the best product ideas to add to your dropshipping stores for this Thanksgiving, which is coming on November 26th. So in this video, I'm going to share with you guys the best product ideas that you need to add to your dropshipping stores, e-commerce stores, and for all you entrepreneurs who have your own online shops. This is the video that you guys need to know exactly how you can profit the most this Thanksgiving. So just watch this quick intro and let's begin. Hello, everyone. My name is Liran from AutoDS. I'm the content producer and I've also been dropshipping for the last four years. And like I said in this video, I'm going to share with you guys the best product ideas that you need for your stores this Thanksgiving. So for those of you who don't know Thanksgiving is a holiday that goes way, way, way back to the pilgrims when they celebrated their first harvest. It was a three day festivity. So today, Americans and Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving by having a huge feast around the dinner table with their friends and their family. Usually a turkey is what symbolizes this holiday. So they just stuff a turkey with all kinds of good and delicious stuff. And that's the main dish around the dinner table for Thanksgiving dinner. As you can see in the background photo that I got behind me, you see a turkey that actually looks pretty delicious. So this is a holiday that's celebrated mostly in the United States and also in Canada. So as you can guess, many Americans buy products that are related to Thanksgiving right before Thanksgiving, just like other holidays that we have coming here in Q4. And this is really our best time of the year for anyone who has online e-commerce stores. It's really the best time to be a drop shipper. So without further ado, let's get to it. What are the best products that we need for our stores so that we can make the most amount of profit? I want to show you guys real quick just how popular this holiday is and why timing is a very, very important thing when you're running e-commerce stores. So this is a seasonal holiday. It has a peak only one time a year. And when it has that peak, the profits are crazy. They're super high and everybody's enjoying them. Even drop shippers who are beginners, advanced, expert and totally professional. It doesn't matter. Everybody enjoys the holidays when they prepare their stores accordingly. So take a look at Google Trends. If we search for Thanksgiving, today's just past the middle of October, by the way, you should be watching this video just a little bit after that time. So this is in the past 12 months. As you can see, right after October 20th, which is just a couple of days from now, it's going to start peaking from last year. Now if we're going to look at this year in the past 30 days, as you can tell, it's starting to rise in September. There was just a small amount of interest. And as you can see, on October, it's already starting to gradually increase. It already reached the 100 interest, which is the maximum by Google Trends on October 12th, just a couple of days ago. Now, obviously, you know which way this is going. And as I said, before timing is very, very crucial when it comes to seasonal niches like this one. But when you hit it right, you're going to make the most amount of profit. So this is just a quick thing regarding the interest around the holiday and timing and why now is the time. So let's start preparing it correctly. So the next thing that I want to show you guys is that last year on 2019, Thanksgiving products grew by over 15% from the year before. In numbers, it passed over $4 billion in sales in 2019. And in 2020, we expect to see the same amount of increase, if not more. Since this year, a lot more people are staying at home, less people are going out partying and flying and going out to all kinds of special events. More people are staying at home. Therefore, more people are shopping from home. And this is really the best year to do it. So that's just some numbers to get you guys to understand the potential of Thanksgiving this year when it comes to Americans spending money on Thanksgiving products. So now let's get on to the main event. Which products do you need to upload to make a killing this year? So the first product that I recommend to upload for Thanksgiving this holiday season are Thanksgiving inflatables. A lot of people are buying inflatables. They are good for indoor or outdoor. Let's see exactly what they are. So if we head on to Amazon, for example, we're going to write Thanksgiving inflatables. We're going to copy this text field and we're going to paste it also in AliExpress Thanksgiving inflatables. We're going to paste that also in Walmart. And we're going to paste it also in Home Depot. So I can really show you guys the diversity and why you guys should work with more than one dropshipping supplier. You're going to have a reach into more products and you're going to kill the competition because you've got what your competitors don't. So let's go to the first search result. We got Amazon. We got a whole lot of Thanksgiving inflatables. As you can see here, it's mostly based around the Turkey since the Turkey is their symbol. So that's Amazon. I can tell that AliExpress has less Thanksgiving inflatables but they have a whole bunch of inflatables of other types. Once again, another reason why you should be working with more than one supplier because if you were working with only AliExpress, you wouldn't have any of this product line to add to your stores and then you'll just be missing out. So your competitors don't have anything but you will. Let's check out Walmart. So Walmart has a nice selection of Thanksgiving inflatables as you can sell here too. Some of them look very similar to those from Amazon. Here we go. They also have Thanksgiving inflatables. They also have Christmas inflatables but we're not going to talk about Christmas in this video. In another couple of videos, we're also going to go over Christmas. So Thanksgiving inflatables is the first product line that I recommend that you guys add to your stores. They come in different variations in different forms and different suppliers sell different types of them and a lot of people are buying them right before Thanksgiving. Now before we move on to the rest of the products, I just want to remind you guys to like this video because it really helps out our channel. Share this video so that your friends and family can also learn about the wild and amazing world of dropshipping and subscribe to our YouTube channel so that you can always stay updated on all kinds of valuable videos like this one so that you can really build your e-commerce business and make it a successful one. Now let's go back to the products. The second product idea that I have for you guys to add to your dropshipping stores for this Thanksgiving are Thanksgiving table runners. What are table runners, you ask? It's these long decorative fabrics that you put on the tables. I'll just show you. It's better to show them to explain. It's very decorative and people love adding them to their decorative and festive tables for Thanksgiving or any other holiday that you can think of. But now for Thanksgiving it's relevant so here on Home Depot we can see a couple of examples. You can also search Amazon obviously or Aliexpress as you can tell here Amazon also has quite a few results for Thanksgiving table runners. Aliexpress or any other supply that you're working with you're always going to find a much much bigger selection once you're working with more than one supplier. As you can see here even Canadians as I said before it's also a holiday in Canada. Walmart, Costway, Costco, any supply that you can think of. Thanksgiving table runners is a hot seller right before Thanksgiving and that's the second product I recommend for you guys. Now the third product line that I recommend that you guys add to your dropshipping stores for this Thanksgiving are Thanksgiving photo booth props. Photo booth props are good for just about any holiday that you can think of and Thanksgiving is one of those holidays. So if you just write Thanksgiving photo booth props on any one of your suppliers this is Aliexpress. They have them, they have a quite a nice selection. Amazon too, very nice selection in Amazon, Home Depot, Walmart. I'm only giving these four examples because a lot of people are dropshipping from them but there are way more suppliers that AutoDS supports. I hope you guys know this by now and by the way in this video I'm giving you a few more tips than there are in the blog below which is another reason why I encourage you guys to watch our videos and also read our blogs. Both of them together are going to give you guys tons of valuable information which I promise you won't find anywhere else. So Thanksgiving photo booth props you can see that Walmart also has them and pretty much any other dropshipping supplier that you can think of they'll have them and if one supplier doesn't have any products simply move on to the next supplier. You just really don't want to miss out on opportunities like Q4 holidays like this Thanksgiving one so diversify the way you work and the suppliers that you're working with. So that's regarding Thanksgiving photo booth props. I would like to make another recommendation for you guys because it's really really essential. When you're adding products based on my recommendations make sure to add anywhere in between 20 to 30 products for each product idea that I'm giving you guys. Anything below that will not give you any substantial results. You can't just test only one product in each product line. So add anywhere between 20 to 30 products for example 20 to 30 Thanksgiving photo booth props 20 to 30 Thanksgiving table runners and every other product idea that I'm giving you guys. This way you can definitely optimize your results and to find new best sellers to multiply your success with. Now the fourth product line that I recommend that you guys add to your stores for this Thanksgiving holiday are Thanksgiving clothes. There are so many types of clothes that you guys can sell for Thanksgiving. There are so many types of clothes that people are looking to buy for Thanksgiving. They can be pet products like pet clothes. They can be hats, socks, pajamas, matching family pajama sets which is a very trending thing in the last couple of years. So if you just write Thanksgiving clothes within any one of your suppliers, Thanksgiving clothes but you guys have to micro niche it. I cannot do all of the micro niching for you guys because these videos and these blogs will never ever end. You guys do have to do some work as dropshippers. This does require work but this is actually a fun job and if you don't agree with me then you guys shouldn't be in this business.  