What makes this property the right home for the academy, and what needs to happen to it before the first veterans arrive in proposed fall of 2027?

Uh, we don't have enough time to talk about this property in one podcast, but I'll just kinda shorten it-- shortly say it is, um, you know, just a beautiful history of a story.

Uh, the East Hampton Town Lodging and Farm, there's information on the, on the website about its history, but was born in 1890, uh, as a municipal-owned town lodging and farm.

Uh, we used to call it poor farm, which I don't think is, is appropriate way to call it anymore, but you might see in some Massachusetts towns old poor farm road, et cetera.

That's what it was.

And it was a really-- it was affordable housing back in the 1800s.

Um, you know, in order to provide a, a cover over, um, the head of those in our community that, that needed it and couldn't yet provide for themselves, um, they put together a lodging, but they attached it to a farm.

So absolutely true.