TANGLED LIVES: Native People & English Settlers in Colonial New England with Jo Radner
July 2, 2023 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
“TANGLED LIVES” STORIES AT DENMARK ARTS CENTER
What kinds of stories shaped New England identities in the 17th and 18th centuries? Storyteller Jo Radner will give listeners a glimpse into that world in her performance of “Tangled Lives: Native People and English Settlers in Colonial New England.” will be at the Denmark Arts Center on Sunday, July 2nd at 3pm.
“Tangled Lives” blends and juxtaposes material from Abenaki and English tradition, tracing some of the intertwined threads in the relationships between English settlers and Native peoples as they struggled to control the Abenaki land of northern New England – land to which each group felt entitled, land on which different cultures clashed, mingled, and merged. Exploring questions of responsibility and justice, the stories reveal the way English and Native people in this region saw one another as defenders and trespassers, pursuers and refugees, relatives and aliens, kind neighbors and ruthless destroyers.
Radner presents stories from extensive research and from the written memoirs of two families who arrived in Massachusetts in 1635 and migrated over time to settle New England towns, including Pequawket (Fryeburg), Maine.
Jo Radner spent 31 years as a professor at American University in Washington, DC teaching literature, folklore, storytelling and more.
This program is presented by the Denmark Historical Society and donations are gratefully accepted.
The program takes place at the Denmark Arts Center, 50 West Maine street, Denmark, Maine.
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