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RESEARCH ON THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
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The American Revolution Round
Table of Philadelphia brings together a diverse group of people united by
a common interest in the American Revolutionary Era.
Our usual meeting place Brittingham's was sold and is closed during remodeling,
We will meet usually on the last Wednesday of the month, from Aprl through June at Saint Peter's Lutheran Church, 3025 Church Road, Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania, 19444. There is a large parking lot across the street.
The business meeting starts promptly at 7:15 p.m. and the speaker will start approximately at 7:30 p.m.
You can bring dinner with you and eat at the meeting.
This was the actual church site where General Lafayette was taken into the steeple, in order to scope out the size of the attacking British forces in the Battle of Barren Hill (May 20, 1778).
Meetings are open to the public!!! The main event of the evening
is a speaker on some aspect of the American Revolutionary Era.
If you like our programs and/or web site and wish to join our
organization, membership dues are a very low $15.00 per year. It helps to pay our expenses. We need your support to continue the quality of our programs.Click here for an application.
You can join at a meeting.
The American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia Inc. (ARRTOP) is a 501(c)(3) organization under the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions to us are deductibile under section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code. We are also qualified to receive tax deductible bequests, devises, transfers or gifts under section 2055, 2106 or 2522 of the Code. We are classified as as a public charity. If you wish to help support ARRTOP in its mission, contact anyone of the officers. Your assistance is greatly appreciated.
President's
Message
The American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia (ARRTOP) proudly celebrated its 10th anniversary last year. The organization was originally founded with the goal of becoming Philadelphia's primary forum for the preservation and dissemination of knowledge about the American Revolution. Over the years, we have continued to enjoy the presentations of numerous authors, historians and experts in the era of our nation's founding period.
It has only been in the last few years that we have found our organization continually challenged by the need for a change of meeting sites. For various reasons, ARRTOP has had to move about many times, to different restaurants, meeting rooms and other venues. Our traditional home base, Brittingham's Irish Pub in Lafayette Hill, PA, has recently closed for renovations under a new owner, once again necessitating an unplanned change of location.
I am pleased to report that for the remainder of this season, ARRTOP will assemble each month at historic St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Lafayette Hill, just a few hundred steps from our old site. St. Peter's location is the actual focus of the Battle of Barren Hill, one of General Lafayette's greatest triumphs over the Crown forces in North America. The story of this encounter is most inspiring, and worth researching. The successful escape of Lafayette and his troops against an attack by overwhelming numbers of enemy represents one of the high points of this young General's career.
It will be at this site, that the Board of ARRTOP hopes to set our course for the future, and launch into the next decade of service to the community with a continuation of quality presentations each month. We plan to find a permanent meeting place that will be not only adequate, but convenient and pleasant for all who attend ARRTOP meetings. Above all, we thank our loyal members who have persevered with us through all the changes, and we hope the coming year will bring an increase in new members to enjoy and learn from our programs!
We sincerely hope that you will plan to visit with us each month!
Bill Ochester, President
Contact Information E-mail address:
Contact Bill Ochester, President at Ochie1@aol.com
Webmaster:
Contact John A. Nagy at paperman@hotmail.com
Future Meetings
2013:
* Wednesday May 22, 2013 - Nancy Rubin Stuart on her New book (April 2013) Defiant Brides; The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men they Married.. She will becoming from Cape Cod to give this talk.
Saint Peter's Lutheran Church, 3025 Church Road, Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania, 19444. There is a large parking lot across the street.
* Wednesday June 26, 2013 - Steve Gulick performing as Thomas Paine
Saint Peter's Lutheran Church, 3025 Church Road, Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania, 19444. There is a large parking lot across the street.
* Wednesday September 25, 2013 - Aaron Sullivan on the British Occupation of Philadelphia.
Location to be determined
* Wednesday October 30, 2013, Jim Piecuch, On Cavalry of the American Revolution. He will be coming from Georgia to give this talk.
Location to be determined
* Wednesday November 20, 2013, John A. Nagy on his new book Dr. Benjamin Church, Spy: A Case of Espionge on the Eve of the American Revolution.
Location to be determined
* Wednesday December 4, 2013, Thomas Fleming on the Forgotten Emancipator, George Washington.
Location to be determined
To see the other speakers on our schedule click here.
The American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia's Book Award
2009