So here are your Thanksgiving clothes, micro niche to hats, dresses, pet clothes and so forth. There are so many different variations of clothes that you guys can upload and by the way if you have smaller stores with smaller limits and only around let's say four or five hundred products in your drop shipping stores then you shouldn't upload four hundred or five hundred Thanksgiving products. You should make it about twenty to thirty percent of your store because after the holiday is over you're going to have to delete the products not before you analyze which ones went well and save them for the next year but you're going to have to analyze your products and see what went well and pretty much delete them because they're not going to serve you any more sales in the next year until the next Thanksgiving. Moving on to number five on the list of the best products to add to your stores for this Thanksgiving. So on number five we have Thanksgiving pet products. Now I just mentioned that just about a minute ago but many online shoppers are buying stuff for their pets in any holiday that you can think of but on this Thanksgiving just like the other holidays people are buying Thanksgiving pet products for their pets they love their pets and they love buying stuff for them. So let's see some examples of pet products that you can add but once again you guys have to remember that you're going to have to micro niche this one just like what you're doing for the rest of them. So Thanksgiving you can start micro niching by writing pet and see what kinds of items are selling for pets like bandanas and collars and so forth. Yep like you can see here now you also have this cute and this is new by the way didn't even get a review yet because it's a totally new item it's for this Thanksgiving but as you can tell there's more than enough here on Amazon and you can check other suppliers Thanksgiving products for your pets this one is going to sell well it does every year most of them are definitely going to sell if they will be in your store or in anyone else's store. So Thanksgiving products for your pets are the fifth recommendation that I have for you guys today add at least 20 of them to your store and now moving on to number six so the six best product that I recommend to add to your Thanksgiving stores this Thanksgiving are Thanksgiving wine bottle labels and stoppers and what is it for example well the bottle labels are bottle labels they label the bottles so let's just Thanksgiving wine bottle labels so they label the bottle with a Thanksgiving kind of a theme and you can search also for wine bottle stoppers or more wine bottle Thanksgiving products there are more you just need to once again micro niche it so products that relate to wine bottles for Thanksgiving the ones that sell well are the bottle labels and the wine bottle stoppers but there are definitely more and it's your job to find out about them that's the sixth product line that I recommend for this holiday season now the seventh product idea that I have for you guys for your Thanksgiving job shipping stores are Thanksgiving kitchen products now kitchen products have also a wide range from cooking tools and baking and all kinds of other sorts of kitchen appliances that relate to Thanksgiving so for example if you want to micro niche this one you're going to have to start general and then start seeing which products are micro niches to this niche which are also selling well and that's how you're going to find your best sellers so Thanksgiving kitchen we're going to start very very basic and then you're going to see a couple of examples like Thanksgiving kitchen towels let's go with that one and start micro niching it Thanksgiving kitchen towels I'm going to go inside this category and add a whole bunch of Thanksgiving kitchen towels as you can tell there are a bunch and I'm going to keep micro niching this one so we got Thanksgiving kitchen towels we can also get let's see Thanksgiving napkins so let's write Thanksgiving napkins start micro niching that one too here we go in the festive Thanksgiving vibe this is exactly what people are looking for right before Thanksgiving because it decorates and makes the whole theme around the holiday so that's how you start micro niching that's how you start finding better products than just the general ones that I'm recommending which are always selling well each Thanksgiving and this brings us to number eight on the list of the best products to add to your stores for this Thanksgiving and now we are at Thanksgiving pillow covers people are buying pillow covers and there are more holidays where this fits but where we can add Thanksgiving we're going to add it because these products sell we see it every year more and more so Thanksgiving pillow colors as you can tell there are a bunch of varieties these one usually sell in bundle packs so usually you're going to buy two three or four in each cell as you can see here this one has six most of them have four some of them have two so Thanksgiving pillow covers is also one of the most trending products for Thanksgiving and this brings us to product line number nine on the best products to add to your stores for this Thanksgiving and now we're talking about Thanksgiving plaques and signs what I mean let's just take a look that people add it to their doors or their walls and then you're going to get signs and start micro niching it we don't want to write too much text in the search box so here's an example you got your signs over here obviously you don't have to search only amazon as I showed you in this video you can search multiple suppliers I'm just getting stuck with them just to make this video smoother for you guys but Thanksgiving plaques and signs can be found in any one of your suppliers can't find them in one simply move on to the next just like I explained before and this is the ninth product I recommend to add to your stores last but not least is the 10th product that I recommend to add to your stores for Thanksgiving to make a killing this time guys and the 10th product is Thanksgiving greeting cards as simple as it sounds that's exactly what it is so let's take a look Thanksgiving greeting cards because people living in the US love sending greeting cards to their beloved and to their loved ones and to families and friends on every seasonal holiday and Thanksgiving is definitely one of those holidays there's a whole bunch of cool customized greeting cards even these cool 3d pop-ups like you can see in the new video feature that amazon recently started to add to their site but once again you can search it with multiple suppliers let's go this time to Walmart Thanksgiving greeting cards so this is another huge recommendation this one goes really well you guys most of them are relatively cheap so you can make actually some nice profit from them and you can add more than a quantity of one to cheap products because usually people buy more of them and this way you can also give the customers what they want and make a little bit more profit along the way so that pretty much sums up the 10 products for you guys but we're not done yet I'm going to show you guys one of the best tricks to add as many products to your store at once you can add tens to hundreds to thousands of products and you don't have to waste any more time than you actually have to which is just one minute on the clock so let's see exactly how this works the first thing that you guys need is the autods chrome extension helper so if you just write on google autods chrome helper extension even without chrome but never mind it's going to be the first result and then just add it to your chrome browser on the right side right here add to chrome once you add it it's going to be in your browser and once it's in your browser it's going to look like this so let's go to aliexpress and here it is on the bottom right you'll see that autods circle this is the extension it means that it's installed successfully on your browser so all you have to do is click on it when you're on a supplier product page like this one so all you have to do is click on the extract button over here once you click on it all of the product ids from aliexpress just got imported into the autods chrome helper extension now all you have to do is click export scsv it will download it onto your computer as you can see here on the bottom so i got my export over here now i want to upload all of these products into my store without having to do it one by one so the next thing that you have to do is open the autods platform if you guys don't know how the new system looks yet this is exactly what it's going to look like for all of you Shopify users who are already here with us today you're already using this new system and for all of you guys using ebay as you're selling platform this is going to be your selling platform really really soon this is how the new autods platform looks like it works much faster and has much more features if the original one didn't even have enough it had way more than enough but this one is just going to be unbelievable you guys just wait until you play around with it so the first thing i'm going to do is add products over here on the left publish to which stores i want to publish them to all three of these demo stores that i have over here so what i'm going to do now is instead of uploading the product urls or the product id's one by one and breaking them with a line each time i'm just going to upload a csv file because that's exactly what the chrome extension gave me now i'm going to go into my downloads folder and drag and drop that export here it is aliexpress export drop it over here processing csv three two one and it's done now i'm just going to click on next and set all of my preferences and configuration settings for adding these files to my shop it doesn't matter if you're using ebay or Shopify the process looks exactly the same so instead of using the supplier's default settings which we already have in your settings you can use whatever template you want you should add product tags and i totally recommend this you guys adding product tags is especially important in the beginning if you're going to have two thousand or three thousand or five thousand or even more products in your store and you didn't add any product tags it's going to make the game a whole lot more difficult to optimize and maximize your cells in the future what you do with the tagging is in this example since i got Thanksgiving products i'm going to tag all of that products in that csv file and i'm going to make a Thanksgiving tag for them i'm going to add the plus so it added this tag on top of the existing list of tags that i have so here it is Thanksgiving all of the products will have a Thanksgiving tag and later on after when Thanksgiving is over and i want to see all of the products that i had from Thanksgiving i'm just going to look up the Thanksgiving tag and it will show me all of those products it's much more organized this way you guys are also going to save time and you're going to be able to optimize your stores correctly and efficiently with the tag feature so if you're in the beginning of your dropshipping journey start using the tags now so that you won't regret that later so here you can set your price ranges so if there's any product below ten dollars and i don't want them from that list then i will make my minimum 10 bucks and if i don't want products that cost over for example 150 dollars then i'm going to max it out to 150 and i wanted to automate my prices i wanted to automate my stock and i also want automatic ordering so i'm going to leave all of these options on move on to the next round here you have your break even and all of your pricing settings the additional profit that you want to make in fixed dollars the additional profit that you want to make in percentages i'm not going to get into into this so much you guys because it's not the point of this video but once you make it to the last level the import to store you can configure if you want the products to go to the drafts that's where you can optimize your products before you add them to your stores from drafts they import themselves to products and this is where it's actually going to be showing up in your stores and it's going to be monitored and all of the stuff that you said that you want autodesk to monitor the price and stock and auto ordering and so forth so that's pretty much all the information that i have for you guys for thanksgiving there's actually a lot more products that i want to recommend but we can't make these videos and blogs too long once you start with my recommendations and also add your own products that you thought of by yourself after doing some good and thorough product research you're also going to find more bestsellers and each year the more you work on it the better you will be at it and the better results you will get at the end of each holiday guys the holidays and q4 is the most important and the most profitable time of the year for every drop shipper every entrepreneur and every person who has an e-commerce online business please take advantage of all of these things that i'm telling you because you will really find yourself in a much better place in a much better position implement all of these things and all of these product ideas they have been proven to work year by year and this year is going to be much bigger than any previous year that we had i once again encourage you guys to like this video because it really helps out our page share this video so that your friends and family can also learn about the wild and amazing world of dropshipping and subscribe to a youtube channel so that you can always stay updated on all of the cool videos like this one and much more valuable information for you guys to go and grow and succeed with your e-commerce online business so until the next video guys bye bye


