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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