All around the Round Table

Greetings!  This week, we learned from our Round Tabler Jack Kelly that his new book, Band of Giants: The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America's Independence is due to be published this September by Palgrave Macmillan.  More information can be found at bandofgiants.org.  One of our intrepid reviewers might just be talking about this book at a Round Table meeting later this year.  Stay tuned.

Jack also reports on (thwarted) Revolutionary War ties to the silver screen:  "When actor Marion Morrison was cast in an early Western, director Raoul Walsh suggested he be called Anthony Wayne after the famous Revolutionary War general. Studio executives thought the name Anthony sounded 'too Italian.' They settled on a more Anglo-Saxon moniker: John Wayne. Too bad Duke never got to play Mad Anthony."

More T-shirt slogan ideas from Lynne Saginaw, our Board member and Book Review Chair:

“... Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.” -- Abigail Adams (1744-1818) in a letter to her husband John, March 31, 1776.

Portrait of Abigail Adams by Blythe

 “If this is Treason, Make the Most of It.” -- Patrick Henry, 1736-1799. Speech to the Virginia Convention, March 23, 1777 as recorded in the minutes: “...George the Third [Treason! cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example.”

Finally, did any of our readers attend the Hamilton commemorations last week?  If you'd care to post a comment here, please do, or post on our Facebook page:  American Revolution Round Table of New York.  See you next week!