planning for 18 months, and particularly with the dedicated kinds of lindsey robinson, jack baker, kevin hearst,eld, jennifer and many others that i see her today. preservation virginia is very pleased to be partnering with the virginia museum of history and culture and we thank them for their participation and for hosting all of us here today. we are especially honored by the presence of our participants from the virginia tribal nation as well as representatives of the cherokee nation and poach creek who are also here today. i especially want to thank and acknowledge our symposium sponsors who helped make this possible. for more than a century now, preservation virginia has been the steward of the john marshall house. we have been tearing the house since 1911 and acquiring furnishings and artifacts that help us interpret the legacy of chief justice john marshall. this is the harsh where marshall lived for 45 years and provides insight into his life and work, not only as a well-known and significant american jurist, but as a family man, husband, father, engaged citizen of richmond contributing to the despite