Benjamin Franklin Chapter
Sons of the American Revolution

This was our third year to hold the celebration at noon at the 94th Aero Squadron. The three entree buffet was a hit.

66 were in attendance including 23 DAR members.

Dr. Brandon Downing focuses on early American history, particularly native-white relations along the frontier. He has taught courses in U.S. History (both to 1877 and after 1877), Colonial America, American Revolutionary Era, Native American History, Atlantic World, Professional Historian, and Introduction to Public History. His current book manuscript is “‘Barbarous Tribes of Savages’: Violence and Conflict on the Periphery of Empire in the Colonial Mid-Atlantic, 1750-1776.” Prior to working at Marietta, Dr. Downing was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi.