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Library hosts Landmarks lecture

April 03, 2013 12:00 am • Last Updated: April 02, 2013 5:25 pm

Historian Allegra di Bonaventura will lecture on her new book "For Adam's Sake: A Family Saga in Colonial New England" on Sunday, April 28. This free lecture and book signing will take place at the Public Library of New London's Community Room, 63 Huntington St., and is presented by the Public Library of New London, Connecticut Landmarks' Hempsted Houses and the New London County Historical Society.

Doors open at 2 p.m., and the lecture begins at 2:30 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. Copies of the book will be available for sale and the author will sign books.

For more information, visit www.ctlandmarks.org.

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