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For those who missed John Fea’s excellent January ARRT presentation, here’s another chance to hear him speak at the...
Goochland County Historical Society Meeting
Goochland First Baptist Church
Sunday, April 29, 2012 at 3 PM
Speaker: Dr. John Fea
Topic: “Religion and the Founding Fathers: A Historical Perspective”
Dr. John Fea is associate professor and chairman of the history department at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania. His most recent book, Was America Founded as a Christian Nation: A Historical Introduction was a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize, one of the largest literary prizes in the United States. His first book, The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America was chosen as the Book of the Year by the New Jersey Academic Goochland County Historical Society Meeting Goochland First Baptist Church Sunday, April 29, 2012 at 3 PM
Speaker: Dr. John Fea Topic: “Religion and the Founding Fathers: A Historical Perspective” Alliance and an Honor Book by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. Dr. Fea is also co-editor of Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian’s Vocation, a finalist for the Lilly Fellows Program in Arts and Humanities Book Award. His book The Power to Transform: A Christian Reflection on the Study of the Past will appear in 2013. His essays and reviews on the history of American culture have appeared in The Journal of American History, The William and Mary Quarterly, The Journal of the Early Republic and other scholarly journals. He has also written for the Philadelphia Inquirer, CBS News, New York Daily News, Houston Chronicle, Salt Lake City Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, and other newspapers. Dr. Fea is a popular speaker who has done many media interviews for both sides of the political spectrum. Copies of his books will be available for purchase and signing by the author.
Directions to Goochland Baptist Church
From Broad Street in Centerville
turn North onto Manakin Road
(by Satterwhite’s Restaurant).
The church is about 2 miles north
on the left.
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Here’s information from Carole and George Summers about this year’s Swamp Fox Symposium in South Carolina.
You're invited to register for the October 12-13, 2012:
10th Francis Marion / Swamp Fox Symposium: "Explore the Southern Campaign with General Marion"
Immerse yourself in Francis Marion's world and the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution.
Approx. Times: Friday, Oct. 12, 2012: 2 PM - 9 PM and Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012: 9 AM - 10 PM
Site: FE DuBose Campus of Central Carolina Technical College, I-95, Exit 122, ½ mi E on US 521, Manning, SC.
Details on www.francismarionsymposium.com
as schedule is developed
Agenda framework for Presentations:
Friday, October 12, 2012 2 PM Sign-in
2:30 (starts with 2 presentations)
Reception Dinner in Manning
Saturday, October 13, 2012
9 AM Opening, Drinks & Breakfast Snacks
9:30 AM (continues with 6 presentations)
Displays/ Book Signings
An Evening in Rev. History Dinner Theater With Our Historian:
Joe Stukes as Harry Lee
Francis Marion Advocates: Pushing back the frontier of ignorance.
Swamp Fox Murals Trail Society
PO Box 667
Manning, SC 29102
803-478-2645
cells: 803-460-9626, 803-460-7416
Next: www.francismarionsymposium.com Oct 12-13, 2012 Plans coming.
www.francismarioncountry.com - Living History Encampment - Feb. 23-25, 2012 - Very Best Ever.
www.clarendonmurals.com www.francismariontrail.com www.swampfoxtrail.com www.swampfoxcountry.com
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John Maass sent this along. Nathan Hale is having more problems.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/for-nathan-hale-perhaps-another-regret/
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A “newly discovered” print by Paul Revere is covered here and in other places on the web. http://www.npr.org/2012/04/15/150630478/lost-and-found-rare-paul-revere-print-rediscovered
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There is still time to join us for the trip to Great Bridge this Saturday. Please send me an email if you wish to attend. The next American Revolution Round Table of Richmond meeting will be Wednesday, May 23. John Nagy will speak on “Spies in the Continental Capital: Espionage Across Pennsylvania.” A May reminder will follow.
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