Good evening. I would like to welcome you to tonights program. To our members we are so glad that you are here. And to you joining us for the first time and with the wide range of programs please turn off your cell phones during the program. Mary beth norton the author of five books and cowat it one call author several others and it has been published ten additions over 500,000 copies. As a Pulitzer Prize finalist and present of the Historical Association she is a professor america of American History at cornell and her new book it is available for purchase following the program please join me to welcome mary beth norton. [applause]. I want to show you the cover briefly because if you are a colonial historian on dash i dont know if anybody recognizes it but in the Massachusetts Historical Society the claims on the label but it contains t from the Boston Harbor the day after the party this is quite well known object in colonial america. Now i want to start with this verse from a poem th
Welcome to francie and fitch book shop. We have a lot of helpers. I want to point out if you havent noticed, weve got cspan in the room, tony came in from iowa, taking a little break from the iowa campaigning. So youre going to be on cspan. Ill find out when, im not sure when, but ill be finding out so you can spread the word and let people know. Mary anne andre is here, awardwinning producer of documentaries, among them under the milky way. It was absolutely beautiful. And were kind of in a little fish bowl today, right . [laughter] which is great. I also want to recognize stephanie, shes going to be helping with the book signing afterwards. Well kind of try and streamline that process a little bit. How the agendas going to go is im going to youre going to get some introductions of some great people that are going to talk to you about this book, therell be a q a, and afterwards youll be able to meet the author and have your books autographed. And at that point, theres a lot of people
Historian mary beth norton. She is the author of five books and coeditor of several others in your textbooks in a survey of u. S. History and been published in ten additions and sold more than 500,000 copies. Norton is a price finalist and. She is married professor of American History at cornell university. Her new book, 1774, year of revolution, available for purchase following the program. So now, please join me in welcoming mary beth norton. [applause]. Mary is really nice to be here. I want to make sure that the microphone is on. It does not seem to be. Hope there is pretty great. I want to show you the cover of the book because that little bottle on it, is famous here in colonial historian. I dont know if anybody recognizes this but it is in the collection of the massachusetts historical tidy. It claims on the label which is impossible read, that it contains t picked up from bostons harbor. The day after the tea party. So there is a quite wellknown object in the colonial america.
Onely to see you all today this day. My name is donnas the dark, chair of the History Department here at salem state university. Thank you all for coming today. We are all here, obviously, the of Bridget Bishop long hot summer and thaw of 1962. This is the 325th anniversary of those events. As a history professor, i am sometimes reticent to indulge in what i called anniversary history, because i like my students to think every single day is historic. Take adoes feel right to moment, take a day, and really think about what happened during that year. So that is what we are doing today. That is what the city of salem is going to be doing probably all summer long. Before i introduce our distinguished guest, who will open up our symposium, the mayor of salem, kimberly jusco driscoll, i want to say thanks. At the end of the day, i will think all of the presenters, but right now, i want to thank my little committee, because we have been working on this for a year. And that would include the t
I thank you all for coming today. We are all here, obviously, because of rigid ship. The long hot summer and early fall of 1692. As a history professor, i am inetimes reticent to indulge anniversary history because i like my students to think that every single day is historic. To take as feel right moment, take it day and really think about what happened. That is what we are doing today. That is with the city of salem is going to be doing all summer long. Before i introduce our distinguished guest who will , i want to symposium say thanks before i forget to thank everybody. While we are wrapping up this day am going to think all of the presenters contributions. Right now i want to thank my Little Committee because we have been working on this for a year. And that would include the two women downstairs who are not going to hear my thanks. Also from the Salem Award Foundation we have shelby, who has a brief announcement to make about our special feature. [indiscernible] and would like to