This is an automated transcription. Mount Vernon cannot guarantee the accuracy or quality of the transcription. If you would like to provide a better transcription you can submit one at: http://www.mountvernon.org/video/send-us-your-transcription/ well before there were office buildings and conference rooms and the local Starbucks their work taverns and a tavern was the community center in the 18th century you went to a tavern not only to eat and drink but to get the news of the day and even learn what was going on and politics and a room like this gentleman could arrange for the tavern keeper to have a private space to discuss what was going on in society they would arrange to have a special meal and perhaps even a little entertainment was also the kind of space where an organization could meet organizations that you would recognize today such as the masons and the Washington society the dragoons they would me and spaces private spaces the tavern offered the next time you visit a museum perhaps even a tavern look at the rooms look at the space is remember the conversations that our founding fathers had think about what they talked about what the issues of the day were and visualize yourself in in back in that time period