Sunday Chowder Lecture: Pennamite Wars with Kathleen Earle
3-6-25
In 1788, a band of young Yankee ruffians KIDNAPPED Pennsylvania official Timothy Pickering, holding him hostage in the woods for nineteen days. This story, told by Kathleen Earle, a descendant of one of Pickering’s kidnappers, tells a thrilling story of the event in her book, “An Early History of the Wyoming Valley; the Yankee-Pennamite Wars and Timothy Pickering. Don’t miss...
