cynthia kerner. but i'm going to knock the glasses trigger. the trigger. thank you and thank you all for coming out tonight or watching on your couch if you're out there in zoom land. welcome. i'm excited to talk about my new book. and in fact, the book came out just a month ago. and so you guys are my first book talk and so fingers crossed. we'll see how it goes. i think of us who are interested in history are kind of in it for the stories. so i'm going to start by telling two stories. first, a really short one about me, and then a much longer one about a woman and her family during the american revolution. in other words, the topic of my book. and then we'll move on to what we can learn from that story. the story of jane spurgeon a.k.a the tories wife. so i first met jane. figuratively speaking, no sounds involved in the north carolina state archives in raleigh the mid 1990. it's. and at the time i was working on a book on the american revolution and i was reading women's petition to their state legislatures and really hoping to find some women who wrote