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African American Connecticut Explored Book Talk and Signing at the Custom House Maritime Museum

The New London Maritime Society (NLMS) announces that essayist Elisabeth Petry and editor Elizabeth Normen will present a book talk and signing for African American Connecticut Explored, a new book published by Wesleyan University Press. The book tells the long arc of the African-American experience in Connecticut, from the Colonial period to the 20th century. The program takes place at the Custom House Maritime Museum, 150 Bank Street, New London, on Sunday, February 9, 2014, 2 PM .  Admission is $15, $10 for NLMS members & students with valid ID.  The Custom House Maritime Museum audience size is limited. Reservations are necessary. Call  860-447-2501 .
Essayest Liz Petry will talk about best-selling novelist Ann Petry and The Narrows, her story set in a mythic mid-20th century town modeled in part after New London. Ann Petry (1908-1997) of Old Saybrook, CT,  was an American author who became the first black woman writer with book sales topping a million copies for her novel The Street.  Other contributors to African American Connecticut Explored include Billie M. Anthony, Christopher Baker, Whitney Bayers, Barbara Beeching, Andra Chantim, Stacey K. Close, Jessica Colebrook, Christopher Collier, Hildegard Cummings, Barbara Donahue, Mary M. Donohue, Nancy Finlay, Jessica A. Gresko, Katherine J. Harris, Charles (Ben) Hawley, Peter Hinks, Graham Russell Gao Hodges, Eileen Hurst, Dawn Byron Hutchins, Carolyn B. Ivanoff, Joan Jacobs, Mark H. Jones, Joel Lang, Melonae' McLean, Wm. Frank Mitchell, Hilary Moss, Cora Murray, Elizabeth J. Normen, Cynthia Reik, Ann Y. Smith, John Wood Sweet, Charles A. Teale Sr., Barbara M. Tucker, Tamara Verrett, Liz Warner, David O. White, and Yohuru Williams. Connecticut Explored is the state's magazine of Connecticut history published in collaboration with more than 25 heritage, arts and educational organizations across the state.  Copies of  African American Connecticut Explored will be available for purchase at the event.

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