Well, welcome, everyone. We are live at the Founders' Tavern here at the San Homestead Museum. We welcome you to our third Sunday of the month lecture for the month of May. Today's talk is entitled, Ethan Allen, Boom, Crockett and Other Contemporary Frontiersmen. And our speaker is Don Miller. As I said, he was sitting right next to me here. Before we begin, I would like to thank the following businesses for their financial support, AARP Vermont, Vermont Humanities, BurlingtonCars.com, 802 Cars and Home Light Investment. So just a few words about our speaker. Don Miller is an active student of history, past president of the Bennington Historical Society and currently a board member of the Vermont Historical Society. His presentation today will focus on three well-known folk heroes. What do these contemporaries have in common? How are they different? What role does Allen, our folk hero, play in our Vermont story? And by the way, there will be a question and answer period at the end of this talk. So please participate. And at this time, I will turn this over to our speaker, Don. Thank you. I'll expand the title a little bit, the more complete, Ethan Allen. Folks of Frontiersman, Folk Hero, Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, and other contemporaries. My intent is to look at these people and in the light of real people. I don't think we give Ethan Allen enough credit. I think he deserves a lot of credit and I think he can hold his own with the Daniel Boone, the Davy Crocketts. And I'd like to see us do a better job in the state of Vermont at promoting him. You know, that's where I come from. Frontiersman, Folk Hero, contemporaries. Frontiersman first. I define that as somebody who's born and raised in one or more states then moves to a state that is under development, that has not been a state. It's one of those no supermarkets, no home depots, you're on your own. Folk Hero, these are real people, not all Bunions. These are people who went into those frontiers, made decisions, they weren't always right. They weren't always great decisions, but they were real people. And sometimes their actions got exaggerated for good or for bad, but they were folk heroes. And we ought to appreciate them for what they did for us. Contemporaries, that's a tough one for Crockett. Allen moved to Vermont in like 1760s and Vermont became the 14th state in 1791. Kentucky became a state in 1792, Tennessee in 96, and Ohio in 1803. So, and these three states had their own frontiersmen, Daniel Boone from Kentucky, Davey Crockett from Tennessee and Simon Kenton, which I hope to be able to get to at the end. And they're all, they all became states within a 12 year period, this was quick. None of them were colonies, they're all developed from the frontier. Crockett, he's the most problematic by my definitions, but he's probably the best known example of a frontiersman we have, according to Walt Disney, let me quote, Davey Crockett was born on a mountain top in Tennessee, greenest state in the land of the free, raised in the woods so he knew every tree, killed him a bar or bear when he was only three, Davey Crockett, Davey Crockett, king of the wild frontier. Well, I think that's slight exaggeration. Born on a mountain top in Tennessee, no, he was born in North Carolina in a part of North Carolina that became Tennessee. So he doesn't meet my definition of being born somewhere else and then moving in to an undeveloped territory. In fact, when he was 10 years old, Tennessee became a state. He was born in 1786 and Tennessee achieved statehood in 1796. So he was, he grew up in what was a state. Doesn't meet my definition of a frontiersman, but was he wrong? No, Disney, that is. Crockett was a frontiersman perhaps with regard to Florida, Alabama and Texas. Florida and Texas both became states 50 years later, 1845. But he was a frontiersman, but not a contemporary not a frontiersman in Tennessee. Maybe we'll have a chance to look at who was. So we want to expand. Okay, so boom, let's go back to boom was, Allen was born in 1734, excuse me, 1738 and boom was born in 1734. So they're only four years apart. Crockett, as I said, was born in 1786, 52 and 58 years later. So he's really a couple of generations behind, but he's still the best known frontiersman. So there's a lot of parallels that we can draw. Crockett was a back woodsman, but he ran for Congress five times in Tennessee. He won three times, which means two times more people voted against him than voted for him. So he wasn't always popular and none of these frontiersmen did everything right and were always popular. Crockett was larger than life like a legend. His maiden speech in Congress gives us a clue. I'm the same David Crockett, you have an advantage. I'm the same David Crockett, fresh from the back woods, half horse, half alligator, a little touched with a snapping turtle, can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, work right upon a streak of lightning and slip without a scratch down a honey locus, can whip my weight in wild cats. And if any gentleman pleases for a $10 bill he may throw in a panther.  Well, Crockett clearly bought into a legend and played it for all it was worth. He went on to tell the congressman that the next time he stood up, he would talk straight talk and he wouldn't be talking legend, but that's part of being a folk hero. Is the legend that grows around the stretch of the imagination. Back to Ethan and I wanna draw these parallels. I believe that Ethan Allen understood the power of legend. As a young man growing up in Connecticut, he took issue with those in authority whether it be the church or local politicians. By the way, if you notice these two photos, this is Ethan Allen here in front of the state house with the right hand up. And this is a picture of David Crockett before he goes to Texas, right hand up in pretty much the same pose. I think that's funny that we didn't have photos from the time, but they all must look alike. Talking about Ethan Allen and how he didn't, he wasn't afraid to challenge authority. And this got him into a lot of trouble. Sophisticus, impromptu wrestling matches. He also found himself in court representing himself and quite often. And his use of the law was sometimes very common.    And so he went to court, argued, but he lost. He lost a number of those battles in the final left Connecticut. But when he came to Vermont, he was 32 years old and he'd learned a hard lesson about fighting legal battles in someone else's court. He learned to play a different game and to create and play the legend. And here we might refer to the 1970, or excuse me, 1770 Ejectment Trials, where he was hired by the settlers of the Vermont grants to defend the Hampshire grant titles. And he went to New York and he found out that Vermonters don't necessarily get a fair play in New York courts. So he came back and formed the Green Mountain Boys. And there he owned his ability to like Crockett, to think and to speak on his feet. He crafted the image of a tough talking tough guy. He was a physically giant man. He was over six, about six foot four, wearing well over 200 pounds. While Boone and Crockett, who were both considered big, were only about five eight. So he was quite large and could play the role of a bully with some effect. Not coincidentally, Ethan could out drink the boys at the tavern. Size is a great advantage when controlling alcohol or the boys. I doubt if he ever lost control, but he learned to manipulate crowds and young men. To his credit, he knew how to appeal to the instincts of the Green Mountain Boys and the Sheriff's bosses. It is significant, I think, that in the five years that he was the leader of the Green Mountain Boys, he, nor they, ever killed anyone. They did a lot of things, burning, running people off, but never killing. And I think this was a controlled thing. He understood escalation, he understood mob psychology and he wouldn't allow the situation to escalate out of control. And I'll give you an example a little bit later. Do it over there. Okay, back to Crockett. Indian fighter, this may well have been one of the biggest exaggerations. His Indian fighting was a little bit sparse, a little bit exaggerated. He was an Andrew Jackson fan, and in 1802, Jackson was appointed Major General of the Tennessee Militia. In 1813, which is also referred to in that, the next stanza of that poem, the Creek War evolved and Jackson called for some volunteers. Well, Crockett volunteered for a 90 day period. He spent most of his time hunting for the Army. He figured his skills were more suited to killing deer than in confronting Indians. He didn't fight the Indians very much. In a year later, the War of 1812 was honest, Jackson was promoted to General in the US Army. And again, he called for Tennessee volunteers. This time, Crockett volunteered for six months. And he went down for three months. He again, served more in the capacity to foraging for food than in fighting the Indians. After three months, he went home and hired a young man. Crockett was only 27, I don't think that's very old. But he hired a young man to go back and serve out the remaining three months of his commitment. So I don't think Ethan Allen would have done that. I think he would have taken it all the way. And from there, Crockett became kind of a legislator. He was more of a statesman, back woodsman perhaps, but he ran for two terms in the state house. And then five times, as I mentioned, he ran for Congress and he got beat two times. One time, he had voted against the Indian Removal Act. That's the act that created the Trail of Tears, moving the Indians from the southeastern United States out to Oklahoma. It was a law that Andrew Jackson favored and supported and promoted. And Crockett was the only member of the Tennessee Congressional delegation to vote against it. Jackson was popular in Tennessee and Crockett ended up losing that election. Toward the end of that fifth term, and Jackson's term as president was coming to an end, Martin Van Buren was the vice president and it looked like he would gain the nomination and the presidency. And that's when Crockett said, if he's gonna become president, I'm going to Texas. And he did. Martin Van Buren became president and Crockett went to Texas. He left in 11, and this picture is about that time. On November 1st of 35, when Crockett was 49 years old, he heads off to Texas, but he stops along the way. He only had three people that started with him. He stopped in Jackson, Mississippi, picked up another 30 people, stopped in Little Rock, Arkansas. They had big parties and big promotions and then finally in January 14th, he ended up in Nacogotius, Texas, where with 65 men, he took an oath to serve the provincial government of Texas for six months. The other side of that promise was every volunteer would get 4,600 acres of land. I'm not sure that makes you a volunteer, but before he left, his youngest daughter who was like 13 remembered him leaving in Deerskin and with the rifle. And she had the distinct impression that Crockett would be inviting them all, the whole family down to Texas very soon. Well, that didn't work out very