MONTEREY, Mass. - John Demos will be featured speaker at the Bidwell House on Saturday, June 20th at 10 am. The historic house museum is located at the end of Art School Road in Monterey, MA. The Bidwell House governing board appointed John Demos as a trustee of the museum at the annual meeting in May.
Recently retired from Yale University where he was Samuel Knight Professor of American history, Demos holds degrees from Harvard University and Berkeley; he also studied at Oxford University and the Institute for Psychoanalysis in Chicago.
Author of many prize-winning books, Demos will give guests of the Bidwell House a preview of his work in progress which is a story of hope and betrayal in the early republic--a story of "The Heathen School," a name the locals gave for the Cornwall, CT, Foreign Mission School which operated from 1817 to 1826.
Demos is best known for his 1994 The Unredeemed Captive, winner of the coveted Francis Parkman Award. The Bidwell House is a non-profit museum which specializes in a descriptive tour of what life was like when the Berkshires was first settled by colonists. For further information, visit the web site at www.bidwellhousemuseum. Admission will be charged and includes a picnic reception for the author following the lecture.
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