true i think of the denomination and rituals and the ability, yeah, to enjoy beauty, to enjoy et thetic experience. i'm going to close now. if you read my book, we go from lower manhattan over to brooklyn in 1870s and the book goes up to about 1895, so we have a kind of scattering of the black population, and, of course, later on they go up to harlem; right? that's after 1910 or whatever, so in conclusion rather than talk about scattering, i want to talk about coming back together. on a windy october day last fall, i took a trip to sigh press hill cemetery in brooklyn with a map and went searching for the graves of my family and friends who left manhattan and broke lip -- brooklyn for their resting place. buried there were phillip's mother, e liz beth, two sisters and families, and phillip and his family. alexander, charles ray, and their families lay nearby, so i didn't have a chance to talk about them in this talk, but they are in the book. right next to phillip lays smith, recently redis covered and got a brand new marker. i was astonished to discover the men bought their plots at th