Discusses the colonys early challenges, and profits that the colonists gain from trading beaver skins from europe. This is about an hour. [applause] write, think you very much. Im delighted that the introduction mentioned longfellow. While i am not going to talk about Myles Standish, i would be delighted if we can get on to questions, because Myles Standish is one of my favorite characters in the story. Of gratitude to the historical society. Firstly, i am very grateful for the invitation to week this evening. But im very grateful because i have the use of your facilitys extended library when i was doing research here in maine in fall 2006, 2007 or was it 2008 . I forget now. Some of the research was done and libraries. A good deal of the research was done in the United Kingdom and holland and Northern Ireland also. And a lot of this was done on foot and bicycle and, in maine, by car. I mentioned that because there is another reason something happened to me on the highway. Openshe book