Author Talk with Andrew Noone - "Bathsheba Spooner: A Revolutionary Murder Conspiracy"

Join us as we host author Andrew Noone to talk about his book Bathsheba Spooner: A Revolutionary Murder Conspiracy, a riveting account of the first woman in American history to be executed following the Declaration of Independence. In this program, Noone will provide a synopsis, address some frequently asked questions, and give a few short readings of excerpts from the book.

Find copies of the book to check out on the CWMARS catalog here! 

Join us on Saturday, May 31st at 2pm in the Grice Community Room. No registration required!

About the book:

"A Most Horrid Piece of Villainy" one observer wrote upon hearing of what is now recognized as the most sensational crime of the American eighteenth century, the Revolutionary counterpart to the Lizzie Borden case from the next century. The saga reads like historical fiction, though every page is documented. Bathsheba Spooner, daughter of the once heralded, now scorned Tony Timothy Ruggles, plotted the murder of her Patriot husband in league with fugitive British POWs and her teenage American lover (and ex-militiaman), riveting the attention of New England for four months at the midpoint of the American Revolution. Fascinating the reader with its melodramatic combination of war, marital discord, class conflict, duplicity, thievery, lust, murder, and consequence, the tale unfolds within the larger concerns of a society undergoing the most radical disruption since its beginnings a century-and-a-half earlier.

About the author:

An independent scholar, Andrew Noone holds graduate degrees in musicology and art history (as a Florence Fellow with Syracuse University), and has completed the US Department of Education's "keepers of the Republic" three-year history program hosted by the American Antiquarian Society. He has taught courses in the humanities at colleges throughout Massachusetts, and is published with Worldwide Books and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A former member of the Worcester Historical Commission, he is a docent with Preservation Worcester. His home borders Green Hill Park, resting place of Bathsheba Spooner.