Our popular Sunday lecture series, “At The Atwood”, continues on April 27th with the third in this year’s series under the title Constructing Wilderness, with a lecture by Katherine Grandjean, Assistant Professor of History at Wellesley College.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Wilderness Act and Monomoy, the only area in Southern New England designated under the Act, the Atwood House Museum is proud to present Constructing Wildereness, in partnership with six local and national partner organizations.

May 4, 2014: “Into the wandering wood: New England colonists’ early experiences with wilderness”
Speaker: Katherine Grandjean is Assistant Professor of History at Wellesley College.

Katherine Grandjean holds a BA in History from Yale University and a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University. Katherine is currently at work on a book titled Reckoning: The Communications Frontier in Early New England, a tale of the power struggle between Native and English people to control the lines of communication in the colonial northeast. She teaches introductory courses in Early American and Native American history as well as courses in Colonial American history. Katherine has also developed a seminar, Fear and Violence in Early American History which covers murder, war and slave rebellion among others that were prevalent to the inhabitants of colonial America.