Less familiar with the general society and how many of you here this evening with this be your first visit . Okay. A warm welcome and of course, welcome back to previous attendees. The general society was founded in 1785 by 22 artisans. Today our 234yearold organization continues to serve the peopleof the city of new york. We do this through our cultural and education programs. They include our lecture series which tonights lecture is part of, our general Society Library which will will be celebrating 200 years. Our tuition free Mechanics Institute and the john and mossman lot collection which you are welcome to visit after our talk this evening and that is upstairs. You will find more information on the blue and white postcard on your seats. We have such a wonderful start to this years lectures season and we have the pleasure of welcoming critically acclaimed biographer susan ronald who will discuss her biography of conde nast, the publishing legend of vogue and vanity fair and other
Barnstorm,ing and cowriter and director of the law faith as to jail. He is the author of to swing through the sky, and musical theater piece commissioned and produced by George Mason University about the history of jazz empowered flight. He was a longtime member of the right experience team an executive director of the discovery flight foundation. Paul is a graduate of Washington University in st. Louis with a degree in visual arts. In addition to aviation history and documentary filmmaking. His career covers classical drawing, stem in steam education. Exhibit design and photography. With that i would like to turn the stage over to paul, thank you all again so much for coming tonight. Hello. Thank you so much for having me. Can everyone see me okay . Hear me okay . Great. Im going to make sure i turn this thing on correctly. Okay, thank you kathy, and to everyone at smithsonian for having me back. I am very happy to be here. Again i am sharing the story with you. I think its really a f
I am karen taylor, Program Director of the general society. The labor, literature and landmark collections are supported in part by public funds from the new City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the city council. For those of you who may be less familiar with the general society and how many of you here this evening with this be your first visit . Okay. A warm welcome and of course, welcome back to previous attendees. The general society was founded in 1785 by 22 artisans. Today our 234yearold organization continues to serve the peopleof the city of new york. We do this through our cultural and education programs. They include our lecture series which tonights lecture is part of, our general Society Library which will will be celebrating 200 years. Our tuition free Mechanics Institute and the john and mossman lot collection which you are welcome to visit after our talk this evening and that is upstairs. You will find more information on the blue and white postcard on
Two other programs are coming up here on tuesday novemh at noon Richard Brooke heiser will talk about give me liberty to examine americans history through 12 documents on thursday novembe november 14 at 730 we will have a veterans day tribute from the u. S. Army signal corps for co authors of the new book entitled aftershock will join historians for the less wellknown images of the war. You will receive email updates and find information about her other National Archives programming. To support the outreach activities and there is members of the board from the archives foundation. And a littleknown secret that i tell everyone nobody has ever been turned down for membership. [laughter] with our archives as a place for dead things and many often fall back on dusty or musty or crumbling much to the those of our professionals. Rather than being custodians of life they are filled with many lives and billions of pages of stories of those people who intersected in history. Mo rocca discovers
Department was cultural affairs. For those who are less familiar, how many you here is this your first visit. Okay, a warm welcome. Also welcome back to previous attendees. Founded in 1785 by 22 artisans, today our 234yearold organization continues to serve the people of city of new york. We do this through our cultural and educational programs. Our lecture series. Our general society library. Celebrating 200 years next year. Your tuitionfree mechanics instituted. And john m mofman law collection up stairs. You find more information on the blue and white post card on your seat. We have such a wonderful start to this years le lockture seasn lecture season. Tonight, susan renald, her biography of conde nast. I want to mention. You have an opportunity to purchase this book, it is stunning cover. Later, be aware you have this opportunity, i am sure susan would be happy to sign the book for you. I want to mention cspan are also filming this talk tonight. This program will also be rebroadcas