conversation about the renaming of the park. And of course, the initial conversation was just, it sort of engendered itself around just talk. We thought our ACM and Greg, is Greg on with us today, Henry? I don't think, yeah, he's here, he's on. Gregory Tucker's here, yeah. He's on. Hey, Greg. Hey, how are you? Hello. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for being here. Dr. Donaldson, thank you for being here with us and taking time out of your scheduled appointment. Of course, Robin, again, thank you for lending both you and Dr. Donaldson an opportunity to share with us some some insights as it relates to the renaming of the park. Robin, again, thank you. Long time no see. At some point in time, send me something. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. What I'm going to do is sort of turn this over to our ACM, Henry. Go forward. Yes, sir. Thank you. Thank you so much, Mr. Chair, Councilman McDowell, Councilman Duvall, Councilman Davis. Thank you all so much. Thank you to our city manager that's of course with us today. Ms. Wilson, do you want to make any preliminary comments before I proceed? No, go right ahead, Henry. Thank you. Okay. So as we previously discussed, we wanted to bring some subject matter experts to provide some recommendations on the naming of the Bull Street Park. And we also want to allow, as we described earlier, the Hughes Development Corporation to provide some input on this as well. So today we have Dr. Bobby Donaldson with us who is a professor at the University of South Carolina. And he is also the director of the Center for Civil Rights History and Research. And he has been serving at the University of South Carolina for 20 years, which is the best university in the state of South Carolina. Thank you very much, Dr. Donaldson, for being here today. We also have Robin Weitz with us, who is the director of Historic Columbia. Ms. Weitz has been serving as director since 2004 and has been with the organization since 2002. So thank you, Robin, for being here as well. We also have the president of the Hughes Development Corporation with us, Mr. Robbie Hughes. Thank you so much, sir, for being here with us. And what we want to do is we want to allow Dr. Bobby Donaldson as well as Robin Weitz to provide their recommendations to the committee. And then we will follow with some comments by Mr. Hughes as well. So I'm going to turn this over to Dr. Bobby Donaldson to lead us through those recommendations. Well, thank you very much, Henry. And good afternoon, everyone. Robin and I are both excited to offer some commentary. I won't use the word recommendations just yet, but some historical insights. This has been a really revealing assignment for me, Councilor McDowell. I thought I knew a lot about Columbia history. And the more we started digging literally into the records about the Bull Street property, we're reminded that there's much more to uncover and to document. So some of the suggestions and recommendations that we have today, some of them are widely known. I think some of them are not known at all. And I agree with Councilman Duvall that perhaps beyond just naming a space, this affords us a unique opportunity to dig into our history, to revise part of that history, and to literally reconstruct some of the history. And so I'm excited to be a part of this undertaking. Historic Columbia has created a list of recommendations, all of which I support and concur with. After Robin provides some insight about their work, then I'll turn to some additional names that have come to my attention over the last two weeks. So, Mrs. Simons, can I share my screen? Is that doable? All right, let's see. You should be good. You see that? Yes. You see? Okay. All right. So this is the space of which we're speaking. Really an extraordinary space. And as I went there two weeks ago and stood there and looked in every direction, it was very clear to me that this is going to be an extraordinary contribution to the City of Columbia, not only its landscape, but in addition to naming it for an individual or for individuals, I think it will be also a place of contemplation. And so I very much underscore any efforts to use this space as a classroom as well about the history of Columbia. Historic Columbia has delved into their own archives and have looked closely at some appropriate naming opportunities. And so I'll turn it over to Robin Waits, the Executive Director of Historic Columbia to go through that list of recommendations. So Robin. Yeah, thanks. Thanks, Dr. Donaldson. This is a list of six recommendations or options that our staff has pulled together and Dr. Donaldson was kind enough to pull this into a presentation. So I just want to start out with a family that was certainly significant to Columbia. Interestingly, the Bull Street Campus was established on what was formerly the Wallace Plantation and Clarissa and Samuel Thompson were enslaved on that plantation. So there is a connection to the site in terms of some of the early members of that family. But there are also three prominent children of Clarissa and Samuel Thompson who, two of whom have a direct connection to the Bull Street Campus and one of whom was well known in Columbia. The first of those is Samuel Benjamin Thompson. Samuel Thompson was one of four delegates from Richland County elected to the 1868 Constitutional Convention and he subsequently served four terms in the South Carolina House of Representatives. So he's one of our well known Reconstruction Era elected officials. He was simultaneously active in local government serving as Trial Justice City Councilman and Coroner and Samuel Thompson actually served on the Board of Regents for the State Asylum at least briefly as we know in 1873. His brother E.B. Thompson was one of the founders of St. Luke's Episcopal Church. He was an organizer of the city's Emancipation Day and he was also the steward of the asylum for most of Reconstruction and as the steward of the asylum he would have lived on the campus. And then Caroline Thompson Austin who many of you probably recognize that name recently was in the news with the acquisition by Jennifer Clyburn Reed of her home or former home on Jervay Street. Caroline Austin was one of the city's first black business woman. She lived and worked on that property on Jervay Street. And then the daughter of Samuel Benjamin Thompson was Clarissa Thompson Allen and she actually lived just around the corner from the from the campus on Henderson Street. She graduated from the South Carolina State Normal School alongside Celia Dial Saxon so one of the early attendees to the University of South Carolina when was first integrated was Allen taught both at Howard School and Allen University and and is known beyond Columbia for the publication of a series of articles that fictionalized Columbia in 1885 to 1886. So when we look at this this is kind of a family option to recognize the Thompson's and gives us would give us an opportunity to really delve into a variety of narratives around Columbia. You know we we think having an opportunity to talk about the foundation of that campus on on a plantation is very important in terms of the breadth of Columbia's history and highlighting a family that certainly moved beyond enslavement in ways that were quite significant locally as well as on a statewide level and the image that you see on the left is of Clarissa Thompson Allen so this is the the granddaughter of the couple that was born or that was enslaved by the by the Wallace family and the the gravestone um Dr. Donaldson at Randolph. Correct. Is there anything you want to add to that Dr. Donaldson to the Thompson? I'll just say I mean this is a very there are some things about this particular recommendation I did not know and I'll just simply say Clarissa Thompson the granddaughter of these reconstructing figures the daughter uh she leaves Columbia and goes off to a career as a teacher in Texas but as Robin mentioned she becomes a very well-known writer and it is argued that she is one of the very first African-American female novelist in the country whose roots are right here on the Bull Street property. The next individual is Dr. Alonza McLennan and McLennan actually was a nephew of the top of E.B. Thompson so he was a board of E.B. Thompson as a as a young man so when Thompson E.B. Thompson was again the steward at the Bull Street campus so it's very likely that McClellan would have lived on the Bull Street campus as a young man. Dr. McLellan attended Benedict Institute in Columbia. He was later appointed as a legislative page when his uncle Samuel Thompson served in the legislature. He was also the second black midshipman at the United States Naval Academy in 1893 so when the when Annapolis integrated McLennan was was actually one of one of two he attended Howard Law School I'm sorry Howard School of Medicine. He's really better known in Charleston because that's where he ended up practicing and was very involved in the establishment of training for nurses. He established the first black owned pharmacy in Charleston you know one of the one of the recommendations from my staff is that as a Colombian this could be an opportunity to sort of reclaim Dr. McLellan as our own. I think there's also an opportunity as we look at how Robert you might you might and Henry y'all might want to tell this story if the Thompson family is one that is selected certainly Dr. McLellan could be part of that as a as a ward and and family member of the Thompson. The only thing I'll add about Dr. McLellan is just like his cousin Clarissa he also was a student at the University of South Carolina doing the reconstruction time period. The next person is Paige Ellington. Ellington is is best known as a self-taught architect in Columbia. Mr. Ellington was also born enslaved by a Mr. McCully in Columbia. He was actually born in North Carolina and was relocated to South Carolina. His contemporaries both black and white recognize his skill both as a builder and as an architect and it is believed that he was he was actively engaged in design and construction on the Bull Street campus. So there's an article in from 1910 the state that detailed his close partnership with Dr. James W. Babcock and this is just a quote from that article he has assisted Dr. Babcock with all of the new buildings at the state hospital and it will be observed that the towers all differ in appearance. Paige Ellington has through postcards and encyclopedias informed himself upon the detail but the most renowned turrets and steeples and spires and towers in all parts of the world has exhibited not a little taste in fitting designs to new buildings. So again it's it's it's unclear exactly how engaged he was but he certainly was engaged across the Bull Street campus. We're not sure if if he if he was