Our featured speaker is Patricia Cooper Baker. Her topic: We, the People: How North Carolinians got their Dander Up Enough to Win a War. How did news of events in Boston reach backwoods North Carolina and other remote corners of the South? How could events so far away even reach us, much less make us mad enough to put our lives, homes, and fortunes on the line and take up arms? Leaders, writers, and gifted speakers helped, but nothing would have happened without neighbor until like minds were convinced that liberty was worth a fight. Who were the leaders and who were the common men and women who put all on the line for freedom?