and that was due primarily to cussler who wrote the basic tenets of the northwest ordinance. and to his son. .. >> they believed in the importance in the essential necessity of the good life and learning. a love of learning like very few anybody i have ever come to know or read about. he never lived here. he came out to see how everything was going but he had too much going on back home. in hamilton, massachusetts which is just north of boston. and, his church and his parsonage are still there and very superb condition. the place where the first covered wagon left to come to ohio is still there. and, his son came out here with his wife and four children. they are young, they are hopeful and somehow they address themselves with hard work and nothing, even the most difficult daily tasks of being a farmer in the rocky grounds of new england was not going to be anything comparable to what they faced here. they came mountain on their way just coming down the ohio river, two of their children died of disease. they had to be buried on the banks of the river imagine, they arrived her

without the dedicated volunteer to we have led by katie wilson, our production team led by and all cusslersam, of you who make this effort possible. we really, really appreciate it. a couple of housekeeping items, we have medical party sale.shirts for i think they're going for about $20 a pop. all the contributions help put these events on. so if you can spare some change on your way out, we would really appreciate that. we want to give a big shout out to coe college for allowing us to use in their facility to bring this program into the community. [cheers and applause] stacey: and we would like to thank senator sanders and his campaign for making time to do this event. [applause] stacey: we have a great lineup for you. butnt to get started, first, i want to introduce to you our cohost and special guest cohost. we will start with a familiar face, simeon talley to my far right. what's up, simeon? stace? what's up, stacey: he has worked with us in the past, he had to get president obama elected and he does a lot of work with us in the community. [applause] stacey: we have our special guest c