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Plymouth Colony First Lady Penelope Winslow: Reconstructing a Life Through Material Culture

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Plymouth Colony First Lady Penelope Winslow: Reconstructing a Life through Material Culture
Wednesday, November 20 6:00 – 7:30 PM
Presented by Michelle Marchetti Coughlin
American Ancestors Research Center, 99-101 Newbury Street, Boston, MA
Cost: FREE

Penelope Pelham Winslow, a member of the English gentry who was married to Plymouth Colony Governor Josiah Winslow, was one of the most powerful women in Plymouth Colony's history. Like most of her female contemporaries, however, she has largely been forgotten. Though she authored or is mentioned in few surviving documents, she left behind a trove of physical evidence—from surviving homes and possessions to archaeological artifacts—that provide great insight into her experiences. They also offer a portal into the world of Plymouth Colony's women. In her new book, Penelope Winslow, Plymouth Colony First Lady: Re-Imagining a Life, Michelle Marchetti Coughlin discovers that blending historical records with material culture provides the keys to re-imagining Winslow's world in all its rich complexity.

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Michelle Marchetti Coughlin is an independent scholar and the author of One Colonial Woman’s World: The Life and Writings of Mehetabel Chandler Coit, which received an honorable mention for the Western Association of Women Historians 2014 Kanner Prize. Ms. Coughlin has been a Massachusetts Humanities Scholar-in-Residence and a historical consultant, and recently guest-curated Pilgrim Hall Museum's exhibit, "pathFOUNDERS: Women of Plymouth." She currently serves on the board of the Abigail Adams Birthplace and as Museum Administrator of Boston's Gibson House Museum. She maintains a website at www.onecolonialwomansworld.com.

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