McCauley Lecture: "The Militia in Early America: A civic duty with ginger bread and hard cider"

Program Type:

Cultural Heritage & Genealogy

Age Group:

Teens & YA (13-18), Adults
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The latest in the McCauley lecture series will be local historian Sam Cathey who will present “The Militia in Early America: A civic duty with ginger bread and hard cider.” Sam will discuss the rise and fall and rise again of the militia system and what the Second Amendment meant during the Nation’s first decades. Special emphasis will be given to the near death of the militia system during the 1830s. On this special occasion we will have fresh apple cider and home-baked ginger bread made according to an 1841 recipe. Sam Cathey has worked as a public school history teacher and then as a school librarian, and today does freelance work for museums, and volunteers at historic sites up and down the East Coast.

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