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We are so pleased to be starting this 9 week series to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. We're thrilled to welcome author and historican Lars D. H. Hedbor who will be discussing his book, "The Convention: Tales From a Revolution" which centers on the Convention Army, captured at Saratoga, and initially marched across to Cambridge. While there awaiting release, some of the captives were essentially leased out to local farmers as laborers, and it is that fascinating institution that Lars explores through the eyes of one such captive. We hope you can join us for this fascinating conversation!  

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You can buy signed books by Lars from Aesop's Fable, just make a note that you want the books signed when you check out.

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About the book:

1777, Massachusetts: Surrender Was Just the Beginning of the Battle

Arthur Leary thought that his part in the Revolution ended when his generals surrendered their army to the Americans after the Battle of Saratoga. Little did he know that political maneuvering at the highest levels of British and American government would leave him and his fellow soldiers marching across the landscape for years to come... unless he could find a way out. The rocky soil of a New-England farm owned by fierce patriots to the American cause offered him hard labor, and harder choices -- choices which would shape his future, and that of his country.

The Convention is the Massachusetts volume of the Tales From a Revolution series, in which each standalone novel examines the American War of Independence as it unfolded in a different colony. If you like exploring familiar history from unfamiliar viewpoints, you’ll love The Convention.

About Lars:

What made the American Colonists turn their back on their King, and fight for independence? How were they different from us–and how were their hopes and fears familiar to our own hearts?

These are the sorts of questions that Hedbor thinks are important to ask in examining the American Revolution, and in the pages of his novels, he suggests some possible answers.

His first novel, The Prize, was published in 2011, followed by The Light in 2013, and The Smoke, The Declaration, and The Break in 2014; The Wind was published in 2015, The Darkness in 2016, The Path in 2017, The Freedman in 2018, The Tree in 2019, The Mine and The Siege in 2020, and The Will and The Convention in 2021, The Oath in 2022, The Powder in 2023, and The Word in 2024, making Hedbor the most prolific novelist ever of the American Revolution. His first play, an adaptation of The Siege, premiered in 2022.

He’s also written extensively about this era for the Journal of the American Revolution, and has appeared as a featured guest on an Emmy-nominated Discovery Network program, The American Revolution, which premiered nationally on the American Heroes Channel in late 2014. He later appeared as a series expert on America: Fact vs. Fiction for Discovery Networks, and was a panelist at the Historical Novel Society’s 2017 North American Conference, the 2022 Authors’ Congress, and the 2022 20Books Vegas Conference.

He is an amateur historian, linguist, brewer, cuckoo clock restorer, fiddler, astronomer and baker. Professionally, he is a technologist, high school foreign exchange coordinator, marketer, writer and father. His love of history drives him to share the excitement of understanding the events of long ago, and how those events touch us still today.

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This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Ashland Public Library and we're thrilled to be collaborating with a multitude of MA Libraries to bring this program to our communities. We are also pleased to be partnering with the Ashland Senior Center for this event.