well. They were quite outnumbered at the battle of the Alamo. We got to the Alamo in March, I think it was. And the battle of Alamo really only lasted 90 minutes. I mean, they were there for a long time shooting back and forth, but when the final battle came, it was quick and everybody was killed. Okay, let's move on to Boone. Boone is much more of a contemporary, much more of a peer. He was born in the log cabin in Pennsylvania near Redding in 1734. In 1750, his family moved to North Carolina when he was only 16. And he did the obligatory type things for being a frontiersman who wasn't running away from things. Some people moved out into the frontier to run away, but he didn't. He served in the French and Indian war at age 20. He was part of one of the first of the expeditions to Fort Duquesne serving General Braddock with the general. This is the one where Braddock got killed on the way and it was a terrible, terrible loss. The Braddock was buried in the road and covered over so that his body wouldn't be removed and mutilated. But Boone's role as a 20-year-old, he was a teamster and a blacksmith. So he was way in the background. Another young American, 22-year-old George Washington was a colonel in the Virginia militia on that same venture. So, but it was a disaster. And then back along the way, the Cherokee uprising in 1758, Boone participated in that. And then in 1744, which we'll mention again, Dunmore's war, he participated as a messenger. The Dunmore's war was not much of a war, it was like one battle, half-baked battle. But that was an important battle out there because it's when the Shawnee gave up their rights to Kentucky and agreed, they always used Kentucky just as a hunting land and they lived in Ohio, but they agreed to stay in Ohio and not to challenge the Kentuckians further after 1774. That didn't really hold that there were still Indians on the prow committing all kinds of problems. Now, during this time period, Boone was in his 20s and he was an active hunter and trapper. That's how he made living to support his family. He had quite a large family and he supported them by hunting and trapping. This is what you expect of a frontiersman. He actually didn't make his first trips into Kentucky until 1767 and when he went with his brother, Squire, and then his third trips were in 68 and 69. The 69 trip, that was a two-year trip. He took five gentlemen with him and that's what this picture here shows, probably. And I think this was the first year orvis that don't have a wide range of garb. They're all dressed the same, right? So anyway, I'm sure that's what it was. Now, Kentucky developed a little bit slower than Vermont. Vermont was first settled by the Europeans in 1761. David Robinson and Jedediah Dewey down in Bennington and it developed fairly quickly. Because of the Indians, Kentucky was a little bit slower. We had the Dunmores War in 74 and in 75, Richard Henderson bought the Cherokee rights to Kentucky. Henderson didn't have any right to buy them or Cherokee didn't have any right to sell them but that's what happened. Things happened that weren't quite right, didn't make sense, but those are important steps in clearing the way to settlement. So in 1773-ish, Boone was part of the first group of British colonists that settled in Kentucky. He wasn't the leader, but he was one of the group. And then in 1775, he moved into Kentucky and created Boonesboro about the same time as Harrisburg right nearby was built. These were dated communities, they were forts. And because of the, even then there's still Indian threat and that's what they had to do. And it was actually the year two before that, 1774, that Boone started cutting the way through the wilderness gap. I guess you can find the wilderness gap, no big deal. And so they're just moving, they're really starting to move in in the 75. And in 76, something interesting happened, there's a wilderness gap. And if we go on to the next slide, what happened in 76 was that his daughter and two other girls were captured by the Indians outside of Boonesboro. And Boone followed them, took them two days to catch up and rescue them. It was one of the most important stories in Boone legend. And some say, I believe it's probably correct that James Centimore Hooper fashioned that story into the last of the Moheagans. You know, there's quite a bit different fact line, but nonetheless, he presumably used that as an example and inspiration in writing the book. Now, a couple of years later, oh, that's not unusual. Again, drawing parallels, Ethan Allen's family got captured in Vermont. The bad guys were called Yorkers. And in 1772, his cousin, remember Baker, was captured by the Yorkers. They came in in the early morning hours, broke into the house with swords, cut up his wife, cut him up, took him out and this was in March.  The Green Mountain boys got right on the trail and within 24 hours or a little more, they caught up and rescued Baker and brought him back. So it didn't matter where the frontier was, you either had Indians capturing your family or the Yorkers. And I suggest that's one of the places where Ethan Allen showed his medal. He did not escalate. This was continually escalating. You had the ejectment trials, you had the Breckenridge standoff in 71 where the Yorkers tried to kick James Breckenridge off his farm, then the Yorkers put a bounty on the heads of the Green Mountain boys. Remember Baker was one of the captains of the Green Mountain boys and they picked Baker to deliver a message. And breaking into the house with sword and drawing blood, that was an escalation. Ethan Allen never let it, he could have easily escalated and blood for blood, but he didn't. I believe he put the escalation to rest and held it down for the next three or four years while the Green Mountain boys were dealing with the Yorkers. Okay, moving forward. In 1778, Goon led 30 men on a mission to get salt. This is up in the Licking River north part of Kentucky. Getting salt was important for preservation of food and things like that. So he took a work party of 30 some people. While he was out getting meat for the work party, he got captured by Blackfish warriors, large band much bigger than the 30 and Goon did a couple of things. He said, don't attack my 30 guys, you'll massacre them, we'll give up, we'll surrender, you can take us back to Ohio. And then he convinced the Indians not to march on Goonsboro and he said, we will make them, we will surrender them in the summer. Whoa. So the Indians bought that. The 30 guys were taken captive. The council that Shawnee council voted not to kill them to spare their lives. Daniel Goon ran the gauntlet, which is a traditional type of thing, two lines of Indians a quarter mile long with sticks and clubs and run the guy down and beat him up. And then he was adopted by the Shawnee. These are two things that happened to others along the way. Then in the summer, this was in January, in the summer of 78, Goon got to win that Black chief was now ready to attack Goonsboro and he was gonna go forward. Goon escaped and traveled the 160 miles and five days on a horse until the horse collapsed and then he finished up on foot. And he got there in time to prepare Goonsboro and defend and in September, Blackfish came and there was a 10 day siege and that was repelled. So he saved Goonsboro, but some of the men were not happy. Ben Logan and Richard Callahan names that you see in Ohio history and Kentucky history. They thought that Goon enjoyed the Shawnee too much, that he'd been a traitor, that he shouldn't have given up the men and offered to surrender Goonsboro. And so they brought a court martial against Goon. Goon was found innocent, but the point is he was heavily criticized and considered a traitor by some. And I would draw another parallel if you think of the Halderman negotiations where, how do we describe that real quick? Allen had been captive by the British, but released in 78 so it's a little bit often time, but the idea is the same. Every year the people went to Philadelphia to become a part of and gain acceptance with the Continental Congress. New York put the veto to that every time. New York considered Vermont part of New York. They would not give in and allow Vermont to become an independent state, which is what led to Vermont becoming an independent Republican in 1777, which it was until 1791. And, but during that time the Vermont people felt threatened by New York governor with troops they felt threatened by the British who might come back down to Saratoga area and come in. And so they were becoming more and more isolated and they need not only were they threatened, they needed trade partners. And so the idea of perhaps developing trade with Britain and some thought of rejoining the British empire. And this didn't go well obviously with a lot of people who were critical of what Ethan Allen was doing. And it was not well known at the time there's more, a lot of been written about it, a lot of speculation, no one knows. My point is that the frontiersmen made decisions and they had to make fast decisions and the decisions weren't always right. What do we know? Maybe Ethan Allen was hoping that by threatening Miley or however, going back to England, then maybe Congress would give in and let them become members of the Continental Congress or who knows? I suspect that it was really just negotiation and positioning in when Cornwallis lost in 1781 at Jamestown, then the whole idea of getting back together with England would put on the back burner. And I think that's a clue, not definitively, but a clue that Allen was just using it as a negotiating tool with Congress. Okay, moving along, finishing up Boone. He was quite of a land speculator. After this time period, a lot of the land deals he made went sour. At one point he was doing quite well, he had seven slaves. He was a militia colonel, a sheriff, a county coroner and even elected to the Virginia State Assembly before Kentucky was made a state in 1792. So he was in great favor for a long time, but he was losing his eyesight and other things. And eventually, all of this financial world fell apart, started falling around his ears. And in 1799, he moved to Missouri where he lived the last 20 years of his life. And he always promised or hoped that he could pay off his debts, but he never fully paid off all the debts he had back in Kentucky. So the rise and fall of our heroes. Now, let me move forward to Simon Kenton. Let's see if we get another picture. This is Simon Kenton. He's from Ohio and he is a contemporary. He was born in 1755 in Virginia. So he's like 17 years younger than Ethan Allen, but he got to Kentucky in 1771 at the age of 16. Why? Well, he was kind of running away. I mentioned some people ran away. He got into a fight with an older gentleman over a girl who went to a dance or something. It was a knockdown drag out fight. And when Kenton woke up, he couldn't find the guy thought he killed him. So he got scared and ran to Kentucky from I think he was living in Virginia at the time. 16 years old with carrying nothing but what he had on his back. He got a temporary job, got a rifle, got a little grub steak and then went on to Kentucky in 1771. This was early in Kentucky's development. And he pretty much spent most of the time by himself along the northern edge of Kentucky along the Ohio River where other people coming down the Ohio River, he would serve as a scout or a guide. He'd say, don't go to Ohio, that's bad. Come over here in Kentucky, hide here, whatever. And in 1775, once Boonesboro was set up, he actually went and lived in Boonesboro for a while and befriended Daniel Boone. And in fact, in 1775 he was credited with saving Boone's life. Boone and he were outside the gates, outside the fence, they were attacked by Indians. Boone was shot in the ankle and Indian was hovering over him, ready to scalp him. And Simon Kenton came up, shot the Indian, clubbed another one, picked up Daniel Boone and then dodging