Her main interest is the history of Hampton Roads from 1890 to the present. After publishing short online history pieces, she has devoted her research and writing over the last four years telling the story of the roma and her crew. We join me in giving a warm dhs welcome to make the shepherd. [applause] thank you for that warm introduction. I would like to thank the Virginia Historical society for having me, and cspan for coming out here and taping. Very exciting. As andy said, my name is nancy e. Shepherd. I am a author from Hampton Roads. This has been my project for the last five years. To tell you about roma to get started, this is a forgotten piece of our printing your virginia history. It was the deadliest disaster of a u. S. Hydrogen airship, one long forgotten. It has been my honor to bring it to the world and to you today. So, i will take you back to 1921. This was a time of innovation, prosperity, hope for our new future. We had survived world war i, the spanish flu epidemic.