An Afternoon with Author Alan Fitzpatrick

Born and raised in Canada, Alan Fitzpatrick became a West Virginian in 1973 when he became employed at the West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville as a Classifications Counselor. Since then, he has made the Wheeling area his home. Alan has always been fascinated by the early frontier history of the Upper Ohio Valley. In 1997, he was a founding member of “Fort Henry Days,” a yearly living-history commemoration and re-enactment of the 1782 last battle of the American Revolution. The event is held at Wheeling’s Oglebay Park every Labor Day weekend. Alan has written five non-fiction early-American history books dealing with the conflict between Native-Americans and colonials during the tumultuous period of the late 1700’s.