Plymouth's 1749 Courthouse and the Revolution in the Courts
Join us for this first lecture in a four-part series, Revolutionary Plymouth, exploring the people, places, and ideas that shaped Plymouth during the American Revolution.
Colonial courthouses were as much the site of the Revolution as taverns, town greens, and battlegrounds. The symbolic architecture of Plymouth's 1749 Courthouse provided the dramatic setting for the changes the people of Plymouth went through, from colonial subjects who protested and struggled through eight long years of revolution to become citizens of a new republic, with all its faults and its promises for the future.
Speaker Bio
Stephen O'Neill is a public historian, educator, and author with more than thirty years of experience. He is the Director of the Hanover Historical Society and the Dyer Memorial Library in Abington. He's a graduate of Boston College and Boston University, former Associate Director & Curator at Pilgrim Hall Museum, a consultant for the Alden House Historic Site, a Proprietor of the Boston Athenaeum, and a trustee for the Norwell Historical Society and Norwell's First Parish Cemetery Association.
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Plymouth Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.