Upcoming Events
Rhode Island Historical Society, Aldrich House, 110 Benevolent Street, Providence, RI, Thursday, September 24, 2026, 6:00 p.m.
"As American as Apple Pie: New England's Historic Food and Drink,"
talk and slide show featuring Northern Comfort and America's Founding Food. Refreshments!
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Willett Free Library, Saunderstown, RI, Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 4:00 p.m.
"Food in the Revolutionary Era,"
talk and slide show on Patriot and Loyalist foodways before, during, and after
the American Revolution, along with a sampling of an 18th-century food and other refreshments.
Friends of the Ashland (MA) Public Library, Monday, December 14, 2026, 7:00 p.m. (virtual)
talk and slide show on Northern Comfort: The New England Baking Tradition
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Past Events
Jamestown (RI) Historical Society at the Jamestown (RI) Public Library, May 6, 2026
"Food in the Revolutionary Era"
Fairfield (CT) Museum and History Center, November 23, 2025
"A Taste of the New England Tavern"
Old State House, Hartford, CT, Nov. 1, 2025
Fourth Annual Election Cake Bake Off! (we were "celebrity" judges)
Culinary Historians of Washington, DC, October 12, 2025
"The Lives and Cookbooks of Three Nineteenth-Century Women" (virtual)
La Grua Center, Historic Stonington, CT, May 8, 2025
"From Refined to Rustic: New England Food in the Nineteenth Century"
Wethersfield, CT, Historical Society, April 25, 2023
"From Refined to Rustic: New England Food in the Nineteenth Century"
Bristol, RI, Historical & Preservation Society, April 25, 2022
Second Annual Helene Tessler Lecture
"From Refined to Rustic: New England Food in the Nineteenth Century"
Brick Store Museum, Kennebunk, ME, November 21, 2019
"Displaying Abundance: The New England Thanksgiving"
Nantucket (MA) Historical Association Research Library, July 3, 2019
United Tastes and Northern Hospitality
Windsor (CT) Historical Society, May 5, 2019
United Tastes
Portland (CT) Historical Society, October 28, 2018
United Tastes and Northern Hospitality
Walpole (NH) Historical Society, October 19, 2018
United Tastes and Northern Hospitality
Old Colony Historical Society, Taunton, MA, September 20, 2018
United Tastes
Historical Society of Cheshire County, Keene, NH, August 29, 2018
United Tastes and Northern Hospitality
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, June 14, 2018
United Tastes
Willett Free Library, Saunderstown, RI, May 16, 2018
United Tastes
Ames Free Library, North Easton, MA, April 3, 2018
United Tastes
Barnes & Noble UConn Hartford (CT), March 27, 2018
United Tastes
Hartford (CT) Public Library, Saturday, March 3, 2018
United Tastes
Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, MA, March 1, 2018
United Tastes
Wayland (MA) Public Library, February 22, 2018
United Tastes
Friends of the Fall River (MA) Public Library, January 25, 2018
United Tastes
Culinary Historians of Boston, Cambridge, MA, December 12, 2017
United Tastes
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, June 6, 2017
Panel discussion about Boston's love affair with ice cream
Fitzgerald moderates; panelists include Steve Herrell, the founder of Steve's Ice Cream
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Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, March 15, 2017
Stavely a panelist along with Barbara Wheaton on
"Refined to Rustic: How the Hub Shaped the American Diet"
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