FC 93 At the Point of a Cutlass with Greg Flemming
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FC 93 At the Point of a Cutlass with Greg Flemming

This week on Fieldstone Common our featured guest is Gregory N. Flemming, the author of the book At the Point of a Cutlass: The Pirate Capture, Bold Escape, and Lonely Exile of Philip Ashton. This book tells the fantastic story of a fisherman’s capture by a notorious pirate and his risky and dramatic escape. Bio…

FC 83 – Rebecca Dickinson with Marla R. Miller
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FC 83 – Rebecca Dickinson with Marla R. Miller

This week on Fieldstone Common our featured guest is Marla R. Miller, author of the book Rebecca Dickinson: Independence for a New England Woman. Bio – Marla R. Miller Marla R. Miller, a historian of early American women and work, has made a career uncovering the lives of women who left little in the way…

FC 74 The Dawn of American Independence with Brian Deming
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FC 74 The Dawn of American Independence with Brian Deming

This week on Fieldstone Common our featured guest is Brian Deming, author of the book Boston and the Dawn of American Independence. Bio – Brian Deming Brian Deming grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and has a master’s degree in American history from Northwestern University. He was…

FC 65 A Little Commonwealth with John Demos
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FC 65 A Little Commonwealth with John Demos

This week on Fieldstone Common our featured guest is Professor John Demos, author of the books The Unredeemed Captive; Entertaining Satan; and A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony. In this episode we discuss these books as well as his career and the state of history in America. Bio John Demos was born and…

FC 64 Artful and Designing Men – A look at Shays’ Rebellion with Gary Shattuck
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FC 64 Artful and Designing Men – A look at Shays’ Rebellion with Gary Shattuck

This week on Fieldstone Common our featured guest is Gary Shattuck, author of the book Artful and Designing Men: The Trials of Job Shattuck and the Regulation of 1786-1787. This book explores the topic of Shays’ Rebellion, an uprising of farmers in Massachusetts, that protested unfair tax collection in the economically unstable times following the…

FC 061 Hanging Ruth Blay with Carolyn Marvin
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FC 061 Hanging Ruth Blay with Carolyn Marvin

This week on Fieldstone Common our featured guest is Carolyn Marvin, author of the book Hanging Ruth Blay: An Eighteenth-Century New Hampshire Tragedy. Bio Carolyn Marvin currently works as a research librarian at the Portsmouth Athenaeum in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Previously, she worked in both public and school libraries. Ms. Marvin lives in a tiny…

FC 060 Ocean-Born Mary with Jeremy D’Entremont
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FC 060 Ocean-Born Mary with Jeremy D’Entremont

This week on Fieldstone Common our featured guest is Jeremy D’Entremont, author of the book Ocean-Born Mary: The Truth Behind a New Hampshire Legend. Bio Jeremy D’Entremont, author of Ocean-Born Mary, has been writing about and photographing the lighthouses of New England since the mid-1980s. He’s the author of more than ten books and hundreds…

FC 059 Witches, Rakes, and Rogues with D. Brenton Simons
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FC 059 Witches, Rakes, and Rogues with D. Brenton Simons

This week on Fieldstone Common our featured guest is D. Brenton Simons, author of the book Witches, Rakes, and Rogues: True Stories of Scam, Scandal, Murder, and Mayhem in Boston, 1630-1775. Bio D. Brenton Simons, is the President and CEO of the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston, Massachusetts. Currently piloting a groundbreaking $50…

FC 41 Defiant Brides with Nancy Rubin Stuart
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FC 41 Defiant Brides with Nancy Rubin Stuart

Following are some items that were mentioned during the 30 May 2013 Fieldstone Common interview with Nancy Rubin Stuart about her book Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-era Women and the Radical Men They Married. Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-era Women and the Radical Men They Married, published by Beacon…

FC 40 The Indian Great Awakening with Linford Fisher
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FC 40 The Indian Great Awakening with Linford Fisher

This week on Fieldstone Common, Marian Pierre-Louis interviews Dr. Linford Fisher, author of The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Culture in Early America. The First Great Awakening was a time of heightened religious activity in the colonial New England. Among those whom the English settlers tried to convert to Christianity were…

FC 39 Judith Sargent Murray & The Sargent House Museum with Barbara Silberman
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FC 39 Judith Sargent Murray & The Sargent House Museum with Barbara Silberman

Following are some items that were mentioned during the 16 May 2013 Fieldstone Common interview with Barbara Silberman about Judith Sargent Murray and the Sargent House Museum in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The podcast of the interview is now available. Listen to internet radio with Fieldstone Common on BlogTalkRadio This interview with Barbara Silberman, president of the…