John Adams Re-enacted
This community isn't popular enough to sell advertising, but if it was, it would be a great place for George Baker to advertise. Baker is a lawyer who moonlights as a "John Adams Re-enactor".
Baker found his inspiration from reading David McCullough's popular biography of John Adams. He has been playing the role of John Adams since 2008. Baker is an attorney. He graduated from Columbia University and Columbia Law School, where his father was a professor during Dwight D. Eisenhower's tenure as President of that University. Here is a YouTube video of Baker caught in the act:
One of the places where Baker has taken his show on the road is at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, where he has participated in the annual Constitution Day activities there since 2010.
Last week, on Thursday, September 13th, Baker in the guise of Adams spoke about first lady Abigail Adams. The event was billed as a presentation about "the original, dynamic, and totally American woman, Abigail Adams." In the program, Baker (I mean John Adams) told those attending about hoe "Abigail Adams defied the conventions of her time by insisting that a married woman had the right to hold property independently of her husband. In violation of the common law rule of coverture which said that a woman's property became her husband's upon marriage, Abigail established her own bank accounts and wrote the first will of a married woman to be probated in the State of Massachusetts."
Baked pointed out to his audience how Abigail's careful management of the family farm and commercial enterprises helped make the Adams family among the more prosperous in New England. He also pointed out how Abigail was the first to call for the equality of women in government and higher education. Although she was raised as a child in a household that owned slaves, both John and Abigail Adams abhorred slavery and set the example for their son, President John Quincy Adams, to become one of the country's most ardent abolitionists.
I haven't been able to find a video of this event, so let me close this entry with another video which contains a nice summary of the life of John Adams, with an appearance by Mr. Baker:
Baker found his inspiration from reading David McCullough's popular biography of John Adams. He has been playing the role of John Adams since 2008. Baker is an attorney. He graduated from Columbia University and Columbia Law School, where his father was a professor during Dwight D. Eisenhower's tenure as President of that University. Here is a YouTube video of Baker caught in the act:
One of the places where Baker has taken his show on the road is at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, where he has participated in the annual Constitution Day activities there since 2010.
Last week, on Thursday, September 13th, Baker in the guise of Adams spoke about first lady Abigail Adams. The event was billed as a presentation about "the original, dynamic, and totally American woman, Abigail Adams." In the program, Baker (I mean John Adams) told those attending about hoe "Abigail Adams defied the conventions of her time by insisting that a married woman had the right to hold property independently of her husband. In violation of the common law rule of coverture which said that a woman's property became her husband's upon marriage, Abigail established her own bank accounts and wrote the first will of a married woman to be probated in the State of Massachusetts."
Baked pointed out to his audience how Abigail's careful management of the family farm and commercial enterprises helped make the Adams family among the more prosperous in New England. He also pointed out how Abigail was the first to call for the equality of women in government and higher education. Although she was raised as a child in a household that owned slaves, both John and Abigail Adams abhorred slavery and set the example for their son, President John Quincy Adams, to become one of the country's most ardent abolitionists.
I haven't been able to find a video of this event, so let me close this entry with another video which contains a nice summary of the life of John Adams, with an appearance by Mr. Baker: