Thanks [inaudible conversations] well come. I am from the university of virginia and i am absolutelyighd delighted to be moderating his panel today. Lazore currently sherry where stories with us. Were going to be on a tight schedule and i am responsible for keeping with ford to 50 to 20 minutesple time than there is time for questions please silence your cellphone especiallysi since i am so excited about this panel the virginia festival the book is placed to keep most even 3n if you like to help with that the please evaluate this session as the festival is always working to improve offerings and we hope you will be interested. Writing the book under discussion entitled pandemic she is a science journalist and author as her work has appeared in the New York Times and we will be discussing her new book today. And the former politicalouston reporter said she left in newspapers to pursue microbiology and in 2005 she had a journalism fellowship to study malaria in intent and tanzania dash s
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The mansion in new york. Her book will be on sale afterward. It is my pleasure to introduce margaret oppenheimer. [applause] margaret thank you very much. July 3, age 33, a distinguished new yorker wrote a note in his diary. The celebrated colonel burr was married to the celebrated mrs. Jumel. His choice of adjectives was interesting. Not distinguished, but celebrated. Celebrity had the same connotation it does today. Someone who was known to the public but not always with approval. Today, i am going to talk about how eliza jumel and aaron burr became public figures, why they married, and what happened after these two celebrities joined hands. Ladies first. Eliza jumel is on the right. She is painted here one year before her marriage to aaron burr next to a portrait of him painted after the ceremony. Eliza jumel was born betsy bowen in providence, rhode island, in 1775. About 2. 5 weeks before the battle of lexington. There was absolutely nothing in her beginnings to suggest that her n
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