Missy Wolfe is an avid historical researcher who has spent well over a decade researching and writing about Greenwich History. This popular historian will come to Greenwich Library on Saturday, April 21 at 2 p.m. to discuss her new book, Hidden History of Colonial Greenwich.
Greenwich was known as a wild and unorthodox town. The people were unique and rough, Wolfe says.
Greenwich in the 17th century was a lost world of tithingmen, wild horse hunters, herdsmen, townsmen, and planters. Faced with an ever-changing environment, citizens set many new-world boundaries. Farmers created common fields along the coast and redesigned wilderness. They balanced religious and civic authority, private and common interests and financial inequities across communities.
Wolfe has always loved nonfiction, reading prolific amounts of history throughout her time at Columbia Business School, during her marketing career, while raising a family, while pursuing fine arts studies at New York University and during her time serving on the board of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Her previous book, a study of the life of Greenwich founder Elizabeth Winthrop Feake Hallett, Insubordinate Spirit: A True Story of Life and Loss in Earliest America, won the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence. She lives in Greenwich with her family. (missywolfe.com)
The presentation is open to all at no charge and will be held in the Library Meeting Room. For more information contact Carl White, Local History Librarian at cwhite@greenwichlibrary.org or call 203-622-7948.
