“Meet” author Ted Widmer to speak May 25 via Zoom

Author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington” to speak Tuesday, May 25, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom

FREE, but advance registration is required.

Thank you to Milton Academy for generously sponsoring this program.

Join us on Mary Bowditch Forbes’s birthday to hear Ted Widmer speak about his latest book. In it, he follows Abraham Lincoln on a perilous and circuitous journey from Springfield, IL to Washington, D.C. for his inauguration in 1861.

“Loaded with high drama, danger and plentiful suspense, the train ride takes on an almost mythic dimension. A riveting piece of history and a first-rate read.” – Ron Chernow

Books can be purchased from Harvard Bookstore, https://shop.harvard.com/book/9781476739441