american history and culture curator rex ellis. good evening. my name is beth kelly. i m the vice president of the education research and historical interpretation division. it s my honor to offer you a warm and personal welcome. the word welcome has a great deal of meaning for colonial williamsburg. we have been welcoming guests to come and learn about our 18th century community since 1932. 40 years ago, the foundation recognized we were only telling half of the story. and so, with determination and courage and perseverance, programming was designed by our panelists tonight so that we could tell the whole story of our 18th century community. blending social history with public history to tell the african american story had never been done before, and quite literally, they were making history. this is the first of three panelists discussions we will have this year, and i would welcome you to come back on july 5th, where we will look at current programming that focuses on af
williamsburg interpreters talk about bringing african-american stories to life and how they felt compelled to tell their ancestor stories appropriately. panelists include american civil war museum ceo christy coleman and curator rex ellis. good evening. my name is beth kelly and i am the vice president of the education, research and historical interpretation division. and it is my honor to offer you a warm and personal welcome. the word welcome has a great deal of meaning for colonial williamsburg. we have been welcoming guests to come and learn about our 18th century community since 1932. fort years ago the foundation recognized we were only telling half of the story, and so with determination and courage and p perseverance, the program was designed by our panelists tonight so we could tell the whole story of our 18th community. blending social history with public history to tell the african-american story had never been done before, and quite literally, they were making h
good afternoon, and thank you very much for coming. this is a representative of our legal team. we re representing president trump and the trump campaign. when i finish, sidney powell and jenna ellis will follow me, and we will present in brief the evidence we ve collected over the last two weeks. also joseph, jennifer, victoria is here with me. there are a lot more lawyers working on this, but we re i guess we re the senior lawyers and boris epstein. i guess the best way to describe this is when we began our representation of the president, we certainly were confronted with an anomalous set of results, the president way ahead on election night, 7 or 800,000 in pennsylvania. somehow he lost pennsylvania. we have statisticians willing to testify that s almost statistically impossible to happen in the period of time it happened. but of course, that s your speculation. as we started investigating, both our investigations and the very patriotic and brave american citizens tha
recognized we were only telling half of the story. and so with the determination and courage and perseverance, programming was designed by our panelists tonight so that we could tell the whole story of our 18th century community. blending social history with public history to tell the african-american story had never been done before. and quite literally, they were making history. this is the first of three panelist discussions we re going to have this year, and i would welcome you to come back on july 5th, where we will look at current programming that focuses on african-american stories. and also on october 18th, where we will be focusing on the future. and our panelists at that discussion will be helping us to think about how do we continue to tell this story? for as mitchell said, it s really all of our story. i know our panelists well. and they have plenty to share with us. so please let me begin the evening by introducing our moderator. he began his career here at colon
programming with designs by our panelists tonight, so that we could tell the whole story of our 18th century community. blending social history with public history to tell the african-american story has never been done before. and quite literally, they were making history. this is the first of three panelist discussions that we are going to have this year. and i would welcome you to come back on july 5, when we will look at current programming that focuses on african- american stories, and also on october 18, where we will be focusing on the future, and our panelists at that discussion will be helping us to think about, how do we continue to tell the story? lawrence mitchell said it really is all of our story. now i know our panelists well. and they have plenty to share with us. so, please let me begin the evening by introducing our moderator. he began his career here at colonial williamsburg as a junior interpreter, and became an active interpreter and manager of the inter