#311 Lafayette's Farewell Tour: A 200 Year View w/ Mark Schneider
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
On August 15th, 1824, the Marquis de Lafayette returned to the United States for a grand farewell tour. It was his first visit since leaving the US in the late 1780s. The tour was a unifying moment for a deeply divided country. In the wake of a crippling economic downturn, and a fracturing over the Missouri question and the issue of slavery, the nation was in the midst of a bitter Presidential election. The first without a political or military hero of the American Revolution on the ballot. Lafayette's visit, if only for a moment, reminded the nation of the Spirit of 76 and their beloved adopted French son.
Thanks to the organization, American Friends of Lafayette, for the next thirteen months, Lafayette 200 celebrations will retrace the steps of the Marquee de Lafayette's historic tour.
On this episode of the Road to Now we welcome Historical Interpreter, Mark Schneider. Mark has embodied Lafayette for over 25 years. Along the way he has educated students of history young and old about Lafayette's life and the role he played in the American Revolution.
If you enjoy this episode, make sure to check out our episode on The Lafayette Trail w/ Julian Ischer on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps.
This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Bob Crawford and this is The Road to Now. |
| 0:09.6 | I hope everybody out there is having a great summer. |
| 0:12.8 | We've had a very busy summer here at the Crawford household. |
| 0:17.7 | I know Ben has had a busy summer as well. |
| 0:21.6 | We hope you've enjoyed our re-airings. |
| 0:25.2 | I think Ben did an amazing job curating them and picking out some great golden oldies for you all. |
| 0:34.1 | Hope you had a chance to listen to them. |
| 0:36.3 | I know Ben also had a couple of current episodes that he was able to produce. |
| 0:43.2 | I hope you heard those as well. |
| 0:45.1 | But, you know, here we are. |
| 0:46.2 | We're getting close to the end of summer. |
| 0:49.9 | If you have kids, this is like maybe the last week of summer for you. |
| 0:55.6 | Maybe you've got two weeks left. |
| 0:57.8 | When I was a kid, we went back to school the day after Labor Day. |
| 1:03.0 | But my kids go back to school a week before Labor Day. |
| 1:07.1 | So I wonder if that's the case for you. |
| 1:09.1 | But we're getting to the end of summer. And so |
| 1:12.5 | we're trying to get back on the stick and produce some fresh episodes for you. I know two weeks |
| 1:20.4 | ago, we released an episode with New York Times political reporter Nick Corsinetti about his new book about the Stone Pony called I |
| 1:29.9 | Don't Want to Go Home. It's an excellent book. I highly recommend it. The topic is very close to my heart. |
| 1:37.9 | I grew up in South Jersey and it's about the Stone Pony and I grew up a Bruce Springsteen fan. |
| 1:43.2 | And so we would in high school, we would make |
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