Museum. Im winning interpretation here at the museum and thank you all for coming out this evening for this very special event. A few housekeeping i have before we begin let because of your wonderful old historic boarding house here in Downtown Washington we do not have restrooms available on this floor. If anyone should need to use the restroom during the course of the program please see alyssa right behind you and she could lead you to where you need to go. This is a pay what you please program this evening meaning that the conclusion will have to give and a negotiation and a Non Profit Organization and supporting the memberships and your donation will directly support the programs of education here at the missing Soldiers Office. A donation boxes just outside your way downstairs through the elevator. Now on to this evenings program. How many of you have been here to the missing Soldiers Office before . A show of hands. Quite a few of you, excellent. Who those of you having your firs
Declaration of rights, was a delegate to the federal convention in philadelphia, but refused to sign the constitution because it did not include a bill of rights. Gunston hall. I am the education manager here. I am very excited to give you a tour today. We are standing in front of the house right now. And 1759ilt in 1755 and was the home of george mason and his first wife. If you look at the house, the carving and decoration outside, tells us that george mason belonged to the strata of society he thought he did. Man. S a wealthy the house tells us that in the details. The driveway you come up was lined, in his lifetime, with cherry trees. Ever addon to the house. The house you see now is what mason built in 1769. Its kind of interesting because most other Founding Fathers did add third floors or wings, like mount vernon and monticello. Saw people like jefferson and others of the founding generation going into deep debt doing things like this. Today we would think of it as keeping up wi
House right now. It was built in 1755 and 1759 and was the home of george mason and his first wife. If you look at the house, the carving and decoration outside, the house tells us that george mason belonged to the strata of society he thought he did. He was a wealthy man. The house tells us that in the details. The driveway you come up was lined, in his lifetime, with cherry trees. He didnt ever addon to the house. The house you see now is what mason built in 1769. Its kind of interesting because most other Founding Fathers did add third floors or wings, like mount vernon and monticello. George mason saw people like jefferson and others of the founding generation going into deep debt doing things like this. Today we would think of it as keeping up with the joneses or keeping up with the kardashians. Mason did not want to be in that position himself. So, we are going to have a chance to explore all of the spaces in the house. We will learn who george mason was and why we remember georg
Successful businessman working together with his wife. They established a very Generous Foundation which we are the beneficiaries of, not the only, but one of the beneficiariebene. What he gave to us before he passed away was to endow a special series and bringing the best and the brightest historians to share their works and insight with. So a sincere thanks to the mason family including the mason son and to their foundation. So im very pleased to have the opportunity here to introduce our next presenter as one of the most distinguished historians and in the world on the subject of world war ii. David kennedy received his under graduate at stanford and graduate training at yale. And founding director of the bill of the American West at Stanford University where he talk ta taught for more than 40 years. It is more than we have time for today. You have information on your program so i encourage you to look at that as well. He is much admired and loved by his students, by his peers and a
Successful businessman working together with his wife. They established a very Generous Foundation which we are the beneficiaries of, not the only, but one of the beneficiariebene. What he gave to us before he passed away was to endow a special series and bringing the best and the brightest historians to share their works and insight with. So a sincere thanks to the mason family including the mason son and to their foundation. So im very pleased to have the opportunity here to introduce our next presenter as one of the most distinguished historians and in the world on the subject of world war ii. David kennedy received his under graduate at stanford and graduate training at yale. And founding director of the bill of the American West at Stanford University where he talk ta taught for more than 40 years. It is more than we have time for today. You have information on your program so i encourage you to look at that as well. He is much admired and loved by his students, by his peers and a