Museum. My name is dana anderson, and i have the pleasure of serving as the executive director of the ham Historical Society, whose home here is abraham heritage museum. And what a treat to welcome you all tonight, at the sold out program. Id like to thank on the behalf aboard a director and our small staff, i would like to thank you all for making us a part of your week. Id also like to thank gerard excuse me, are dusty for traveling across the country to be with us tonight. Id like to thank cspan, for filming us. So that others who cannot be with us, can see us on a later date. And thank you to the Abigail Adams Historical Society, and their board of directors, who offered us this wonderful opportunity and to partner with them as we did last year with their speaker edith gelles. Abigails rich history in this region inspires us every day. Thank you. The hang in Historical Society is focused like never before on its history. To understand all voices. We currently are in the midst of a
Part of your week. I would also like to thank Jared Hardesty for traveling across country to be with us tonight. I would like to thank cspan for filming us so that others who cant be with us tonight can see it at a later date. And thank you to the Abigail Adams Historical Society and their board of directors who offered us this wonderful opportunity to partner with them as we did last year with their speaker. Abigails rich history in this region inspires us every day. Thank you. The hingham Historical Society is focused like never before on its history to understand all voices. We currently are in the midst of a campaign for the Benjamin Lincoln house which is our effort to purchase the home of hinghams American Revolutionary war hero at 181 north street. Benjamin lincoln received the british sword of vendor at yorktown, or as we like to tell our visiting school children, thats Benjamin Lincoln on the white horse. Featured so prominently in trumbles painting in the rotunda of the u. S.
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Happy may day. Thank you for joining us this afternoon in helping us make this program a great success. We have had over 350 people register for this from across the country and from places as far away as japan. I think it is about 4 00 a. M. In japan, so im not sure if that person made it, but still impressive that program has that much reachle i has that much reach. I would like to extend a special welcome to anyone who might be attending Virtual Program for the first time. Considering the size of the virtual crowd and the geographic spread, im sure there are some that are interacting for the first time. If you are not familiar with us, we are the oldest Historical Society in america. Were founded in 1791 and have been an independent Nonprofit Institution dedicated to collecting, preserving, publishing and sharing our state and nations history for the past 229 years. In these days of social distancing, we have been we have taken to hosting Virtual Events. We have Online Events planne