It Really Happened in Connecticut (NWL)

Witchcraft trials, a serial murderer who inspired a popular movie, and a mysterious vagabond who has intrigued people for decades are three fascinating yet true stories from the state’s past that independent historian Diana Ross McCain will recount in her talk “It Really Happened in Connecticut,” on Sunday, December 16 at the Noah Webster Library in West Hartford.

McCain draws the tales from her non-fiction books It Happened in Connecticut and Mysteries and Legends of New England. Following the presentation, McCain will sell and autograph copies of her books.

Diana Ross McCain is a partner in Come Home to Connecticut, an enterprise that offers historical and genealogical research services and programming. She has been researching, writing, and speaking about history for more than thirty years.

McCain holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history, and was on the staff of the Connecticut Historical Society for more than twenty-five years. She is the author of many magazine and newspaper articles and several non-fiction books of history, including, in addition to the two about which she will speak, Connecticut Coast: A Town-by-Town Illustrated History, and To All on Equal Terms: The Life and Legacy of Prudence Crandall, a biography of Connecticut’s official state heroine. Her most recent book is Thy Children’s Children, a historical novel based on the true story of the first five generations of the Lyman family of Lyman Orchards in Middlefield, Connecticut.

Park in the nearby Isham Garage and validate your parking inside the library.