SUNRISE IN GETTYSBURG: General George Meade statue on Cemetery Ridge. (CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE) |
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UPCOMING SPEAKING
2019-2020
None scheduled: Moved to Nashville, Tenn. Getting acclimated to new Civil War territory,![]() |
72nd Pennsylvania monument on Cemetery Ridge in Gettysburg. (CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE.) |
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Wednesday, April 18, 7 p.m.: "Notes from Antietam Battlefield," Tamarack Lodge, 2110 Rod Rd, Voluntown, Conn.Saturday, March 31, 1:30 p.m: The life of Edgar Woodford, 7th Connecticut, Avon (Conn.) Free Public Library.
Saturday, March 17, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.: "Women at the Smoketown-Antietam Hospital," Boonsboro (Md.) Free Library, 401 Potomac Street.
I will focus on nurse Maria Hall, who toiled at Smoketown after the Battle of Antietam. Other speakers are Dr. Emile Amt of Hood College and author Mary Tilghman.
Friday, Feb. 9: Loomis Lakeside at Reeds Landing, Springfield, Mass., 2 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 28, 1 p.m.: "Life on the Homefront." (I will introduce the program by speaking about the 16th Connecticut, Avon (Conn.) Senior Center, 835 West Avon Road.
Saturday, May 20, 2017: Hartford, Church of the Good Shepherd, 155 Wyllys Street., 1 p.m., "Notes From Antietam Battlefield."
Saturday, March 4, 2017: Springfield (Mass.) Armory National Historic Site, 2 p.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017: Civil War Roundtable of Central Massachusetts, Holden, Mass., 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Dec. 13: Houstatonic Civil War Roundtable, Huntington Branch of Shelton Library, 41 Church St, Shelton, Conn., 7 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 26: Evergreen Woods, North Branford, Conn., 2 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 6: Gilbert Library, Northfield, Conn., 2 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 29: Evergreen Woods, North Branford, Conn., 2 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 1: Company G of the 14th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry to stage Preservation March, 1 p.m. More info here. (I will speak about Connecticut Antietam soldiers at 1:45 p.m. at the Wesleyan University Memorial Chapel.) POSTPONED UNTIL SUMMER
Saturday, Sept. 24: Evergreen Woods, North Branford, Conn., 2 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 12: Connecticut Sons of the American Revolution, New Haven, 6:30 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 8: Bristol Historical Society, Bristol, Conn., 7 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 8: Bristol Historical Society, Bristol, Conn., 7 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 27: Evergreen Woods, North Branford, Conn. 2 p.m.
Sunday, Aug. 21: Litchfield History Museum, 7 South Street, Litchfield, Conn., 3 p.m.
Saturday, July 30: Evergreen Woods, North Branford, Conn. 2 p.m.
Sunday, April 3: Barnes and Noble at The Shoppes at Farmington Valley, 1 p.m. (book signing)
Monday, March 14: Hamden (Conn.) Civil War Roundtable, Hamden Library, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 19: Berlin-Peck Memorial Library, Berlin, Conn., 1 p.m.
ANTIETAM: Sunrise in Bloody Lane near 132nd Pennsylvania monument. |
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