Join Mennonite Life for an evening with Mark Kelley, author of An Uncommon Woman: The Life of Lydia Hamilton Smith.
Lydia Hamilton Smith was a prominent African American businesswoman in nineteenth-century Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the longtime housekeeper, life companion, and collaborator of the state’s firebrand abolitionist congressman Thaddeus Stevens.
An Uncommon Woman explores how Smith served the cause of abolition, managed Stevens’s household, acquired property, and crossed racialized social boundaries.
Mark Kelley holds a PhD in journalism from Syracuse University. He worked for twenty-five years as a broadcast journalist and has taught journalism and mass communications at Goshen College, Syracuse University, the University of Maine, and the New England School of Communications. Kelley also taught at Lancaster Mennonite School. He is passionate about truth-telling and investigative journalism. He resides in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Marty.
This event is complimentary and does not require registration.