engaged with Babcock but are still trying to kind of find out more information about Mr. Ellington. It certainly is possible that he was part of the the design for for Babcock because it had the same contractor for two of the iterations to the construction periods 1857 to 1858 and 1880 to 1882. I'll say too that Dr. Babcock who's written about Ellington is very clear that the campus would not be the campus that it is without Ellington's support and work on the campus. In addition to being a very skilled laborer, Rick Mason and architect Paige Ellington was also very involved in city politics in Colombia. During the reconstruction era he was a member of the board of health for the city. He served along with Richard T. Green of the first African-American professor at the University of South Carolina. He ran for city council in 91875. He also was an elections manager during the reconstruction period. He is also associated with three historic churches. He was a member of the Washington Street Methodist Church. When the black members of that church broke off to start their own congregation that led to the founding of Bethel AME. He was a part of that congregation and then later became a member of Latsin Presbyterian. It is thought that the building the Latsin current sanctuary on on Sumter Street may have been built by Paige Ellington. So a really extraordinary individual whose story needs to be more widely known. Dr. Donaldson. Yes. And Robin also I have been loaned this book on the asylum doctor and among the things that it says that Paige Ellington built on the on the campus was the the Parker building which I know where that is but it also mentions the Taylor building the Talley building and the North building. Are those buildings still standing? Are they parts of the what we call the Babcock building that was built in 12 stages? I do not know the answer to that. Mr. Deval but can certainly look into that. I don't know if Robert in your words. The only one I know that's still standing is the Parker Annex building. I don't believe there was a Parker original Parker building. I believe that is the building that burned in terms of the Talley building and North building and some of the others. If they existed when we got here I've never even heard of that. We do have a Talley street in honor of the Talley building that stood but I don't know when or where what happened to it. It also says he did the bakery. Robert, isn't the bakery still up? The bakery is where Soco is located. Yes. Okay. And Mr. Deval just so people know you're reading those are the records from Dr. Babcock who's giving him the credit for those construction projects. Right. And it says he was born in 1835. Robin, in case you need another reference. Okay. I think in the Babcock papers which are housed in the South Carolina library there actually is a small autobiography. I think that Ellington dictated to someone that where some of that information is gleaned in the records. Anything else on Mr. Ellington? Dr. J. D. Harris is he was an assistant position at the asylum for much of 1870. This was a really high profile appointment for a black physician at the time. He was actually only there for a year. If that he was he was pushed out of that position soon after he arrived. And he he wrote that the reason for this was solely and purely this is a quote solely and purely because of the prejudices which exist against my color and race. On these terms I can afford to be relieved. On these terms I can afford to suffer both insult and injury. But whether anyone can afford to insult and injure another on account of color is a question which time will determine. So Dr. Harris spent relatively little of his career in South Carolina. But he certainly was a figure of national significance and his decision to come here to work is a really important episode in his life. Dr. Harris of the six recommendations that we have is the only individual who was not enslaved. He was born a free person of color in North Carolina and made the choice to come to South Carolina which is a different situation than the other individuals we'll talk about today. So kind of tangential if you will to the story but the fact that he was here and a system physician in 1870 is an important important thing to keep in mind. So again so Dr. Harris is credited as being the first African-American physician on the Bull Street campus. He was also a Union Army surgeon during the Civil War and also a member of the Freedman's Bureau who enabled him to transition from slavery to freedom in 1865 and 66. Senator Nash's connection to the the campus. He was chair of the asylum board of regents for several years. Like Samuel Thompson Senator Nash was among the four electors from Richland County who attended that 1868 constitutional convention and was one of one of the individuals who made significant contributions to that document. He was elected to the South Carolina Senate in 1868 and served until the end of Reconstruction 1877. Mr. Nash was formerly enslaved by William Campbell Preston who was a president of South Carolina College. He was self-taught like the Thompson brothers but nonetheless became one of the most influential and well-respected politicians in Richland County. He first came to prominence in 1867 after arguing that the city was illegally keeping black taxpayers from accessing the poor house. The Freedman's Bureau sided with Nash although little was ultimately done prior to the massive government changes that began to occur in 1868. So Nash is one of those individuals who I think when we talk about the Reconstruction era is really a key a key figure for South Carolina and does have some connection to the Bull Street campus as from a service on the board of regents. And Senator Nash was probably one of the wealthiest and most influential African Americans in the city during the Reconstruction period. He is actually featured in the new African American History Museum in Washington DC. The Pearson Funeral Home in Columbia today, the founders of the funeral home are the descendants of Senator Nash. He owned a great deal of what is now Arsenal Hill. The Arsenal Hill Presbyterian Church on the corner of that landing and an assembly was actually the site of Senator Nash's home through much of the Reconstruction period and he's also one of the founders of the historic Randolph Cemetery and is buried on that site. The final individual who we have a recommendation for and again because of his association with the campus is Benjamin H. Campbell. He worked at the asylum in the 1880s and perhaps earlier than that before Emancipation Campbell was enslaved by John Crawford who was known to have maintained a greenhouse and avidly pursued horticulture. The Clarkson houses on the corner of Blanding still stands on the corner of Blanding and Bull Street and was known for its landscapes. We don't know a lot about Benjamin Campbell but his story, his engagement in horticulture certainly would provide an opportunity to talk about some of the horticultural therapy that occurred on the campus as well as exploration of the types of plants that were used. So we put the recommendations that we had kind of in some order. Campbell is again an important name to remember not necessarily at the level of the Thompson or McLennan but we wanted to offer him as well. So Robin, so what you've done here if I understand correctly we prioritized the names that you're recommending correct? We did yes. Okay thank you. I think part of that Council McDowell is you know an individual like Senator Nash is such an important figure in Columbia and certainly has a connection to the campus. I think there are going to be opportunities throughout the city to recognize Senator Nash and there may be others who have a have a more direct connection to the campus that that might not make sense in other places in the community. So that that is also part of the consideration in at least those six that we have. I know Dr. Donaldson has some other thoughts. Now the number of buildings that Mr. Batkop I shouldn't say introduce but the number of buildings on the campus that were contributions of Mr. Ellington numbered how many? I don't know that off the top of my head but we can certainly go back and look at that. Okay I think that's in the book that Council McDowell referenced and we can get that to you. Okay what's the name of that book? Asylum Doctor. Asylum by Charles Bryan. And I think I think Dr. Bryan is probably one of the most knowledgeable people about the Bull Street property and knows a great deal about Paige Ellington and can probably give some additional detail about his career and his contributions. Okay thank you. And I'll say to Councilman McDowell those are those are the ordered recommendations of Historic Columbia. I don't challenge or endorse them at the moment. I'm still meditating on this in part because as Councilman D'Vall mentioned somehow or another there was a story in the state newspaper that I think mentioned our names and then it led to a series of phone calls and emails from various people and so I'm just simply reporting to you what was given to me and if I need to make recommendations I'll be glad to do so. So among the additional names that came to our attention is one that's very obvious Dr. Matilda Evans the second African-American woman in South Carolina to receive a license to practice medicine very prominent civic leader already one of the major thoroughfares in the Bull Street campus is named for her. She treated a number of patients or at the time called inmates from the asylum. Her name has come to our attention as well. Another name that has come to our attention who had an association with the Bull Street property was a man named I.S. Levy the original I.S. Levy who was as it says in this flyer the undertaker for the state hospital complex. Mr. Levy in addition to being a prominent businessman was deeply involved in civil rights. One of the founders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference a close advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the real force of the Republican Party in South Carolina for much of the early part of the 20th century. In addition he also had a very prominent business in the historic African-American business corridor on Washington Street. Another name associated with with the Bull Street community is the Reverend James M. Hinton a World War II veteran a very prominent insurance agent in Columbia and for a long period of time the president of the South Carolina NAACP. He was also the pastor of the Second Calvary Baptist Church when it was located on Bull Street and in doing his tenure as pastor of Second Calvary. He was a chaplain for Negro patients in the state of silence both on in Bull Street and also at Crafts what is now Crafts