The Lead Live Podcast! March 24, 2025

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On today’s episode of “The Lead Live,” Susie McCalla, chapter historian for the Major James Kerr chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), joined Dawn Colum to discuss the traveling exhibit “The American Revolution Experience” at Schreiner University’s Logan Library.

Key points from their discussion:

• The National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Battlefield Trust collaborated on the exhibit.
• Organizers created the exhibit as part of the celebration leading up to America 250, the nation’s 250th birthday.
• The Texas Society, Daughters of the American Revolution owns the Kerrville exhibit, which is larger than national versions and features two additional panels on Texas’s contributions to the American Revolution under Bernardo de Gálvez.
• The exhibit highlights the contributions of ordinary people during the war, such as map makers, homemakers, farmers and drummer boys, and the difficult choices they faced.
• The exhibit touches on the involvement of other groups, such as the Spanish and Native American tribes, who had divided loyalties.
• The exhibit includes biographies of key figures, video pieces, and an opportunity to “sign” the Declaration of Independence.
• McCalla mentioned her ancestor, Zachariah Green, whom she discovered two years ago, highlighting the genealogical research the DAR assists with.
• The DAR helps people with their genealogy, needing only the first three generations of information.
• The exhibit has received a great response, with visitors from various parts of Texas, including homeschool groups and families from Houston who learned about it through the Convention Visitors Bureau.
• The exhibit at Schreiner University’s Logan Library is free and runs until Friday, April 4. Spanish brochures are available.
• McCalla is a retired Marine Corps colonel who was stationed in Quantico, near Washington D.C., during the bicentennial in 1976. She said her husband, father-in-law and mother-in-law were also Marines.

The conversation underscored the importance of understanding the complexities of the American Revolution and the diverse individuals involved.