George Washington, Namesake of our Round Table

Sep 2025

 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.