woodlawn, which was a place that he spent a lot of time during the national tour, spending time with nellie custis as well. so i he's kind of always been around. i've had a cat named lafayette growing up, so it seems like a very natural progression. i was i was in late teens before the musical i have to say. and so he's kind of followed me around. and when i was looking at possibly looking into writing a book, i realized there are a lot of biographies about lafayette, but there's nothing that's about the tour. and if the tour is mentioned in a biography, it's usually given most maybe a chapter. so i was like, well, let's look into why it was so important that he came back and why people just fall at his feet and it's the reason why he is still so loved today is an outcome of that. the fact that he came back in 1824 and he kind of was able to plant the seeds of that. so i'm hoping that this is the first piece and much more lafayette scholarship around the national tour as well. not just for me, but from other people too. yes. you want to go? sorry. i'm so sorry. i have to go to the mic. yeah. we wa

generally believe that the the famous harpsichord that washington buys for his his granddaughter, nellie custis, that it would have been in here, although we're going to see it in another room because it to get it out of the way. but what we've done in this space is already you can see we've pulled out the baseboards and exposed the framing. so all of this is the 18th century framing. we've got the corner of a down brace. you got a stud, you've got along the exterior as well. you can see just the very of the framing members. and if we look over here, we have a very clear view of this, of the basically the bones of the house. so here the wall studs coming down. this is the threshold of that doorway that i told you about. so it had had a floorboard that ran through it and then it ended up getting closed in in the 1780s or late seventies. early eighties is what we believe sometimes our dating is not exactly precise. records really help us date things sometimes forensic investigation starts meaning we're looking at of age of the wood and things like that. sometimes that helps us, but not all the ti