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.
Ira Allen and the Green Mountain Frontier is a Vermont Humanities program hosted by Woodstock History Center. (Supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the NEH or Vermont Humanities.)
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.
