everybody knew she was ethan allen's girl. nobody else dated her, and he didn't date anybody from cornwall because nay were all relatives. [laughter] he did marry at 26, moved to salisbury, and opened his business finding the forbes and allen refinery that produced cannon for the american revolutionaries. he got a little distracted from his business which was flourishing when he met a young doctor in town which was a deist, and they took to spending long evenings and afternoons studying deist writings from england, and having a little bit of fun with the inconsistencies of the bible, which was all right as long as they kept it to themselves, but as they read more of the deist writings, they began to think that more that reason was more important than scripture, and reason told ethan allen that some of the things that the town leaders were doing made no sense. for example, every year smallpox went through the british colonies. every 30 years, there was a great epidemic that hit boston. people left boston, moved up and down the c

oh, ethan allen, oh, ethan allen. and seems to be the part vermonters are most proud of. [laughter] >> but they know little beyond that, even beyond the schools. ethan allen, among other things, i found, just to start out with a little summary -- in addition to taking the most formidable fort with 89 men and not fire a shot, he was the first published diased philosopher. he organized 29 communities to defend the new hampshire grants as it was known. there still wasn't a new hampshire. preserving the homesteads until the revolution came along, for 40 years. he was a prolific author. i was surprised at how much he wrote. but he was better known as the land speculator and the two things connected between ethan allen bought and sold land, bought it as cheaply as he could and sold it in small parcels to hundreds and hundreds of frontier families but if you didn't have any money on hand to buy a piece of land when he came you through his clearing he sold you a pamphlets or he got a few acres or parted with a schilling. he really is the founding father of vermont because without

so, that's the story of ethan allen. why don't we know more about it? because they took on the puritan clergy and they lived after she died when missionary from new haven came up and literally stumbled even alan's great. they said on february 12th, ethan allen, the general from vermont and he died in presides in hell where he looks up forever toward heaven from the flames. you get the idea and that went from pulpit to pulpit until his memory went along with it. was revived in the civil war when the green mountain boys swarmed into the uniform at the site of gettysburg and the cold harbor etc. more per-capita fought and died on the union side than any other state and that's also the legacy of ethan allen and the planes that fly to patrol for new york city since 9/11 are the green mountain boys of vermont. his legacy was a state with dissent, never really agreeing even among its congressional delegation from the west side of the mountains to the east side of the mountains but it has a strong reputation for diversity and most of all the legacy of ethan all

that went from pulpit to pulpit to pulpit until ethan allen's memory went to the pit with it. .. even among its congressional delegation. never agreeing from the west side of the mountains to the east side of the mountains. but it has a strong reputation for diversity and dissent and most of all the legacy of ethan allen, since his time where people went to start over, to start again. thank you. [applause] >> this is where i usually say fire at will. >> we have time for one or two questions. >> and the review of your book, reference is made to his being and at the get of separation of church and state. can you comment further on that? >> well his attack on the established church of new england in his book is just that. he doesn't think that you should have a puritan hierarchy. in vermont or in new england. he was speaking mostly to new england. he did not use the word separation of church and state. that phrase was coined by thomas jefferson in a letter to the secretary of the navy during a bitter re-election campaign in 1803 that there should be a wall of separation. jefferson's

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