'Saratoga: the Battle and the Park" Lecture Slated for NYS Military Museum

Media Advisory

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY (03/15/2010)(readMedia)-- The New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center welcomes local speaker Ray Misiewicz for his presentation, "Saratoga: The Battle and the Park," a look at the historic battle and the surrounding lands of Schuylerville, Victory Mills and Stillwater.

WHO: Local speaker Ray Misiewicz and the staff of the NYS Military History Museum.

WHAT: Free lecture on the local history of Saratoga: The battle and the park.

WHERE: The New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center, 61 Lake Avenue, Saratoga Springs, New York 12866

WHEN: Saturday March 20th, 2010 from 1:00-3:00pm

BACKGROUND:

Misiewicz writes of his informative, educational and entertaining program that, "as many of you probably know, there is a National Park just 19 miles north of the Albany Airport. It is the Saratoga National Historical Park, which preserves lands on which the Battles of Saratoga were fought in September and October, 1777 during America's Revolutionary War."

The program will describe British Major General John Burgoyne's Northern Campaign in the summer and fall of 1777 and introduces you to the people, places and events on the American and British sides in what has been called the turning point of the American Revolution.

Misiewicz explains what happened to the people and the land after the battles were fought. The program will discuss how the battlefield returned to farming, how the Saratoga Battle Monument was built, how the battlefield became a New York State Historic Site and how it was later transformed by President Franklin Roosevelt and the Civilian Conservation Corps into the Saratoga National Historical Park.

The presentation also takes the audience on a tour of the present day park grounds located in Stillwater, N.Y. and at its adjacent sites in Victory Mills and Schuylerville, N.Y.

Admission Is free.

For further information contact Audra Miller at 518-226-0490.

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