Minute Man National Historical Park
and the Minute Man National Park Association host a series of winter lectures.
Lectures are held on Sundays at 2 p.m. throughout the month of February at the
Minute Man Visitor Center on Rt. 2A in Lexington. All lectures are free of charge.
“Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a
dictionary,
how potent for good and evil they become,
in the hands of one who knows how to combine them!” The American Notebooks
February 1, 2004 “Hawthorne and the Slavery Question: Are We Asking the
Right Questions?”
Arthur Riss, Professor of English at Salem State College and Author
February 8, 2004 “Hawthorne In Concord”
Philip McFarland, Author
February 15, 2004 “ ‘Her Kindred Art’: Sophia Peabody As
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Soul Mate”
Megan Marshall, Author
February 22, 2004 “The Hawthorne Children And The Wayside” Jane
Sciacca, Author and Historian
February 29, 2004 “Hawthorne In His Own Words”
Robert Derry, National Park Service Ranger & Historian
