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he of course loved the green mountain boys at the taking of four to conder roca. he surprised the british. he was able to do it without firing a shot. he was rambunctious. so he has all these traits that make them stand out from the other revolutionary heroes who do great things, but he definitely stands head and shoulders above the others of popular imagination in history. >> is probably one of the best-known vermonters really i think even nationally. people assist you very much. [inaudible] >> exactly. however mythological some of the stories are. >> i just picked up the african slaves. this is an interesting little book does kind of forgotten until the recent scholar picked up on it. and he was having a difficult time even getting a hold of it. but she discovered this -- >> she being kerry winters. >> she discovered this book than our collection is classified as fiction. she and her studies realized this is a very early and significant slave narrative. >> and was told to a gentleman listed here in the title page as the author, his writing in saint albans, on la

old army surplus tent and sleeping back at what places like valley forge and gettysburg and fort conder wrote a in upstate new york. so i would have the sense that history happens in real places. it not just in the spirit not long lists of dates and battles and legislation and court decisions that we remember for the sats or the ap exam and forget a week later. that is the sense i always had about the subject. the other thing i keep on my desk is this. all just hold this up as well. this is a wooden toy gun that i got asked in a souvenir of that trip to gettysburg also in 1963 and it was of course the centennial of the battle that year. and i remember being in that field as a 9-year-old and having the sense that something extraordinary had happened in this place, even though i didn't quite understand the issues and perhaps had a somewhat romantic notion of what war was all about back then. i knew that something happened and i was struck watching c-span recently by something a wonderful historian named howard coffin mentioned. he said joshua chamberlain, one of the heroes of gettysburg u