Celebrate General Lafayette’s Visit to Jeffersonville and the Mothers of the American Revolution with Award-Winning Author Kathryn Goodwin Tone

Jeffersonville Township Public will host a presentation about one of America’s Founding Mothers by award-winning author Kathryn Goodwin Tone. This presentation is part of an event series to mark the 200th anniversary of Lafayette’s 1825 visit to Jeffersonville. Among the truest believers in the principles of the American Revolution, Lafayette left a life of wealth and prestige in France to repeatedly risk his life and fortune to promote liberty and equality in the Americas and Europe. Throughout his life, Lafayette was known for his generous spirit: he clothed the men who fought with him and fed countless hungry peasants during a famine in France, among other noble deeds. None of this would have been possible without the political savvy, financial management, and dauntless courage of Madame Lafayette, the general’s wife, Adrienne. Ms. Tone will focus on her research for a forthcoming biography of Adrienne. Kathryn Goodwin Tone is the winner of a 2020 National Indie Excellence Award and a finalist in the 2022 Young Adult Virginia Author Awards.

Jeffersonville Township Public Library would like thank the American Friends of Lafayette for arranging this special program. We would also like to acknowledge the generous support of the Bales Foundation, the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Indiana, and Indiana Humanities in cooperation with the National Endowment for the Humanities. This presentation is recommended for teen and adult patrons. The program will be held in the North Program Room of the library’s Jeffersonville location.