Lafayette Returns!

Lafayette Returns!

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Lafayette Returns! episodes

  • Lafayette Returns! Episode #3 Historic Sewing Patterns with Mackenzie Anderson Sholtz of Fig Leaf Patterns

    Mackenzie Anderson Sholtz of Fig Leaf Patterns talks researching historic patterns, tips for sewing your own historic garment, and her Pattern #210 (Bib Front Dress)

    of the famed Lafayette Ball gown worn by Margaret Evans
    Larkin Rochelle Starke in 1825 on the occasion of General Lafayette’s visit to Camden, SC. Check out her amazing patterns at figleafpatterns.com

    historicrockford.org/special-events/lafayette-day-2025

    lafayette200pa.org/

    20 min
  • Lafayette Returns! Episode 2 talks French cuisine with Chef Barberet

    As we prepare for Lafayette's Historic Rockford visit let's

    learn more about his food culture with Chef Cedric Barberet of Bistro Barberet & Bakery in Lancaster, PA. For more information on the bistro menu, bakery, and special events, visit barberetlancasterpa.com And here is the link to the Lancaster Intelligencer article describing The Lafayette Banquet in the upper room of the court house July 1825. ⁠Lancasterhistory.org⁠ For more information on Rockford's Lafayette Day Monday, July 28, 2025 visit historicrockford.org For more information on what is happening in Lancaster & Western Chester Counties visit lafayette200pa.org

    19 min
  • Lafayette Returns! Episode 1: Who was Lafayette? Guest Kathleen Hood

    The Lafayette Returns! podcast is preparing us to welcome the Marquis de Lafayette with fanfare and celebration, Monday, July 28, 2025, partnering with “The American Friends of Lafayette” who are re-creating the bicentennial of Lafayette’s exact step-by-step farewell tour through America from August 1824 through September 1825. Lafayette Returns! Episode 1 sits down with Lancaster

    and Western Chester County Planning Committee Coordinator Kathleen Hood with background on Lafayette as well as details of his tour. Music credit: Welcome to the Nation's Guest & Francis Johnsons' A Collection of New Cotillions Pianist, John Zielinski, Music Director of Ascension Lutheran Church in Willow Street.
    https://www.historicrockford.org/special-events/lafayette-day-2025

    https://lafayette200pa.org/

    19 min

About Lafayette Returns!

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A podcast exploring the Marquis de Lafayette's time in Lancaster, PA as part of his tour of America in 1824-1825. For more information about Historic Rock Ford's July 28, 2025 event, please visit…