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)FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 20235. De Broglie Intrigue
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!