PART TWO OF A FOUR-PART LECTURE SERIES
HELD IN THE NORMAN WILLIAMS LIBRARY MEZZANINE,
LOCATED AT 10 S. PARK STREET, WOODSTOCK
Land speculator, revolutionary, pamphleteer, politician, and empire-builder, Ira Allen was a key figure on the late eighteenth-century Green Mountain frontier. Based on his new book Ira Allen: A Biography, J. Kevin Graffagnino’s lively talk evaluates Allen’s checkered career and makes the case for including him in our picture of Vermont’s formative decades.
On Wednesday, April 15, at 2:00 pm, Dr. Kevin Graffagnino will present a lecture entitled “Ira Allen and the Green Mountain Frontier.” This program, which is co-hosted by the Woodstock History Center and the Norman Williams Library, is sponsored by the Vermont Humanities Council.
About the speaker…
J. Kevin Graffagnino is author/editor of 17 books on Vermont history, including The Shaping of Vermont, Vermont in the Victorian Age, and Vermont Heritage: Essays on Green Mountain History, 1779-1920. His most recent books are Ira Allen: A Biography and Vermontiana: An Annotated Checklist, 1764-1899, both of which came out in 2024. Dr. Graffagnino was curator of Vermont history at the University of Vermont library’s Special Collections 1978-95 and executive director of the Vermont Historical Society 2003-08. Since 1980 he has spoken in more than half the towns in Vermont.
