will be very pleased to sign them. today i am very pleased to welcome james warren who is the author of a kingdom strange: the brief and tragic history of the lost colony of roanoke . on my left john f. ross who is the author of war on the run: the epic story of robert rogers and the conquest of america s first frontier . two will be going in alphabetical order. jim will start. he s going to be showing images on the stage and so john and i will vacate in a moment but first let me tell you that james is vice president of research and historical interpretation and o neill director of the john d. rockefeller jr. library at the colonial williamsburg and nation. and a lecture at the college of william and mary. he s the author most recently before this book of the land as god made corned account of the jamestown colony. he lives in our sister city in intellectual attainment, williamsburg, virginia. [laughter] now briefly, a kingdom strange is about one of the enduring mysterie