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Join us for a conversation between historian Janet L. Polasky and Kimberly Cloutier Green, author and former Poet Laureate of Portsmouth.Anchored in the heart of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, A Church Built of Granite traces four centuries of faith, questioning, and community through the evolving life of South Church. It begins with a rough wooden meeting house raised by seventeenth-century English fishermen on contested Indigenous land and culminates in the solid granite church completed in 1826, where worshipers and change-seekers still gather today.
Drawing on deep and thoughtful research, the history reveals how theology, geography, politics, and personality shaped a New England congregation and the town around it. Along the way, it explores shifting ideas of land ownership, religious authority, slavery, and conscience, showing how Anglicans, Puritans, Congregationalists, Unitarians, Universalists, and Indigenous peoples all left enduring marks.
Author Janet Polasky will be interviewed about her book by Kimberly Cloutier Green, a former Poet Laureate of Portsmouth. She and Janet are longtime members of South Church, Portsmouth.
No registration required. Free and open to all. Learn more here: https://portsmouthpl.librarycalendar.com/event/LH2610
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175 Parrott Ave, Portsmouth, NH, United States, New Hampshire 03801
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