Large Turnout for August Meeting

We had 37 people at our August meeting at the Green Dragon Tavern and Museum in Carlsbad. We have not had a meeting of this size since well before COVID.

Michael Hirman opened the meeting and introduced Jim Klingler, Executive Vice President of CASSAR who spoke on CASSAR activities.  Other meeting highlights:

• A new member was introduced, Rob Welch and his wife and daughter were in attendance.  Rob recently joined us as a Dual from Scottsdale. 
• Lynn Farrar introduced himself.  He became a member late in 2021 but this was his first meeting.
• Michael Miller was a guest of Peter Fagen.
• Rev. Stan De Long introduced John Fosdyck and his wife Uni, guests of Ray Raser.  John was a recent recipient of the SAR Minuteman award.
• We then proceeded to a guided tour of the Green Dragon Museum which houses a collection of original documents (and copies) along with Revolution era artifacts.  John Lek, co-founder and manager of the Museum, provided an excellent overview and spoke about the planned expansion of the museum which will hopefully include space for displays from our Chapter.
  
• When the meeting resumed, Philip Hinshaw spoke on items of interest on George Washington that he had on display.
• Our Minuteman visitor, John Fosdyck spoke on the George Washington Endowment program and was able to recruit a new support of Gail Raser.  We will post more on this program soon in the Digest.
  
• Jim McAdory gave an America250 presentation on the “Battle(s) of Drowning Creek” with was part of the “Tory War” in North Carolina in 1781.

This was a lunch meeting rather than our more common breakfast and it was well received by members and guests.  Arrivals began early around 9:30 and people continued to enter the room after the meeting started.

Our next meeting will be September 17th `at the Hall of Nations in Balboa Park.  DAR and our Chapter are holding this joint meeting and more details on the program will be posted on our Events page.