Exhibits all over the United States. His book is curating america. He is also the author of the book that were going to be more focused on tonight which is for sale in our shop. And richard has very kindly offered to sign copies of the book after we talk this evening. The book is called curating america. It is a beautifully written book. I had such fun preparing for this evening because it is a perfect combination of you as an incredible collar with an enormous amount of academic background and deeply personal and funny and warm. So i urge you all to have a look at it. What were going to do is talking for about 40 minutes and open it up to questions from all of you. So i think richard is going to start us off by reading a few paragraphs from the book. This sunday 29 will be the 50th anniversary of a trip i took as a disgruntled, tired, bored graduate student in history. I went out to an outdoor History Museum in Central Massachusetts called old sturbridge village. Some of you have been
Exhibits all over the United States. His book is curating america. He is also the author of the book that were going to be more focused on tonight which is for sale in our shop. And richard has very kindly offered to sign copies of the book after we talk this evening. The book is called curating america. It is a beautifully written book. I had such fun preparing for this evening because it is a perfect combination of you as an incredible collar with an enormous amount of academic background and deeply personal and funny and warm. So i urge you all to have a look at it. What were going to do is talking for about 40 minutes and open it up to questions from all of you. So i think richard is going to start us off by reading a few paragraphs from the book. This sunday 29 will be the 50th anniversary of a trip i took as a disgruntled, tired, bored graduate student in history. I went out to an outdoor History Museum in Central Massachusetts called old sturbridge village. Some of you have been
Exhibits all over the United States. His book is curating america. He is also the author of the book that were going to be more focused on tonight which is for sale in our shop. And richard has very kindly offered to sign copies of the book after we talk this evening. The book is called curating america. It is a beautifully written book. I had such fun preparing for this evening because it is a perfect combination of you as an incredible collar with an enormous amount of academic background and deeply personal and funny and warm. So i urge you all to have a look at it. What were going to do is talking for about 40 minutes and open it up to questions from all of you. So i think richard is going to start us off by reading a few paragraphs from the book. This sunday 29 will be the 50th anniversary of a trip i took as a disgruntled, tired, bored graduate student in history. I went out to an outdoor History Museum in Central Massachusetts called old sturbridge village. Some of you have been
Kounalakis. Here. Commissioner. Here. Motion for the minutes of the september 21, 2016 and september meeting. There was one thing in the agenda under oh gosh. I dont know the page number. Im sorry. Never mind. Thank you. Or second. Okay. We have a motion and a second. All in favor of the minutes of september 27 and september 27 say aye. Aye. Opposed . Item 2, Public Comment on executive session. Is there any Public Comment on executive session . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Number 4 executive session. So moved. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. I move to reconvene in open session. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed . I move not to disclose anything discussed in closed session. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed . Madam secretary. Pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag to the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be advised that the rolling of
This past thursday liberty hall, check on that online for that needs to give special thanks of number of organizations that made this program possible today. Especially Trinity Church, who hosts this partners with great spirit and great support con c and the members of the haha society and the board of directors all worked hard to bring this together. We had 32 events and 20 locations over 10 days. And it took everyones support and encouragement. The haha society joins two honor hamiltons life and his legacy. In that light to the Awareness Society will be presenting the first hamilton legacy award to ri richard for his two decades of his work to educate the public. The revival of history can be traced to mr. Brookheisers work, ill give you four examples. After reading about and writing a studying a book, he saw that, wow, theres someone, a right hand aid and man in his life, Alexander Hamilton became intrigued and wrote a tremendous book in 1999. The book is only 220 pages long, that d