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
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
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
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
The following is the text from a talk given on Saturday, December 12th by Richard Ingram hosted by Racial Trustbuilding, Inc. The recorded Facebook Live can be found here https://www.facebook.com/RacialTrustbuilding/videos/231117691695216 Good morning. I have…Read More
Several years ago we visited friends in Wilmington, Delaware, a beautiful part of our country and steeped in DuPont history. Longwood Gardens is an overwhelming site you should not miss if you are in the…Read More
Many of us, I suspect, have so often driven past the statue of the Marquis de Lafayette that he fades into the background and blends into the trees; like family, we take him for granted.…Read More
He was the most popular man in America. More than this, he was also the most revered. This month marks the anniversary of his Farewell Tour across Georgia. The Marquis de Lafayette was not only…Read More
Alan Hoffman is a Lafayette Scholar. He’s coming to LaGrange. Pitch a crowd of scholars into a Lafayette Scholar sifter and what sieves through is a little less than six feet, wearing a compact bowtie,…Read More
February 6 deserves at the very least a respectful nod. The United States would not have become the United States had that day’s event 241 years ago not happened. France and the American colonies were…Read More
