Dr. Robert Gross is Draper Professor of Early American History Emeritus at the University of Connecticut, and Founding Member of the Advisory Council of the Innermost House Foundation. He is author of the Bancroft Prize-winning classic, The Minutemen and their World, and now introduces its sequel, the masterpiece The Transcendentalists and Their World. We invite you to attend this special feature of the THE CRAWLEY GREAT LIVES LECTURE SERIES at the University of Mary Washington for this introduction to a book destined to play a central role in the future of the Innermost House project HERE.