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Shared Legacies: Founding Generations Tell Their Stories
September 7, 2005
Peter J. Gomes professor, minister, Harvard
Eve LaPlante writer
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich historian, 1991 Pulitzer Prize
Miriam W. Butts moderator

In celebration of Boston's 375th anniversary, a panel of authors discuss the lives of Massachusetts Bay colonists between 1630 and 1710.

The panel includes Rev Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, at Harvard University; Eve LaPlante, author of American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans; Laurel Ulrich, the author of Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England. The panel is moderated by author and lecturer Miriam W. Butts.

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Image of The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus: What's So Good About the Good News?
Author: Peter J. Gomes
Publisher: HarperOne (2008)
Binding: Paperback, 272 pages
Image of The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart
Author: Peter J. Gomes
Publisher: HarperOne (2002)
Binding: Paperback, 400 pages
Image of Seized: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy as a Medical, Historical, and Artistic Phenomenon
Author: Eve LaPlante
Publisher: iUniverse (2000)
Binding: Paperback, 272 pages
Image of American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans
Author: Eve LaPlante
Publisher: HarperOne (2005)
Binding: Paperback, 336 pages
Image of A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
Author: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Publisher: Vintage (1991)
Binding: Paperback, 464 pages
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