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- 2023-2024
Meetings are Subject to Change per Board of Management
September 16, 2023 - Chapter Meeting
Joint brunch meeting with SAR Piankeshaw Chapter
Program: "Trials to Triumph" - Sam Limentato, former Circuit Judge for Champaign CountySeptember 17-23, 2023 - Constitution Week
October 14, 2023 - Chapter Meeting
Program: "Perspectives from a Citizen" - Dannel McCollum, former Champaign MayorOctober 22, 2023 - Alliance Day- New Member Induction
November 11, 2023 - Chapter Meeting
Program: "Historical Fiction Has Useful Role in Showing the Deeper Impacts of War" - Ray Elliott, author, VeteranDecember 9, 2023 - Chapter Meeting
Program: "Dining in Early America" - Alliance Chapter Correspondent DocentsJanuary 2024 - No Meeting
February 9, 2024 - Good Citizen Luncheon- Chapter Meeting
in partnership with SAR Piankeshaw Chapter
Program: "Weathering the Storms" - Jacob Dickey, Meteorologist, WCIA- Channel 3
Chapter meeting follows programMarch 9, 2024 - Chapter Meeting
Program: "Who Let the Genie Out?" - Viki Powell, Director- District IIIApril 13, 2024 - Chapter Meeting
Program: "Preserving the Past, Educating the Present: A Brief Overview of the Museum of the Grand Prairie" -Pat Cain, Public Programs Manager, Museum & Education Department, Champaign Co. Forest Preserve DistrictMay 4, 2024 - Chapter Meeting
Program: "Florence Nightingale" - Kate Stout, Alliance Chapter Vice Regent
Memorial Service, Susan McLane, Alliance Chapter Chaplain
Installation of Officers and Annual Business MeetingJune 9, 2024 - Chapter Meeting
Flag Day Program
Honor JAC and American History Essay Winners
Flag AwardsJuly 4, 2024 - C-U Freedom Parade
American Revolutionary War heroines - Sybil Ludington was the eldest of twelve children. Her father, Colonel Ludington, had served in the French and Indian War. As a mill owner in Patterson, New York, he was a community leader, and he volunteered to serve as the local militia commander as war with the British loomed. When he received word late on April 26, 1777, that the British were attacking Danbury, Connecticut, Colonel Ludington knew that they would move from there into further attacks in New York. As head of the local militia, he needed to muster his troops from their farmhouses around the district, and to warn the people of the countryside of possible British attack. Sybil, then 16 years old, volunteered to warn the countryside of the attack and to alert the militia troops to muster at Ludington's. The glow of the flames from Danbury would have been visible for miles. She traveled some 40 miles through the towns of Carmel, Mahopac, and Stormville, in the middle of the night, in a rainstorm, on muddy roads, shouting that the British were burning Danbury and calling out the militia to assemble at Ludington's. When Sybil Ludington returned home, most of the militia troops were ready to march to confront the British. The 400-some troops were not able to save the supplies and the town at Danbury -the British seized or destroyed food and munitions and burned the town,but they were able to stop the Brtish advance and push them back to their boats, in the Battle of Ridgefield.
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