LEWISTON – A Lewiston native whose latest book chronicles Benedict Arnold’s march north through Maine to Canada will hold a reading Monday in the Lewiston Public Library.
Thomas Desjardin will read from “Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold’s March to Quebec, 1775, ” just published by St. Martin’s Press. And he’ll answer questions about the now infamous campaign against Britain’s Quebec City fortress.
To get there, unprepared American colonists became mired in the dense Maine forests. Hundreds starved, drowned, froze or succumbed to smallpox.
Free and open to the public, the event will be at 7 p.m. in the library’s Marsden Hartley Cultural Center.
Desjardin, who lives in Pittsfield, also has written “Stand Firm, Ye Boys from Maine: The 20th Maine and the Gettysburg Campaign,” “These Honored Dead: How the Story of Gettysburg Shaped American Memory” and “Joshua L. Chamberlain.”
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