SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2024 @ 4:30 PM
OLD SHIP MEETING HOUSE 90 Main Street, Hingham MA |
DIRECTIONS
90 Main Street Hingham, MA 02043 MAILING ADDRESS
14 Main Street Hingham, MA 02043 admin@ oldshipfriends.org |
ARTS WALK & BOOK TALK
Hingham's annual ARTS WALK features artists, authors and musicians in shops and galleries throughout Hingham Square. 10 am - 4 pm.
Old Ship Meeting House will be open from noon to 4 for tours.
BOOK TALK:
At 4:30 pm, Friends of Old Ship will sponsor a special Book Talk in the Meeting House, free and open to the public. Let’s go back 300 years to the site where Silence Marsh was first condemned by church elders to a year of silence. Best-selling author and UU Julia Park Tracey will discuss Silence: a Novel, set in early Puritan times and based on the life of her great grandmother (x7), Silence Marsh Greenleaf. Much of the action takes place in our Meeting House, and readers will recognize landmarks in Cohasset, Hull and Hingham for the setting.
Buttonwood Books (Cohasset, MA) will provide the pop-up onsite bookstore for this event.
About Silence:
After three grievous losses, Puritan woman Silence Marsh dares to question God aloud in the church, and that blasphemy lands her in trouble—she is silenced for a year by the powers that govern. Broken in heart and spirit, Silence learns to mime and sign, but it isn’t until a new Boston doctor comes to her village that she begins to hope again. Rather than treating Silence with bleeding or leeches, Dr. Greenleaf prescribes fresh air, St. John’s Wort, long walks—and reading.
Silence has half a hope of getting through her year of punishment when the cry of witchcraft poisons the village. Colonial Massachusetts is still reeling from the Salem Witch Trials just 20 years before. Now, after they demanded her silence, she is called to witness at a witchcraft trial—or be accused herself.
A whiff of sulfur and witchcraft shadows this literary Puritan tale of loss and redemption, based on this bestselling historical fiction author’s own ancestor, her seventh great-grandmother.
About Julia Park Tracey:Bestselling author Julia Park Tracey’s ancestors and their stories have given her a trail to follow from New York and New England to the Deep South and the Pacific Coast (Thanks Ancestry.com!). The Bereaved; A Novel, the story of her great, great grandmother’s loss of her children to the Orphan Train was named in the top 100 indie books published in 2023 by Kirkus Reviews. Silence is the story of another “an-sister,” Silence Greenleaf.
For info about the book and author, go to https://sibyllinepress.com/witch-trials/. This is event is part of the Retracing the Witch Trials Tour with Julia Park Tracey, Author of Silence: A Novel. The tour spans October 19 through 30, 2024 and takes place in New England. Julia now lives in Grass Valley, CA - let’s give her a warm Hingham welcome!!
Sibylline Press | An Imprint of All Things Book
Publishing Brilliant Women 50 & Over
www.sibyllinepress.com
Hingham's annual ARTS WALK features artists, authors and musicians in shops and galleries throughout Hingham Square. 10 am - 4 pm.
Old Ship Meeting House will be open from noon to 4 for tours.
BOOK TALK:
At 4:30 pm, Friends of Old Ship will sponsor a special Book Talk in the Meeting House, free and open to the public. Let’s go back 300 years to the site where Silence Marsh was first condemned by church elders to a year of silence. Best-selling author and UU Julia Park Tracey will discuss Silence: a Novel, set in early Puritan times and based on the life of her great grandmother (x7), Silence Marsh Greenleaf. Much of the action takes place in our Meeting House, and readers will recognize landmarks in Cohasset, Hull and Hingham for the setting.
Buttonwood Books (Cohasset, MA) will provide the pop-up onsite bookstore for this event.
About Silence:
After three grievous losses, Puritan woman Silence Marsh dares to question God aloud in the church, and that blasphemy lands her in trouble—she is silenced for a year by the powers that govern. Broken in heart and spirit, Silence learns to mime and sign, but it isn’t until a new Boston doctor comes to her village that she begins to hope again. Rather than treating Silence with bleeding or leeches, Dr. Greenleaf prescribes fresh air, St. John’s Wort, long walks—and reading.
Silence has half a hope of getting through her year of punishment when the cry of witchcraft poisons the village. Colonial Massachusetts is still reeling from the Salem Witch Trials just 20 years before. Now, after they demanded her silence, she is called to witness at a witchcraft trial—or be accused herself.
A whiff of sulfur and witchcraft shadows this literary Puritan tale of loss and redemption, based on this bestselling historical fiction author’s own ancestor, her seventh great-grandmother.
About Julia Park Tracey:Bestselling author Julia Park Tracey’s ancestors and their stories have given her a trail to follow from New York and New England to the Deep South and the Pacific Coast (Thanks Ancestry.com!). The Bereaved; A Novel, the story of her great, great grandmother’s loss of her children to the Orphan Train was named in the top 100 indie books published in 2023 by Kirkus Reviews. Silence is the story of another “an-sister,” Silence Greenleaf.
For info about the book and author, go to https://sibyllinepress.com/witch-trials/. This is event is part of the Retracing the Witch Trials Tour with Julia Park Tracey, Author of Silence: A Novel. The tour spans October 19 through 30, 2024 and takes place in New England. Julia now lives in Grass Valley, CA - let’s give her a warm Hingham welcome!!
Sibylline Press | An Imprint of All Things Book
Publishing Brilliant Women 50 & Over
www.sibyllinepress.com