Book Signing & Reading
Lives of Consequence: Blacks in Early Kittery and Berwick in the Massachusetts Province of Maine
Meet author Patricia Q . Wall and hear the long-lost history of Blacks in early Maine.
August 24, 7 PM
First Congregational Church, Kittery Point ME
About the author
For the past 48 years, Patricia Quigley Wall has been involved with New England’s colonial history through professional museum work, research, teaching, and writing. More recently, after meeting Valerie Cunningham and learning of her ground-breaking research on Black history in early Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Mrs. Wall wrote an historical novel, Child Out of Place (Fall Rose Books, 2004, for ages 10 and up), based on a fictional, early 19th-century Black family in that locale. Six years later, its sequel, Beyond Freedom (Fall Rose Books, 2010), followed that family into Boston’s 1812 Black community on Beacon Hill. Both books were based on meticulous research.
For more information on event contact Valerie Cunningham nhblackhistory@aol.com 603-380-1231
