The American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia has a new meeting location. The Board of Directors has unanimously decided that we needed to go back to our old style of meeting site. Specifically a place where our members can have a meal or a drink with our presentation and be able to continue to discuss the presentation with the presenter while consuming their favorite beverage.
After a search of locations, we have decided that the Broad Axe Tavern, 901 Butler Pike, Ambler, Pennsylvania will be our new home beginning with our February 24, 2010 meeting. The Broad Axe Tavern dates back to 1681 and offers both sandwiches and full meals along with alcoholic beverages. Its website is www.broadaxetavern.com and telephone is 215-643-6300. It is located at the corner of Butler and West Skippack Pikes (zip code 19002). Parking in the rear. Do not park in the shopping center.
As with almost every 325+ year old building, the Broad Axe Tavern has its ghost legend. Our meetings are open to the public and we also hope the ghost named Rachel enjoys our talks. Please tell you friends of our new meeting location. We have some great scheduled of programs: Philadelphia’s revolutionary war defenses, receive training in revolutionary war spy technology, and a Pulitzer Prize winning author.
We want to thank Cathedral Village for being our home for the past year.
Our new website address is "arrtop.com". GEOCITIES website closed in October, we had to find a new host site. The Board of Directors agreed that we needed a better hosting option. We wanted ARRTOP to be available all the time which is not possible with a free hosting service. If possible the Board wanted to do away with advertisements on our site
I checked around and found us a hosting site at a good rate. ARRTOP will be available 24/7 and no advertisements. We have our own domain name now and it is arrtop.com. No www in the name.
It was a lot more work then I thought would be involved. There was so many lines of programing that had to be changed. It took about 14 hours of work. Just the first page has over 700 lines of programing in HTML to produce what you see. I had to delete some lines, add others, and change words in the lines. Also had to download everything including pictures and then upload everything to the new site and then fix what was not working.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - Torben Jenk, Historian and Builder. The title of his illustrated talk is "How the British Army defended Philadelphia during their occupation from September 1777 to June 1778. An illustrated presentation of rare manuscript maps and the accounts of their designer, the Chief Engineer in America, Captain John Montresor (1736-1799)."
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - John A. Nagy will present a class in Revolutionary War coding and decoding. Bring paper and pen as you learn how to be a spy.
Wednesday April 28, 2010 - Barbara Mitnick will present an illustrated talk titled Picturing the Revolution: The Pennsylvania/New Jersey Connection.
Wednesday May 26, 2010 - Pulitzer Prize winning author Edwin G. Burrows on his new book "Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the American Revolution"
Saturday June 26, 2010 - A Revolutionary War Era Panel Discussion at Valley Forge National Park Theater between Dean Malissa as General George Washington, Steven Edenbo as Thomas Jefferson, Bill Ochester as Benjamin Franklin, Bob Heffner as General Henry Knox, Noah Lewis as Ned Hector, and Kim Hanley as Abigale Adams. The Moderator will be John A. Nagy, author and President of the American Revolutionary War Round Table of Philadelphia
If you see someone new go and say hello.
Dues is only $15.00 for the year.
If you want to join (Click here for an application.)
Would you like to help run ARRTOP. Nominations for officers (President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer ) are now open. See either John Nagy, Bill Ochester, or Joe Bilotti at a meeting, send an e-mail, or call.
I have set up a fan site on facebook for the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia. Stop for a visit and become a fan. Let me know what you want on the fan page.
I ask that you provide us with some input. Please provide us with a note telling us what speakers you want to see on the schedule.
If anyone of you within our membership and attendees is involved in any
project related to our common interest in the Revolutionary War era, let ARRTOP
know. Perhaps you are conducting research, or working as a volunteer or maybe
you have had something published. Don't be shy, let us know. You never know who
else may be interested or what it could lead to.
In order to speed things along, ARRTOP institued the policy that all reports will be handled by the President at the podium and not from the floor. If anyone has something that they would like to report about themselves or others contact me, John Nagy before the meeting starts.
Nominations are open to commercial (not self) publishers and members of the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia. If you have a book that you think should be considered please advise Jan Sklaroff at sklrff@yahoo.com
That's all for this month's newsletter
I remain your humble and obedient servant,
John A. Nagy
Back
to top
© 2010 AMERICAN REVOLUTION ROUND TABLE OF PHILADELPHIA