Larry Kidder
Farm historian, interpreter - Howell Living History Farm
Panel member for session on reenacting and living history - Bill Marsh moderator
William L. (Larry) Kidder received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania and is a retired high school history teacher who taught for forty years in both public and private schools.
For more than thirty-five years, Larry has been a volunteer at the Howell Living History Farm, part of the Mercer County Park System, in Hopewell, New Jersey where he has served as an historian, interpreter, and draft horse teamster.
Active in historical societies in Ewing (past president) and Hopewell (also a past president), Larry has given many talks to a variety of groups in New Jersey, New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. He continues to be a consultant to various historic sites in central New Jersey including The William Trent House, the Old Barracks, Washington Crossing Historic Park (PA), and Washington Crossing State Park (NJ). He is also a consultant and battlefield tour guide for the Princeton Battlefield Society. As a founding member of the non-profit TenCrucialDays.org he helps narrate full-day bus tours of Ten Crucial Days sites.
Larry is the author of six books focusing on the American Revolution in the central New Jersey region that includes Trenton and Princeton.
