In commemoration of America’s 250th Anniversary Lorenzo State Historic Site is sponsoring a free Speaker Series featuring highly regarded historians, archaeologists, and authors specializing in the Revolutionary War era.

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Lorenzo is thrilled to bring this distinguished group of scholars to Cazenovia. The goal of the series is to foster awareness and dialog around the people, places, and events that helped bring about a new nation 250 years ago and the continuing struggle to achieve the ideals of the American Revolution.

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Please join us as we welcome Philip Levy for his presentation “Three Centuries of Washington's Childhood Home”. Philip Levy is a Professor of History at the University of South Florida. His work sits at the intersection of history, historical archaeology, landscape, memory, and public history. He is the author of several books dealing with George Washington both as a person and as a national icon. Where the Cherry Tree Grew: The Story of Ferry Farm, George Washington’s Boyhood Home (2013) and George Washington Written Upon the Land: Nature, Memory, Myth, and Landscape (2015) focus on the places of Washington childhood. Professor Levy is an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer and also has been extensively involved with the National Park Service. He wrote the new Historical Resource Study and an extended biographical study of enslaved people for the George Washington Birthplace National Monument and is now working on two book projects emerging from that research.