Keeler Tavern Museum & History Center announces Author Talk this Sunday with Allegra di Bonaventura
Author Talk with Allegra di Bonaventura
Keeler Tavern Museum & History Center • 152 Main St, Ridgefield, CT 06877
November 19, 2023
Keeler Tavern Museum & History Center will welcome author Allegra di Bonaventura this Sunday, November 19 at 3 p.m. in the Garden House to discuss her award-winning book, For Adam’s Sake: A Family Saga in Colonial New England. Di Bonaventura is the first presenter in the museum’s new speaker series, Revolutionary Perspectives, which celebrates innovative approaches to how we discover, interpret, and share American history, with an emphasis on themes of memory and identity.
Di Bonaventura’s powerful storytelling exemplifies how historians can connect the past and the present in thought-provoking ways. For Adam’s Sake tells the story of two third-generation New Englanders and their interwoven families: Joshua Hempstead, a shipwright, farmer, and magistrate, and Adam Jackson, a husbandman whom Joshua enslaved for over thirty years. Hempstead’s remarkable diary – kept from 1711 to 1758 – and one hundred years of court records form the basis of this narrative of family life and enslavement in the colonial North.
Di Bonaventura is the associate dean for academic support at Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Prior to joining the Graduate School, she earned a Ph.D. in History and a J.D. from Yale. Her book For Adam’s Sake won the New England Historical Association’s James P. Hanlan Book Award and the Association for the Study of Connecticut History’s Homer D. Babbidge Award. For Adam’s Sake was named a Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year in 2013.
Registration is required for this in-person event, to be held in KTM&HC’s Garden House on Sunday, November 19 at 3 p.m. Parking is available onsite at 152 Main Street, Ridgefield. The program is free for all, thanks to a generous grant from the Wadsworth Lewis Fund, and copies of For Adam’s Sake will be available for purchase at the event. To learn more about upcoming programs in the Revolutionary Perspectives speaker series, and to register, click here to register.
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