or ashlawn highland was not the whole story. were in is where we understanding, and i will acknowledge here as you are puzzling about how this makes sense, there is a discrepancy, whether the smaller wing here is on the right or the left. this is of is seen not just a clear mixup of north and south. in fact, this is the only one that gives you north and the south on the larger document. it really is, they have them on so there isdes, internal inconsistency in this period of insurance documents. in these old insurance documents, one of the things i did not care about was the exact way out of the house. one of the things they did care about, these old insurance documents, they cared about the material, what was it made of? why do you suppose they cared about what materials it was? because of fire. you all know that. they cared about how far it was from other buildings, right? why do you think they cared about that? fire, right? if one caught on fire, the other gets lost. so those are the things that mattered. fire, cost of rebuild

ashlawn, the main building is new, the old monroe house nearly destroyed by fire, there remains a wingf the president's home, ok? so that is an old case. i can contrast that with the 1901 article of an obituary that says, the old presidents house was destroyed and a new house has been built in its place. so both stories existed for some time, and there was certainly an confusion, and we don't know really which of the previous owners during this long history, what they believed and what exactly their understanding of the house was, because certainly it does have, especially in the 19th century, past through a series of ownerships, and the story gets a little muddled, so let's fast-forward to the college of william and mary and jay winston john, the last private owner dies, and the college inherits the property. what do they do? among their first moves is to conduct a tripartite set of research. the three prongs are historical documentation, where the reigning monroe biographer comes along and says, yes, monroe road from highland. lots of letters, and in fact,-was his property. we can se

you might remember a single person in the act was ashlawn [inaudible] to get really specific [inaudible] share for the viewers what is your general thesis that we are looking at and what will we be reading about when you open the pages? spinnaker has been a huge myth that has taken root. there is