Museum speaker to address Tiadaghton Valley’s ‘declaration of independence’
The Thomas T. Taber Museum of the Lycoming County Historical Society will host its first Coffee Hour of the 2025 season at 10 a.m., March 13, with a talk by Dr. Christopher Pearl, faculty member of Lycoming College. According to a news release, he will be speaking on his recently-published book Declarations of Independence: Indigenous Resilience, Colonial Rivalries, and the Cost of Revolution (The Revolutionary Age). On July 4, 1776, two hundred miles northwest of Philadelphia, on Indigenous land along the West Branch of the Susquehanna River, a group of colonial squatters declared ...
