I have truly enjoyed this. Signing off now, with best regards to everyone who posted and is reading my book. thanks! Mac

Julie, Joanne, I have no idea about Roslyn Library and North Shore Reads, at least not in my itinerary for events this spring. or in my phone. Hope someone will help me figure this out I already spoke at the Roslyn Library last fall....hmmm, confusion here. Do you know a date? Can you put me in touch with somebody who can tell me if I did schedule something? I see North Bellmore, and Northport. Argh.

Joanne, buying into the social structure of the day: pretty hard to avoid! I wonder often about myself. Check out the brave Quaker William Edmundson in 1673 preaching against slavery to those Quaker slaveholders in Newport and then coming to visit Nathaniel and Grizzell, also Quakers—and slaveholders. Must have been quite a conversation.

Julie, you ask what was most surprising? All the way, from reading that William Coddington had refused an offer of 30 severed "fingers and thumes" from an Indian ally, to realizing that Cornelia Conway Felton Horsford was named, syllable by syllable, after a Harvard president in the 19th century. and discovering that poor Mary Burroughs Sylvester fell into mental illness...

Mitch Tobol, thanks for your help! I enjoyed this even if I forget each time you tell me how to access this Gotham book talk. You are very patient! and this was fun.