking many people or at least a few of them who have helped make this evening possible starting m with our friend at the center for president ial history withor whom are cosponsoring this event tonight. Particularly jeffrey ankle Brian Franklin and ron that spitz i want to thank ruth and who coordinates things on our end for the Clemen Center so my pleasure to introduce Cameron Blevins who braved last nights weather to fly in from denver teaches digital humanities at the university of colorados campus in the mile high city before moving to front range he was assistant professor of history at Northeastern University in boston, and a core faculty member at the schools mu lab for text map and networks. They learned last night cameron is a nativity of the nutmeg state for those of you anybody knows what that is number of you ii was hoping