GREENEVILLE — The 250th Anniversary of the founding of the nation in 1775-1776 will be the focus of the upcoming Greene County Heritage Trust Early American Christmas Dinner in early December, it was announced today.

Tickets for the Dinner are now on sale.

The annual event, a seated dinner and program traditionally considered the kickoff of the Christmas social season in Greeneville, is scheduled for Thursday evening, Dec. 4, in the ballroom of the General Morgan Inn, according to a Heritage Trust news release.

The featured speaker will be Daniel Shippey, of Appomattox, Va., who has become familiar to many across the country as the former official George Washington at Mt. Vernon, Washington’s famous home near the nation’s capital.

Shippey, a George Washington historian and a renowned i

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