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Anette Ruppel Rodrigues G taught a course on “the other side of the American Revolution at Penobscot Valley Senior College last fall. She taught The American Revolution: Loyalists — British –—Hessians, a broader view of the American Revolution, to provide a better picture of “the other side” of the events.
If you watched any of the Ken Burns documentary on the American Revolution, shown on public TV in November, there was lots of information about the Hessians’ role in the American battle for independence.
Anette taught German at the University of Maine and Maine Maritime Academy, and was interested in the American Revolution even before she moved from her native Germany to Bangor, ME. After American friends told her that their ancestors had been Loyalists, Anette started reading about “the other side” of the American Revolution. Once she looked at the British side, it was a small step to focus on the Crown’s German allies — the so-called Hessians. With Anette’s studies at UMaine for her Master of Arts in Teaching German she began her research into “Hessians in Maine.”