AFL ANNUAL MEETING 2023

June 8-11th





Meeting Itinerary...


AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LAFAYETTE ANNUAL MEETING

JUNE 8-11, 2023

“TELLING THE STORY”

THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 2023

5:30pm            Exhibit Hall (with docents) and Lafayette Store Open

6:30pm            Reception with local cuisine (“Taste of Georgia”) & drinks

7:00pm            Program:  Drama “The Spirit of Lafayette” in five acts:

1.     “Gottschalk and Idzerda”
2.     Vercingetorix (Lafayette’s boyhood hero)
3.     Henriette and Duc d’Ayen (Adrienne’s parents)
4.     Noailles and Segur (Lafayette’s friends when he was a teen)

5.     De Broglie Intrigue

FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 2023

7:00am           Breakfast

9:00am           AFL Business Meeting (much more fun than you think!!!)

12:00pm          Lunch

12:30pm          Lecture: “Lafayette and Abolition” by Dr. Linda McMullen

2:00pm            Drama: “Spirit of Lafayette” featuring Lafayette, Adrienne, Washington, Hamilton, and Napoleon

3:00pm            Special Exhibit: the Lafayette Houdon Bust and Hargens’ paintings.

4:00pm            Free Time

5:30pm            Exhibit Hall (with docents) and Lafayette Store Open

6:30pm            AFL Annual Banquet

7:30pm            Conversation with General Washington and General Lafayette

SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 2023

7:00am           Breakfast

9:00am            American Friends of Lafayette Group Photo Lafayette Square

9:30am            Tour Buses load to Fort Benning, site of Lafayette’s Crossing of the Chattahoochee River on the Farewell Tour, and Fort Mitchell site where General Lafayette viewed one of the last “stick-ball” games played here by Creek Indians in 1825.

4:00pm            Free Time

6:30pm            Minuet

                        Dinner

Drama: An evening with Adrienne Lafayette and James Armistead Lafayette

SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 2023

9:00 am           Breakfast at Hills & Dales Visitor Center

Dedication of the “Lafayette’s Legacy” Camellia from the American Camellia Society. 

Independent Tour Hills & Dales Estate (This is the home of Fuller E. Callaway, who was a self-made textile magnate, and a LaGrange philanthropist.  He established the Callaway Foundation.  The home was built in 1916 and also includes Ferrell Gardens that were begun in 1832.)

Safe Travels Home!


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