Come to the Platt Library in Shoreham for an evening discussion about the Revolutionary War, led by Matthew Keagle, Curator at Fort Ticonderoga, Wednesday, Jan. 30th at 7pm.

The Platt Memorial Library has received a grant for starting discussions about the documents of our nation's early founding era. This grant is courtesy of the Gilder Lerhman Foundation and the American Library Association. Our first speaker, Matthew Keagle, Curator at Fort Ticonderoga, will lead a discussion on Section II of The Revisiting the Founding Era Reader: Realizing Independence. The discussion will highlight the transition from colony to independent country through the lens of America's military institutions. Early in their history, the American colonies revived the flagging British tradition of local defense in the form of militias, which carried over throughout the Revolutionary War and into the new nation. Use and coordination of these forces, however, was not without debate. The discussion will delve deeply into the history and crucial issues, using several artifacts from Fort Ticonderoga's collection to highlight the way military clothing expresses political sentiment.

Check out your Founding Era Reader at the Library today!