Farrell. He was a very prominent member of the Waverly community and lived on Hyde Street and as best I recall beyond a state marker in front of the site of his home there is very little else about that Chronicles Hinton's contributions in the city. Another minister associated with particularly not necessarily Bull Street but with the Crafts Farrell property is the Reverend C. J. Whitaker. There was a time maybe two generations ago you cannot run for office in Columbia without sitting on his front porch. He was the a real leader in getting out the vote from the Greenview community. If anybody wants to know now why Greenview is such a prominent force in the city it is because of Reverend Whitaker. He was the president of what was called the North Columbia Civic Club which still exists. He was minister in the North Columbia area but he was also an employee of the Crafts Farrell facility as part of the state mental health properties. There is now a street sign that honors Reverend Whitaker in the Greenview community. Another name is obvious is Majesca Monteep Simpkins. There is a great deal in Columbia about her life but Ms. Simpkins was in addition to being a strong civil rights leader a very strong champion of African American public health including mental health and throughout the later part of the 60s she was one of the sharpest critics of the mental health conditions facing African Americans both at the Bull Street property and also at Crafts Farrell. She pushed for the integration of the medical practitioners there. She did this in collaboration with another organization that is not as widely known as her work with the NAACP but it's a name that also came to our attention. Someone said it should be called the Citizens Park for the Richland County Citizens Committee and this was an organization largely of women who joined Ms. Simpkins in both voter registration campaigns challenging the segregation in public schools but also challenging the living conditions of inmates of patients in state mental health properties. One of the more prominent voices in the Citizens Committee was a woman named Ms. Beatrice McKnight who was a later real force in the Urban League. Another name that came to our attention is Dr. Harry Wright who is a graduate of the University of South Carolina, the Wharton School of Business at UPenn and also received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Wright was probably one of the most prominent African American child psychiatrists in the country. He did his early work at the William S. Hall Psychiatric Institute on the Bull Street property. He's also one of the early supporters of what is now the Man Simons Cottage under the stewardship of Historic Columbia. Now ironically John C. Bull, a physician was a graduate of Claflin University and the Meharry School of Medicine. He was a prominent civil rights leader and physician in Spartanburg but he was the first African American member of the State Mental Health Commission appointed I believe in the late 1960s and so he is the first African American member of that organization. So imagine the Bull Street Park, the Bull Park on the Bull Street property named for someone who is certainly very deserving of such recognition. Now I want to conclude with a name that's come up before, a name we would probably never heard of but whose name was Hillard Bell. I spoke this morning to his granddaughter whose name is LaVenia Sims Patterson who's from the Book of Washington Hyatt's community and she has vivid memories of visiting her grandfather Hillard Bell who was the cook on the Bull Street property. His home she said was near the corner of Elmwood, the corner of Hardin and Calhoun in that area not too far from where the park is located. Mrs Patterson, when the Bull Street baseball facility was built, told me that she wrote a letter to City Council and never got a response back and she very much wanted to call the stadium, the arena, the full stadium and she did so because she wanted to recognize not only her grandfather all of the African Americans who lived and worked on the property who were largely overlooked or forgotten and so Hillard Bell would be one of those people recognized in a people's park on the facility and that brings me back to Paige Ellenton. The more I've read about him, the more I'm fascinated and intrigued by him. If Dr. Babcock is right, so much of that space that we now celebrate was a direct result of his labors. I was glad to see his name on the list of Historic Columbia. I think we should give his name serious consideration in part because it's not just about Paige Ellenton. It's about all the largely unknown figures who lived and worked on that property who built it and it caused it to sustain at the level that has to date. So I'm really excited about all these names but incredibly excited about the possibility of recognizing Paige Ellenton's contributions in some respect. So Mr. Simons, that is our report. We'll be glad to entertain any questions people may have. Mr. Chairman, the comments that I got after the state newspaper article, the one about Paige Ellenton came from Craig Pierce who used to be on county council and is now chairman of the mental health commission for South Carolina. He's the one that sent me this information and from that information he sent me, I got the book, The Asylum Doctor and have enjoyed about halfway through it right now. But he also said that 2021 is the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Mental Health Institute and the mental health commission would be having a year-long celebration about mental health facility in South Carolina, the Bull Street property and everything else. So I am just overwhelmed with the research that you all have done and brought up all these other people that have made significant contributions that need to have some type of honor either on Bull Street or in other appropriate places around the city for what they did during their time. But I think we need to look towards the mental health commission also as doing some things for the Bull Street property during their 200th anniversary. Not many organizations can say we've been here 200 years. Well just a word of thanks to both Robin and Dr. Donson for this is a list. Everybody ought to be everybody ought to have something on Bull Street according to this list here. It is just absolutely wonderful to hear some of the names recognized and recommended. Of course there are several folk on there not that it was during my time but Reverend C.J. Whitaker knew him well when I passed it here in Columbia. He was and I think you're right Dr. Donson, he was a kingmaker. He was a kingmaker in North Columbia. If you wanted to run for an office he was the person to talk to. He could either make you or tell you to go home and continue to work for a living. But he was he was certainly an astronomical man. He'd given us some because as the project as this project continues to evolve it is our task to as a committee to of course come up with a name and of course pass that on to council. So this is real valuable information. We won't do that today. It's going to perhaps facilitate another meeting from us to kind of go through all of the materials that we've already heard from you guys because we hadn't heard from Robert yet and we need to hear from Robert. Robert give us tell us give to us what you're thinking and what the huge huge company is thinking about. Yes sir. Thank you for the opportunity to be a part of this. Reverend MacGow and everyone and Dr. Donaldson and Robin that was that was awesome. I'm clicking away and typing so much. I think we'll share all of those names with us and I look forward to I've learned a lot but I know there's a lot more to learn than what you've done. I'll continue and thank you for all the work that you did and I'm very excited about work that's been done in the process and but I think it's going to be a really neat opportunity to showcase some of the history that's been less told and deserves to be told and Dr. Donaldson one of the first things he said was you want you believe and we certainly believe that the park needs to be a classroom. One of the things we've said about Bull Street from very early on is the history on this campus is something to be celebrated to be learned from and not to be forgotten. So it's important that we tell all parts of that story and we be sure to give take opportunities what we have to tell us in the park is the perfect place to do that. You know we're going to do it not only the history of human beings and their input and impact on the site not only the history of mental health we're also going to do it and the environmental impact having some of the decisions made in the park that I know Gregory Tucker mentioned at the last meeting some of the things that have happened inside the park from an environmental standpoint that are really we think never been done before in our country we're going to have a great impact on the ecology of some of our urban streams and flooding conditions downstream. So the park is going to be a place of learning and what you the list you guys put together is I don't know I'm incredibly excited about I'm also excited that a lot of some of the names on that list have already been on our radar and we've already begun honoring them. You mentioned Dr. Matilda Evans and we were really excited at the opportunity to name one of the streets here after Dr. Matilda Evans but we also have already named the street after Dr. McClennon and one of the streets very near the park from parallel to Greg Street and another name that's not on the list and I think could have been not quite the tie to the park or to Bull Street but Septima Poinsett-Clarke one of the first graduate of Benedict College an African-American teacher here a huge had a huge impact during the civil rights movement we've submitted recently to name a street in what we call the Tech Village Septima Street and so honoring her and all of her contributions to the history of Columbia and her time her 17 years spent here as a school teacher. So something that is obviously important to the district and this list will help us with more names and more opportunities to tell some stories and be sure we're doing that the right way. One thing that we have an idea that we have had that I think could be additive to this process and something that we think would be really fun for the community for the district gain interest not only in the names that were listed today potentially some others that we might have missed but also if we did more of a public process a naming contest of sorts like the baseball team did find a way to really engage the public and get information again about these people and the impact that they've had these ideas get them out into the public realm and use