Fort Western Living History Museum along with the Arnold Expedition Historical Society presents:
Arnold 250th Anniversary Lecture Series
Battle, Duty, Heroism: Benedict Arnold, His Soldiers and the Northern Revolutionary War Campaign
9:00 a.m.
TOM DESJARDIN, Author & Historians
Arnold’s March to Quebec: 250 years Later*
10:00 a.m.
SARA DONOVAN, Long-Time AEHS member and reenactor
The Women of the Arnold Expedition as Depicted In Journal entries from the March
11:00 a.m.
KENNY WING, Author & Historian, Eustis, ME*
The Arnold Expedition Artifacts*
Noon
Lunch
1:00 p.m.
JONATHAN D BRATTEN, Military Historian
The American Revolution in the Dawnland: Diplomacy and Conflict on the Maine Frontier, 1775-1783
2:00 p.m.
GEORGE QUINTAL, Historian & Author
The Participants in the Arnold Expedition to Quebec: Names and untold Histories of the men and women on the Arnold Expedition
3:00 p.m.
MIKE CECERE, Historian & Author
The Conflict Spreads: 1775*
4:00 p.m.
PANEL DISCUSSION
Suggested Donation $5 per lecture; $35 for the day with lunch provided. Registration is required for the whole day. (call 626-2385 or email
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*Book signing by the author available
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
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