The Adirondack History Museum in Elizabethtown, NY, celebrates the Independence Day holiday with a special program on the “American Revolution in the Champlain Valley.”
From the capture of Fort Ticonderoga to the end of the war with the signing of the Treaty of Paris, the Champlain Valley and the surrounding region was traversed by military forces from both sides of the conflict.
Historian Don Wickman will illuminate these and other aspects of the region’s role in the world-changing events of 250 years ago in his talk on Thursday, July 3, at 7 pm.
Wickman, who has researched and written about regional history for years, also served as director of the Kent- Delord House Museum in Plattsburgh. His 2011 book, “A Very Fine Appearance”: The Civil War Photographs of George Houghton, published by the Vermont Historical Society, earned an Award of Merit from the American Association of State & Local History.
He is considered the authority on the American Revolution site Mount Independence in Orwell, Vermont and the Vermont Civil War battle flags. The Adirondack History Museum is a site in the interactive, self-guided Lake Champlain Revolutionary Quest, developed by the Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism (ROOST), which celebrates the region’s roles in the Revolutionary War.
In addition to Wickman’s talk, the Museum is also showing another Revolutionary War film Mary Silliman’s War, which portrays the struggle of a woman searching for her captured husband, a Connecticut officer fighting for independence.
The Museum’s film and lectures series continues throughout the summer, at 7 pm on Thursday evenings in Elizabethtown. Films are free. There is a $7 admission for the talks, though members are free, as are members of the 46ers, thanks to a gift from the Grace Hudowalski Charitable Trust.
Photo: American Revolutionary War British Grenadier reenactors (courtesy ROOST)
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