SAVE THE DATE! Get out your red, white, and blue, make a list of your Patriot ancestors and let’s celebrate America 250! Our annual meeting will be held on Saturday, October 10, in Anchorage, AK, at the Loussac Library’s 4th floor Learning Commons, starting with a catered noon luncheon followed by the meeting. See attached pre-registration form!

Your Board members are excited to announce that Historian Peggy (Peg) Baker, from Plymouth, MA, will be our guest speaker. Peg will give a talk on: ‘Benjamin Warren’s War’. Benjamin Warren served for six years during America’s War for Independence, from 1775 to 1781, traveling from the siege of Boston to the northern frontiers of New York, before returning home to Plymouth and civilian life. Benjamin’s War is a quintessential story of the Revolution – and of Plymouth, unusual only in being so well documented. It is the story of an ordinary man who, in those extraordinary times, rose to the occasion and made his mark on history.

A native of Detroit, Peggy MacLachlan Baker is a 3rd generation alumna of the University of Michigan, where she received a Bachelor’s in Classics and a Master’s in Latin. After receiving a second master’s degree in library science from Wayne State University, she entered the museum world, first as registrar of the Dearborn Historical Museum and later joining the library staff of Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village. She discovered Plymouth Colony only after moving to Plymouth in 1990. Baker joined the staff of the Pilgrim Society & Pilgrim Hall Museum in 1991 as Curator of Manuscripts & Books, managing the Society’s library and engaging in research, writing, and lecturing. She was appointed Director & Librarian of the Pilgrim Society & Pilgrim Hall Museum in 1995, adding management, fund-raising, communications, budget and finances, and education to her responsibilities. She retired in 2010, when she joined the General Society of Mayflower Descendants’ Silver Books project as researcher for the Thomas Rogers family.