Monday, March 25, 2019, 6:00 p.m.
Lansing Public Library, Community Room.
2750 Indiana Ave., Lansing, Il 60438
David Jahntz will portray a Revolutionary War surgeon and Jim Nawrocki will portray a soldier of the Continental Army to give us a picture of life during America’s War for Independence.
David Jahntz (“John’s) is a retired graphic journalist from the Chicago Tribune newsroom where he spent over 30 years drawing maps, charts, illustrations. Additionally, he has been a military and medical historian for more than 43 years, involved in researching and lecturing on the late 18th century, the Founding Era of this nation. He has also been reenacting the Revolutionary War period at over one thousand living history events in the Midwest since 1975 and has spoken at Colonial Williamsburg’s Historic District dozens of times in the last 18 years. He has been featured on many TV programs, including The History Channel’s “In Search of History, Frontier Doctors,” A&E’s “American Revolution,” The Discovery Channel’s “Hunting the Lost Symbol” and NBC’s ” Alexander Hamilton.”He has also provided medical support to the National Park Service’s visitor centers’ historic videos.
James C. Nawrocki has been a Revolutionary War reenactor since 1972 and is a member of the North West Territory Alliance, a group that performs at Revolutionary War reenactments around the Midwest. For this presentation, he will be dressed as a private soldier of a line company. He will explain the uniform and battle tactics of a private solider of the Continental Army and also how they lived every day during the Revolutionary War. He will be happy to answer questions from the audience.
For more information, call Barbara Dust, 708-474-7497.