I think it's I think no one here wants to have a total voting contest but I think having some kind of a public input period allowing allowing this process to be the broad could be something really fun for the district and for all the different groups that deserve recognition because it one thing was clear to me after the presentation you guys just made it's that everyone on that list deserves to be honored and recognized for the contributions that they made to this city to this state most of them specifically to the site so that that's the only thing we we think we can bring to the table to this is eventually leveraging our networks social media networks our distribution list the folks in the neighborhoods around bull street that we're constantly in trying to engage the folks that are working at bull street today and potentially use that as an opportunity to showcase all of these names not just a couple committee meetings but really try to push it out broadly and get a lot of input feedback and and spotlight on these folks that really have done some amazing things for our state thank you Robert Sam yeah um let me say that I think well I congratulate Robert and Dr. Dawson for for the research and a lot of the information I've known some people who can val valed the presentation I'm I'm one of the ones that have sat in um Reverend Woodard because living room and I've worked with Madesca Simkins known September clock the folks like that and I can attest to what they mean to this city and the progress of the city of Columbia I think I'm I'm I'm a traditionalist I kind of think that we need to make sure that we hold true to the commitment we've made with bull street and that number one it would be a show place but it also would reflect the commitments we made as far as the economic impact and and one of the things again that one of the hidden I think gratitude of all of this is that um with some of the folks that that were sort of highlighting they um some did not have the real pleasure of economic success although they their efforts and and their tasks contributed to the um I think the success of others and I think that's one of the things that um I'm hoping that we in some form of fashion uh that's part of the message that uh when we talk about that impact and with each one of the people we talked about um represent impact in their own way so as long as we continue this process I'm asking and I'm certain that it will keep that in mind because I will also I think the the the information is uh some of it is some eye openness for me I've had a relationship with mental health and that facility over the I guess the property over the years in a different form how would you remember when the Department of Mental Health and Department of Mental Retardation were one and then they separated yeah and uh a lot of folks who some were born in that facility I think some of their family members are now living throughout the communities in South Carolina and not in an institution because some of the because of some of the groundwork that was laid on that campus um yes how I was gonna I was gonna say uh I was gonna ask Mr Chairman and Robert uh Robert how do you do you want us to ask you to do a public relations or a public campaign to ask for suggestions on that how what do you need from us to get going on that uh by understanding and I've not I've not read the um the policy and the procedure that we that needs to be followed from the city to name something like the park but my understanding um is that regardless of we can seek as much public we should seek public and that's my desire but ultimately this committee that recounts members on this committee will make the ultimate decision uh we submitted we wrote a rough outline of something we thought could be a public process we've secured uh the domain name bullstreetpark.com uh we think would be a fun exercise to to require folks uh or to encourage folks to go onto the website and give a name any reasons and supporting evidence why that name is it makes sense uh their contact information and then get back together what we what we put out there was get back together with this group including Robin and Dr. Donaldson and and review those names look through see if I imagine uh I think I counted 14 or 15 suggestions from today I imagine all of those uh you know you could definitely come up with 10 but come up with say 10 or so that we think are worth more comment and more feedback and present those back to the community and let the community provide additional color or insight or feedback on those ideas and then take that feedback as a group and say guys this is you know there's a there's consensus hopefully among there has to be consensus among the three of you but hopefully everybody rallies behind one name one way in which to honor that that park name and the right thing to do and then uh recommend I guess think that would have to go from the committee to the full city council city council then vote on that name approve that name and then hopefully we can do that I was thinking in 60 days ish and then sometime later this spring as the grass is growing great in the park and the park is blooming we have a true ground or true opening of the park a true event hopefully events will be okay by then or a little more okay but definitely be outdoors if you try to have some kind of celebration to honor the opening of the park the uh the strides that we've made inside the bull street district and whatever the name of the park is uh folks that were involved in helping choose that name from the person that submits it on the internet to uh to the family that that is involved if it's a name of a family and and folks related and tied into that family to bring everyone together and have really a a um a true ceremony and celebration of that and use use that all time as a way when we put those 10 ideas out into the public for comment we really try hard to be sure all and get some time in the sun really get a spotlight shown on them and let their stories be told knowing that we have to pick one there's only one park at full street but hopefully it then means that the other the other nine all the other ones we're putting out there get some time in the sun and then we can all work to find other ways either inside the district or elsewhere to make sure that the proper respects are paid to everyone that deserves sure that sounds like a very good plan one to think yeah one of the things that we talked about initially and and I think uh both Howard and Sam sort of heard that was that uh we needed to have not only the input of Robin and Dr. Donson but also to get some public input in terms of the uh the names uh we did not want to do this hurriedly but we wanted to do it in such a way that persons so actually so it could be transparent that are committed just didn't come up with a name that um I think Howard had a name initially and we decided that's when we needed some help y'all didn't like the vowel part that that's when we needed some help so Robert yeah that's that's the process we talked about initially because we want everybody to have quote unquote say some ownership into what's taking place on Bull Street now I must say to you unequivocally September clock was a member of mine in Charleston so I knew I knew her well actually she lived around the corner for me she taught at Freedom School and of course that's one of those names that we hear um we hear folks say uh September pun set clock but we don't know the history behind that so to to to put a to put a sign up with her name on that street sign means a lot I think we've got a good start I think the committee's work is before us uh we will certainly would want to invite you all back again as we the committee of course have conversation with what we've heard today it has been very insightful it has given each of us an opportunity to reflect on the contributions of every name that was raised but I think the other side of that is getting the word out uh perhaps look at Bull Street park dot com and having folk to look at that and perhaps them submitting some some names so it will give us an opportunity to bring this back to bring it back to a city council for approval Mr. Chairman can can we ask that Robert and Henry uh coordinate with the publicity that goes out to the public so that we make sure that the city has a good uh eye on what's being publicized one thing that I'm thinking about is that the person or if you're naming it for a person the person got to be dead uh that's that's why we couldn't name it the ballpark saying like that but uh if we could ask Robert to coordinate with Henry I think that would let us get off the good running start here uh to get this thing rolling and get some good publicity on it and get if we came up with what was it 15 10 names this afternoon most of whom I had never heard of uh we're likely to come up with a whole lot more if we put it out to the public and and and get get a lot more things and but I think there's a lot more we can do than just name the park uh I'm thinking about that walking trail I think Dr. Donaldson would would love to have the opportunity to decorate that walking trail with uh a bench seat with a uh a little plaque plaque there and saying this was so-and-so's cotton field or whatever we want to say but it it gives us an opportunity to do some education right there uh as well as the leisure park sure well if well if Henry if Henry could put that on his table I don't know if he has room enough to put it on his table but it would right under the pickle ball under the it would certainly be good if Robert if you and the uh and Henry could work out that mechanism of getting things sort of off the ground as it relates to putting it out there if we could do that what you think that sounds great to me I would I don't think we should take any step publicly without total coordination and uh and buying from the city and really everybody on this call so right I would I'd love to work with you Henry we're not going to let you do that Robert you should this has been a very enlightening meeting and I do want to thank Robin and Dr. Donaldson for for coming up with this and uh and uh Robert thank you for being with us this afternoon too although we'd much rather have Chandler I understand I understand and please give him my regrets for not being I may just call her just to say hello thank you look one one one of the things that I think is very needful this will not be our our last gathering um we will need to talk over a few things the committee will meet and of course uh we'll continue we'll have Robert and the ACM to sort of get into the free of things in terms of having us coordinate a public response to the request of the part renaming of the park I think we're on the good I think we got a good