Upcoming Talks and Appearances

5 November 2012, 8:00 P.M., Longfellow’s Wayside Inn, Sudbury: “The Powder Alarm.” The militia uprising in September 1774 wasn’t just a presage of the Battle of Lexington and Concord eight months later; it signaled the end of royal government in Massachusetts. Sponsored by the Sudbury Minutemen.

14 November 2012, 7:30 P.M., Royall House and Slave Quarters, Medford: “Penelope Royall, Cuba Vassall, and the Families of Tory Row.” What the divergent experiences of two people who moved from the Royall House to Cambridge—Isaac Royall’s daughter Penelope and her enslaved maid Cuba—tell us about the American Revolution.

2 December 2012, 5:30 P.M., Old State House, Boston: Panel discussion with Todd Andrlik, proprietor of Rag Linen; Prof. Robert J. Allison of Suffolk University, and J. L. Bell on the new book Reporting the American Revolution.