Okay. Is that better? Yeah. Okay. So stepping back, uh, Finland on the roof, uh, which I'd seen the movie many years ago. But now seeing the play is particularly relevant to my history because my grandfather lived in Kiev in 1905, and he was 15, and he and his brother William, who was my great uncle, left Kiev because of the pogrom of 1905, which is what the play is about. So in that scene, any of those teenage boys very similar to what my father went through, grandfather. And in those times the parents tried to get whatever parts of the family they could get to. A safer spot in the United States was the logical spot. So the two boys went on a ship Yep. To Louisiana. They were indentured servants, which meant that I'm sure their parents couldn't afford to send them over because they were poor. So in exchange for the passage overseas, they would work for perhaps five years. They worked in the sugar fields in Louisiana, which, you know, it's kind of slave labor, except it was in 1905. They didn't know anybody when they came here, and they had no money, so they were very poor. So, you know, you look back, it's quite an unbelievable endeavor of of strength and courage and, and, uh, certainly a lot of unknown. And I'm sure life was extremely hard for them in those times in Louisiana, not having any family or knowing anybody. Um, and at some point they my, my grandfather recognized that this was a, not a great deal by any stretch and was going to be extremely hard life. So he and his younger brother hopped on a freight train to Detroit because they had heard that Detroit was a boomtown. Henry Ford was hiring people at $5 a day, which was unheard of at that time. So they went to Detroit just thinking they could make their life there. I'm sure they were scared, but they, you know, some courage. They thought there must be a brighter life somewhere. So they hopped on that train and they arrived in Detroit. And this was all told by my father, um, to me before he died. And they arrived in Detroit. And because my grandfather, when he lived in Kiev, which is, you know, part of Ukraine, he spoke six different languages. I don't know those six languages, but I suspect they were Polish and German and maybe Hungarian and Yiddish and Russian. So maybe that adds up to English. So maybe it adds up to six. So because of that, he recognized he could have a successful business selling fish that he would buy from the fishermen who would come off the Detroit River, as well as buying fruit from the local markets in his what was called a, he would be called a peddler by today's terms, but somehow they had a horse and they had a horse and carriage, I don't know. My father didn't know the history of that. But they would go into these ethnic neighborhoods in Detroit. And because he could speak the languages of those people, he was successful and made a living. And then eventually he opened up a fish market in Detroit where, you know, eventually they bought a home and they became part of, I guess, the, you know, the lower middle class of Detroit, maybe the middle class at some point. My father and his two sisters were raised in that neighborhood in Detroit, which is kind of a rough neighborhood now. But he, like many first generation immigrants from that part of the world, was the first to go to college. So he studied accounting, went to university. Wayne State University, which is a very large school in Detroit. People don't know a lot about it because it's a commuter school, but it's very large. And then he later got a law degree a few years later. So although he has a law degree, he was more of a practicing accountant for his for his lifestyle. And, um, you know, we grew up in a suburb of Detroit, like I said, predominantly Jewish neighborhood. But that's the heritage and the link to Fiddler on the roof, which is I mean, it's really incredible for me just because this is the exact story. It's not like I'm putting different time or different nation or different location or different people. It's all fitting nicely. Um, and I knew about this before I saw the movie of the play, um, you know, the pogroms of 1905. And I've even gone back to just check the history records to make sure that my dad told it. Although my dad would be the last person in the world, I can imagine telling a lie. But I did go back to look at the original immigration certificates and those things. And he was born in 1889, which would have made him 15 going to 1905, which so it all jived what I was told versus the historical record, which I've only checked in the last several years. So that's the connection to Fiddler on the roof. Um, I've made my adult life in Seattle, and you met my wife, Mimi, and we have, uh, six children, and there's a broad family with, uh, both grandchildren as well as siblings and their families who are now spread off much around the country. But that brings us to Whidbey Island, which we bought a vacation home here ten years ago. We traveled on vacation to most of the Pacific Puget Sound Islands, but always liked Whidbey a lot. And when a home came up for sale that thought fit our needs. We made an offer and we negotiated a deal. And we've been here on vacation. You know, we come here a lot during the summer, maybe once a month or in the winter. And it's been wonderful. It's been very welcoming. We've learned about Wicca through the current board, and they've been very welcoming and we've been involved. So that brings us to Whidbey Island. And I, after seeing the play my wife and I made, we thought we should thank Deanna for putting this all together and some other reasons. And she said, gosh, you have the Jewish Historical Society here. I'd love if you could come and make a quick video. I said, absolutely, let's do it. So, Hannah, that brings me to here. That's where we're here. Any questions or anything I can expand on for you?
