historian mary beth norton. she is the author of five books and coeditor of several others in your textbooks in a survey of u.s. history and been published in ten additions and sold more than 500,000 copies. norton is a price finalist and. she is married professor of american history at cornell university. her new book, 1774, year of revolution, available for purchase following the program. so now, please join me in welcoming mary beth norton. [applause]. mary: is really nice to be here. i want to make sure that the microphone is on. it does not seem to be. hope there is pretty great. i want to show you the cover of the book because that little bottle on it, is famous here in colonial historian. i don t know if anybody recognizes this but it is in the collection of the massachusetts historical tidy. it claims on the label which is impossible read, that it contains t picked up from boston s harbor. the day after the tea party. so there is a quite well-known object in the colon
it s wonderful to have so many familiar faces in the audience and i m pleased we re live stream the program this evening and we will be on booktv so we will live on forever and ever as 3:00 a.m. when you can t sleep. i will get a text from my father the following morning that says you re on television again. i m curious a show of hands i d like to ask how many of you are visiting the first time this evening to the museum. welcome to all of you. you are surrounded by many of our members, members of our founding members of the museum, members of our revolution society and this is a wonderful fellowship of people who are great supporters of the museum. we are very pleased to partner with haverford trust you will see them up on the screen here. i know tim glaspie but all i can see is darkness out there, tim and joe mcglocklin. let s thank them for making read the revolution possible. [applause] it s a real pleasure to be welcoming doctor vincent brown this evening. as is sometime
from the shut tered window retailed storefronts and street corners where at one point a young boy was shot dealing drugs. other avenues instrumental in helping to establish and sustain these businesses in their incubations by helping to build orders and supply businesses at cost and hang go medley and outer lands cafe. our generosity in support of these businesses that helped to create a thriving business sector that reclaiming our streets as a destination in flooding the neighborhood with an engaged and savvy dem graphic here not to just spend money but to invest in relationships. it is these relationships that keep me hear. but it said that a rising tide lifts all boats and so has the effects of the outer sunset parklet. and in our own financial profit and loss of our other avenues which is a $1.4 million business, we have always experienced a dip in our summer. and the locals referred to july as julumber due to the fact that it gets so chilly. and yet since the arrival of
as well. hello. good evening commissioners and thank you for hearing our case here. my name is wane riders and i am the president of upper avenues food store cooperative. and we thank the board for hearing us and the directors and supporters for being here including joe selinski who is from the restaurant who will be sharing the park with us and i should make note that at the may 2 hearing that other avenues representatives came and spoke and there was no one else here and no opposition but the opposition and members of the opposition came later and spoke on their own. and we, you know there was no rebuttal process or rely process. and so i am glad that we have a chance here to have some back and forth. i just want to note that kind of through the design and permit process we have received hundreds of signatures in support of this and 80 or so letters of support and a number of them from nearby business owners and civil organizations as well as large organizations such as
basically, you know, the sole proprier one guy running his little business and we were not able to adequately nor they, are able to adequately represent themselves or their perspectives at the may second 2012, hearing. today many of those business owners are present at this hearing and we have letters and you have names up this and others are here to offer the testimony as well. this owner who hosts a parklet at trouble coffee, previously supported the parklet at 3930, and 40 juda and she has since submitted a letter stating that she now opposes the approved parklet. and if i may take the opportunity to display some photos? can you hear me here? all right. the names that you will see highlighted in the green and the following pages, they are, you know, businesses that contest the parklet as well. but this is on judah street looking west on judah between 45th and 46th avenues. and you can see right about here it is a little bit hard to see, but as a pedestrian island and o