Mutual Mt. Airy Public Gathering - History Buffs Take Note!

ATTENTION:  HISTORY ENTHUSIASTS!
Join MUTUAL MT. AIRY members for the October 28 program:

“Stones the Builders Rejected: The Irrelevance and Relevance of John Dickinson”

A presentation by historian Dr. Jane E. Calvert

(Join us for refreshments and conversation at 6:45 p.m.)

Here we are in the backyard of the American Revolutionary War.  But do we really know about all our Founding Fathers?  John Dickinson, for example?  Dickinson was America’s first political celebrity, but his legacy remains a puzzle.   He offered forward-looking ideas—peaceful political dissent, abolition of slavery, and constitutional protections for women’s rights—but many of his contemporaries rejected them. And indeed decades and centuries later, many Americans still find them “revolutionary”!   Yet, today few Americans are aware of this great patriot’s contributions for one main reason: He refused to vote on or sign the Declaration of Independence.  Join us to learn why…

Dr. Jane E. Calvert will discuss the remarkable career of this Founding Father. An Associate Professor of History at the University of Kentucky, she received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and is the founding Director and Editor of the John Dickinson Writings Project (JDP). After 15 years of work on John Dickinson, she is the recognized authority on his life and contributions. Her monograph, Quaker Constitutionalism and the Political Thought of John Dickinson (Cambridge 2009), is the first comprehensive analysis of his thought and action during the Revolution. The JDP, founded in 2009, seeks to collect and publish everything Dickinson, known as the “Penman of the Revolution,” wrote on public affairs.
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