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LEXINGTON COMMUNITY EDUCATION presents An Evening with Taylor Stoermer, PhD

Dr. Stoermer will discuss his book, "The Ends of Loyalty: Taking the Battle Road through the Hearts and Minds of Revolutionary Americans"

Explore the lived experience of men and women between Cambridge and Concord who did not join the patriot opposition to the British army’s actions on April 19th, 1775. By exploring their motivations and mentalities, Dr. Stoermer will present new definitions of patriotism and loyalty, as those who lived through the experience understood them, and perhaps resituate what we mean by the very concept of an American Revolution.

Dr. Taylor Stoermer is Harvard University’s Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Fellow in History and the Instructor of Public History in Harvard’s Museum Studies program. The former chief historian of Colonial Williamsburg and an Invited Scholar at Brown University, Dr. Stoermer counsels heritage sites on survival strategies He earned his PhD in History from the University of Virginia and is also an alumnus of the Johns Hopkins University and Tulane University School of Law.

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This event will be held on Thursday, April 14 at 7:00pm at the Lexington Depot, 13 Depot Square. The cost is $10.00.

Pre-registration strongly recommended. To register, using a VISA or MasterCard, please contact Lexington Community Education at 781 862 8043.

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