Again. I m just curious show of hands. I like to ask how many of you are visiting for the first time this evening to the museum wonderful. Well, welcome. Welcome to all of you you are surrounded by many of our members of our founding members of the museum members of our revolution society. And so this is a wonderful fellowship of people who are, you know, great supporters of the museum. We re very pleased to partner with haverford trust and you ll see him see them up on the on here, and i know glass b, but all i can see is darkness out there tim and joe mclaughlin. And so let s thank them for making read the revolution possible. Now it s a real pleasure to be welcoming dr. Vincent brown this evening and as is sometimes the case but not all that often. It s we re actually welcoming a good friend to the museum here this evening. Vince was one of the group of scholars who consulted with us during the development of the exhibitions and interactives for the museum here so long before the sh
Revolution society. And so this is a wonderful fellowship of people who are, you know, great supporters of the museum. We re very pleased to partner with haverford trust and you ll see him see them up on the on here, and i know glass b, but all i can see is darkness out there tim and joe mclaughlin. And so let s thank them for making read the revolution possible. Now it s a real pleasure to be welcoming dr. Vincent brown this evening and as is sometimes the case but not all that often. It s we re actually welcoming a good friend to the museum here this evening. Vince was one of the group of scholars who consulted with us during the development of the exhibitions and interactives for the museum here so long before the shovel was in the ground and the steel began rising here at 3rd and chestnut in philadelphia. We were you know tapping vince s brain for exciting stories of the american revolution some of which really turned into some of those great personal stories in our core exhibition
Again. I m just curious show of hands. I like to ask how many of you are visiting for the first time this evening to the museum wonderful. Well, welcome. Welcome to all of you you are surrounded by many of our members of our founding members of the museum members of our revolution society. And so this is a wonderful fellowship of people who are, you know, great supporters of the museum. We re very pleased to partner with haverford trust and you ll see him see them up on the on here and i tim gillespie, but all i can see is darkness out there tim and joe mclaughlin and so let s thank them for making read the revolution possible. Now it s a real pleasure to be welcoming dr. Vincent brown this evening and as is sometimes the case but not all that often. It s we re actually welcoming a good friend to the museum here this evening. Vince was one of the group of scholars who consulted with us during the development of the exhibitions and interactives for the museum here so long before the sho
nation s shores a few miles from where i sit. in the beginning, the deck was stacked against us. it pointed to the lack of infrastructure and hospital capacity. they claimed alaska would suffer the fate of third world countries. health experts warned us that 14,000 hospitalizations in over 10,000 dead. i d be lying if i said the tragedy of 1918 didn t weigh deeply on me. i lived in those villages and was forever changed by the stories of elders who survived. the stories compelled me to ensure there would be no repeat in 1918 on my watch. from the first night, we committed to handling the virus without politicizing it, without partisan bickering. we were won in our battle against the poorly understood faux. today, and against all odds, alaska leads the way in testing and vaccinations. we enjoy the third lowest mortality rate in the nation. those who predicted other devastation were wrong, because we are not just americans, we are alaskan s. we shine one others expect us to fai
books he says a person should read in their lifetime. watch book tv this week and every weekend on c-span2. on the president and ceo of the museum of american revolution. it s wonderful to have so many familiar faces in the audience, we also live streaming this evening and we will be on tv so we will live on forever and ever at 3:00 a.m. when you can t sleep. [laughter] i ve got text from my father the following morning thank you are on television again. i m curious, or of hands, how many of you are visiting for the first time this evening? welcome all of you. you are surrounded by many of our members, members of our founding members of the museums, revolution society, this is a fellowship of people who are great supporters of the museum. we are very pleased to partner with trust, you will see that up on the screen here and i know tim but all i can see is darkness. tim and joe mclaughlin, thank them for making this possible. [applause] it s a real pleasure to welcome doctor