Go! Jolly room. Firelock. Firelock! My name is Barbara Crane. I'm the volunteer with the Lafayette bus. I'm the president of the committee for your motion. I'm a proud member of the American Friends of Lafayette. I'm giving a number of you on Friday. I'm also long here with the Huguenot and New Rochelle Historical Association of New Rochelle. I'm not quite any of the operators of the Thomas Payne College Museum here. I'm more than a new, I'm sorry for that. And I'm standing in today here for Suzanne Tanswell, of the Huguenot and show us more of association. So I hope that somewhere to be seen, she would have been her moderator, but she is not so popular. She's so high, but she's kept in. But Suzanne really gets the credit we're putting together all of the time to see today. I want to say a special thanks to the American friends of Long-Dia who aspired this event. So I'm going to introduce the executive director of my city friends who's been with us in New Rochelle, which for those of you who don't know, it's a city of about 80,000 people with a very registered, very diverse, and thinkly, gracially, religiously. And it was also briefly the home of Thomas Payne, the American founding father, who sparked the American foundation. And who was granted a far here in New O'Shell in 1784, after the American Revolution. And there's an monument to him, as Memorial Bill Day. So we are very proud of our connection to Thomas K. who actually was the friend of the Marquine Laplacia. And he went after the American Revolution, went to France, and he was part of the French Revolution and this French won the Laplacia. So there's a real sense of connection here and we will show to the Marquine Laplacia and people that come on these dance floor in terms of his principles of the Roman Union rights and democracy. So I want to add special thanks to our co-host today, the New Hoseha Public Library and staff, who have been especially gracious. about opening the facility and allowing us to use this space on a very brainy day. It's a community center and if only you had access to the library you could see that we have an original painting by Norman Rockwell who's left here in New Borgeselle and if we can have time, when we're not reading, there's a walk of faith outside, and the workout outside, that brings to life and describes all of the faith people, the former's artists, the sports people who live in New Rochelle. Earlier, I mentioned the standing in for Susan and Thames of Elks, who organized this event for a good for a hand. And then special thanks to our sponsor, the City of New York Shell for financial support and support from our parks and recreation department of their city departments and our mayor, your partner will be speaking shortly and we'll be back. We appreciate the presence of important elected leaders from our town, our city council member, and our center. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We appreciate the presence of important elected leaders from our town, our city council member, and our center. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. The first one is for the People of the United States. The first one is for the People of the United States. The first one is for the People of the United States. The first one is for the People of the United States. The first one is for the People of the United States. The first one is for the People of the United States. The first one is for the People of the United States. The first one is for the People of the United States. I have partners from local organizations that have listed in the program in many volunteers, who have given their time with the DAR and which is the chapter. So, thank you all so much. Thank you all for your time. The new Michelle Chamber of Commerce, the director, is here somewhere in the back. Come on. We're actually on the National Historical Association of Univ. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. and horror shows, which is very important, this great. A lot of us hope you have people here from the same award house. We have one of our many, many historic sites in this country. We have a big audience, and we have a big audience, who says, a Westchester, the Hawaii French community still in Westchester, and we have the French American School, and many people who do now in French connections with the Canadian people. So I think, and also of course, you've already seen very colorful renappers of artisans, musical from more particularly different forms. So let me turn over to our esteemed Mayor, if you're on the story of the first woman there. I'm new about the story. I just want to make this work. Good afternoon and welcome to the original. You guys have energy. The length of each one. Good afternoon and welcome to your wish now. You guys have energy, so let's give a big applause. So I was looking, y'all know this because you're his, I'm a history major too, so I'm my living in my Zen right now. I'm my new in Zen. But you know this, but just to capture it for our record, the last time they were our key visited us was in 1824 and he's found a hotel on Main Infanter like three blocks from us And I'm going to read this because you're not going to be sure if it's in 2024 or in 1824 Based on the energy you all have brought here today. There were shout some people roaring a cannon the Mary peel of bow And people who are eager to see him, respectful and excited, people who were eager to shake his hand and bid him welcome. It was called the event of the year. Is it 2024? Is it 1824? We're doing the dreamers together! And if you're chosen, the Marti was an abolitionist and believed a woman's right because the first moment of Tysl-Toller's Mayer is... ...and I can see that all happened in our very cities. So I'm going to be a leader for... A leader going to... There we go, it's like a rock. Alright, we're going to issue a proclamation and I'm not having a reasonable fit. And this is my first time y'all, so you're all a little poor and brave for me. We're going to issue a key to the city. But the celebration honors your Archiva Faya, the last surviving major general, the American Revolution, recognized as the hero to world for his pivotal roles in both America