Olney Friends School invites you to join us TODAY to hear from our first guest speaker: Alan Fitzpatrick. In our first hybrid event, Alan Fitzpatrick will be joining us on campus, and speaking live virtually about “The History and Culture of Native Americans in the 18th Century Ohio Country.” on Friday, September 30th at 7:30 PM EDT.
More information about Alan Fitzpatrick –
Born and raised in Canada, Alan Fitzpatrick has lived in West Virginia since 1973. After graduating from Kent State University with a Bachelor’s in psychology, he was employed at the West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville as a Classifications Counselor. Since then, he has made the Wheeling area his home, where he ran a retail carpet business for thirty-three years before retiring. Alan has always been fascinated by the early frontier history of the Upper Ohio Valley, and in 1997, he was a founding member of “Fort Henry Days,” an annual living-history commemoration and re-enactment of the 1782 last battle of the American Revolution. The event is held at Wheeling’s Oglebay Park every Labor Day weekend. Alan has written four non-fiction early American history books dealing with the conflict between Native Americans and colonials during the tumultuous period of the late 1700s.
Author of:
Wilderness War on the Ohio
In Their Own Words
The Place of the Skull
The White Indians
Captives and Kin in the Ohio Country
The Untold Story of Isaac Zane