start this is not to take place tomorrow another next month uh I think you're right COVID is still among us and I think we need to be very we need to be very very careful about uh our in-person so zoom as has helped tremendously uh Robin Dr. Donaldson you all have helped us tremendously today that's why we asked you all to come thank you so thank you all so very very much our city manager yes miss Wilson yes would you like to say something in closing I think mr. Davis had his hand raised to miss government I'm sorry I do have a point of some clarification points but glad mr. Davis no I've just um as I sort of hinted I kind of go way back with with some of the history on this but I'm just impressed with the research that has been done it kind of tells from my perspective it tells you a lot that it was the the people and the workers and not necessarily the the stars that made made that facility work and and and its contribution is that it it really paved the way for people to um become the institutionalized and and be integrated back into society you know that you know that's that was my foundation with it so I think at the end of the day um when the many or whatever story is told uh people would have a deep appreciation for it yes thank you thank you sir miss wilson remit doll I just want to make sure for you know we have our merchant orders clear and as Henry and Robert um you know go to work on the public input aspect it sounds like that you all want to still capture this historical theme um and or um individuals who have had some type of connection to bull street and or dmh and so I think when you do put it out to the public um to the point of is it an individual that yes it sounds like you want an individual not a theme um or a name of the part that's a theme but but an individual I'm asking that question for clarity and then I think I don't think it necessarily has to be an individual but it could be what the lady wanted to name people's park or something like that of the the stadium that's right yeah people's park it could be the people's park and then we have a series of of markers of some sort of things like we have down main street to to speak to the different families that have had input into the bull street property that might be one thing um well if that's the case I think then that's why I'm asking because the when you when you put something out to the public I know it sounds good and I'm all for it and I understand everyone's um you know transparency and everything but you also get back you you have to put it out in a way for what you want to receive back of ideas and if it's an individual the individual's got to be dead and we would like to have the individual with a significant connection to the bull street property to the mental health services provided on the bull street property to the building of the buildings on the bull street property to to the 200 year history of mental health in South Carolina but that doesn't rule that doesn't rule out a theme I think that's what miss wilson yeah I don't that does not rule out a theme is that correct that's my understanding yeah okay so so so we're looking at significant points in the park where a person's name where we could identify whether it's a bench or whether it's a marker with a person's name there that does not rule out the the um a theme for that park well councilman McDowell that's why I mentioned specifically when I mentioned so Majesca Simpkins is a name now much better known in Colombia but she was in charge of a group called the richland county citizens committee the reason why I mentioned that was because you could easily and if you want to move in this theme direction still keep to the history by creating a space called citizens park that references this historic organization that pushed for improved mental health um intervention of African residents of Colombia and so it it aligns itself with what miss simms told me about a people's park does not does not acknowledge as one person but a collective I'm always careful about naming out the people dead or alive because that becomes a real political um a dance as well uh and I think for the committee I'm just giving my observations from listening I'm all for you putting it out there I just think you need to have some um parameters around what you're trying to receive back so if you are looking more for an overarching theme similar to what dr. Donaldson just said I think you've got to put some things out there because you could get any kind of you know I mean you want to put out there some ideas of what it is to to the exact the exact example that dr. Donaldson just gave you know citizens park I really think you should just put personally I think you should put out examples and let people let the public and the citizens weigh in on the examples so you don't start getting too much um I think you let them weigh in on those examples and maybe have an additional method for them to provide um their own ideas as well but it certainly needs to be in line with what you're trying to achieve I'm not a fan of just putting it out there blanketly I'll just be honest because I think you're we're gonna get into um it's gonna move away from the potentially what you what you talked about on this phone call I I I think I I think we've covered a lot of ground but you know in what appears to be the conclusion of today's discussion um I don't my my opinion I don't have a problem I think I could I could uh support be supportive of the um citizen's part but the outcome of that would could be um since we've really outlined some significant contributions people have made to that property and to mental health in in this in the state that you could include individual histories as we've pretty much discussed this morning you know whether it's in a part citizen's part or whether it's in in in in that park and you strategically point out the contributions of the people that we've talked about today I think you then can encapsulate all of that um if it's citizen's part or if it's it's Majesca Simkins part whatever Majesca Simkins has a story um so you know that's where my head is I don't have a problem well I don't have a problem with it I mean I've listed 17 names here and each one of those names have significant uh have made significant contributions to the uh Bull Street property uh something could very well something could very well be said about each one of these persons Dr. Donaldson has done and both Dr. Donaldson and uh Robin has done a good job in telling us something about these folk so each one of the folks have a significant piece of history uh in their lives and in the lives of this city of ours I think it gives us an opportunity and I think it's a two-pronged approach we identified we've identified 17 persons perhaps there'd be more uh I think too late to to put to put on the table perhaps some themes as an example in using our website but I think we could probably utilize both of these things the names and a theme perhaps so it gives us it gives us some work to do why don't you let Robert and Henry put together some criteria and run it by a city manager that'd be great to see if if they're getting in the ballpark that'd be great that'd be great I'm sure I'm sure if it was left up to me with my theme would be Ed McDowell's Fun Park amen and I bet don't back away from that but I'm still living that's right I'm still living I think it gives us an opportunity Robert and Henry to sort of look through this and allow the city manager to sort of look into this with with what we get and what we could put out there for folks to see very good meeting mr chairman Robert did I think Robert had his hand raised I'm sorry Robert yes sir you wrapped it up for me the only thing I might add it would be you know I think manager Wilson's comment about it being just a free for all is how we how we get the how we get the respondents well how we work through the respondents those are the details that I think your points right that that Henry and I can brainstorm some ideas take them to Teresa and the team and and really not launching anything without a good understanding of you know what we want to ask for but how we ask for what we do with it and how it comes back and and maybe it's we put out all 14 names from today and and ideas and we say here comment on these and give us some others and we just have one round of input I I don't know I think that you know we we put together one idea before we knew all these names we're going to be coming together um from Dr. Donaldson Robin and so now it's how we merge it all together it seems like everybody's pretty much in agreement that um that we probably can't go wrong with any one of the 14 and and there's a good way to get some some positive uh coverage and press and input from the public so let's let's do it and I'm excited I think it'll be really cool well I think I think it gives us an opportunity to not only be transparent in our understanding of what we want to do and to rename the park but also gives both an understanding in terms of our community residents an opportunity to say this is good and this is not and I think I think that's the that's the thrust of what we want to do and how we do it the committee of course will wait on Robert the committee will wait on you and uh assistant uh city manager to kind of come through start to start that process of talking through what how we need to do this and of course we will get together again to um see what you all come up with this is a slow but significant and meaningful project so we don't want to do it haphazardly we want to make sure we think through this thing very thoroughly thank you who is it I'm sorry yeah no no problem just real quickly I just wanted to really thank Dr. Donaldson myself as well as Robin for all the work that they did and putting this together I thought that information was amazing um and I think as Mr. Wilson has shared I think we need to be clear in messaging to the to the public those examples I think is spot on that'll help us kind of narrow down um how we deliver the message to the public so I will really solicit I would like to solicit the help of Dr. Donaldson as well as Robin on what we come up with before I bring that back to the city manager for review if that's okay with Dr. Donaldson I don't want to put any more work on you but I just would like your eyes as well as Robin because you all are subject matter experts on this so we would like to kind of see well I'd like you to see what we come up with if that's okay Henry you know I my response is where you lead I'll follow okay I appreciate that great great the chick is in the mail for you and Robin okay I'll be waiting for you what are you looking to meet again in about two weeks yeah with the initial or yes ma'am what I'd like to do after talking to Howard and Sam if we could start at least talking about this with Henry and Robert uh and say in two weeks we get back together again to kind of see where we are okay how about that Robert Henry is that good for you both yeah okay just tell Chandler we need her on the call the next time not that Reese is asking the wrong person she said she should say is that good for Chandler's schedule okay let me say just a word of thanks thank you all again for your insightful participation thank you all again for all of the knowledge that you've imparted upon each one of us Robin thank you very much like Donson thank you very much for your both of you all's continued gifts of helping us walk through this I think it's very meaningful that we have these kinds of conversation thank you all so much Henry thank you city manager thank you thank you yeah y'all go well stay well yes everyone I say thank you all


