New Podcast Available Now: Tracking the Trail of America's Favorite Fighting Frenchman
A New York Minute in History
In celebration of New York State History and Archives Month, this episode follows the trail of the Marquis de Lafayette, the orphaned member of one of France's oldest and wealthiest families who became a trusted confident and military leader for George Washington during the American Revolution. 50 years later, Lafayette returned to the young United States , traveled to every state in existence at the time and was greeted by huge crowds as a living symbol of the Founding Generation.
Interviewees: Julien Icher, Founder and President of the Lafayette Trail Inc. and Lafayette250, and Kathy Sheehan, Troy City and Rensselaer County Historian, and Executive Director of the Hart-Cluett House Museum
Marker of Focus: Lafayette's Tour, Rensselaer County