DAR commissions play about Lafayette, Washington to kick off semiquincentennial celebration in Fayette County

“Rising Curtains on the American Revolution: General Washington & the Marquis de Lafayette”

The Smith-McMillan Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, is celebratingAmerica’s 250th birthday with events scheduled for Fayette County this spring and summer with the first focusing on the Marquis de Lafayette.

Of note, Dec. 14, 1837, upon petition of citizens, the Congress of …