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How are you doing this evening . Thank you. Good evening and welcome. I managed to Public Programs here. Thank you for joining us tonight featuring the most recent book the president s Kitchen Cabinet the story of the africanamericans who were fed from the washingtons to be obamas. As you saw in the video since there is a oneofakind Research Institution and is dedicated to the collection, dedication and interpretation of the experience. Also you may have heard in january, the center was named a National Historic landmark by the park service so they all know what you know. [applause] the landmark status recognizes the collection of materials that represent the history and culture of people of african descent in the global transnational perspective and thro ....
Through Public Programs expeditions Film Screenings and engaging conversations like going to have today we explore the contemporary narrative that continues to shape the narrative and the world. We hope that the programs you are able to explore boasts over 10 million items and they come here from Public Programs but then go and visit one of our five divisions we can find our books, photographs and other kinds of collections and other resources. I would tell you about the rest of the program for february but since its black History Month every month here next month we are featuring the women jazz festival. This year we will feature an evening discussion and three nights of Ella Fitzgerald inspired performance ....
Were going to have a nice time talking about George Washingtons 10 tonight. We have an engineer, a Structural Engineer here and a textile conservator who are part of a larger team. As a very smart woman once said, it takes a village and was a large village involved in the project you are going to hear about tonight. Freeu have questions, feel to grab any of us. This evening, we are going to divide comments into three sections. Im going to talk about the history of the object itself and when we contemplated beginning putting it on display and alice will talk about the engineering challenges of trying to take what is the most historic and object sinceextile the starspangled banner that has been placed on display in a new museum. So to face the unique challenges of this unique textile object, we will talk about the challenges of conserving that object and preparing it f ....