Prof. Tessa Murphy, Associate Professor of History, Syracuse University Consider what the American Revolution meant to British colonial subjects in these lesser-studied parts of the Americas. Indigenous, enslaved, and free people seized the opportunity to ally with Great Britain’s chief rival, France, and many used this moment of disruption to seek freedom, sovereignty, or autonomy. […]

1:00 - 3:00 See how colonial craftsmen created eye-catching marbled papers. Watch as R. P. Hale floats pigments in water, swirls the colors, then transfers the designs to paper. It may look like magic but Hale will explain the very real science behind this fascinating phenomenon.

Prof. Elise Mitchell, Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Princeton University The African Atlantic history of smallpox inoculation is a rich, yet oft-overlooked story. This lecture contextualizes the more familiar history of Onesimus and Cotton Mather in early eighteenth-century Boston within the broader history of Africans performing smallpox inoculations in West Africa, Jamaica, and Saint Domingue (Haiti) […]

Enjoy two opportunities to meet wonderful authors, talk about their work, and have copies signed in our first Winter Book Fair. Each afternoon a different set of authors will share books appropriate for a range of ages and interests while local musician, Dave Neiman plays period holiday tunes on his hammered dulcimer. The events will […]