and France. He was a lifelong champion of human rights, advocating for religiously racial equality and women's rights, co-authoring the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, and working tirelessly to best lay a reenfoge France and America. During his farewell to more of America in 1824 and 1825, he visited 24 states, including New Rochelle, speaking about these values. Now therefore, I, Adira Rommes, Herbert Mayor of the fabulous city of New Rochelle. We are here by the plane Sunday, August 18th,, as Marquise de La Faya de Bale. I think now you might be here from the man of the hour, we all are good, nor he fell off hands. Dear friends, good people of the city of New Washington and America. It is indeed a great pleasure and honor to see all of you here today. My name of course is Gen is General Lafayette, open of a government by my name of the old sea energy of Mary Joseph Paulie Bosch, Ben de Montier, Glamarque, that Lafayette would like to repeat that kind of thing. But truly a pleasure of an honor to see all of you here, welcome in the time to the new Boschette. I almost said last time. Indeed, my friend, I think that to the new washer, I almost said last shite. Indeed my friends, it is meant at some time. The last time I had set foot upon a mannequin's soil was 17 and 84. The war had come to a conclusion with the signing of the Treaty of Paris of September of 17 and 83. So I returned to separate with all of you. But dear friends, even though 40 years have passed, we must never get how that independence was in fact achieved. So for all those brave soldiers, sailors and Marines alike, who fought and learned to concount with battlefields to achieve and then he can freedom, let us have long and long. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. When my friends, as I have been invited back to America, courtesy of your very own president of these United States, Mr. James Monroe, be what he is calling a guest of the nation. And to tour all 24 United States, can you imagine that? 24. Do you realize the last time I was here, you had about 13, up goodness it, this Rachel, there was many as 50, you would say, do you imagine? But of course, my adventures began in New York City on the 16th day of August of this year 1824 in front of thousands of its impatidence. But friends now that I have returned back to America after so long I have seen a great deal of change but I have also seen there is a great much more to do. Indeed friends in 1784 there may have been only 13 states and now you are grown to 24. But, though I am pleased that America has prospered, I can see that there is much that needs to be done. First, the foremas in the form of the ending of that horrible institution are slavery. Generalidad is in 1782, before the war that even come to an end. I am ready to let it to his ex-excellency, Shana Mahalivu, Washington, which I stated great many things. But amongst them, I said to him that you would be an even greater man than you already are. If you could set the example by emancipating the enslaved and thereby eradicating this horrible institution and others would follow your example. Washington of course replied with kind words saying I was a critical humanity for making society such a suggestion but felt it must be done slowly and through legislation. Well I I believe action speaks louder than words. And so thus, until my dying day, my dear friends, I shall let my boots, my right arm, my pen, and my purse, to bring about an end to this horrible institution. I have talked about Mr. Payne, Thomas Payne and his connection to his great city of Mimosa. Well, it would be on the 15th of July, 1789 after the storming of the Bastille in Paris that fortress-turned prison, a symbol of tyranny under the French marquis, where we began to dismantle the Bastille and I being commanded by the guardmen in the academy, decided to take the principal key to that city and send it to President Washington in the hope that it would give him inspiration that the American people would never be in fear of speaking out against injustice that they could be able to speak it freely. I took this key and I gave it to Thomas Payne. And Thomas Payne crossed the ocean with it and gave it to Governor Russell Urge of South Carolina and in turn placed it within the hands of his excell sea president Washington. So indeed, one of your sons, Mr. O'Payne, of Lufa Shell was able to complete that task for me and President Washington would keep it with him throughout his presidency as a key of inspiration. And I shall do, take the key to this city of Luhoshel and look at it as an inspiration for myself. My dear friends, in 1784, when I looked upon the General Washington's face for the last time, we spoke of many subjects to include the fighting of this war and the future of this nation. I am hopeful that positive change can occur, but that is the responsibility of you in citizens. Let us hope we can rise and welcome all under the banner of American freedom, no matter the colour of their skin, who their patterns are, or how much money they have within their pocket, but simply by what they can do and offer to this nation. God bless you all, my dear friends. And God bless this great nation of the United American friendship and how important it has been. And that history of the relationship that the French American has been important to mention is the connection to the law of Shalma, Newo Shal. And I think that's what you're going to be telling us about. Honestly, it's hard to wish just your County historical society. