Greetings from Breed's Hill: Fact & Folklore on America's 250th with Ted Reinstein

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Join us for a new talk by author and award-winning journalist Ted Reinstein. Greetings from Breed’s Hill: And Other Stories of Fact & Folklore on America’s 250th is a fast-paced, fun, informative look at some of the unique stories Ted has done related to the Revolutionary War period. Here’s the twist: although these stories all involve famous, even iconic moments in our founding history, they have another angle that's less well-known. Stories include Paul Revere’s ride (famous, but not free), the Battle of Breed's (not Bunker) Hill, the battle (that's never ended) between Concord and Lexington, and that peculiar bullet- (well, musket ball)-riddled gravestone in the North End. Since 1995, Ted Reinstein has been a reporter for Boston/WCVB’s celebrated “Chronicle,” the nation’s longest-running, locally-produced nightly newsmagazine. He has been a contributing member of the WCVB editorial board since 2010. Elsewhere on television, Ted has hosted specials for the Discovery Channel and HGTV. For the Travel Channel's photo/adventure series, “FreezeFrame,” he explored Hawaii's volcanoes, the caves of Puerto Rico, and the South Pacific islands of Tahiti. In 2002, he was part of a Chronicle team that received a prestigious National DuPont Columbia Broadcast Journalism Award for Chronicle’s coverage of Boston’s Big Dig project. In 2018, he received an Emmy Award for his story on the “Good Night Lights” phenomenon in Providence, Rhode Island. His first book, New England Notebook: One Reporter, Six States, Uncommon Stories, was selected by National Geographic Traveler as one of its “Best Picks.” He’s also the author of Wicked Pissed: New England’s Most Famous Feuds, Before Brooklyn: The Unsung Heroes Who Helped Break Baseball’s Color Barrier, and co-author, with his wife, Anne-Marie, of New England’s General Stores: Exploring an American Classic. His newest book, Travels Through the Heart and Soul of New England was released in July 2024 by Globe Pequot Press. Ted is a…

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