martha washington - zooming in her 20s came to be. >> i went and had a scientific study done because the portrait everybody has is gilbert stuart where she is an old heavyset leedy and so i said okay what did she look like and i went to the faces lab to the mary at lsu forensic anthropologists and said could we take a picture that is said by her family to really look like her and then go back to age 25, piece of cake. and here's a nice picture and i showed it to my editor and she said let's have somebody painted portrait and the person really good at doing historical portraits, alternative is michael d. is from new orleans who is a friend of a friend. and so she did the portrait and just the month before katrina hit, the head of mount vernon came to town to give a talk, took some people to look a portrait, and today it lives safely at the museum at mount vernon along with her wedding gown which was gold and wedding slippers which were purple so it's not just purple and gold because we are from new orleans , it's because she liked those colors so i saved her from old ladydom. [applause] >> i just wanted to know how you all handled whe