Weymouth Reads Together is a shared community experience around one book. This is our first “one book, one community” initiative specifically for Weymouth. Throughout these months, Tufts Library will host events for adults related to our chosen book, “The Times That Try Men's Souls: the Adams, the Quincys, and the battle for Loyalty in the American Revolution.”

Based on his Spring 2024 article in American Heritage magazine, come hear Larry C. Kerpelman speak on "The Plight of the Loyalists," during the American Revolution. The talk will focus on the ordinary citizens who were loyal to the Crown and some of the stories of the  60,000 -100,000 people who fled their homes in the colonies. 

Larry C. Kerpelman is a freelance writer and communications professional from Massachusetts. After serving as vice president and director of corporate communications at the Cambridge research and consulting firm Abt Associates, Kerpelman turned to writing about singular moments in American history. He has published feature articles in American History on the propaganda race that began with the Battle of Lexington and Concord; an enslaved man who was a double agent for Lafayette in Cornwallis’s camp; and the discovery of Robert Gould Shaw’s long-lost sword from the Civil War battle at Fort Wagner, South Carolina. His writing has also appeared in The Boston Globe, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among other places.

​Kerpelman earned his B.A. in psychology from Johns Hopkins University and his Ph.D in clinical psychology from the University of Rochester. He and his wife live in Acton, Massachusetts.

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