Upcoming Author Events & Readings
4 upcoming author events and readings from Andover Center for History and Culture, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All readings in Greater Boston →
Sat Oct 10 · 4:00pm
Eric Jay Dolin discusses The Wreck of the Mentor, which follows an American whaleship lost on a remote western Pacific reef in 1832 and the eleven surviving crewmen left with dwindling supplies. Dolin has written a long run of maritime histories, several of which have been New York Times bestsellers.
Thu Oct 22 · 6:00pm
Judith Kalaora of History at Play portrays Rachel Revere on May 2, 1775, cut off from Paul by the Siege of Boston and planning how to get his six children and their newborn beyond the reach of the British army, with the audience weighing each plan. The 40-minute performance, commissioned by the Paul Revere Memorial Association, is followed by a Q&A and a half-hour history lesson.
Tue Oct 27 · 6:30pm
Historian Don Slater on the paper money of the Revolution and the imagery engraved on it — Revere among the engravers, which put the same hand behind both the propaganda prints and the currency the new states were trying to make people accept. The Andover Center hosts the talk on Main Street.
Sat Nov 7 · 1:00pm
Tara Lynn Masih discusses The Silent Women, a novel drawn from the Manhattan Project's Oak Ridge — the closed town where thousands worked without being told what they were building. Her protagonist, Song Holloway, is ordered to inform on the women around her. Masih has won the Julia Ward Howe Prize.
