Please join us for a discussion considering who was Alexander Hamilton? The program features short presentations by a panel that views Hamilton from several perspectives followed by a lively discussion of Hamilton by the panel and audience.
The panel will conclude with a toast to Alexander Hamilton, complements of Prohibition Distillery, distillers of American Bourbon in Roscoe, New York. A private tour of the Hamilton exhibit at the Albany Institute of History and Art follows the tour.
Following the tour, guests and presenters are invited to a reception at the Saint Andrew’s Society of Albany, founded in 1803. A piper will escort us to their rooms for the reception.
Location & Time:
Albany Institute of History and Art (Opposite The Rooms)
2:00 P. M. till about 4:30 P.M.
Tickets
$10.00 admission or membership in the AIH&A for the program and tour of the Hamilton exhibit; $25 per person or $50 per family for the reception at St. Andrew’s. Checks or U.S. Currency for the reception, please. R.S.V.P. 518-235-7234 or jayhigle@gmail.com for the reception.
More About the Panel Discussion:
Hamilton is hot in the summer of 2019, but who was Alexander Hamilton, the person on the $10-dollar bill? In two words: complex and controversial.
Alexander Hamilton was a self-made man, coming from the humblest of origins, yet more than any of the Founding Fathers – and Mothers – this immigrant from St. Kitts foresaw the future of his adopted land Hamilton was central to creating and establishing our country: from winning our independence; to adopting our Constitution; to creating a financially solvent government; to establishing the revenue service (and the Coast Guard); to suppressing internal disorder (the Whisky Rebellion); this person – Alexander Hamilton – stood in the first tier of our Nation’s founders. But who was this enigma?
Join us in a lively discussion as we – and you- take a closer look at Alexander Hamilton through the eyes with which his contemporaries would have seen him.
Our Panel:
Hamilton in the immigrant: Sergio Villavicencio, Vice President & Communications Director, The Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society
Hamilton in Love: Heidi Hill, Director of the Schuyler Mansion in Albany
Hamilton the Financier: Seton Ijams, member of the St. Andrew’s Society of New York (1757) – as was Alexander Hamilton, – and lineal descendant of the first Clerk of the bank Alexander Hamilton founded
Hamilton the Lawyer: Tyler Broker, Esq., Constitutional Law expert and editor of the blog Above the Law
Hamilton the Political Theorist: Hank Hamilton, Hamilton expert and retired Assistant Commissioner, State of New York
Alexander Hamilton and Slavery. : Jessie Serfilippi, the Schuyler Mansion in Albany
Hamilton the Soldier who Created the Coast Guard: Nicole Scholet, President, The Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society
Moderator: Michael Lynch, Director of Historic Preservation, State of New York