Celebrate the upcoming bicentennial of General Lafayette's visit to Jeffersonville with historian Alan R. Hoffman. Hoffman is president of the American Friends of Lafayette. In addition, Hoffman obtained his BA in history from Yale where he studied under Professor Edmund Morgan, before earning a JD at Harvard Law School. He practiced law in Boston for 50 years. An avid reader of early American history, he “discovered” Lafayette in 2002 and spent two years – 2003 to 2005 – translating Auguste Levasseur's  first-hand account of Lafayette’s Farewell Tour of America. This translation was published in 2006 and is in its third printing. Hoffman has lectured widely on Lafayette – over 200 talks – and has spoken in each of the 24 states (and Washington DC) which Lafayette visited during the Farewell Tour, as well as La Grange, Texas and Lafayette and Denver, Colorado. The Lafayette Bicentennial Committee and Jeffersonville Township Public Library are grateful for this program's generous support, compliments of the Beales Foundation.