A Scholar of France’s Collaboration with Colonial Revolutionaries Visits the Origins of Her Research in Westchester

By Barrett Seaman– A Tulip Poplar tree on the property of a country home her parents bought in France’s Burgundy countryside led Iris de Rode to a career as an historian. Last week, her curiosity about the tree and the aristocratic French general who planted it in Burgundy brought the Dutch-born scholar of the American Revolution to Westchester County—now an expert on Hudson Valley sites she had never seen before. The house her parents bought in 1995 had once belonged […]