Varnum Continental Members! Sign up now for our first member dinner of the season on Monday, September 9 starting at 5:30 PM. Our speaker will be local historian and author Robert A. Geake.
DEADLINE TO RSVP IS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 AT NOON.
CLICK HERE TO RESERVE A SPOT!
SPEAKING PRESENTATION
Geake’s presentation is sourced directly from his upcoming biography of General James Mitchell Varnum. He will offer insights into the nearly constant infighting within Rhode Island’s legislature in the latter years of the American Revolution, and into the forming of a new republic.
Varnum’s role in the RI legislature, and later the Continental Congress, allowed him a full voice on his views and how the country should move forward. His career as an attorney would place him in the center of cases that would not only set a precedent for legal matters to come, but helped to affirm individual rights and shaped the forming of the 6th Amendment of the United States Constitution.
SPEAKER BIO
Robert A. Geake is a public historian and the author of fifteen books on Rhode Island and New England history, including “From Slaves to Soldiers: The First Rhode Island Regiment in the American Revolution”. Other books include “A History of the Narragansett Tribe: Keepers of the Bay, Native and New Americans, New England’s Citizen Soldiers: Mariners and Minutemen”, “Fired A Gun at the Rising of the Sun: The Journal of Noah Robinson of Attleboro in the Revolutionary War”, and a work in progress to be titled “The Battle Off The Field in the American Revolution”.
Mr. Geake currently serves on the Executive Committee and Board of Trustees as the President of The Cocumscussoc Association that maintains Smith’s Castle historic house museum in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. He also serves on the advisory board of the Rhode Island Slave History Medallion project. Mr. Geake is a contributor to the blogs smallstatebighistory.com and most recently “The Cocumscussoc Review”. His essay on Rhode Island and The American Revolution is among those contributed to EnCompass, online tutorials for the Rhode Island Historical Society and the Rhode Island Department of Education.
DEADLINE TO RSVP IS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 AT NOON.
CLICK HERE TO RESERVE A SPOT!
WHEN: Monday, September 9, 5:30 pm (social hour); 6:30 (dinner followed by program).
WHERE: Varnum Armory, 6 Main Street, East Greenwich
MENU: TBD
FEE: $25
CASH BAR: wine, beer, and soft drinks only.
