Historic Somerville

 

Preserving the Past for Our Future 

Historic Somerville Inc.
9 Knowlton St.
Somerville, MA 02145

eschofield2014@gmail.com

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  • Mission
  • About Us
    • Membership form 2018
    • Meeting Location/Contact Us
  • Online Membership Renewal
  • Lecture and Event Tickets
  • Spring 2018 Events
    • An Afternoon with Kevin Dua
    • 242nd Flag Raising
  • Pictures and Past Events
    • Ghosts of Somerville
    • Veterans Day 2017
    • HS Lecture: The Yankee Division, Dan Breen
    • Winter Holiday Party
    • Docent Tours Fall 2017
    • Spring 2017 Lecture Series and Events
    • Bulfinch and the Barrell Mansion, Joseph Cornish
    • Inventing the Charles River, Karl Haglund
    • Revisiting the Flag at Prospect Hill - Byron DeLear
    • Spring 2016 lectures
    • The Jews of Somerville and greater Boston
    • Milk Row Cemetery Tour
    • The History of Somerville Lumber
    • Fall 2015 Local History Lectures
    • From Smyrna to Belleau Wood and the Second Battle of the Marne by Dr. Daniel Breen
    • Charles Williams Jr.: Somerville's Connection to the First Telephone
    • Somerville Past and Present: Images of a Century of Change by Jeff Myers
    • Boston and the Civil War; Hub of the Second Revolution
    • My Life in the First African-American Unit of the Air Force
    • History of Agriculture in Somerville
    • Art Glass of the Union Glass Co.
    • Fall 2014 Events
    • Friday, Dec. 12th, 7-9PM, Winter Holiday Party
    • Tuesday, November 11th, 2:30PM, Veterans' Day Remembrance Ceremony
    • Sunday, Nov. 9th, 2-4PM, talk by Prof. Dan Breen, The March to Laurel Hill in 1864
    • Saturday, Oct.25th 3-5PM, Mr. Allen's Tidal Powered Rope Walk
    • Thursday, Oct. 23, 5-6:30PM, Milk Row Cemetery Docent-led Tour
    • Ghosts of Somerville 2014 pictures!
    • Milk Row Cemetery Docent Led Tours
    • Mystic River Roundtable with Richard Beinecke
    • Defiance of the Patriots lecture
    • 2013 Holiday Wreath Donations
    • The Spirit of Somerville: Booksigning by Eugene Brune
    • Struggles Unceasing: The POW Experience of the Somerville Guard in the Civil War
    • Ghosts of Somerville 2013
    • For Better or Worse: 19th C. Tales Along the Middlesex and Washington, D.C. Canals
    • The Better Homes Movement in Somerville, 1922-1930
    • Workshop: Repair Historic Windows
    • The Somerville I Didn't Know: The Influence of Africans, West-Indians and African Americans on Somerville, 1630-1860.
    • May is Preservation Month - Events 2013
    • The Mystic River: March 24th Lecture
    • Raising the Roof and More
    • First Flag - January 1st, 2013
    • The Struggles of the 39th Massachusetts Volunteers
    • Somerville: Haven for Ingenious Minds
    • Militia versus Regulars in America's War of Independence
    • The Menace of the Three Decker
    • Patriots Day 2012
    • Lafayette in Somerville (Charlestown Beyond the Neck) 1824-25
    • 236th Raising of the Grand Union Flag 2012
    • April 18th, 2011 Patriots Day Colonial Fair at Foss Park
    • 2010: Paul Revere and Colonial Fair in Somerville's Foss Park
    • Ghosts of Somerville Open Cemetery Tour 2010
    • Ghosts of Somerville 2009
    • Ghost of Somerville 2006-08
    • Alan Hoffman Lecture on General Lafayettes Tour of America 1824-25
    • Reenactments
    • Costumes for 1776
  • The Civil War Monument
    • Reading the Monument
    • West Side of the Monument
    • The South Side of the Monument
    • East Side of the Monument
    • North Side of the Monument
    • The Obelisk
  • Donate
    • The advantages of repairing rather than replacing your historic windows
  • Preservation
  • Links Related to Somerville and History
    • The Barrell Mansion on Cobble Hill
    • The Round House
    • The Round House Interior - 1950s-1960s.
    • Greek Immigration to Somerville
    • Soldiers and Sailors Monument
    • American Legion and Vietnam Memorials
    • Spanish War Monument

Alan Hoffman Lecture on General Lafayettes Tour of America 1824-25

 

 

Sunday, March 11th, 2:00-3:30PM

at the Somerville Museum, One Westwood Rd, Somerville, 02143

Alan Hoffman

Lafayette and the Farewell Tour:

Odyssey of an American Idol.  

Join us for a talk and book signing by the author of the Unabridged English Translation of Lafayette en Amérique en 1824 et 1825 – published in 1829 by Auguste Levasseur, Private Secretary to General Lafayette During His Trip

Alan Hoffman is the President of the American Friends of Lafayette and President of the Massachusetts Lafayette Society.  Lafayette came to Charlestown (later Somerville) during his tour of America in 1824 to lay the cornerstone of the Bunker Hill monument.  He was greeted by Col. Samuel Jacques, one of the most colorful gentleman farmers of his time and dined with him at his home on Bow Street.  Come learn more about Lafayette and his extraordinary reception throughout this country.

 

“Alan R. Hoffman has made a very great contribution with his translation of Levasseur’s Journal.”

–David McCullough, author of 1776, John Adams and Truman

“What a terrific account of America in the 1820s! How fortunate we are that Levasseur kept this journal and that Alan R. Hoffman found and translated it.”

–Robert J. Allison, Professor of History, Suffolk University

  • Meet a superstar of the 19th century, closely acquainted with the first six US presidents, and beloved by rich and poor alike.
  • Though French, Lafayette was made an American general at 19. He became the “Hero of Yorktown”.
  • Trace his steps as he travels through a young America, 50 years after the Revolution.
  • Learn details of Lafayette’s private visits with the Founding Fathers.
  • Discover Lafayette’s enlightened views on slavery and the plight of Native Americans.

Auguste Levasseur’s Lafayette in America is a journal of General Lafayette’s 1824-1825 Farewell Tour of all 24 United States. In this book, Lafayette’s private secretary describes how the now 67-year-old hero of the American Revolution and apostle of liberty in Europe was welcomed in an adoring frenzy by the American people. Lafayette was the sole surviving major general of the Continental Army. With its panoramic view of the young country — its burgeoning cities and towns, its technological innovations like the Erie Canal, and its industrious people — this book captures America on the cusp of its jubilee year.

Levasseur also chronicles Lafayette’s affectionate visits with his old friends John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe and John Quincy Adams, and his encounter with Senator Andrew Jackson. A keen observer, Levasseur gives us a sense of the characters of these men who, with Lafayette’s paternal friend George Washington, led the United States through its first six decades.







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