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I need to follow the Marquita Locking. I'm not going to take on your statement. But I will say that if the Wester's County Historical Society, we have an account, a woman wrote in to our sister historian, that her grandmother had left the letter telling about seeing Marquis de La Valle when he came to America, and she attended a ball. For all the women who were dressed in white, and after the ball was just finishing up, the Marquis got out and kissed every single one. I'm going to take you a little bit about what your shell was like in 1824. There were less than 1500 people here. The farming community established by the Huguenots in the 1680s had been the most successful of the ones established by the French Protestants, the Huguenots, would flood their homeland to America, seeking religious freedom. Until the latter part of the 1700s, the French traditions were maintained here, and French bespoke here. All the town records were in French, until the latter part of the 1700s. So in the small group of refugees acquired from John and Rachel Pell, he heard about them recently, they named their property for the last Hukanon stronghold La Rochelle. They chose this land wisely. The 6,000 acres were largely fertile and tillap nine miles of water frontage provided for fishing, milling, and shipping. The Long Island Sound connected the community to Manhattan and to the Atlantic. Parallel to the Sound would be, was a pathway that had been used for centuries by indigenous people. This pathway would become the first main thoroughware, thoroughware in the New World, the Boston Post Road. Established in 1673, it traveled right through this French community, in fact, right outside the park. Patterns and ends along the road served as gathering places. They were sort of like indoor village greens. One of these places in New Yorkshire, there were a number of taverns, but one, Captain Pelors Tavern in Hotel was located just three blocks away and she heard from our mayor on Main Street and Center Avenue. It was the place of the hour just 200 and two years ago. As historian Morgan Seaport wrote on August 20th 1924, both the visit of General La Jolla at the United States had aroused more than a passing interest to Newer Shell. This was especially true with the descendants of the Huconauts, and there were many. Not only was he the most beloved living general in their mind, he was one of theirs. He was from France, one of their own kin, and in their minds next to Napoleon, the greatest living freshman of the time. Seekord went on to write about the delegation from New Rochelle who met Marquigalovia in Harlem and as boarded him to New Rochelle. Now bear with me just a bit longer because I'm going to be the whole account that appeared in the Niles Register August 28, 1824 about the nation's guests. There will be audience participation. The scene was brilliant in the extreme. The faculty in the roof of the post office, then located on Main Street, and a peller's counter and hotel on the opposite side of the street were filled with ladies. The shouts of the people, the roaring of the can and the merry feel of the bells. The music of a full band, the eager yet respectful and exciting of the people who shake him by the hand and bid him welcome must to be as gratifying impression on the mind of the general as any reception which had gone before. So from Newer Show, West Chester's browsing welcome continue as Latvia journey down the post road to a marinate, rye, and poor chester. I must bring it up to date very quickly. Newher shall continue its ties with Laura Shell France. Scores of exchanges have linked the two cities over the past 150 years. Whenever there's an anniversary, where are they, or they are over here, big parties, models. And I have to tell you, Westchester is ensuring that the role of the French in the American fight for independence is not forgotten. This is thanks to revolutionary Westchester 250, which has already put together a fabulous follow the French audio tour that brings visitors to three sites of French encampments. One of these sites, Odao, Roshe and Balcic orders is now being restored to become a marvelous museum, professionally designed and curated Westchester will remember the independent Frenchmen, such as Lafayette and the French troops who were instrumental in winning the war for American independence. Thank you. I just wanted to add, when we found all those documents, the first person I reached out to was part of this, and she was so helpful. She guided me right here to the nurse shop of the library, and we found out so much information about the brothers of our lodge, including Gideon and Kagashall, and we found out that he started creating the action work to play up the beauty of the school rise with high rates in the enterprise sector. So I just wanted to say it's a treasure to have libraries in historical societies so just try and support the question. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And it perfectly admits one of the strengths to the appeasance of our program, which was to be the presentation of a base read, which evidently was part of the typical honoraries of Lafayette and the not-read presentation. And these gentlemen are reenacting Gideon, Dr. Gaubechell, and Laird Butler, who are those who have scored in Lafayette to Nubo Sheldt, and I guess through the rest of the gesture, but maybe they haven't heard the same. We're working. On behalf of the inhabitants of the town of Yerichello, we have then deputed it to wait upon major general Lapea to express to him our happiness on the safe of rival in the whosom of our country, for whose liberty we so nobly part and led. And to request him to allow us the pleasure of expressing to him personally our feelings of gratitude for these important services in that arduous struggle from which emanated the glorious independence that we are now most proud to boast of. And now, if you serve, will remove your path, will you resent you with a law? And my friend, what can we say? Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I'm honored to have you with us two of our county legislators, Jim Knowles, Dean and Terry Clemens, and Judah and Jerry who's on the left hand. Take it away. So good afternoon. I'm here with my colleague, the Lister of Pedal Clemens, to express our gratitude to General Lafayette. I served before it was kind of like, so I'm sure we were going own daughter is here and next generation is a professor. It's so important to look at history to remember that differentially French colonies in the United Kingdom, it's where it's always best of friends. And they found a way, even when the nation is so much fresh, to work together, to come together, to code us, and to figure out a way to go from a situation that we're not having to build our story-taste into a future that we have diverse, our building, our growing, not just into a show, but throughout the system. So I'm proud to be able to present on the Catholic County our combinations. One from board of legislators. One from our county executive. We'll meet up a few a little later on your tour. To celebrate August 18th as the people at the eighth day. And throughout the county and the generations to the country. Showing us the way in the public as Bill Garfield, the year we'll be here today. Thank you. Thank you. And thank you to your families, your hospitality and for your generosity, indeed, to the grand any of between our two nations that were signed on February 6, 1778, changing the nature of this war and enabling the United States of America to win its war for independence. I thank you dear friends. