Sunday Lecture: "James Edward Oglethorpe: Georgia's Founding Father"

a Semiquincentennial event

Sunday, April 12, 2026
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Smyrna Library, Meeting Room
Light refreshments will be served.

Soldier, scholar, diplomat, philanthropist, city planner, and visionary, James Edward Oglethorpe’s life and career, with its myriad twists and turns, is both fascinating and instructive, foreshadowing in many ways the complex history of the state he helped found.

Speaker Bio: Historian and writer, Dr. William Marchione is the author of A Brief History of Smyrna, Georgia.