Join your friends and neighbors with the return of Essex Historical Society's (EHS) popular Winter Lecture Series, hosted by our partners at Essex Meadows.  This year's theme highlights the American Revolution.  The Series continues on Sunday, January 11, at 3pm with the topic “The Bruning of New London” presented by , author of book: Homegrown Terror: Benedict Arnold and the Burning of New London.

Author Eric D. Lehman will share a historical look back at the infamous Benedict Arnold presented in his recent book, Homegrown Terror: Benedict Arnold and the Burning of New London. He will discuss the life of this complicated Connecticut native, including the September 6, 1781, attack of his home state, when he led 1,600 British soldiers and loyalists to capture Fort Griswold and burn down the town of New London. This fascinating story also sheds light on the ethics of the dawning nation and the way colonial America responded to betrayal and terror.

All Winter Lecture Series talks are free and open to the public, held in beautiful Hamilton Hall at Essex Meadows, 30 Bokum Road, Essex.  Doors open at 2:30 pm, and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, please contact EHS at 860-767-0681 or mjosefiak@essexhistory.org

Eric Lehman is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Bridgeport and the author of 22 books, including New England Nature, A History of Connecticut Food, and Becoming Tom Thumb: Charles Stratton, P.T. Barnum, and the Dawn of American Celebrity, which won the Henry Russell Hitchcock Award from the Victorian Society in America and was chosen by the American Library Association as one of the best university press books of the year. His novel 9 Lupine Road and his novella Shadows of Paris were both finalists for the Connecticut Book Award.