Essex Historical Society Winter Lecture Series: Week 3

Join your friends and neighbors with the return of Essex Historical Society's (EHS) popular Winter Lecture Series, hosted by our partners at Essex Meadows.  This year's theme highlights the American Revolution.  The Series concludes on Sunday, January 18, at 3:30 pm with the topic "The Woman Who Printed the Declaration" presented by Dr. Emily Sneff, author of the forthcoming book: When the Declaration of Independence Was News.

Connecticut-born printer Mary Katharine Goddard created the first broadsides of the Declaration of Independence to include the names of the men who had signed that document. Dr. Emily Sneff, a leading expert on the Declaration and author of the forthcoming book, When the Declaration of Independence Was News, will explore Goddard's career and the choices she made when printing the Declaration, first in her newspaper in July 1776 and then on the broadsides ordered by the Continental Congress in January 1777. Dr. Sneff will contrast the printings under Goddard's name with newspapers printed under the name of another Mary, on the other side of the Atlantic.

All Winter Lecture Series talks are free and open to the public, held in beautiful Hamilton Hall at Essex Meadows, 30 Bokum Road, Essex.  We limit space to 50 non-Essex Meadows residents, so please register below if you plan to attend.

Doors open at 3:00 pm, and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, please contact EHS at 860-767-0681 or email us.