my grandfather and colonel blaten. he and my grandfather were friends. when colonel blaten took over to distillery he invited my grand father to work here. he was one of the first african-americans to be taken to new york on a business trip to make decisions about whiskey and barrels of whiskey at this distillery. believe it or not, this distillery was somewhat unique. not only like my father as a warehouse supervisor, my grand father as an operations supervisor, unheard of back in the day. but the distillery set a precedent. there were -- it was a place of equality. so what we found interesting was even though they had restrooms for the african-americans and other restrooms for the whites, the word was in the warehouse if you got to go you got to go and you go to the nearest warehouse and everybody got along. they had a unique arrangement. they basically were their own little family. so they took care of one another. they were on farms and had property adjacent to one another. they helped each other out when they were in need. just an interesting arrang