"The Rowans" Book Launch
Sat, Jun 14
|Manchester-by-the-Sea Museum
Local author Beverly Cooper Pierce launches her magical-realist historical novel, "The Rowans," inspired by a Gloucester woman who started her own business in 1752 (of necessity), with a reading and performance accompanied by fiddler Larry Young. Free admission.
Time & Location
Jun 14, 2025, 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Manchester-by-the-Sea Museum, 10 Union St, Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA 01944, USA
About the event
In Massachusetts, in the years between witchcraft delusion and Revolution, a curious, intuitive
Tamsin Bennett is apprenticed to her Grandmother Cat, herbalist daughter of a healer-mystic
jailed for witchery in 1692 Salem. One morning in 1750, Tamsin is stricken with ghastly visions
of her Papa. That day inexplicably he is found dead under the wheel of the tide mill. In peril,
Tamsin leaves the farm with her mother, brother, and young sister to a place that may be safer –
or not. Now keeping a tavern in a harbor town, Tamsin hides in plain sight to carry on the work