Our next meeting is to be a hybrid meeting on Tuesday, September 16. We
will be meeting in person at the Mount Vernon Inn at 6 p.m. (social
hour) and 6:40 p.m. (dinner). Please let Richard Rankin know by
completing and mailing in the attached reservation sheet or by
responding to this email (brandywinecreek@aol.com).
We need to give the Mount Vernon Inn the dinner count by Friday,
September 12. You can also pay at the door. Either way please let us
know if you would like at meatloaf or salmon dish for dinner. (This is
the first time that our new dinner rate of $40 per dinner goes into
effect.)
For those who want to attend remotely, the Zoom meeting
will start at bit after 7 p.m. If you can only attend by Zoom, I will
email you a Zoom link to the meeting the day of the meeting. Feel free
to share this email with a friend who or family member whom you think
may be interested.
Our next speaker will be our own Larry Howard,
who will be speaking on John Dickinson. Dr. Lawrence Howard is a
historian and independent scholar living and working in Northern
Virginia. His research focuses on the Founding Era at the intersection
of history, political philosophy, and rhetoric. The root of his research
is examining the foundations of and the differing perspectives on key
political concepts such as freedom, liberty, slavery, and tyranny.
Larry
has a multi-disciplinary academic background, having earned a doctorate
in liberal studies from Georgetown University, and master’s degrees in
government information leadership, strategic studies, and management, as
well as a bachelor’s in criminology. Larry retired from the Army
following a 33-year career as an infantry and civil affairs officer and
is currently a Department of the Army civilian. When not working or
exploring research libraries and archives, he enjoys hiking and
traveling.
For his talk, Larry will discuss Pennsylvania’s John
Dickinson. Some historians think that Dickinson was NOT a true patriot,
even though he was a delegate to the Second Continental Congress, the
body that approved the Declaration of Independence, and also believe
that he took up arms against the British. Larry will talk to us about
how Dickinson used classical political words as he sought to generate
support for American independence from Britain, helping to spread
classical political ideas across the American colonies.

George Washington, Namesake of our Round Table
Book Award
Sep 2025
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