. >> welcome into the hudson library historical societies live event with thomas hayter . sshe's here to discuss his fascinating new book electric city, the lost history of ford and edison's american utopia. i'm kathy jones, one of the adult services librarians at the hudson library and we have quite a few exciting other programs coming up in june and you can register for them at hudson library.org. also i'm excited to say we will be offering live morning meditations, it and yoga classes by esarpaio this summe . those classes will be up on our website this week if you'd like to sign up. a reminder that if you're joining us on zoom tonight you can put your questions in the q and a bottom of the screen and if you're joining us on facebook but your questions in the chat and will get to as many as we have time for. one more thing, the learned owl our local independent bookstore is selling copies of tonight's book and there's a link in the chat if you'd like to purchase one but tonight i am delighted to welcome author thomas hayter, publishers weekly calls electric city the boo