Jonathan Edwards in Northampton

Event Details

Time: October 5, 2013 from 1pm to 2pm
Location: Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton
Street: Parsons Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website or Map: http://www.susanstinson.net/
Event Type: cemetery, tour
Organized By: Susan Stinson
Latest Activity: Sep 12, 2013

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Event Description

Celebrate the publication of Spider in a Tree, a novel about Northampton in the 1730s and 40s, as well as the 310th birthday of Jonathan Edwards by taking this cemetery tour that centers around the story of Edwards's time in Northampton. Jonathan Edwards was a brilliant theologian, a celebrated preacher and a slave-owner. Get a stronger sense of the history of this place through the people whose lives are marked by stones in the beautiful Bridge Street cemetery. Tickets:$5. Available at Broadside Books on Main Street in Northampton.

Come in the Parsons Street entrance.