Michelle Marchetti Coughlin will speak about “The Complex Worlds of Colonial Women.” Ms. Coughlin is a historian of early American women and the author of One Colonial Women's World: The Life and Writings of Mehetabel Chandler Coit and Penelope Winslow, Plymouth Colony First Lady: Re-Imagining a Life. She serves on the board of the Abigail Adams Birthplace and as Museum Administrator of Boston’s Gibson House Museum, and is a guest scholar for New England Beginnings, a partnership that promotes the exploration of the cultures that shaped early New England. She maintains a website at www.onecolonialwomansworld.com.