Enjoy summer evenings with Vermont authors in an intimate setting at the Highland Center for the Arts. Make a night of it; stop by the café for dinner or drinks, or come from 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm for a garden party on the patio or in the gallery, featuring local food and drink pairings.
After sailing to California as a common seaman and writing his account of the voyage, Two Years Before the Mast, Richard Henry Dana could not forget the brutal floggings he had witnessed aboard ship or the vow he had made to combat injustice. Jeffrey Amestoy, former Vermont Attorney General and Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, tells the story of Dana’s unflagging determination to keep that vow in the face of 19th-century America’s most exclusive establishment: the Boston society into which he had been born and bred. Identified as “the first full-length biography of Dana in more than half a century,” Wes Davis, editor of An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry, notes that the account “reintroduces readers to one of America’s most zealous defenders of freedom and human dignity,” a “richly detailed biography of Richard Henry Dana and a snapshot of American life at the end of the age of sail.”
Registration is $12 per lecture or $70 for the entire seven lecture series.