Join us as author Eileen Warburton previews her just published book, Chasing Chance, an enthralling study of a founding American dynasty –the Peirces and the Princes–in an interwoven story of family heritage that extends from the earliest settlements to the mid-twentieth century.

From Pilgrims to Robber Barons, martyred witches to Confederate officers, artists to statesmen, founders of towns, states, and industries, from journalists to pirates, or pioneers to war heroes, each person in the narrative has an individual destiny and a distinct story. Yet each individual character occupies a place and a moment in the larger story of the United States, was shaped by and helped to shape that moment in time. Each person is linked to the others in a kind of golden braid of DNA and family heritage that extends from the earliest settlements to the present.

Eileen Warburton is a New England writer and teacher. Among many published works on places and people, she is the author of the award-winning In Living Memory: A Chronicle of Newport Rhode Island, 1888-1988 (1988) and of the notable biography, John Fowles: A Life in Two Worlds (2005).

Thursday, September 19th

6 pm Lecture

7 pm Reception

Rovensky Room

Free

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