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Well, let's have a change of pace. We are going to have some wonderful, original musical presentations. And the next is going to be by a young man, a Isaac von, who is a peritone, a volunteer teacher. We have a special music program we have here to go to help all the song catchers that reaches out from community to train young musicians and brings together volunteers to help with that training. So Isaac is a volunteer teacher at Songcatters, he's a rising junior at the Hackley School of Terry Town in the student that Julie R. Stripull and Prokran I think will be impressed by the singing you are about to hear. He's going to be singing America the Beautiful and God bless America. He's going to be a question by S. Seponia. He was a volunteer teacher at Sonecatchers. We're also pleased to have him. She's here and the audience, the president of the board, Sonecatchers' charity and the party who's also Dean at our local college and on the local college. So let me call on Sonec getters to the stage. Oh beautiful or spacious skies, Or ever waves of rain, Or purple mountain majesty, all of the true day, A merry come, merry come, The fragile is grace on me, And from thy good with brotherhood, From sea to shining sea, Oh beautiful, for danger's reap, That sea's sea Lord the year, my love as the seed, and name thy human tears. From every cup, from every cup, the chain is grace on me, And from thy wood with brother, Thou sea to shining sea. Thank you. Let us wear a lead head to a land that's free. Let us all be grateful for a man so free, that we ring our voices in a silent prayer. all in green. God bless America, let the light of steady cycle and light of through the night with the light from the light from the mountains to the rivers Oh, unless I'm arre-hunga, my home's weak, oh, The old people, the less of every God, Let that I love, stand beside her, and I care, And I turn to the light be the light from the mountains, to the prairies, to the oceans, my home sweet home. So we're not quite done yet. We have a graph of our program with some very special friends the Bay of the Suns, originally composed for today by Robert Laila, who will be seeing them shortly accompanied by Diana's journey from the 2D Broadway production company, which is Bay of the Sun, which is here in the Shells, the Scoundrel, and the first song is, I feel myself overwhelmed. And it's the setting of La Pia's heartfelt and emotional remarks which he gave in English after being greeted by Mayor Stephen Allen upon his return to America at New York City Hall on August 16, 1824. The second one is going to be quite fun. It's a drinking song. And eight drinking, eight Mary. I have some copies of the lyrics were given out to all of you. Because I know they're wrong, they might be the same system. And I hear our judges, we're like off-hand celebrations, The point is to sing this game. Because many years are adapted. It brings off the acceleration. It's out. It's during the season. We're in there. We're going to war. It's over. It's over. I am so affectionately received by the rest of the man with inexpressible emotions. Light up the American shore, after so long an absence. And the No more to fall in this light The pleasure to recognize those who have survived The sea men's compass of a free, free path again, population. You so kindly welcome me. The admiral of the brothers of the poor of a nationality The banquet You have been pleased to serve What would you do? A happiest time The obliterate enjoyment The up the void and joy the night Godlic light. is the pride of my heart to have been one of the earliest of the Dixon, of the living part. David O'Connor! APPLAUSE So do please join in on the refrain of our toast to America. We eat, drink, and be there. Yeah! Thank you all for your trials and your kind words of praise. to realize, for a while, and celebrate, let's, eat, drink, and we'll be there to eat, and sing, the mild, all the regrettably, And make time to celebrate life, friendship and love. Three-bend in every is to lie through my head. So now let us toast to our native love, Land of real and wise, No need for dreams until I'm here. They're the key of the country. It's bringing and ending you, and the people of Ireland. All of our country and time is still a great guide for the ship of love. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Is life too high? A moment I learned of Mary's heart I loved her It appears to be chapter United States Raise your cup The cell of rain Knees, drink like a baby That's the same moral world All of our great faiths And to celebrate the life Friendship and love Oh, oh, oh The I do not know what time it is to go In each day that we leave That's a signal of life All the free time is ever been gone Friendship and love. You need so much to have Each finger in your ear Is so high Thank you! The Mortis and Tenants, here's tenants, six out, here's the mortis and the kids, and they go together like that. And with another piece called a month's effort, we've just worked on making a window. I'm going to play the drums. I'm going to play the drums. I'm going to play the drums. I'm going to play the drums. I'm going to play the drums. I'm going to play the drums. I'm going to play the drums. I'm going to play the drums. I'm going to play the drums. I'm going to play the drums. I'm going to play the drums. I'm going to play the drums. Thank you.