Year: 2015 Language: english Author: The 18th Century Material Culture Resource Center Genre: History Publisher: The 18th Century Material Culture Resource Center Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 145+168 Description: NEW YORK, Feb. 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The Friends of Hermione-Lafayette in America, Inc., announce Lafayette's Hermione Voyage 2015, a two-month 'Re-Living History' sail to commemorate the Hermione, the Frigate of Freedom, that delivered the young Marquis de Lafayette in 1780 to General Washington with full French aid. They, together, turned the tide of the American Revolution. The authentically reconstructed Hermione, 17 years in the re-making, will sail 3,819 miles across the Atlantic to land in Yorktown on June 5th, before sailing up the coast to 11 additional iconic ports for an unprecedented two months of events. Visitors can join the festivities at any point along the route and enjoy tours on board or pier-side where activities are scheduled, including, historic shipbuilding crafts demonstrations, interactive conversations with the young volunteer sailors, and a lineup of cultural activities like costumed performances by seasoned re-enactors, concerts of period and contemporary music and food and craft exhibitions.
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A Living Historian’s Journey - L’Hermione
Language: english
Author: The 18th Century Material Culture Resource Center
Genre: History
Publisher: The 18th Century Material Culture Resource Center
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 145+168
Description: NEW YORK, Feb. 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The Friends of Hermione-Lafayette in America, Inc., announce Lafayette's Hermione Voyage 2015, a two-month 'Re-Living History' sail to commemorate the Hermione, the Frigate of Freedom, that delivered the young Marquis de Lafayette in 1780 to General Washington with full French aid. They, together, turned the tide of the American Revolution. The authentically reconstructed Hermione, 17 years in the re-making, will sail 3,819 miles across the Atlantic to land in Yorktown on June 5th, before sailing up the coast to 11 additional iconic ports for an unprecedented two months of events. Visitors can join the festivities at any point along the route and enjoy tours on board or pier-side where activities are scheduled, including, historic shipbuilding crafts demonstrations, interactive conversations with the young volunteer sailors, and a lineup of cultural activities like costumed performances by seasoned re-enactors, concerts of period and contemporary music and food and craft exhibitions.
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