Join CVU teacher and author Tyler Alexander for a talk, discussion, and signing of his new book, If I Can Get Home This Fall: A Story of Love, Loss, and a Cause in the Civil War.
Alexander's book chronicles the epic story of Dan Mason, a white man who served in the Civil War as a soldier in the Sixth Vermont Infantry and as an officer in the Nineteenth U.S. Colored Troops. It is a story of these two units from very different realities but with a common purpose.
Weaving together intimate details about the experiences of ordinary men and women from Vermont with the larger military and political context of the time, Alexander's talk will highlight what the war meant to those who lived through it, especially to a young man and woman from northeastern Vermont whose lives would never be the same.
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Books will be available for purchase at the event.
Tyler Alexander is a proud eighth generation Vermonter whose ancestors settled in Glover, VT during Thomas Jefferson’s presidency in 1804 and continued to live and farm there for two centuries.
He loves all that the outdoors in Vermont has to offer across all four seasons: gardening, hiking, maple sugaring, hunting, fishing, cutting firewood, skiing, canoeing, running, biking, and cider pressing.
Tyler taught at North Country Union High School in Newport, VT for 17 years and is currently teaching at Champlain Valley Union High School.
He has visited several of the places—often with his students—that are described in his book: Antietam, Gettysburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Washington, DC, and Richmond, VA.
He lives with his wife Aimee, and two children, Caroline and Grant.
Tyler Alexander