and darting, carried him back into the fort. Kenton was a big guy. He was about as big as Ethan Allen, six foot three or four, well over 200 pounds. So he was a huge giant of a man. He, all the Indians respect him for his fighting, his riflemanship. He might have been the best technical frontiersman of the group in terms of the skills, the hunting and the fighting. And he himself in 1788 was captured by the Indians, just like Boone, and he had to run the gauntlet. But because he was such a famous white man, a spur in the side of the Indians, they took them around to nine Indian villages and made them run the gauntlet in every one. He had to run the gauntlet nine times. Even Boone only had to run it once. And he ended up with some broken bones and things like that, but he survived, quite remarkable. And he was later adopted. He was soon adopted as well, like Boone. He was adopted by the Indians. And then later on, he was exchanged in Detroit on a prisoner exchange. Okay, so during this time period, he got to see Ohio and Ohio itself was a later, even later than Kentucky to develop in large part because of those Indians, the Shawnee and others. The Indian's question didn't really get settled until like 1794 when Matt Anthony Wayne beat a large group of Indians at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. And then in 1795, the Treaty of Greenville was signed by virtually all the major Indian groups. And Greenville was on the Indiana-Ohio border, 1795. And so after that, it was deemed safe to settle in Ohio. And Tenton was one of the first to take his family and settle in Ohio. And he did one of the things he should have known better. He bought a huge amount of land from the Indians. The Indians didn't own it. They knew they didn't own it. Tenton didn't have the right to buy it, just like Henderson and others in Kentucky. He was a laughing stock from the get-go. However much he paid, probably pretty much bankrupt. The part of Ohio he settled, Columbus is in the middle of the state. Dayton is about halfway to Indianapolis. In between Dayton and Columbus is where Springfield, Ohio and Urbana, Ohio. And that's the general area that Tenton lived in. There's a town named Tenton near there. And today is a big name. The Boy Scout Council is named after him, the Simon Tenton Boy Scout Council. So where's that thing? One quickie story, I think, to show his character that he was different. His nemesis, the big Indian chief was Tecumseh. Tecumseh was at the Treaty of Greenville, but it was a young buck and he didn't want to go along. And so Tecumseh was the last Indian to raise a huge confederation of other tribes. He tried to recruit Indians all the way down to Georgia, Florida, and his headquarters was up on the Tippie Canoe River at the Prophet Town. His brother was the Prophet and he took care of the town while Tecumseh was away. When Tecumseh left Prophet Town, he said, don't engage William Tecumseh. Don't, Henry Harrison, don't engage him in war. Harrison was the governor, the military governor of Indiana. The Prophet messed up, they got into a war. Harrison wiped out Tippie Canoe's village and that put an end really to Tecumseh's confederation. Confederation that was 1811, a year later in the War of 1812, Tecumseh supported the British in a battle up at the Battle of Thames up near Toronto. Tecumseh was killed on the battlefield. Simon Kenton at the age of 57 was a scout and a militia leader for the Patriots. When Tecumseh was killed, the two respected each other, they asked Kenton to go out and identify Tecumseh.  And so the people mutilated the bodies around the other Indian and Tecumseh was not mutilated. So Tecumseh and Kenton both stood up for treating the enemy right. You don't mutilate dead people. You don't humiliate your captains. And that night, the Chawney came in, removed Tecumseh from the battlefield and gave him a decent burial and nobody knows where today. Okay, it's gonna move real quick now. So we've gone through Boone, Crockett, Kenton and Kenton and Boone were the real contemporary frontiersmen to Allen. So in Tennessee, what was there? There wasn't any one person, but if we go to James Robertson next slide, this is a looking young man. He's only born in 1742. So he's only four years younger than Ethan Allen and he was born in Virginia, moved to North Carolina. So he fits the definition of frontiersmen. He had limited education, but he was great at tracking and hunting animals, what you expect of a frontierman. And his claim to fame, well, he was on the third trip with Boone into Kentucky. So he was part of that frontiersmen attitude. His claim to fame next slide is that he helped found Nashville, Tennessee. In 1799, he led 100 men overland from Knoxville, 100 miles due west to the site of Nashville and built Fort Nash Borough. That took a while. There was 100 miles over land, pretty much flat land. It was too tough a trip for women and children. So what'd they do? They put the women and children on boats in January. And rafts, and they got stuck in the ice for two months. Now this is the Tennessee River. And if you imagine, Tennessee is a long, thin state, 400 miles up to the top, 350 on the bottom. Memphis, north, south on the river. And over in the east, you've got Knoxville coming down on an angle to Chattanooga, right? It's about 100 miles to Chattanooga and another 100 miles up to Nashville at the triangle. 120 by 100, 100, all right? The Tennessee River goes down to Chattanooga across Alabama Muscle Shoals to Tupelo, Mississippi. Then it goes up north through Tennessee, through Kentucky and dumps into the Ohio River above the Dupa. There, the river is coming down to the Mississippi, the Ohio, right? So they've got to pull or sail, you can't paddle upstream, up the Ohio River about 50 miles to get to the mouth of the Cumberland River, which goes to Nashville. Well, then it's like 150 miles upstream there. So a year and a quarter later, the women show up, some of them. And there was no telegraph, no telephone, no communication. I don't know if the men ever expected them to show up, but they got stuck in the ice for two months. They got attacked by Indians. They got smallpox and it took a year and a quarter. But remember, 120 miles across flat land was too tough for the women. So that's his claim to fame, the next photo, the next photo actually shows the guy who was with the women and was Don Donaldson. If you're in Nashville, Donaldsonville is Donaldson, is a Northwest or Northeast of Columbia, or national. So that's the real, that's, I'm gonna mention one other, that's the real frontiersman in the group, but he didn't do anything spectacular enough to be well known enough to compete with Boone or Ethan Allen or even Simon Kenton. That was his one claim to fame. Then the last guy I wanna mention from Tennessee is Jack Sevier or John Sevier, and he's up here next. He was more of a military man, more of a Tom Chittenden type. He was born in 45, so he's still in the right age group. And he was a frontiersman in that he was born in Virginia and moved to East Tennessee. So he moved, he went in, but he spent a lot of time in the military, not really on the frontier, that the support group when you're in the military. And he was involved with things like Cherokee Lord Dunman's War and the American Revolution. He served in the American Revolution. And then after the war in 1784, the settlers there revolted against North Carolina. Again, it was not a state yet. So Tennessee, the Western part of Tennessee, North Carolina was what became Tennessee. He led a revolt and created a separate state of Franklin. Like Vermont created a republic, right? It lasted for 17 years. So down there, they created a state that collapsed after six years, after four years. And this guy was the first governor. The only governor of the state of Franklin. And people got so mad at him, he fled after four years. Well, in 1790, when the state of Franklin was totally dissolved, North Carolina gave to the federal government the land of Tennessee, un-appropriated. And this guy led the settlement of Tennessee and became the first governor of Tennessee for 12 out of the first 14 years. 1796, he became governor. And for 12 out of the next 14 years, he served as governor before going into Congress and he served in Congress about five years and then died. So every state was a little bit different. And so this was a big guy, but nobody really cares about him. Today, there's a town in East Tennessee named Severeville. And that's known as the birthplace of Dolly Parton. So I mean, that's the best he could do. So I think with that, let me kind of conclude by saying again, my theme is to say that Ethan Allen could hold his own with Daniel Boone, Crockett, Simon Kenton. They were all different. They all were into new country making decisions and what they did. If they didn't do it, when would they have come to states? The statehood was in part dependent upon the frontiersmen to go and clear the land and establish communities where there weren't any. And I think we should do more to promote Ethan Allen in the same light that Boone, Crockett, and in Ohio, Kenton gets a lot of recognition. So I would take the questions at this point. Crammed a lot in. So feel free if you are here in the room with us. So obviously you can ask a question around. If you wanna ask a question and you're watching on Zoom, please make sure you unmute yourself and we would certainly like to hear from you. We'll start with the question right here in the tab. You're from Bennington. Yes. Ethan Allen, is that tabber still? What would be the question? Cram and Bennington were Ethan Allen sat there and saw us attack in Fort Spectrum. Right. The question is in Bennington, there was a famous tavern which was at headquarters for the Green Mountain Boys and that tavern is what's called the Catamount Tavern or Bayes Tavern, different things. Green Mountain Tavern. The question is it still there? No, there's a marker. There's a house set back off the foundation. But that indeed is a very, very well-known place in Bennington. Not only was it the headquarters for the Green Mountain Boys and as you mentioned, it's where the Green Mountain Boys or Ethan Allen plan, the attack on Fort Ticonderoga. Oh, I missed a story about that. The first victory, true. It was actually, it got Ethan Allen into a little bit of trouble talking about it in trouble because the first Continental Congress met in 74 and adjourned in November, I guess it was. The last thing they did is said, well, things are a little bit rough, but don't anybody attack the British? Well, you fast forward in spring of 75, you had conquered in Lexington, the things changed a little bit. Ethan Allen wasn't the only one thinking about it. Massachusetts and Connecticut legislators and governors were thinking about it. Benedict Arnold was authorized by the Massachusetts to lead a group, but Ethan Allen is the one who actually did it and that was the first victory. After the victory, Allen got a very nasty letter from Second Continental Congress, which met on the same day, May 10th was the first day of Second Continental Congress, the same day that they stormed Fort Ticonderoga. You got a nasty letter from Congress saying, what'd you do, be prepared to give it all back. He went down with Seth Warner to Philadelphia to the Capitol, arrived in June, and a couple of things that happened in the meantime. Battle of Bunker Hill and George Washington was named the commander in chief of an army that didn't exist. And so by the time he got down there to tell the story, Congress's attitude had actually changed. The story I meant to miss was, see, Crockett, you can wonder about his military judgment of going to the Alamo. Well, I think circumstances, you couldn't always predict the circumstances. It changed, they were a huge outnumber. Did he really believe that he would become a hero, save the Alamo? I don't know, became obvious he couldn't. Did he really think he was gonna come back or bring his family to Texas? I don't know. I'd ask the same question of Ethan Allen when he made the military misjudgment of attacking or getting ready to attack Montreal after Ticonderoma. General Montgomery was headed up there, the Northern Army of the Continental Forces headed up, and he employed Allen to be a scout, go scout and recruit men to fight on our side. So he recruited like 200 people, Canadians, but Montgomery got stuck at Fort John on the River and 200 Canadians must have been wondering, are you kidding me? Is anybody coming? Is this really gonna, how long can you hold 200 people off their homeland as a group waiting to attack? Besides that, and this is a lot of, I think mystery unknown or hard, he may have expected 200 other men from John Brown to participate and he may have expected 500 men from inside Montreal that would give him a total about 900 or 1,000 people to attack Montreal which was only defended by 100 people. That's 10 times as many people as he had working for him at Fort Ticonderoma, defended by only two times as much. So the numbers arguably, if they were right, were on his side. So was it foolishness or were some of that misinformation? Was the circumstances change? He ended up being captured with 30, same number as Daniel Boone got captured by the Indians at the Lick. Now again, the parallels are amazing. So when the people got wind of the fact that Ethan Allen was there with, and they came out of Montreal and the Canadians disappeared very quickly. It left Ethan Allen standing with 34 men on the bank of a river that they weren't gonna cross and they were captured. So again, another parallel question, was it military misjudgment or did circumstances change? I won't answer that. Okay, another question? I'll ask you one. Growing up, I think we knew or heard and admired David Crockett more than any of the other people you mentioned. I'm wondering if part of that was due to the fact that Crockett's the only one who died in battle of the six that you mentioned. You were also, was it Walt Disney? Boone lived until 1920, and, huh? Hollywood. Hollywood, the quick answer to the question is yeah, absolutely, it was Walt Disney and made Crockett very famous with that ditty. And when we were all young, we had coon skin caps and rifles and we were Crockett-type then. And a lot of that, it wasn't totally Disney in 1831, there was a biography of Crockett that went overboard with the legend and exaggerated. And, but that's what happens with heroes. Sometimes the stories stretch and sometimes they go beyond reality. And that's okay, but we ought to look at the people as real people with faults and then figure out what did they do and where will they be without them? Allen arguably was very, very critical in the entire development of Vermont, even though he was active only from like, let's say 1770 when he defended the Hampshire grants with the ejectment trials up till what he died in like 1789 was it? So that's 17 years and he was not the big kingpin of the Republic. Thomas Chittenden was really the boss, but he was there. And I don't think you can underestimate the control that he brought to the 1770, 1775 period until the attack on Fort Ticonderoga. Up until then the Green Mountain boys set the tone and I'd say Ethan Allen prevented it from escalating to bloodshed. He had a way of scaring people off and somebody said, the sheriff was scared to the death of him. Well, wait a minute. If the sheriff isn't scared to the death of him, it ain't gonna be effective. To be a really good bully, you have to be convincing. It might have been criticized but it didn't take so much effort. It didn't take so much effort. Right, the point, and we're probably at the end, but the final point raised here or a good point another important part of Fort Ticonderoga was the capturing of the cannon, which was part of the planning going in, but it was General Knox who took those. Wasn't it General? He was what? Bookseller, he lost. Oh, Bookseller, okay. At that point he was not a general. Knoxville Tennessee's attack was at Fort Ticonderoga. Right, right, right. But he's the one that took the cannon from Ticonderoga, took it down somewhere along, like where- In the middle of the winter, the oxen- Yeah, in the middle of the winter, on oxen across the Berkshires, amazing. And when they delivered those cannon onto Dorchester Heights, Washington was there, perimeter was covered. They were looking down on Boston and that's when the Redcoats evacuated Boston. Thank you for changing the amount of loss. Yeah, and in Boston today, evacuation day is still celebrated, probably the only place it is, but that was because of Fort Ticonderoga. Don't forget. All right, thank you, Donald. I think we're not gonna take a vote as to who is our favorite frontiersman, but I would put in a plug for Ethan Allen in terms of his writings. I don't believe these other five people wrote anything as interesting as Ethan's narrative or his reason, the only oracle of man. So if you haven't read those, I would encourage you to do that. We do have them commercial, commercial. We do have them here at Ethan at Homestead for sale. So thank you for joining us. For those of you that are live, this is being recorded and other folks will be able to watch this program at a future time. We are still planning our talk for next month. We have a couple of people who are in line and we are just gonna finalize the dates with those. But again, it will be the third Sunday of the month in June. If you are not a member of Ethan Allen Homestead, I would suggest you consider joining us. Go on to the website and all the information there on how you can become a member of the Ethan Allen Homestead. So thank you for joining us and thank you, Don, for, Don came all the way up from Bennington to be with us today. So, and his wife. So we appreciate their visit with us today. So take care, folks. Goodbye.


This is Witchspace News for Friday the 20th of August 2021, I'm CMDR Buur. In Elite Dangerous News this week, there's mining equipment rewards in this week's community goal with some excellent guides to aid in your exploration endeavours, Frontier Teases Twitch Drop exclusive paint jobs and Frontier wants your cockpit lighting observations in a new focused feedback request and more. To make sure you don't miss any of our videos hit like and subscribe, remember to click the little bell icon and select all notifications and to further help directly support this channel you can also join our Patreon via the link in the video description. A new community goal launch this week that pits two rival mineral extraction companies against one another to see who wins the rights to establish a new starport in the permit-controlled system of LTT 198. The rival companies of Torval Mustopoulos and the Recon Corporation are both asking for deliveries of mined, not stolen or purchased, silver, galite, coltan and preciodimium and you don't want to know how many times I had to practice that word. In return, the winning corporation will be granted the right to establish a permanent starport in the LTT 198 system. By the systems enduring overlords, the imaginatively named LTT 198 state limited. See what they did there? I'm betting that name was agreed upon at the end of a long Friday afternoon meeting right as the LTT 198 NAG's head public bar was opening for business. For your contributions you won't be excluded from the handouts either as well as the usual cash rewards each faction is offering a permanent system permit and a piece of pre-engineered mining equipment. Ship deliveries to Torval Mustopoulos in sufficient quantities and you'll be granted a fully engineered Class 1 derated mining laser with long range. Deliver to the Recon Corporation and you'll get a Class 1 derated abrasion blaster with long range. For the full details see the community goal in the InShip Galnet newsfeed. There's a community driven 24 hour elite aid themed live stream taking place on the 4th of September to help raise funds to aid in the relief of those affected by the devastating recent floods in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands which has caused dozens of deaths and destroyed the homes and businesses of thousands of people. Money raised will be donated to the Western Europe Flood Relief Fund who will continue to invest in long term recovery efforts once the period of initial disaster relief is over. Links to the just giving page and the Elite Aid Discord are in the video description below. Two guides to aid in the exploration gameplay portion of Elite Dangerous Odyssey emerged this week both concerning the search for points of interest on planetary surfaces. The planetary exploration loop changed significantly with the launch of Odyssey whereas in the Horizons era a planet would have clearly targetable pinpoint points of interest to visit, planet surfaces in Odyssey are now littered with life and geology in planetary wide zones that extend for thousands of miles. We covered some of the details in our review of Odyssey's exploration component which you can find linked on screen now but the two examples we're highlighting today are presented in the form of useful tutorials both of which are worth bookmarking. First up Commander Exorcist produced an excellent step by step video guide to seeking out active geological structures following both the theory and method from supercruise upon entering a system through to using the new interface on the detailed surface scanner all the way down to skimming the surface looking for activity. While you're there remember to drop a subscribe on the good commander he produces consistently excellent exploration videos plus you'll never be far from his silky texas tones. The second half of this segment concerns the search for Odyssey's many new surface life sides and for that the consistently omnipresent canon research has you well and truly covered with an excellent newly published guide to scanning for organics. The guide covers the equipment you'll need third party add-ons you might want to consider as well as detailed descriptions of the method and practice backed up with video examples all in all very thorough but still presented with cannons customary rye smile you'll find both tutorials as always linked below. Frontier reached out to the community for some more focused feedback on Odyssey's lighting this week for this round they're asking for specific details and commander observations with regard to the in cockpit brightness these focused feedback requests have proven extremely effective for both the community and frontier in getting detailed and indeed focused information across to the developers about specific issues problems or features previous focus feedbacks have engaged with the community with subjects as varied as the camera suite and combat bond payouts and have all resulted in meaningful progress in the game so if you have specific thoughts on any cockpit brightness issues do use this opportunity to make sure you get your voice heard I've linked to the forum thread below on the regular Thursday gameplay livestream this week when answering the now customary question about twitch drops Zach and Bruce made mention that the community team at frontier is currently working on a series of new twitch exclusive community paint jobs that rather than being freebies from the frontier store as with previous drops will be exclusive to those that attend the live streams on twitch in case you're unaware twitch drops is a system whereby you can earn free in-game items or rewards just by tuning into a twitch live stream that has them enabled companies frontier included use the system to draw in extra eyes and ears when they have information that is particularly important or significant that they wish to impart to the audience it's frequently used for new content or feature announcements etc in order to bag the drops all you need do is create a twitch account link it to your frontier account tune into a twitch drop enabled live stream learn some stuff about the game and earn a free thing in fact we publicize the streams on this very channel whenever we hear about them so make sure you're subscribed and you won't miss out whilst no specific details were given the team did say that the twitch exclusive paint jobs could be tied to things like seasonal holidays and narrative events etc if and when we know any more about them we'll let you know right here so will you be using the guides from commander exorcist or canon research are you participating in the mining cg do you think the tools being authored are worth grabbing and if not what would you like to see instead we'd love to hear from you in the comments below that's it for now thanks very much for watching we'll be back later this week with more videos until then oh seven commanders follow the greens on the way out and do keep clear of the toast rack we very much look forward to seeing you next time


