Speakers for 2026 – 2027
18th Century Speaker Event
17 Sept 2026
Tony Zeiss NCSSAR VP
Vision for SAR
18th Century Speaker Event
15 Oct 2026
Randell Jones
Tired, Cold, and Hungry—the death march of the prisoners after Kings Mountain
Speakers for 2025 – 2026
18th Century Speaker Event
21 May 2026
Doug Swaim
John Carson: The Patriot who took Protection
18th Century Speaker Event
18 June 2026
William “Bill” Brown III
Battle of the Fork
18th Century Speaker Event
19 Mar 2026
Craig Isaacson
“Broken Links in the Chain”
18th Century Speaker Event
16 Apr 2026
Roy Lightfoot
Jacob Parkerson: The Accidental Ancestor Patriot
18th Century Speaker Event
15 Jan 2026
Charles & Kelly Woodie
Crossing the Delaware
18th Century Speaker Event
19 Feb 2026
Gary O Green
North Carolina in the American Revolution
18th Century Speaker Event
20 Nov 2025
Andrea Kiser & Susan Houck
Restoring Family cemeteries – one grave at a time
18th Century Speaker Event
18 Dec 2025
Randy Kiddy
Christmas during the Revolutionary War
18th Century Speaker Event
18 Sept 2025
Stephen McKee, NCSSAR President
Officer Induction & the Way Forward
18th Century Speaker Event
16 Oct 2025
Samuel Powell
“Le Marquis de Lafayette – America’s Friend”
Speakers for 2024 – 2025
18th Century Speaker Event
15 May 2025
Dr. Jim Theofrastous
The Revolutionary Battlefield Surgeon
18th Century Speaker Event
19 June 2025
Scott Syfert, J.D., MA
The First American Declaration of Independence?
18th Century Speaker Event
March 2025
Dr. John Lafferty
How (and why) the Scot’s Irish helped secure American Independence
18th Century Speaker Event
17 April 2025
Dr. Leslie McKennon
More to the Story: Patriots and Their Plantations
18th Century Speaker Event
16 January 2025
Dr. Tom Lesser
1774: The Forgotten Year of the Revolutionary War
18th Century Speaker Event
20 February 2025
Dr. Tom Lesser
Woman Patriots of the American Revolution
18th Century Speaker Event
21 November 2024
Robert Alvin Crum
Col. Daniel Boone and the American Revolution
18th Century Speaker Event
19 September 2024
Kevin Hancock & Tom Lesser
Awards Night
18th Century Speaker Event
17 October 2024
William “Bill” Brown III
Dodson Family of Burke County
Speakers for 2023 – 2024
16 May 2024
Thomas Sobol – Supervisory Park Ranger
The Separate Fight at Guilford Courthouse: the battle within a battle on the South Flank
21 March 2024
John Misenhiemer
Portraying General Nathaniel Greene
18 April 2024
Stephen McKee
The Battles of Lexington & Concord
18 January 2024
Becca Heacock
Capt. Charles McDowell House and Family History
14 February 2024
William Caldwell – National Park Ranger
“The Hated Scotsman – MAJ Patrick Ferguson”
16 November 2023
Mark Ledford
The Cherokee System of Clan & Government
December 2023
No Program
21 September 2023
William Caldwell – National Park Ranger
“What is the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail and what does it mean to me?”
19 October 2023
Kevin Hancock
“Commemorating the Fallen of Camden 1780”
Speakers for 2022 – 2023
15 September 2022
Steve Ricker
Overmountain Victory Trail Association (OVTA)
