HEDGE SCHOOLS
Announcing the first of a series entitled
The Freedom Forum
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Nullifying Tyranny
with
Walter D. (Donnie) Kennedy
POSTPONED
(Due to not acheiving our target registration number)
THE SEMINAR - “Nullifying Tyranny” will include a series of three lectures with Power Point, lunch, and a time for questions and answers.
In their book by the same name, the Kennedy twins wrote, “In this book we advocate our original American right to control what happens in our extended communities. …It is not people that we must separate ourselves from, but a political system that abuses its constitutional powers to the detriment of moral, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens.”
The seminar will heighten your awareness of what tyranny is, where it has gradually developed around us, why we should confront it, and how we can defeat it in our lives – personally and corporately.
THE SPEAKER - Walter Donald Kennedy is a history enthusiast as well as a fervent advocate of individual freedom.
He has made a special study of the social and political impact of the War for Southern Independence and its continuing repercussions.
A recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal of the National Sons of Confederate Veterans, Kennedy has explained his views on numerous radio and television talk shows, including the Oliver North Show and Politically Incorrect.
Kennedy is the author of Myths of American Slavery, Red Republicans and Lincoln’s Marxists. He has coauthored, with his twin, James Ronald Kennedy, The South Was Right!, which is in its tenth printing and has sold over 120,000 copies as of 2009. as well as Was Jefferson Davis Right?, Why Not Freedom! America’s Revolt Against Big Government, and Nullifying Tyranny. All are published by Pelican Publishing Company.
The seminar will take place on Saturday, 8 October, 10am-4pm
at The Meeting Room, 114 S. Main St., Lobelville, Tennessee.
POSTPONED
(Due to not acheiving our target registration number)
Space is limited, so make your reservation now.
League members—$25 per person, $30 per couple
Non-members—$30 per person, $40 per couple
(Bar-B-Q meal included)
Send name, address & fee to Tennessee League office.
P.O.Box 94, Lobelville, TN 37097
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The Hedge School seminar program is to Southern education what the Hedge Schools were to Irish education three centuries ago. The Penal Laws of 1695 were designed by English officials in London and Dublin to expunge the native Celtic language and culture of Ireland. From the 1690s to the 1840s generations of young Irishmen received their education in little gatherings that spontaneously emerged throughout the country. Lessons were taught in dilapidated barns, sod huts, and often in the open air on the sunny side of a quick-set thorn hedge.
Although the schools were outlawed and severe penalties imposed on those who associated with them, they flourished for a century and a half, preserving the native language and religion as well as countering the effects of English historical revisionism. The national sentiments nourished in these schools came to fruition two centuries later in the formation of the Irish Republic.
Professor Clyde Willson speaking at the
Tennessee Hedge School on Reconstruction.
The Tennessee League of the South sponsors Hedge Schools throughout the state on a periodic basis. We have conducted Hedge Schools on "The Real Lincoln," "Reconstruction," and "Agrarianism: Past, Present & Future."
Professor Donald Livingston speaking at the
Tennessee Hedge School on The Real Lincoln.
If you have a suggestion for a topic or wish to help sponsor a Hedge School in your area, contact our Tennessee Chairman, David O. Jones.