Posted on 08/27/2007 5:27:26 AM PDT by Pharmboy
Adam Leonberger | Senior Photographer
People in period dress are present during the announcement of
events in Lafayette that will commemorate Marquis de Lafayette's
birthday. The Greater Lafayette community is coming together this
fall to celebrate the 250th birthday of the Marquis de Lafayette.
Lafayette was a French statesman who inspired the names of Lafayette and West Lafayette. The community is arranging 24 events throughout the fall to commemorate his birthday.
The Marquis de Lafayette Celebration Committee Chair Ramona Lawson said the birthday is an important milestone in the Lafayette community.
"It's another opportunity for our community to come together and celebrate," she said. "Many artists, organizations and individuals are volunteering their time for this celebration."
Kathy Atwell, interim executive director of the Tippecanoe County Historical Association, said the signature event of the birthday celebration will be a musical tribute called All About Lafayette. The program, which will include French music and dancing, will be held at 4 p.m. on Sept. 9 at the Lafayette Theatre.
She also said re-enactors will be performing as the Marquis de Lafayette and George Washington at Global Fest at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 1 at the Morton Community Center.
Atwell said Lafayette is an important figure for America and France.
"The Marquis was a fascinating man," she said. "He could be inspiring for young people. He was a 19-year-old who changed America."
On September 6th, it will be the 250th anniversary of the birth of the greatest Frenchman Americans have ever known. A good time for us to raise a toast to him and remember what he did.
General Washington loved him as the son he never had...and that's good enough for me.
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“A Meal Fit for the Marquis”
250th Anniversary All College Dinner combines the best of Colonial fare and French cuisine
EASTON, Pa.(www.lafayette.edu), August 23, 2007 —
For the Marquis de Lafayette’s 250th All College Dinner Sept. 6, Dining Services has cooked up a feast fit for common Colonial peasants, American Revolutionary War soldiers, the French upper class, and even the Marquis.
The dinner is part of the Marquis’ birthday party, which is the event kicking off the College’s yearlong celebration in recognition of the life and legacy of the man for whom it is named.
In addition to the party, major events will include a lecture series, entitled Lives of Liberty, featuring renowned speakers, and a historical exhibit at the Williams Center for the Arts, entitled A Son and his Adoptive Father: The Marquis de Lafayette and George Washington.
A web site dedicated to the celebration and to the Marquis’ unique connection to the College provides information and updates.
Sept. 6 All College Dinner Menu.
Starting at 5:30 p.m. on the Quad, the All College Dinner will be provided for the enjoyment of Lafayette students, faculty, and staff.
The meal will combine the theme of the Revolutionary War with the influence of the Marquis de Lafayette. The result is a meal of hearty Colonial fare along with French desserts and birthday cake.
“The menu evolved. It morphed four or five times until it reached its final state,” says Joseph Binotto, general manager of Dining Services. Binotto says the Dining Services team had fun developing the menu, but also did extensive research which included a trip to Colonial Williamsburg to explore the types of food served there.
The menu consists of foods that were popular at the time and that were readily available.
The military and Colonial citizens would have eaten foods that were growing nearby or game that they could hunt. Their food would also be cooked in more basic ways, such as over a fire, so the menu tries to capture these styles. The result is a smorgasbord for the taste buds.
For the dinner, the Quad will be divided into four sections. In each section, a station will provide a feast for both the mouth and the eyes.
One station will feature pit-roasted Virginia ham, cheddar cheese, grilled sausages, and hearty stew. A second will provide vegetarian choices including white beans and corn, which would have been easily available in colonial times, as well pickled vegetables, a style of preservation that was popular at the time.
Baked cottage pies, “seafood muddle” or stew, and “estouffade of beef” will be available at another station. The last section will provide apple cider and sweet & tart lemonade served from wooden kegs.
The food variety demonstrates the history of the time, such as the use of heavy spices on some dishes as the result of trade with the West Indies. Executive chef Michael Kramlich found several ways to incorporate typical Colonial fare with hints of French cuisine, such as the use of Dijon mustard dressing and Duchess potatoes.
A dessert station will allow for a display of French delicacies. A chef will flambé cherries with brandy to be served over ice cream. A number of other pastry and cream desserts will be served, including chocolate tarts with shaved chocolate, kirsch puffs with rose’ fondant, and blueberry Bavarian cream.
There will also be a ceremonial birthday cake for the Marquis and birthday sheet cakes for those who prefer a more traditional dessert.
Dining Services is also working hard to present the food in period appropriate vessels. The stews will be served in cauldron-like pots, cast iron skillets will be used, and silver platters will present the French desserts. The wood of the table will even be made to appear as though it would be appropriate in any Revolutionary War camp.
The staff working to serve the food will also dress in period costumes. Some men will appear as military officers, some ladies as French provincial women, and other waiters will dress as common Colonial men and women.
Copyright © 2007, Lafayette College.
www.lafayette.edu
(Lafayette College is about 30 minutes from my house.)
Thanks for your excellent addition to this thread. I just drove by there on I-78 yesterday (took the alternate route back from Maryland).
What a wonderful celebration!
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Lives of Liberty Lecture Series at Lafayette College
In the fall, the Lives of Liberty lecture series will include distinguished scholars whose work deals with the Marquis’ life or the times in which he lived.
In the spring, the series will feature accomplished individuals whose lives embody the ideals of Lafayette in the world today. Information on the speakers will be posted here as scheduling advances.
David McCullough | Ron Chernow | Simon Schama
Gloria Steinem | Salman Rushdie
*****
“David McCullough”
Keynote Lecture “Ties that Bind:
America and France,” 8 p.m. Sept. 5, Kamine Gymnasium
David McCullough, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for his biographies of Harry S Truman and John Adams, will kick off the Lives of Liberty series with a keynote talk Sept. 5.
The father of a Lafayette graduate and recipient of an honorary doctor of laws degree from the College in 1995, McCullough was presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, by President George W. Bush in December 2006.
He is a world-renowned writer and historian who has received more than 70 awards and honors for his books and articles.
In addition to Pulitzers for Truman and John Adams, McCullough’s biography of Theodore Roosevelt, Mornings on Horseback, won the 1982 National Book Award for Biography and The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914, won the National Book Award for History in 1978.
He is also the author of The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (1983), The Johnstown Flood (1987), Brave Companions: Portraits in History (1992), and most recently 1776 (2005). None of his books has ever been out of print.
He has been honored with the National Book Foundation Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Award, National Humanities Medal, St. Louis Literary Award, Carl Sandburg Award, and New York Public Library’s Literary Lion Award.
McCullough received his B.A. in English literature from Yale University and has been given more than 30 honorary degrees. He has also hosted public television’s Smithsonian World and The American Experience and narrated Ken Burns’ documentaries The Civil War and Napoleon and the movie Seabiscuit.
http://www.lafayette.edu/250/lecture.html
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