People Ask Me Why
I was at a fast food joint, Making notes with my ball point, When Jay Leno came to mind, Where he would find Random people on the street, Give a cordial meet and greet, Then…Read More
Hispanic History Month and Lafayette
by Richard Ingram, Chair, Lafayette Alliance Hispanic History Month is the perfect occasion to recall General Lafayette’s links to Hispanic supporters of the American Revolutionary War and to his support for independence movements in Central…Read More
Lafayette and Liberty: Richard Ingram opines on Mike Duncan’s recent book
Podcaster Mike Duncan’s, “Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution,” released August 23rd this year, details the life of The Apostle of Liberty. Only nineteen years old and he…Read More
Lafayette and Inoculation
By Richard Ingram, Chair, Lafayette Alliance In Lafayette’s time, the eighteenth century, smallpox killed more people than war. Inoculation as means of preventing devastating disease was not a given. It was contentious. …Read More
James Armistead Lafayette: What We Know And Don’t Know
James Armistead Lafayette Notes Edited by Richard Ingram, Chair, Lafayette Alliance Early YearsJames was born December 10, 1748, in New Kent County, Virginia. Some sources suggest he was born in 1760, or that his birthplace…Read More
Matthew Oleson Trendsetter
Matthew Oleson achieves two things, one much less obvious than the other. Oleson owns CheesyMac Deli, Bull Street, LaGrange, now in its fourth month. First, he holds mac-and-cheese aloft, off the assembly line of…Read More
Lafayette Cur Non! – A Play
Lafayette Alliance Chair Richard Ingram has written two plays about Lafayette. This is the play entitled “Lafayette: Cur Non!” This play is copyrighted by the Lafayette Alliance. It may be used in whole or in part for schools…Read More
Lafayette and Lafayette – A Play
In celebration of Black History Month the Lafayette Alliance would like to share a play written by its Chair, Richard Ingram. The play’ subject is James Armistead Lafayette and the Marquis de Lafayette. “This play is copyrighted…Read More
Lafayette and Justice
August Landmesser was one man in a crowd of one hundred gathered in a shipyard at Hamburg, Germany, 1936. All about him arms were raised in “Heil Hitler” fealty. Except his. Instead, his arms were…Read More
Lafayette Rogue Double Agent
It’s interesting to me that Ralph Ellison should choose to write about “James Armistead Lafayette.” Almost fifty years ago, in 1974, the United States Bicentennial Society asked Ellison, author of “Invisible Man,” which won…Read More