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So the Shelly release is not really a release, it's a whole bundle of features which we will be delivering over a period of time. And it divides really into two parts, there's the decentralization that everyone's very excited about and there are a whole bunch of wallet features. And what we've decided to do is to prioritize the wallet features and get those out first and the decentralization will follow on later. So let's see what wallet features are we looking at. So there's paper wallets, there's hardware wallets with the ledger hardware and then we've got multi-signature accounts so maybe I should go through each one of those and just give a brief overview of what we'll be seeing in each one. So with paper wallets this is about being able to print out your wallets and have it offline so that you don't have to run deadless all the time and your private keys are not being kept on your desktop, they're printed out, put on a piece of paper and you stick it in your safe. And we'll be delivering that actually sort of two versions of that I think, there's going to be a version that will be coming out relatively soon which is a front-end only solution, it'll have some limitations to it and then we'll follow it up with a slightly more fully featured paper wallet scheme a little bit later. Then hardware wallets is a very exciting one, so we're working with ledger, little ledger devices and that will mean that your private keys are not on your desktop or laptop but they're on the little device and that gives a much higher degree of security. So if you're storing a lot of money paper wallets great or the ledger device and the ledger device means that it's secure and it can be online, so the paper wallet obviously it's offline and it's stored in your safe so you can't make payments in that case. You can see, you'll still be able to see in deadless what your balance is with a paper wallet but you won't be able to make new payments whereas with the ledger device the keys are stored on the on the device and you can still make payments. So we're partway through that project at the moment. And then the last one multi-sig so this is where you it's basically joint accounts right it's where you know if you think about a normal bank account you can have joint accounts with you know you and a partner or whatever or a business partnership or something where you can say you know there's two people who own this account and it requires a signature by both people to be able to make a payment and multi-sig is exactly that but for the Cardano and deadless wallets and in general it's you know any number of people with some subset required to sign like you know an account that's owned by three people and two people are required to sign every each payment. So that's a feature in the in the wallet that we will be trying to deliver as part of the Shelley program and then we come to decentralization so as I said we're prioritizing the wallet features because everybody really wants those and we will follow up with the decentralization features. So what are the components of that we've got we've got networking to make the peer to make the network layer properly peer-to-peer and then we've got a bundle of features that sort of go together that finally make the thing properly decentralized that hands control over to the to the community. So we have some game theory some incentives the incentive mechanism how how are people rewarded for for delegating or for running state pools for for running running full nodes so we're working with game theory experts working that out at the moment we've got the how does delegation actually work how because at the moment you know it's it's everybody is sort of delegated to to the core nodes which are run by you know Cardano Foundation and IOHK in America and how do we how do we go from that very simple delegation scheme to you can delegate to whoever you want you know to be able to have these these state pools and you can choose who to delegate to or to run your own run your own node so that's the delegation set of features and and then the it's also worth mentioning voting so this is about how do we do software updates and actually for the moment we are not going to go fully decentralized on the voting for for software updates because we still have a whole we haven't figured out entirely yet how to how to hand voting completely over to the community in a way that guarantees that will still be able to make forward progress because we don't want to get into a situation where you know IOHK has come out with like you know some new gogon features or some new you know the latest latest and greatest and we end up in a situation where we're stuck that that you know something has gone wrong with the social dynamics of voting and nobody knows how to vote or nobody cares enough for so we don't we don't want to get into that situation so we have to do a bit more analysis first before we roll out fully decentralized voting for update proposals and updating the software so that one will come along eventually but that will be much later but we will have the decentralization of the of the network and of the staking state pools and delegating and so that those are that those are the core components of of making the system decentralized and IOHK for the moment will retain control over proposing new software updates and deploying new software updates to everybody so shelly is not a like a single big bang release shelly is a whole bundle of features that that makes sense together that will be delivered over a period of time because we're not we're not doing big bang releases we did that for the for the mainnet release at the beginning but what's much better software engineering practice is that you just have your software development team cranking through things and releasing them as and when they are ready and that that makes everything much more productive it's much easier to test you get much more reliability and predictability in your sort of that development process so corresponding to that we're not going to having like you know an all-seeing or dancing release and everything's ready all at once at all at the same time it will be we will release things as soon as they're ready and that that's the best way to do things these days so that in particular that means we're aiming for sort of roughly four-week cycles on on software releases it might be it might be four it might be six we're figuring out the the tempo at the moment but that means that yeah we will simply release these features as soon as they are as soon as they're ready so we're prioritizing wallet features and the decentralized decentralization features will come later on so it'll be so Shelly is really a program of work that is sort of smeared out over time and so certain things sort of have to come together like the many of the decentralization features don't make sense without they're interdependent they don't make sense on their own but like the wallet features you know they would they make sense individually they're they're individually useful whereas the decentralization features you know maybe we will have them lots of stuff released in the code but not yet sort of enabled until all of them are ready so to some extent the decentralization is a bit more like a big bang but but everything else is is spread out and in particular actually the networking the networking stuff needed for decentralization we probably will be able to get that out and get that in use before we flip the switch on full decentralization but those other decentralization features are really tied together is the the state pools the being able to delegate and the intensive scheme that makes that all work so those will be we'll flip the switch on that you know sort of at one point but the code for it will have been you know in in releases earlier than that probably so at the moment we are doing a series of releases to just make incremental improvements to the Byron release and that's really trying to address some of the problems that people have reported issues with connection to network and other sorts of things that have been plaguing users and making lots of internal improvements to improve the quality and set the stage for us to be able to implement the the next round of features for Shelley so there'll be a release that's out shortly and then because we're doing this rolling release approach we're expecting to do then another release again with incremental improvements sort of four to six weeks later after that and that will set the tempo from then on it'll be regular releases on a rolling basis so state pools so the question is what what are they and then how are how are we going to get into it so I'm in state pools it's it's individuals or organizations running full nodes and then other people being able to delegate to them so as you know at the moment it's effectively like right now you know iWHK and Amurgo and the Cardano Foundation run the state pools but they don't make any money from them but they control you know everybody delegates to those three organizations right now and the idea is to generalize out into anyone can run a state pool and there'll be rewards for doing so so it'll be possible to register to be a state pool which will be an open open sort of process and then in deadless users can choose do they want to run their own node at home or do they want to delegate to someone else and you'll be able to see you know all the different options who you delegate to what the rewards might be for for delegating but also if you are running a state pool there are rewards that go to the state pool leader and they they compete with each other for running the best state pools giving the best rewards having the greatest reliability and right at the moment we are just at the process of completing the game theory analysis of how does how does the sort of competition between state pools going to work so that we end up with a healthy balance of different state pools because we don't want a situation like with Bitcoin where effectively there are only like five mining pools in the whole world so we've got in fact there a great degree of centralization and right now we've got in in Godana we've got you know three organizations and then we say that's not enough right we we say that's not sufficiently to centralize Bitcoin is like effectively five we want that to be a lot more than that so we have a game theory analysis analysis of this where we there's a parameter in the in the in the game theory you can control that that should end up with there being a larger number of state pools that are of relatively even sizes to each other so there's not massive dominance from one to another so that's there's there's that's kind of the theory side of things and then the question is then how how are people going to get involved in that well we will have a at some point we'll have a test net for people to experiment with being with running a state pool experiment being a state pool leader and we are our comms team will will engage with the community at some stage on you know signing people up people are interested and then we can get feedback from them and see and so we will we will define how exactly that's going to work it's not it's not not the full details yet but that'll come along at a in in time for for us flipping the switch on full decentralization


