Yeoman's in the Fork Blog

It’s not every day that we are able to go back in history, and get a closer look at one of our country’s greatest presidents.

Last Saturday night, we hosted “An Evening of Andrew Jackson”, which was given by The Circa History Guild’s Chief Historian, Bill Potter.

Bill explored origins and character of the Scots-Irish and how General and President Andrew Jackson exemplified that character in his personal and public life. Some of the aspects of that character are intense loyalties to kin and friends, readiness to fight and hazard all on victory,resistance to despots, and defending honor to the death.

Bill did a brilliant job, and I came away with a better sense of the true character of Andrew Jackson, and how origin does play a part in our actions and reactions to the situations that present themselves.

We were also pleased to have had New York Times Best Selling Author Robert Hicks hand signing his two books “The Widow of the South” and “A Separate Country”.

We’ll be posting video from Saturday night on our You Tube channel soon. You can access it by clicking the following link: http://www.youtube.com/user/YeomansintheFork

In the mean time, check out the photos we took.