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2017 Winter Lecture Series, Battle, Duty, Heroism: Benedict Arnold, His Soldiers and the Northern Revolutionary War Campaign
Sunday, February 05, 2017, 02:00pm - 04:00pm
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Fort Western Living History Museum & the Arnold Expedition Historical Society are co-host of the 2017 Winter Lecture Series, Battle, Duty, Heroism: Benedict Arnold, His Soldiers and the Northern Revolutionary War Campaign held on Sundays during February and March from 2:00pm – 4:00pm in the Council Chambers, 2nd floor, Augusta City Center, 16 Cony Street, downtown Augusta.

The series includes some of the most knowledgeable historians and authors in the Northeast in regards to the secret Quebec Expedition undertaken in the fall of 1775. The series aims to discuss “new” information on the lives of the men who participated in Benedict Arnold’s Army and Navy and to focus on aspects of the story that deserves “more” attention. The series also aims to call more public awareness to the Ruben Colburn House in Pittston.

A Lecture Calendar and Press Release folllows with full details.

Fort Western & Arnold Expedition Historical Society 2017 Winter Lecture Series

Battle, Duty, Heroism: Benedict Arnold, His Soldiers and the Northern Revolutionary War Campaign

Sunday, February 5: JAMES NELSON, Author & Historian, Harpswell, ME*

James Nelson (Harpswell, ME), author of Benedict Arnold’s Navy (2006), will kick off the series on Sunday, February 5 with a talk on the capture of Fort Ticonderoga and the Battle of Valcour Island, a naval battle on the lake that would ultimately spell victory in the War for Independence.

Sunday, February 12:KENNY WING, Author & Historian, Eustis, ME*

Kenny Wing (Eustis, ME), author of The Lost Villages of Flagstaff Lake (2010) will speak on Sunday, February 12 about Benedict Arnold’s march from the Upper Dead River to the Canadian border.

Sunday, February 19:STEVE CLARK, Author & Past President, Arnold Expedition Historical Society*

Steve Clark (Scarborough, ME), author of Following Their Footsteps (2003) and past president of AEHS will revisit the Arnold Trail on Sunday, February 19 to reveal how best to follow the route today.

Sunday, February 26:TOM DESJARDIN, Author & Director, Maine Bureau of Parks & Lands*

Tom Desjardins (Pittston, ME), author of Through a Howling Wilderness (2006) and Director of Maine Bureau of Parks & Lands will discuss the life & times of Ruben Colburn (1740-1818)

Sunday, March 5:STEPHEN DARLEY, Author & Revolutionary War Historian, North Haven, CT*

Steven Darley (North Haven, CT), author of Voices from a Wilderness Expedition (2011) will reveal new information about the lives and hardships of Benedict Arnold’s men through journals that have never been published.  

Sunday, March 12:DANIEL SOUCIER, Doctoral Candidate, UME & Editor of “Maine History”.

Doctoral Candidate, UME, and editor of Maine History will turn the previous history of the expedition’s suffering in the wilderness on its head by looking at the soldiers’ appreciation of the natural world and how they experienced it on a variety of levels.

Sunday, March 19: (Snow Date)

All lectures are free and open to the public and wheelchair accessible. Authors will be available for book signings after the lectures and refreshments will be provided. Donations are gratefully accepted. In case of inclement weather, Sunday, March 19 will be reserved as a “snow date”. Fort Western (1754) is a National Historic Landmark and living museum in Augusta, Maine and America's oldest surviving wooden French & Indian War era garrison in North America illuminating 300 years of Maine and New England History. For more information, please call 626-2385 or e-mail .

 *    Book signing by the author

All lectures are free admission; however donations are gratefully accepted and used to benefit Old Fort Western educational programming. Refreshments will be provided.

Old Fort Western is a National Historic Landmark Fort, Store and House built in 1754 on the Banks of the Kennebec River in Augusta, Maine's Capital City. For more information call us at 626-2385, or e-mail

www.oldfortwestern.org

Location Council Chambers, 2nd Floor, Augusta City Center, 16 Cony Street, Augusta, ME 04330
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