NOTE: Reservations required and MUST be received ASAP.
An appropriate speaker as this year we’re marking the 100th anniversary of Lafayette’s triumphant return to America in 1824.
“[His lecture] offers a lively, day-to-day account of a European’s experience of the United States in the fiftieth year of independence. As he relates the details of what he saw and heard, his encounters and conversations with people of all kinds, the enthusiasm of the great crowds that welcomed Lafayette, the reader gains a sense of how close Americans still felt to their Revolution and how proud they were of what they had done.”
—Edmund S. Morgan, Sterling Professor of History, Emeritus, Yale University
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Alan R. Hoffman holds a B.A. degree in history from Yale University and a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. He lives in southern New Hampshire and practices law in Boston. Passionate about American history and Lafayette, he spent three years working on this first unabridged English translation of Levasseur’s journal and readying it for publication. He is president of the American Friends of Lafayette and the Massachusetts Lafayette Society, and lectures on Lafayette. He is the author of “Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825: Journal of a Voyage to the United States”.
WHEN: Monday, May 13, 5:30 pm (social hour & museum); 6:30 (dinner, then speaker).
WHERE: Varnum Armory, 6 Main Street, East Greenwich, RI
MENU: Chef-carved “Steamship Round”, chicken in wine, roasted potatoes, salad, vegetables, rolls & butter, appetizers, dessert
FEE: $25
