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Presentation - Shipwreck of Hopes: Margaret Fuller’s Life and Times

  • Beacon Historical Society 61 Leonard Street Beacon, NY, 12508 United States (map)

Angela Reich presented the extraordinary life of internationally famous intellectual Margaret Fuller: journalist, social activist, and revolutionary. The presentation covered Fuller’s life in her native Massachusetts, her time in Fishkill Landing (now Beacon), New York City, and Italy, and her tragic homeward journey in 1850 aboard the ship Elizabeth.

Reich’s book Shipwreck of Hopes is available for purchase at the Society headquarters and on Amazon.


Earlier Event: May 20
Great Estates of Beacon