July 29 - Mission House Book Talk in Stockbridge

Mission House Book Talk with Author Rachel Wheeler

Tuesday, July 29th from 6:00 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. in the Mission House gardens, 19 Main Street, Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

Join The Trustees of Reservations and the Stockbridge Library to meet the author of a new book about the Stockbridge Mohicans. Author Rachel Wheeler documents the experience of two different communities of Mohican Indians who accepted Christian Missionaries in the mid 18th century. Both communities did so in hopes of surviving the changes brought on by Colonial settlement. In Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Mohicans invited the Congregational Church to send Reverend John Sergeant as the new community’s first missionary while the Shekomeko community in Duchess County, New York accepted the missionaries of the Moravian Church. Both missions had dramatically different results. Rachel Wheeler, in her meticulously researched book, “To Live Upon Hope: Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth Century Northeast,” explores the differences and every day life experiences of the two communities and their search to maintain their native traditions and morals while embracing the power and adaptation of the Christian colonial reality.



Join the author, Rachel Wheeler, in an evening talk and reception at the Mission House, home of the missionary to the Stockbridge Mohicans. The event will take place on Tuesday, July 29th, from 6:00 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. in the Mission House gardens, 19 Main Street, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The alternate location in case of rain will be the Stockbridge Library, 46 Main Street. The event is co-sponsored by The Trustees and The Stockbridge Library Historical Collection and is free to the public, but reservations are recommended. For more information call (413) 298-3239, ext 3000.

~ Barbara Allen Curator ballen@cwmars.org Stockbridge Library, Stockbridge