If you're looking for a marketplace to start dropshipping on but you're thinking that everything is too over saturated, then let me tell you that Etsy right now is probably one of the more under saturated platforms to start dropshipping on. People absolutely love purchasing from Etsy and currently Etsy has been on the rise. For the last year or so Etsy has been trending and sellers have been making quite a good amount of money on there. Now, if you're looking to start dropshipping on Etsy, then you definitely stumbled across the right video because this video is going to make it easy for you to start taking advantage of the massive profits that are on Etsy by dropshipping. And as I mentioned at the beginning, right now it is probably one of the more under saturated markets when it comes to dropshipping. It's going on everyone here with AdoDS and if you're interested in dropshipping or if you're already a dropshipper, then make sure you hit that subscribe button so you don't miss out on any future dropshipping videos. On this channel, we cover anything and everything dropshipping related starting from some of the best tips and tricks to help you get started in the game all the way to some of the best products to help you start making some massive profits. So if that's something that interests you, just make sure to subscribe. And also as a guide to go along with this video, I'm going to have an easy to reference cheat sheet with all of the different tips, tricks and links that I'm going to have throughout this video. So if you want access to that, all you have to do is comment down below, hashtag Etsy dropshipping and let me know what your takeaway is from this video. What did you learn from it? Once I see that you went ahead and did that, I'll go ahead and reply back with a link to the cheat sheet. All right, so let's go ahead and get started with dropshipping on Etsy. So the first thing that we need to do isn't actually to create an account. The first thing that we need to do in this case is find a product that we're going to sell on Etsy. The reason is because while you're actually creating your account, you're going to have to upload a product. So when we're looking for best selling products, then we have quite a few options to be able to find some trending items, some that will actually sell. The first thing that you need to keep in mind though, before doing this is you need to decide on a niche or an item that's actually Etsy appropriate. You're not going to be selling things like electronics on Etsy because that's just not the marketplace to sell that kind of item. You're not going to be finding things like headphones or printers on Etsy, although you can find accessories on Etsy. So you can find electronic accessories such as phone cases. Now there's a wide range of different items that you can sell on Etsy that will actually do pretty well, but some of the more popular niches are going to include things like jewelry and accessories, clothing, home items, digital products, things like invitations and similar items for events such as weddings or birthday parties. Art pieces that for the most part are going to be handmade and things like crafting supplies. So a lot of DIY stuff. Now in order to find actual trending items within those niches, then you also have quite a few different options. For one, you have the AutoDS winning products and the marketplace. So all we have to do to access that is simply sign up for AutoDS. And right now, if you don't have an account, you can go ahead and create one for a trial period for just $1. Now, once we're signed on to our account over at AutoDS.com, then we can simply just click on over to the winning products section. Once you're on here, you're going to see tons of different items that are currently trending and have a proven track record of actually selling. Aside from that, you also get tons of different analytics to help you market these products. All you have to do is simply just click into one of them. So let's look for one that would actually be Etsy appropriate. Scrolling down a little bit, I found these baby shoes. They actually look like they're handmade. They look like they're crocheted, but let's check them out and let's look into them just a little bit deeper. So as you can see, these, they actually seem perfect for Etsy. They're shoes for little kids. And one thing that we all know for sure is that parents do not mind spending a pretty penny on their children. Now, the next thing that we're going to do is something that I actually want to give all of you an example of, which is going to be importing your items both manually as well as automatic. So check this out. Right now we're going to do it the manual way. So let's go ahead and actually save everything. So we're going to save this image and then we're going to save the rest of all of these. Now keep this in mind for a few minutes from now. All right, so now that we know what product we're actually going to sell, let's go ahead and start creating our account on Etsy. So the first thing they need to do is just head on over to Etsy.com and you can click on sign in. Once you're in sign in, you're going to have to go ahead and actually create an account. So what you'll do now is click on register and register with your email, your name and a password. Or you can simply sign on with your Google account, your Apple ID or your Facebook account. Now after you've created your initial account, then you have to create a seller account.  Then you're going to have to get started. Let's go ahead and click on this. Let's do this. Now it's going to ask you a couple of questions. Here you just skip. It really doesn't matter. Same thing here. Just skip this question and start your shop. Now you're going to have to go through all of these different steps in order to actually start up your shop. So the first thing they need to do is set your preferences. These are fairly simple and it's all pretty basic. Once you continue with that, you're going to have to name your shop after we go ahead and name our store. Then this is the part I was telling you about. We actually have to create a listing. So we have to create our first listing and this is the way that we're going to do it. So remember how we saved those images before? Well, right now we just went ahead and uploaded them because those are the ones that we're going to be using for this listing. Now on top of that, I still have to copy over the title here and then you have to fill out the rest of these details. So about the listing, the category, the renewal options. It's all pretty self-explanatory, but I'll quickly go over most of these. So about this listing, who made it? Typically you're always going to put I did. What is it? It's always going to be a finished product. And when did you make it? I always put either made to order or already made 2020 through 2023 or whatever the date is. Now the category, it's really going to depend on what you're selling. So in this case, we're just doing shoes. All right, booties and crib shoes. So you just choose those right there. Primary color. That's not necessary. Secondary color, size, occasion, holiday. The rest of that isn't necessarily important. And on top of that, it's optional. So you don't really have to put it in there. Now it is supposed to help with things like SEO and being able to come up when people search certain things. But again, right now it's not necessary because this isn't exactly what we're going to go with. So then we also have to go ahead and fill out the description. Not for the description, we're going to go back here, go to product info. And for the most part, whenever you look at your suppliers, this is what it's going to look like. It's going to have pretty much just images a lot of the times and very little text, or it can just have a bunch of random text. And I can't really find any text on this. So in order to actually come up with a description because it is mandatory, let's just run over to chat GBT. And we can just quickly ask it, give me a Etsy description for some cute baby booties. Could be generic. All right. So in one hand and wrote a pretty big description over here. Now this might be too long. So let's ask it to make it shorter about one paragraph. All right, perfect. So let's go ahead and take this copy it and run back over to our listing and just paste it in. Of course, always read it over and make sure that everything is relevant to the product that you're selling. Then after that, you have the option to select a section for it. So you can create a section so you can categorize all of your different items. You can add tags to it. You can add the materials that you're using for this. So if let's say a shirt is made out of cotton, you can put here that it's made out of cotton. And then we have to set a price for this. I'm just going to put 25 because this isn't the listing that we're going to go with. Again, this is just a quick test on an example because we need to add something on here. The quantity variations. So here we can add any variations that we need. Do we want personalization on this? Typically it's going to be no, especially if we're dropshipping. And shipping. So here we set their shipping preferences for this particular item. So for the most part, the easiest way to go about this is simply to calculate them. And that's if you're going to charge for shipping. A lot of times people don't charge for shipping, especially on Etsy because people love free shipping. So in that case, instead of going through all of this and filling it out, what you're going to do is simply click on I'll enter fixed prices manually, put in whatever zip code you're shipping from if you're shipping in the US. So in this case, we're going to put<PHONE_NUMBER>4. We're going to set our processing time. So for this, since we are dropshipping, this might take a bit longer. So I'll put a processing time of about three to five days. And then the shipping time, I'll put whatever it actually is. Then we select our shipping services and what we'll charge, which in this case, for the most part, like I said, I do free shipping. But if you want to just charge $5 for just one item, you could do that. And for each additional item, you can charge either nothing or you can add an extra charge to it. After that, you also have the option to put the item weight and the size, but that's pretty much it. Then comes one part that's actually mandatory, which is the returns and exchanges. So you're going to have to make a policy for this. Now you can do add simple policy and it adds it the way you see it here, which is that buyers have up to 30 days, or you can create a policy and set it yourself. So I accept returns or I don't accept returns. Same thing for exchanges and the timeframe.  