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I believe that with certain circumstances that we face in modern tendencies of research and science and privacy there is more pressure, I would say, when it comes to science and conducting research and gathering information because it's a new field and probably not all boundaries are established well. I kind of think that does apply. I've heard in the past that many people who don't treat their science ethically it's because they're chasing the limelight in scientific publications searching for, you know, the spotlight when it comes to that and I think universities kind of endorse it as well because obviously they'd wanted to, it's publicity for themselves and I think universities have a responsibility to kind of step away from that want to be noticed more than, you know, having proper science. I believe yes. University has certain responsibility because it's a large institution it has a lot of fantastic extraordinary professors and researchers and specialists and it provides facilities and when you provide facilities I believe it's worth establishing certain boundaries for quality assurance and privacy I guess. No, I especially think that's necessary because I've worked with data and it's just like if you need to trust just on one person we're university students, me especially, I want to found out myself so maybe I want to redo what he has been done to check if his results are valid. So I think it should be available. I believe that the data certainly has to be made available so a well educated or a person that has general interest in the matter can check the data and come up with conclusions for himself and not just trust the conclusion of somebody else because it can easily be biased. They have to be encouraged to publish as much as possible. The more research we make, not just in the Tilburg University, not just in the Netherlands in the world the more knowledge we will be available for the common people So I think that really good based research is necessary as much as we can. No, I don't think. I think we should look at quality. You can spend four or five years for one research to have a better quality instead of short term papers that doesn't make any sense so I think quality is more important than the amount of publication. I think in a perfect world that would be great but I do know that it's much more complicated than just saying someone else could test it and you can go. I think there's much more involved than what's really presenting itself now things like time, effort. So I think it should be a balance between what is ethical and what is achievable. If a researcher were to take up, let's say, a research topic I think he or she should consider his ability, his or her abilities to display data, to calculate data and if that researcher doesn't possess these abilities or skills then I think he or she should maybe change the research topic but on the other hand if you say you were to leave the data to some maybe other people who are more specialized in statistics that could work. Depending on the result that they want to have it wouldn't be a bad idea to leave the statistics analysis to a master like to a person that really have a domain on that area.


Hi everybody! It's Sandy. Welcome to my YouTube channel. Today I'm going to talk about coloring giraffes plus the hex chart and Misty Magic. I have the Misty out ready to do this W plus 9 stamp set called Party Animal. It's pardon the fireworks out there and I have some labeling tape with a couple masks already cut out of it. Didn't even cut them all the way out. Just cut out the parts that I needed and my Misty is divided into quadrants to make a multiple image scene out of a bunch of the different stamps. I've been doing this for kits a lot and it's really worked great so I can go back and redo a page of my kits after I've already finished something. If I get my count wrong and I leave these in place I can go and add a couple to the count before I take all the stamps off and I thought it would work really great for this image as well because I wanted to stamp it and create this scene but also makes them for watercolor paper and I wanted to show you how I did this so here this is one of the joys of the Misty. My sentiment didn't ink up really well so I just re-stamp it in the same place and next this is the magic I started figuring out because if you turn upside down you get another quadrant to work with and I wanted that little half circle so I put tape on the other side of the plastic and that tells me to only ink up to that line and then I get the half circle and then I peel off my little masks and it's done and ready to go. This is by the way on some cream colored cardstock from Nina and that's gonna play into how this thing comes out later. This is watercolor cardstock because I'm going to also do a clean color version for my patrons. My patrons over on patreon.com slash sandy all knock get a special video each month and they're going to get to see this one colored with the clean color pens just for fun. So here is the watercolor one so again all I have to do is peel off my masks by the boom by the bing I've got another one so hopefully that is a helpful trick for you when you do your multiple stamping like that. So I've got my hex chart out if you don't know about the hex chart there's a link in the description and I'm trying to find colors that match this little giraffe that I found on my phone so I'm gonna kind of stay in the colors that are that I'm seeing in there a little bit yellowish a little bit reddish but not quite a supernatural brown but a little warmer than that and trying to pick out which colors I'm going to use. So I'm gonna start with the lightest of the colors that I chose which is the E97 and I'm gonna color in all of the spots on both of my little giraffes and by the way I absolutely love this little sentiment that goes with these you lift me up when I'm feeling down because all I could picture was one of these little giraffes picking the other one up or holding him up so our little guy is falling off a rock and leaning on his buddy and that's sometimes what my life feels like is leaning on friends like that and so I started looking at this picture and I realized he's got color all over his whole face so his snout even though in all kinds of cartoons that you see of giraffes the snout would sometimes be colored the the darker color I'm gonna leave it white and I'm gonna color his whole head the the brownish red orangeish colors and I'm gonna let the nose be white but I'm gonna add some dimension to it and now I'm gonna go in and start adding my dimension in the body area with a gray marker I know this is probably freaking some people out like after I colored all this beautiful little orange color what am I doing with the gray but I wanted to establish my shadows first because I've got all that white area in between I want to know where I'm gonna put the shadows on the spots so if I put my shadows across the whole thing first then I can go into it and you'll see me do this in a moment with my spot colors and I can make them more intense so now I've got my E08 which is the color I picked out for my shadows and I'm gonna go into all the ones that are in the darker gray shadow area and then a few other spots choose choice spots that I decided to make the darker color but I'm adding those shadows there since I've already got the gray in there then I know where those shadows are gonna go it's hard when you're looking at a pattern like this to figure out where that shadow is gonna travel down to across his body but it's much easier if you can establish them first so here's my mid-tone color that I had picked the E99 and I'm going to kind of just help that roundness move across the image by making the spots in the middle this E99 and the ones in the highlight area over on the right-hand side down down the right hand side of their bodies are going to be the E97 so the spots are helping to make the whole object look round even though the spots themselves are flat on the body I'm not sure if I'm explaining this right but I certainly hope so because I kind of work through these things in my head and I always hope that I can communicate them in my videos so I'm not coloring the super highlights on the faces because I realized I wanted an even lighter color on the faces and so I'm just finishing out the spots there and I went back to my chart to try to find a color that was going to take that E97 and make it even lighter and that would be like a YR01 would work for that so I decided to pull that marker out and on my chart you could tell that that E97 is much lighter it dries back much lighter than it goes on here but here it's also mixed with other colors so on the chart it's a little challenging sometimes to know exactly what's going to come out of your pen versus what's been on the chart and drying for a while because those colors do tend to soften after a while so I've got the little feetsies colored now and blending all that out and what I decided to do was use my color wheel to figure out what color the bird should be because this color wheel that I made it's I invented this little thing there's a class on my blog if you want to take it and learn how to make this color wheel but I want to use the complementary color so I spin this side around until my stars align I guess because the stars are the ones that represent the opposite colors so if I go to like an orangey color the opposite of that is blue so the complementary color is blue I don't usually use my my little tiny spinning color wheel during my videos because it's kind of very natural to me I know internally that orange and blue are opposites but I thought I would point that out if you can never remember what your color wheel looks like and what colors are opposite what there are lots of online ones that you can go to at any time but you can also make one of these to tuck in your bag it's just a little class that'll show you how to make that you get a PDF download that you can print out and it'll tell you how to assemble it so my little birds are blue and you can tell that they really pop against the orangey brown colors on the card so it's using compliments is a really great way to get that pop now I was looking for a dark color and I went to that E29 because I was looking for something that was not a dead brown I guess and the E29 is one of the most lively of the really dark browns and I after looking at this I'd realize I really wanted to add some real contrast because I wasn't getting enough you know me I like contrast so I'm adding some E29 in a few spots including just making the little antlers whatever they are on our little guy making them the dark color too and then I went to the grayish brown section in order to find colors for the rock and for the ground because I want those to look less alive I guess you might call it there are people that have a rule about