On Sunday,
October 21, I spoke and signed books at America’s
Islamic Heritage Museum in Washington DC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Islamic_Heritage_Museum.
The museum is the brain child of Amir Muhammad,
who has done a great deal of original research to uncover America’s
Islamic past. Who knew that Cedar Rapids, Iowa in the heart of the Bible-belt has the oldest purpose-built mosque in the United States.
The museum was an
appropriate venue at which to talk about Yarrow since it has the exhibit on the right about him and since the building housing the library used to be a carriage house
for the Bealls, part of the extended family that had owned Yarrow. Like my talks at the Philadelphia Museum of
Art, the Peabody Room of the Georgetown Public Library, Mt.
Moriah Church
in Pleasant Valley, Maryland,
and the Balch Library in Leesburg, Virginia,
I found myself talking in a place related to the people in the book. 
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