So let's go ahead and save and apply and let's go ahead and save and continue. All right. So our listing is created and that's pretty much it. Now we can either add another listing or do this later, which is what we're going to do now. Then we have to choose how we're going to get paid. This is how Etsy is going to pay us. So here we can fill out any tax information along with any information about ourselves. After you set up how you're going to get paid, then you're going to have to set up how you're going to pay Etsy. The reason you have to do this is because for every listing that you upload, you are going to have to pay 20 cents. Now for the first time, that will be taken out of your actual bank account. But going forward, if you start to make sales, then those 20 cents for each listing that's taken out can be taken out from the balance that you're going to be paid. Then you just have to set up your two factor authentication. You can either do that through SMS, which is text message, phone call, or an authenticator app. Typically the easiest for me is to just do the SMS text message. Then all you have to do is click on open your shop and we can get started selling. Now this is a quick walkthrough on actually how to get started dropshipping on Etsy. So I'm not going to go through all of the different tabs that are on here because that's just going to take way too long. If you want more information on everything that's here, then you can check out this video. It goes more in depth into everything about dropshipping on Etsy and all of the different settings. But for now we're going to focus pretty much on just what's important. Now the next thing that we need to do is actually create a shipping profile. So this shipping profile is what's going to be used for most of our listings. Of course, if we need to change anything on the shipping, then we can just create a second shipping profile. The reason for this will become evident. So just give me a couple minutes here and let's go ahead and actually create our profile. So for this, we just have to go ahead and click on our settings and go to shipping settings. Now our order processing schedule, that doesn't really matter. What we're looking for here is shipping profiles. So let's go ahead and create a profile. And like I said, I like to enter fixed prices manually. And if you're dropshipping, I recommend you do this because it makes it a lot easier to be able to keep track of your expenses. Your shipping expenses. When you create a listing, if you actually have to pay shipping for the product that you're purchasing from your supplier for your customer, then just go ahead and add that shipping cost to the total cost of the item itself when you sell it. So shipping prices, I'll enter everything manually. Origin zip code, 81245. Processing time for this. Let's go with three to five days for processing because I'm going to look for products that ship fairly quick. Then we have United States free shipping everywhere else. If you do want to ship worldwide, you can go ahead and select the service here. But I'm going to stick to just the U.S., so I'm going to delete that. And profile name, free shipping. Now I'll save the profile. All right, so I did forget to choose the actual shipping service. I forgot to tell you about this. So here you have to choose which service you're going to be using. Of course, since we're dropshipping, we're not going to be using USPS for the most part.  But let's just go ahead and select other. And then we have to select the delivery time. So of course, this can vary wildly, but for some products that can be delivered between two to five days, we can have one profile and then we can create a second one for items that take longer. So for this, let's go to two to five. Now, if we have an item that the delivery time would be maybe 10 to 15 days, we can do another profile here that would be between six to 15 days. Again, it's really all dependent on the sellers that you're working with and the items that you're selling. So click on save profile and we have our shipping profile ready. Now, the next thing that we have to do is actually click back on over to our AutoDS account and connect our Etsy account to our AutoDS account to start simplifying the entire process. So here what I'm going to do is simply click on the name of my store. If you haven't connected any stores before, it's going to simply just say add store for you. So click on that and then just simply click on add store. Now we have to choose a platform that we're selling on. We're going to go ahead with Etsy continue and now we actually have to sign on. After we choose to sign on, it's going to tell us that an application wants to connect. Simply just go ahead and click on grant access and we are connected. So as you can see here, my handmade crafts is part of my stores. So now let's go ahead and actually start importing an item the way that I mentioned earlier, automatic.  So I'm going to choose something quick. I'm going to go to suppliers and I'm going to choose AutoDS because this has the fastest shipping. And I'm going to click on clothing shoes and jewelry because again, this is one of the better niches to start selling on Etsy. Now I'm going to go with something simple. So let's go ahead and choose this no love chain right here. This actually might do pretty well. Jewelry does fantastic on Etsy. And all we have to do now is just click on import draft. That's pretty much it. Now, as you can see, just clicking on over to our drafts page, we can see the item there. Now we can make any necessary adjustments. We can click to edit. And once you click to edit, then here you can change all of the different details that you need to. So you can go ahead and change the title. You can change the category that it's going to be on your shipping method, your tags. Although quick note, these tags are not the tags for Etsy. These tags are specific to AutoDS. So that way you can keep track of your analytics. Then you can also go ahead and optimize the description, change all of the different variants, make any necessary adjustments to all of the images. Here you can even edit the images yourself if you need to.  Now, one important thing to note is that the reason that we made those different shipping profiles is because whenever you create your listings on AutoDS or whenever you import your listings through AutoDS, you're going to be asked which shipping profile you want to use. So just keep that in mind that whenever you're uploading your products through AutoDS, the shipping profiles that you create on Etsy are going to be chosen on the AutoDS upload page. Now, let's talk about fees. As I mentioned earlier, you are going to have to pay 20 cents for every item that you upload to Etsy.  That transaction fee is typically 6.5%. But then you also have a payment processing fee that could be between 3 to 4% plus 30 cents. So on average, I would say calculate your fees to be about 10% of your final sale. And of course, that also includes shipping. So if you're charging for shipping, you're going to get charged fees on the total sale, which is going to include the price of the item plus the price for shipping. So let's say you made your first sale on Etsy. Congratulations. Now it's time to actually fulfill your order. Now for this, you can either simply go to your supplier's website and place the order yourself.  Or you can do automatic orders or fulfill by AutoDS, which will expedite the entire thing for you. In the case of automatic orders, what's going to end up happening is AutoDS is going to log in on your behalf using your account details and make the purchase using your information. Then it's going to put the information of your customer to actually ship the item to. And once the item is shipped and the tracking number is provided, AutoDS will take that tracking number and update your customer with it. Now in the case of fulfilled by AutoDS, in this case, what's going to happen is it's pretty much the exact same thing, except instead of AutoDS logging in using your account details and using your credit card details or your backing details to make the purchase, it's going to log in using the AutoDS credentials and then make the purchase using a balance that you top up. And that's the easiest way that you can get started dropshipping on Etsy. Remember that everything that I covered in this video is going to be available to you in the form of a cheat sheet. And if you want access to that, all you have to do is comment down below, hashtag Etsy dropshipping and let me know what your takeaway was from this video. Remember if you want more information on dropshipping on Etsy, if you want a full tutorial and a full guide, just check out this video right here. It's also going to be linked in the cheat sheet. If you made it this far, if you made it all the way to the end, I want to say a huge thank you to all of you. It truly means a lot when all of you watch the videos all the way through because it tells me that you guys are actually getting some sort of value out of this. That you're finding my content informational and it's helping you start up your business or continue your business. Once again, huge thank you to all of you for watching. My name is Mario with AutoDS and catch you all next time.