George Washington & Saratoga: It’s Complicated

Thursday, April 27, 2023

Speaker: Local writer John Oliver, a former docent at the Saratoga Springs History Museum, is also an amateur historian focusing on the American experiment. Oliver's work has appeared in the Times-Union, the Newtown (Connecticut) Bee, Simply Saratoga, Saratoga Living, Philadelphia Weekly and Newsweek. He is the author of a comic memoir, I Know This Looks Bad, and he also has a subscription blog, LoucheLife.substack.com.

Saratoga and George bumped into each other twice—once when we almost cost him his job as commander of the Continental Army and the other when he visited the village on a secret real estate mission. Both times, he wasn’t at all happy with Saratoga. In this special presentation, Oliver reveals a Washington you didn’t learn about in school, discusses what drove him so relentlessly and shows why, as one historian says, GW’s in our wallets, but not in out hearts. An astonishing look at the Father of Our Nation.