trying to have the the warm grays be in live animals and then the cool grays being in dead things and you can apply the same kind of an idea here with browns and the more lively a color that the brighter and more intense the color is the more it might look good on an animal but colors like these will look I guess they'll look like dirt and that's kind of what the intent is here is to make these colors not take over not overpower but I wanted to also use some different markers because now that I have the hex chart I'm using a whole lot more different kinds of markers different kinds of colors than I normally would have because I have my go-to colors the ones that I always use for my animals always use for my rocks and this is really been a fun exercise in expanding what I use as far as my marker colors so I'm coloring my shadows that are coming down from the giraffe because if the light is in that upper right hand corner they're going to go kind of around that rock and here I'm adding the E57 which is a nice dark color and then blending it out with that E55 those are part of a natural blending group so they're going to work really well together on that rock and then I'm going to go down and do the dirt at the bottom and I had gone for the E43 originally for that that dirt at the bottom and I added E44 look at the color difference in just one number sometimes there's a huge color difference in one number and sometimes it's very small it really depends on the colors so you can't solely go by numbers in order to figure that out and here you can see a second coat of the E43 makes it suddenly extremely dark whereas before it was it was much lighter so there's a lot of different things that happen when you layer colors over top of each other so next I got out a Copic multiliner pen and instead of drawing the bottom of the rock in before I started coloring I did it afterward because that allows me to not have to worry about coloring inside the lines that I draw how cool is that I realized that I hadn't drawn any color in between where the two heads are so I kind of snug them together and then I started thinking about what I'm going to do in the background if anything and I wanted it to be pretty simple but it's on this cream colored cardstock and I wanted to find a way to make the giraffes look like their whites are white even though they're cream but look what happens when I start adding just a light light wash of this B00 they start looking white by comparison and you can almost watch it happen as the color appears next to them and a little trick for you as you're coloring something like this on it on a background I started with the coloring right in the lift me up area because if you have any areas where you overlap your colors and the you know you have multiple layers of where your marker started if you do it behind text or something if you have some sort of stamped image there then you can't really see it as well and then again I've used this mini mr. trick before if you get to the point where your blending is not right or you've got little lines in your sky just spritz it really good well not super good but spritz it good with some colorless blender in your mini mr. and you will see that it comes out just gorgeous when it's all finished after that colorless blender dries from the mini mr. it just takes away the harsh look of any of those brush strokes in the sky and I also added a few glossy accents dots to draw some attention to that sentiment so they're kind of bubbling up from the words lift me up put it on a dark brown card base and she's done this is a sneak peek at something the patrons get to see every month I'm going to be doing a patreon only version of one of the cards that's here on YouTube so if you want to see an extra bonus video you're welcome to join us in the patreon family you can click on the link in the description in the annotation in the bottom right or in the info box up in the upper right hand corner which will also take you to my blog where there's lots more information as well so click around any old place and find something else that interests you and I will see you guys again next time I hope you have a really super super day bye bye


Yeah, thanks. My name is Dan Lawrence. I'm talking about securing the supply chain with open source. How many people were at supply chain security con yesterday? Quite a few people. Cool, so this is basically a little bit of a recap summary of that for today. So sorry for going over some old stuff again. I'm going to go kind of quick and then re-show the premiere of Operation Salsa, the video explaining how to secure supply chain with the Salsa framework. So I've been working in open source security for a while. This is a quick before and after picture. This is about when PopsWig was up to date. This is what I looked like at the start of the pandemic and when I started working on open source and supply chain security, and this is a little bit more accurate today. So this has been a long time, and the more you look and the more you worry about supply chain security, the more stuff you find. It's a pretty scary field today. So I'm going to start out just by talking about open source. We've got some numbers here. I'm not going to get too far into it. This is an open source conference. How many people here commit to open source projects? OK, awesome. Pretty much everybody. Then I'm going to talk about some of the problems a little bit and then end with that exciting video. So this is a couple recent surveys from SordaType, VentureBeat, a bunch of other ones. 90 to 98% of all modern organizations are using open source. I think the other 2% are lying or confused or didn't understand the question they filled out. It's impossible to build software today without using open source in some way. The numbers are pretty shocking too, though. This is one or two things everyone is using. 135 software components on average, but depending on the framework, depending on the ecosystem, it's not uncommon to see this go out to the thousands and many thousands. If you've heard the word S-bomb or that phrase throughout a lot, it's about getting all this information tracked in one place. And as you can see, the combinatorics and numbers start to blow up. So this becomes really important really fast. Open source is everywhere. And particularly cloud native, right? Cloud native is built on open source. All the cloud native tools, the landscape that everybody loves to see and watch and make fun of because it grows so much. That's all open source software and it's amazing, the innovation that everyone is doing publicly. But open source has been under attack over the last several years, right? So it's awesome that we've done all this in public and now we need to take time to protect that public good together. Particularly these last couple of years, right? Open source is often funded and worked on by maintainers that do this in their spare time. The Kubernetes release process itself is driven by a couple individuals that do this in their volunteer process. At Kubernetes is one of the most active projects in the world with hundreds of maintainers. But there's still only a few people turning the crank on the release process and actually making sure that the artifacts get out there securely. I'm gonna receive this all over. If the foundations are not strong at the bottom of most open source projects because we're just not paying attention to them. At the same time, these funding issues, the burnout issues, everybody getting tired of responding to things on GitHub, it's becoming more important and more critical. You're starting to see open source supply chain attacks grow like crazy. A couple of surveys had a 430% increase in 2020. There was just another one with a 650% increase from Sona type. And I think the EU predicted a 400% increase next year. So these are happening more and more often. So time to turn it around, time to get motivational. What can we do to help?  Kirsten just mentioned some great ones in this space like State Store, Tact on Chains, the Intodo project, the update framework, all these things in the Linux foundation and different open source foundations. And here in the CNCF as well. A lot of it is putting these pieces together. A lot of it is just taking this seriously and working together as an industry. Thinking about open source security, thinking about supply chain security is the most important first step because that's what led us here. People not thinking about it and not worrying about it. So I have a couple of memes here kind of showing the issue. I have a few versions of this one. So I'll show. Yeah, then this is the reality of things today, right? We've been very comfortable for years building and deploying our modern, brand new, cloud native Kubernetes applications to these amazing, scalable infrastructures. But in a lot of cases, these things are getting built and deployed on Jenkins servers sitting on Mac Minis under somebody's desk. And that's the problem here. Your build system should be at least as secure as the environment that it's deploying things into. If one takeaway, it's treat your build system the same way you do your production environments. Here's another version of it, a little bit more timely from this year and pulling back in the other supply chain metaphor. Yeah, the world's software supply chains and one person underpaid or not paid at all in a lot of these open source cases, trying to fix this on their own. And this is the real issue. To find those people, we need to support them. We need to help them as an industry. So along that theme is a new initiative called the Salsa framework or SLSA.dev. And this is being developed by the open source security foundation, the open SSF, which is a sister foundation to the CNCF.  How can you get started taking these things seriously? How can you get started protecting your build system? It defines levels from one all the way up to four. So if I worried you, if I scared you about open source security to start out here, the Salsa project is here to help. So let me switch over to that and I will end with this awesome video which you can find on YouTube and on Twitter. We'll end this up here. Should it be good? You all know why you're here. Software supply chains all over the world are being hacked and we need to get to the bottom of it. Does everybody remember what Salsa is? Well, we don't have much Salsa in Iowa. I expected more fair day. It's just a dip for chips, right? Come on, Picante, let's get serious. Let me remind you, Salsa is the supply chain levels for software artifacts. It's a framework that you can use to ensure the integrity of your software supply chain. It ranges from levels one through level four and as you go higher in level, the more secure your software supply chain becomes. Today, we're going to use Salsa to figure out why software supply chains all over the world are being breached and we're going to use it to neutralize the threat. Agent Caso, the screen. This is a big problem. As I'm sure you've noticed, supply chain attacks have been increasing in the past few months and we've seen it in the mainstream news. Trillions of dollars have been lost and that's why it is more important than ever to secure your software supply chain. Your supply chain consists of many steps from building your code, testing it to deploying it to production and you may be depending on different environments and using different services as well. That's why it's important to make sure that every step of the supply chain is secure. At every step, you are vulnerable to a different type of attack and that is why you need to take different measures to make sure that your entire chain is safe. Does anybody have any questions? Good. Agent Caso, water. We're under attack. These supply chains aren't going to secure themselves. Let's go. Yeah, so I want to thank Eric, especially back here, he produced these videos Give him a round of applause.