JOHN HORRIGAN - HISTORIST MANAGER, ANNOUNCER, NARRATOR
JOHN HORRIGAN - HISTORIST MANAGER, ANNOUNCER, NARRATOR
JOHN HORRIGAN - HISTORIST MANAGER, ANNOUNCER, NARRATOR
Description: John Horrigan is a five-time Emmy Award-winning folklorist who lectures on hidden history, historical weather, historical economics and the American Revolutionary War.
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Description: Revolutionary War researcher and weather historian John Horrigan will retrace the steps of a historic military expedition that helped free Boston from British occupation during the Revolutionary War. Horrigan will present a slide show about the amazing engineering feat undertaken by the Knox brothers (Henry and William) in the winter of 1775-76. The brothers used 80 yoke of oxen to drag 59 cannons nearly 300 miles in 56 days, which culminated in a clandestine battery placement at Dorchester Hei
Description: The ability of George Washington's Continental Army to endure harsh winters affected the outcome of several Revolutionary War battles and ultimately changed America’s destiny. Join historical weather researcher John Horrigan as he presents a captivating lecture that describes the severe winters (and their subsequent historical impact) from 1770 through 1783. Mr. Horrigan will discuss the bleak conditions encountered during the Crossing of the Delaware, the Arnold Expedition and the Encampment a
Description: “It was a dark and stormy night…” So begins the 1830 Bulwer-Lytton novel, Paul Clifford . 50 years earlier it was a dark, if not stormy at midday in parts of New England as a mysterious darkness fell over New England on the late morning of May 19th, 1780. Candles were brought out at lunchtime and churches were filled as many New Englanders thought that the Day of Judgement had arrived. Was it retribution for the disruptions of the American Revolution raging at the time of the darkening? Some To
JOHN HORRIGAN - HISTORIST MANAGER, ANNOUNCER, NARRATOR
JOHN HORRIGAN - HISTORIST MANAGER, ANNOUNCER, NARRATOR
JOHN HORRIGAN - HISTORIST MANAGER, ANNOUNCER, NARRATOR