Author Thomas Chambers to Speak at Saratoga National Historical Park

STILLWATER — On Sunday, April 6, at 2 p.m., Saratoga National Historical Park hosts Dr. Thomas Chambers as he discusses his new book “Memories of War: Visiting Battlegrounds and Bonefields in the Early American Republic”. In this free program, Dr. Chambers addresses the progression of early American battlefields from places of conflict to places of tourism and remembrance. Fields and forests, once green and serene, became witness to great privation, suffering, tragedy and triumph. After, they gave way to relative obscurity, falling back to quiet agricultural use, and sometimes passing into aging ruins. Yet in time, as better mobility and leisure time encouraged tourism, a growing romanticizing of the past breathed new life in these sites and called forth many people to experience their own connections with these bygone battlefields. This presentation is co-sponsored by Friends of the Saratoga Battlefield and Siena College’s McCormick Center for the Study of the American Revolution, and is part of the Dell and Audrey Thompson Distinguished Lecture in American Revolution Studies. For more information about this or other events, please call the Visitor Center at 518-670-2985 or check our website at www.nps.gov/sara or our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/saratoganhp.