 Hi, everyone, my name is Carol Quillen. Thank you so much for the opportunity to introduce myself to you and to share a little bit about why I'm so excited and grateful to be joining the National Trust. So I grew up in Newcastle, Delaware, which is an old town surrounded by the kinds of buildings that the trust works so hard to preserve. And that town mattered to me and those buildings enabled a kind of community life that was important to my childhood and that remained important to my parents. So I'm grateful for the trust's efforts to save communities like the one I grew up in. I'm also a historian with a passion for understanding how people in the present understand those who lived in a temporally distant and very different time. Again, the trust's work speaks to me in that way. But I think I'm most excited about joining the trust because of the ways in which you all have interpreted your mission now. And I just want to say a couple of words about two aspects of that. First, the trust is very focused on telling the full American story. And as a historian, I know that many of the narratives with which we are most familiar are distorted or incomplete or just flat out wrong. So telling the full American story, saving the places that are important to that story and recognizing the resilience and the heroism of all Americans is an important part of my professional life and a personal passion for me. Second, the trust is really focused on building stronger communities through preservation. And I think this demonstrates the innovative and creative ways in which you all have understood preservation as an activity. So to use preserving or restoring or creatively adapting a historic building as a way of energizing economic development in regional downtowns, catalyzing community engagement in communities that are faltering, this is a powerful way to indicate the importance of preservation to communities today and to show how preservation is partly about animating and enlivening the spaces that are important to us so that they serve communities in the present and the future. So there's just a couple of reasons why I'm so excited to join the National Trust now. And I can't wait to meet all of you and to learn what motivates you, how you understand preservation and how it works in your communities to help enrich the lives of all Americans. Thank you again for this opportunity and I look forward to meeting you all soon.