Upcoming event:

“Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier: The Narrative of Joseph Plumb Martin” with William Huntting Howell
June 13, 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Mason House, Museums of the Bethel Historical Society
14 Broad Street, Bethel, ME

Hello friends!

We’d like to remind you all that the next event in our Independence 250 speaker series is coming right up! This Saturday, June 13, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. we will welcome Professor William Huntting Howell of Boston University to share his research and analysis of an unusual Revolutionary War memoir. Joseph Plumb Martin’s A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier is a rich, first-hand account that tells the story of the American Revolution from the perspective of an ordinary enlisted soldier rather than a famous general or statesman. Howell writes that Martin’s Narrative, first published in Hallowell, Maine, in 1830, “offers both a counter-record of the facts of the War and a counter-method for relating them.”

If you want to get a taste for the narrative, check out Howell’s article “Starving Memory,” which appeared in Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life.

A Soldier's View of the Revolutionary War