Book Signings and Presentations

• on Judith Sargent Murray
• for the Massachusetts Historical Records Council
• for the Boston Women's Heritage Trail

Bonnie Hurd Smith's latest book on Judith Sargent Murray, "Mingling Souls Upon Paper," An Eighteenth-Century Love Story was published in 2007. The book chronicles the poignant love story between Judith Sargent Murray, America's most prominent female essayist of the eighteenth century, and the Reverend John Murray, the founder of organized Universalism in America, told through Judith Sargent Murray's private letters -- many never-before-published.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Manchester Historical Society
10 Union Street, Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA
6:30 p.m. (refreshments); 7:00 p.m. (program)

Saturday, April 5, 2008
Cape Ann Museum
Pleasant Street, Gloucester, MA
2:00 p.m.

Thursday, March 20, 2008
EEOC Diversity Advisory Committee
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
One Blackburn Drive, Gloucester, MA
11:00 a.m.

Thursday, February 7, 2008
Lynn Museum & Historical Society
590 Washington Street, Lynn, MA
7:00 p.m.

Thursday, January 24, 2008
Rotary Club of Ipswich
1640 Hart House
51 Linebrook Road, Ipswich, MA
12:00 Noon

Sermons or Church Services on Judith Sargent Murray

Sunday, March 30, 2008
First Parish Church Unitarian Universalist
923 Main Street, Fitchburg, MA
11:00 a.m.

For the Massachusetts Historical Records Council:
"Archives Alive! Organizing and Promoting Your Historical Collections"

Friday, May 16, 2008
Beverly Public Library
32 Essex Street, Beverly, MA
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
(co-presented with Laura Lowell; visit www.nmrls.org/hrc for details and to register)

Friday, April 11, 2008
Lexington Historical Society
13 Depot Square, Lexington, MA
9:00 a.m.-Noon
(co-presented with Laura Lowell; visit www.nmrls.org/hrc for details and to register)

For the Boston Women's Heritage Trail

Thursday, March 27, 2008
Special Emphasis Program Coalition
JFK Federal Building, Boston
Noon

For Ipswich's 375th Anniversary

Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Ipswich Public Library
North Main Street, Ipswich, MA
7:30 p.m.


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