Lecture Focuses on 250th Impact Locally

The local Carnegie Museum is the site for a program celebrating the American experiment of democracy in honor of the United Sates Semiquincentennial.

On Thursday, visitors are invited to join the Museum’s first program celebrating next year’s 250^th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The Revolution in Plain Sight: Conversations of Indiana and the 250^th  features historians Ryan L. Cole and Jill Weiss Simins, who will connect the ideals of the Revolution with our local history.

Cole is the author of The Last Adieu: Lafayette’s Triumphant Return, the Echoes of Revolution, and the Gratitude of the Republic and Light-Horse Harry Lee: Rise and Fall of a Revolutionary Hero. He has written on American history for publications such as the Wall Street Journal and has worked for Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels and U.S. Sen. Todd Young.

Simins is a historian at the Indiana Archives and Records Administration focused on collections accessibility and the history of Indiana. She has been the recipient of the Dorothy Riker Hoosier Historian Award from the Indiana Historical Society, the Beck-Levy Fellowship from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and a Smithsonian Fellowship through Re-Imagining Migration.

It all takes place tomorrow at 7 p.m. at the Carnegie Museum in beautiful downtown Crawfordsville.