Meet living historian Geoff Baggett and get hands-on with history at “Revolutionary War in a Trunk,” an event for all ages at the Pulaski County Public Library on Thursday, October 3rd at 7:00 p.m.
Dressed in 18th Century attire, Geoff will speak and show off interesting items from the Revolutionary War period that he brings with him in his old wooden trunk. The materials include reproductions of 18th Century weaponry, camp tools and equipment, clothing, toys, personal hygiene items, and other everyday necessities. This trunk full of Colonial “treasures” helps bring to life the reality of everyday living during the Revolutionary War/Colonial Period.
To present this program, Geoff is stopping by the Pulaski County Public Library on his way to participate in Feast of the Hunters’ Moon, a historical reenactment event at Fort Ouiatenon near West Lafayette. He and his wife, Kim, are avid living historians. They appear regularly in 18th Century attire in classrooms, reenactments, and other Revolutionary War commemorative events across the southeastern United States.
Geoff is a retired pastor from western Kentucky. Though his formal education and degrees are in the fields of chemistry, biology, and Christian theology, his hobbies and obsessions are genealogy and Revolutionary War history. He is an active member of the Sons of the American Revolution and has discovered over twenty Patriot ancestors in his family tree.
In addition to speaking with the public and researching family history, Geoff has written several historical fiction novels. The Patriots that he writes about are ancestors from his own family tree or from his wife’s family tree. He is working to complete two ten-volume collections (one for adults and one for children) focusing upon little-known Patriots and the ordinary folk who fought the American Revolution.
“Revolutionary War in a Trunk” at the library will be of interest to people young and old. There will be time for questions from the audience, and Geoff’s books will be available for purchase.
This event is free and open to the public. To learn more, contact the library at 574-946-3432.