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Revolutionary Heroine Deborah Sampson and Gender Identity (Virtual)
TUESDAY, JUNE 27 AT 7:00—8:00PM

Join us on Zoom for a celebration of Pride Month with this extraordinary conversation! This conversation and content will be geared towards adults. 

About Revolutionary: After years as an indentured servant in a sleepy Massachusetts town, chafing under the oppressive norms of colonial America, Deborah can’t contain her discontent any longer. When a sudden crisis forces her hand, she decides to finally make her escape. Embracing the peril and promise of the unknown, she cuts her hair, binds her chest, and, stealing clothes from a neighbor, rechristens herself Robert Shurtliff. It’s a desperate, dangerous, and complicated deception, and becomes only more so when, as Robert, she enlists in the Continental Army.

What follows is an inspiring, one-of-a-kind journey through an America torn apart by war: brutal winters and lethal battlefields, the trauma of combat and the cruelty of betrayal, the joy of true love and the tragedy of heartbreak. In his brilliant Revolutionary, Myers, who himself is a descendant of the historical Deborah, takes full advantage of this real-life heroine’s unique voice to celebrate the struggles for freedom, large and small, like never before.

About Alex: Alex Myers is a writer, teacher, and speaker. He earned his bachelor’s degree at Harvard University, studying Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Myers was the first openly transgender student at Harvard and worked to change the University’s nondiscrimination clause to include gender identity. After earning a master’s degree in religion at Brown, he has pursued a career in teaching English at secondary schools. He completed his Master’s of Fine Arts in fiction writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts, where he began his work on Revolutionary, which was published in 2014 by Simon & Schuster.

This program made available through a partnership with the Ashland Public Library and is sponsored by the Friends of the Ashland Public Library and in partnership with Ashland Is United. 

Nancy Horan Author of "The House of Lincoln" (Virtual)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28 AT 7:00—8:00PM

Nancy Horan, author of the million-copy New York Times bestseller "Loving Frank," returns with her new book "The House of Lincoln," a sweeping historical novel, which tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's ascendance from rumpled lawyer to U.S. president to the Great Emancipator through the eyes of a young asylum-seeker who arrives in Lincoln's home of Springfield from Madeira, Portugal. Join Nancy Horan and author, Therese Fowler as they discuss Nancy’s new book, The House of Lincoln which will be published June 6. 

This event is made possible through a partnership with the Burlington Public Library. Register Here.

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