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| Title: | Vermonts Ira Allen: A Hard Founding Father to Love | | Date: | 4/27/2025 (Sunday) | | Address: | 1 Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, VT, United States, Vermont 05408 | | Location: | Burlington, VT | | Hours: | Sunday, April 27, 2025 at 2:00PM 3:00PM EDT | | Cost/Cover: | See Details | | Contact Info: | See Details |
| Details: | The Ethan Allen Homestead Museum's Free Monthly Lecture Series presents: Vermonts Ira Allen: A Hard Founding Father to Love by Kevin Graffagnino, Vermont historian author. QA follows the presentation. Refreshments provided.
This event is free to the public. This event is in-person. Registration is not required. Donations are appreciated.
ABOUT THIS MONTH'S LECTURE:
Ethan's baby brother Ira was the longest-living, and arguably the most successful, of the many Allen brothers who shaped Vermont history. Ira was a land speculator, revolutionary, pamphleteer, politician, and an empire-builder -- truly a key figure on the late eighteenth-century Green Mountain frontier. But, he died impoverished and exiled from Vermont. What happened?
Based on his new book Ira Allen: A Biography, J. Kevin Graffagninos lively talk evaluates Allens checkered career and makes the case for including him in our picture of Vermonts formative decades.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kevin Graffagnino was raised in Montpelier, Vermont, and attended the University of Vermont for his undergraduate education. Graffagnino then served as the Curator of Vermont History at UVM while obtaining his PhD from the University of Massachusetts. Graffagnino has worked in historical societies and libraries in Wisconsin, Kentucky, Michigan, and Vermont during a 41-year career.
Graffagnino has authored several books on Vermont history, including, \"The Shaping of Vermont\" (1983), \"Vermont in the Victorian Age\" (1985), \"Vermont Voices, 1609 Through the 1990s\" (1999), \"The Vermont Difference: Perspectives from the Green Mountain State\" (2014), \"Vermont Heritage: Essays on Green Mountain History 1770-1920\" (2020), \"Ira Allen: A Biography\" (2024), \"Vermontiana: An Annotated Checklist, 1764-1899\" (2024).
ABOUT THE EAHM'S FREE MONTHLY LECTURE SERIES:
The Homestead Monthly Lecture Program is free for all the attend! It covers various topics pertaining to Vermont history, early American history |
| Audience: | All Welcome | | Category: | Show | | Submitted by: | contributed |
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