Miscellanea

Reminder: If you’re reading this in your email, you have to go to dpauthor.com and click on the Speaking of Which tab in order to view the actual blog post with the featured image.

FYI, here’s a tidbit about the challenges facing one Rev War site—the Bennington Battle Monument in Vermont—that arrived in an email courtesy of John Maass, historian at the National Museum of the U.S. Army: take a look if you’re interested. John also passed along a link to a Smithsonian Magazine article about the early stages of the American rebellion in the South, which can be viewed here.

On June 19, the National Museum of the U.S. Army will host an author talk with historian Gary Ecelbarger about his new book, George Washington’s Momentous Year: Twelve Months that Transformed the Revolution. The event starts at 7 PM ET, and is free.
The direct Zoom link is: https://www.zoomgov.com/j/1611147630

Here’s a link to information about a conference on September 14-16 in Washington, DC, sponsored by the Jack Miller Center — “The American Revolution and Its Legacies from 1776 to Today.”

I’d like anyone who’s thinking about buying my new book—Winning the Tern Crucial Days—to know that, although it’s available wherever books are sold, if you’d like a signed copy AND want to support one of the most hallowed historic sites in North America, you can do so online through the gift shop at Washington Crossing Historic Park here (and nowhere else). FWIW, I’ll be speaking about the book as part of the park’s July 4 event — at 2 and again at 4 pm in the Visitor Center auditorium.

For your consideration  .  .  .

I’m always appreciative (as well I should be) when someone compliments me on one of my books; however, I would like to make a humble but earnest appeal to readers of that persuasion to share your sentiments with others online. In particular, for anyone who may be favorably impressed by the new book (or, as we say at Washington Crossing, if it floats your boat), I hope you’ll consider leaving a brief comment on Amazon—even just a sentence or two—BUT only if you honestly believe it deserves 5 stars. Quite frankly, those reviews are the mother’s milk of recognition for non-brand-name authors, so that would be very much appreciated—and many thanks in advance.

Please note: These remarks are not directed at the several readers who have graciously offered endorsement quotes for the book that are posted on this website, as well as by Brookline Books and Amazon. I am very grateful for your support!!

And Finally  .  .  .

Memorial Day being close at hand, I’ll leave you with this snippet from Thomas Paine:

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must … undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” (The American Crisis IV, September 12, 1777)