You can't ultimately empathize, ideally start to sympathize with somebody very different from you unless there's that relatability, that human connection, which I do think is, you know, it's a base form, is that emotional connection, and then it goes to a cognitive connection.

You know, not to put a finer point on that, but if you just take the protagonist of our story, a tiny island called Saint Eustatius, and you took everything out of our story related to Jews, Jewish community, Jewish history, Jewish life, literally just telling the story of Saint Eustatius, a place almost no one has heard about, that in and of itself is a challenge.

You have to bring people to this foreign place and connect them in that place to the larger story of our nation.

The First Salute tells a relatively unknown story of a teeny-tiny Caribbean island called Saint Eustatius, which had an outsized impact on the American Revolution.

In the late eighteenth century, Saint Eustatius was one of the busiest, if not the busiest port in the entire Atlantic, and therefore the center for trade between Europe, Africa, and North America.

As it happens, of the Europeans living on Saint Eustatius, about thirty to forty percent were Jews, and these Jews had familial and business connections to North America and to Europe.

They were part of a larger diaspora of Sephardic Jews who traced their roots to the Iberian Peninsula.

And how do you prepare the visitor or support the visitor as they approach really challenging topics? What's that thought process?