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Article: LECTURER REVIEWS CHIEF PONTIAC.(Neighbors Oswego)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- April 7, 2005
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State University College at Oswego professor Robert Salisbury will speak on "Pontiac, Ottawa Chieftain: the 1766 Conclusion, in Oswego, of Pontiac's Rebellion" at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the H. Lee White Marine Museum, in Oswego.
The program is free and open to the public, said Mercedes Niess, associate director of the museum.
American artist George Gray painted several large murals for the Pontiac Hotel in Oswego. When the hotel was sold, the owners donated the murals to the H. Lee White Marine Museum.
Last year, Salisbury described the Revolutionary War battle at Saratoga, as depicted in Gray's mural entitled "Benedict Arnold Triumphant at ...