1776: Overturning the Pennsylvania Government on the Road to Independence

In honor of America’s 250th birthday and the Summer Reading theme, Unearth a Story, David Hunsicker, Jr, America 250PA Chairman and 2nd Vice President of the Sons of the American Revolution Valley Forge Chapter will give a talk on Pennsylvania’s role in the American Revolution including local stories as well.
In 1776, the future of the thirteen colonies stood in the balance. War with the British had broken out the year before, but Pennsylvania remained divided on the path forward. Prominent voices in the colony continued to urge restraint and the Provincial Assembly's instructions to its delegates in the Continental Congress clearly stated that they were to "dissent from and utterly reject, any Propositions, should any such be made, that may cause, or lead to, a Separation from our Mother Country, or a Change of the Form of this Government." Without the "Keystone" uniting the northern and southern colonies, Independence could not be achieved. Over the course of a few months in 1776, dramatic events would take place that would overturn Pennsylvania's government, create a new radically democratic constitution for the new Commonwealth, and shift the vote in Congress to bring about a new nation. This program will describe events as they progressed from Parliament's passage of the "Intolerable Acts" in 1774 and the convening of the First Continental Congress through the momentous summer of 1776, with a focus on local patriots from townships in today's western Lehigh (then part of Northampton) County.
This program will be held in the library’s multipurpose room.
Registration preferred. Walk-ins welcome.
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Please contact the library at programming@lowermaclib.org if you are unable to attend.
Lower Macungie Library Voices and Stories Throughout America's 250 Years Program Series
This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Lower Macungie Library.
PA Forward: Civic and Social Literacy