Where:
Old South Meeting House
310 Washington St.
Boston, MA 02108
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Lectures & Conferences
Co-sponsored by Old South Meeting House and Old North Church
In his meticulously researched and award-winning book, Embattled Farmers, Richard Wiggin has documented the diverse experiences of 256 ordinary men from one Massachusetts town who served on both sides of the Revolutionary War. In this lecture, Mr. Wiggin will discuss the perspectives of these men themselves – farmers, merchants, African-American slaves and others who held a variety of military positions – and the stories that give a human face to the War of Independence. Book sales and signing will follow the lecture.
This program is made possible with funding from the Lowell Institute and pre-registration is requested at www.osmh.org/calendar.
Richard C. Wiggin is Historian and past Captain of the Lincoln Minute Men, a colonial re-enactor, and volunteer at Minute Man National Historical Park. He is former Executive Director of Boston’s Old State House, and has written audio tours for seven different segments of Minute Man National Historical Park and Boston’s Freedom Trail. His articles have appeared in Alaska Magazine, the Boston Globe, the Civil War Courier, and The Lincoln Review.