Thank you for your patience. Were delighted to be gathered here today. I dont want to slow is down, but i do want to make sure that all of you know a little bit about where you are today. Can i just get a sense of how many of you are at Brooklyn Historical society for the first time . Wow. Fantastic. Welcome. Welcome to all of our oldtimers as well. A few of our Board Members are in the audience, so were delighted be that as well. Those who have never been here before i want to give you a sense of this institution which has been around for a very long time, 154 years, and we are Historical Society that prides ourselves on being very, very accessible to people. We have an extraordinary Research Library that is open to one and all. We encourage you to come and explore it. We have exhibitions which you may have got an glimpse of right behind the wall, history of abolition in brooklyn, called in pursuit of freedom. Theres an exhibition i want to make sure that you pick up this brochure on
You all so much for your patience. We are delighted to be gathered here today. I dont want to slow us down, but i do want to make sure you know a little bit about where you are today. Can i just get a sense of how many of you are at the Historical Society for the first time . Welcome to the institution has been around for a long time, 154 heres comin, and we are a histl society that prides herself on being very accessible to people. We have an extraordinary Research Library that is open to one and all. Periods behind the wall of history. It is an exhibition about the prospect parprospect park and iy downstairs, so theres a lot going on and you should come back and explore and perhaps most importantly for those of you that are interested in Public Programs such as this one i want to make sure that you pick up this brochure on your way back. It is chalk full of incredibly interesting programs and a whole series about womens suffrage coming up soon. Take a look. Dont miss any of the great
I dont want to slow us down, but i do want make sure that all of you know a little bit about where you are today. Can i just get a sense of how many of you are at Brooklyn Historical society for the first time . Wow. Fantastic. Welcome. Welcome to all of our full timers as well. A few of our Board Members are in the audience so we are delighted by that as well. For those of you who have never been here before, i want to give you a sense of this institution which has been around for very long time am a 154 years and we are a Historical Society that prides ourselves on being very assessable to people, we have an extraordinary Research Library that is open to one and all and we encourage you to come explore. We have exhibitions which you may have gotten a glimpse of ray behind this wall, history of abolition in brooklyn called in pursuit of freedom, theres an expedition about Jackie Robinson and baseball world series season, upstairs and an exhibition about the Prospect Park and its histo
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Thats my issue. In the movie, i was just a joy every single day. Was fantastic. As much fun as you see us as much fun as we had every day on the set. We joke and we laughed. We never had an argument or a fight and on our film thats very rare, really rare. But we all jelled and fit together and be like a heart. It was like a heartbeat. That was her genius in casting. In the casting process needed to read with each other before she chose us. See how your chemistry is with that person and we all have amazing chemistry. I believe it was the movie that was blessed and im so proud to have been a prop a part of it. It was so much fun. So much fun. I miss britney though. That was a sad thing but thats the thing about hollywood. If any of you want to be actresses come i dont know. How many of you want to be an actress . Oh good. Thats fantastic. Its not as great as it seems. My acting coach told me it has to be your only option. It has to be the only thing you can ever see yourself doing in ord