WHATS THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE BOSTON TEA PARTY AND AMENIA UNION?
Come to our Annual Meeting in October to find out! On Sunday October 18, at 2:30pm in the Kent Town Hall, David Parker will illuminate the life of Ethan Allen’s unsung sidekick and partner-in-rebellion – Dr. Thomas Young. Mr. Parker, who has been researching the life of Thomas Young for many years, will explain how the United States very well might not be the great free country we know today had it not been for the radical thoughts of Dr. Young. As a very youthful physician, Thomas Young, aged 19, left his home on the western shores of the Hudson River and headed east to the little settlement on the northwest border of Kent. There he found lodging at the home of Captain Garret Winegar, a prominent German Palatine immigrant. Winegar was one of the leaders of a group of Palatines who settled in this area; his descendants moved to the Macedonia section of Kent where they were involved in the iron industry. Dr. Young learned to speak the Old Dutch language, and became physician to the Pala
