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Dates:Thursday, November 29, 2018
Hours:6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Ages:Infants, Toddlers, Kids, Teens, Adults
In/Outdoor:Indoor
Cost:Free
Category:Lectures/Discussions

Celebrate St. Andrew’s Day with NHSCOT and the Scots’ Charitable Society of Boston.

Dr. Carol Gardner will deliver a talk entitled “Involuntary Americans: The Scottish Prisoners of 1650-51,” discussing the fates of 420 Scottish prisoners of war who were shipped to New England as forced laborers.

These prisoners were among the first Scots to arrive in New England, and their experiences—as soldiers, captives, involuntary immigrants, servants and later free men—offer a unique and often ignored historical perspective on early New England society.

Carol Gardner has more than 30 years’ experience as a writer, journalist and communicator.

She earned a Ph.D. in English from The Johns Hopkins University; taught at Johns Hopkins, Wake Forest, and Florida State Universities; and has published pieces in a wide variety of books and periodicals, including the World of Baseball series, BluePlanet Quarterly, The Women’s Review of Books, Portland Press Herald, and The Washington Post.

She is a past winner of a Maryland Individual Artists award.

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94 State Street, Newburyport, MA, 01950 map
Phone: 6032291975

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