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Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Retracing the Witch Trials - Julia Park Tracey Author Talk and Book Sale
On October 22 the Library & Learning Commons will be hosting Julia Park Tracey for an author talk and book sale in the Reading Room (N-310). Author Julia Park Tracey will present a slide show and talk about the Puritan Era and her book, Silence: A Novel. This starred reviewed novel from Kirkus Reviews features a Puritan woman named Silence who is sentenced to a year of silence by the church elders after emoting in church following three grievous losses. In that year of not speaking, Silence emerges as a woman with a voice—however, not before she is accused of witchcraft. This is the story of Julia’s seventh great grandmother and is deeply researched through Ancestry.com. She will discuss the witch trials, the handicrafts of the era, the constraints on women, and the way women such as Silence Marsh found their voices despite those constraints.