October 28, 2021
2021-10-28T18:30:00
Reception from 6:30 - 7 p.m.
Events run from 7-8 PM
Reservation is required for every event.
28 Pearl Street
Gardner, MA 01440
Admission for Non-member is $3
The Gardner Museum presents - Bathsheba Spooner - Perpetrator & Victim
Thursday, October 28, 2021
On July 2, 1778, Bathsheba Ruggles Spooner, a 32 year old intelligent and independent-minded woman from Brookfield became the first woman to be executed in the new American republic for having arranged for the murder of her husband. But she was also a victim. She was trapped by social mores that allowed no escape from an abusive husband. Condemned for her Loyalist sympathies, she rushed to judgment by a community fearful of civil disorder. Book presentation by musicologist, art historian, teacher, and author Andrew Noone.