MINOT — Minot Historical Society will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, at the Town Office.
Annette Vance Dorey will be the guest speaker. She is a life-long educator whose career has taken her from the Midwest to the Southeast to Canada and New England.
She is a former professor of teacher education and human development at the University of New Brunswick, Canada.
In 2011 she spent the summer engaged in English immersion and teaching methods for teachers of English in Lithuania.
She is an enthusiastic genealogist and literacy volunteer, as well as a former trustee of Androscoggin Historical Society and the first director of education at Museum L-A in Lewiston-Auburn.
She will speak on her book, “Maine Mothers who Murdered, 1875-1925, Doing Time in State Prison.”
Dorey studied the mothers’ marital status, family relationships and economic struggles. They came from 12 of Maine’s 16 counties.
She researched the untold stories of more than 30 mothers and their murder trials, revealing a look into the early criminal justice system and its role in women’s history.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
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