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Bless him, an associate dean of the college of humanities and at byu. He is also the editor of a book. His talk is entitled the special relationship as Popular Culture 1989 to 1906. Please join me in welcoming frank. [applause] thanks, bob. Echo has go stimulating this has been. I was going over my notes. I could spend half the talk making callbacks for yesterdays session. There were so many things i found helpful in my own thinking. I do have a couple of preparatory thoughts. From some things that Patty Limerick is said in her keynote yesterday. I really like her idea of what she calls Buffalo Bills studies, as fieldnotes. Field that identifies our collective project as inherently ecumenical. In its approach to scholarship, one that is called a by the nature of the subject. Was, i informal survey thought, was very helpful. She asked about the various backgrounds of those in the audience. I would like to think that the paper is working towards this vision in a variety ways. One of whic