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• Date: February 6, 2007
• Location: Amesbury Cultural Center and
  Rocky Hill Meeting House
• Time: 9AM - 3PM
• Address and Directions

• Dr. Cynthia Lynn Lyerly
• Professor of History
• Boston College

Professor Lyerly teaches courses in American women's history, race, gender, and the Old South. She is currently at work on her second book, Thomas Dixon, Jr.: Apostle of Hate, about the well-known minister, playwright, lecturer, professional southerner yet resident of New York City, Social Gospel preacher and rabid racist, and author of dozens of popular novels, including The Clansman, upon which D.W. Griffith's infamous film, Birth of a Nation, was based.

Bibliography

• “An Account of the Conversion and Happy Death of MB J.Philologus.” Christian Advocate (1826-1827). Chicago: Nov 11, 1826. Vol. 1, Iss. 10; p. 37 (1 page)


• James F. Cooper, Jr. “Enthusiasts or Democrats? Separatism, Church Government, and the Great Awakening in Massachusetts.” The New England Quarterly V.65 No. 2 (June, 1992), pp. 265-283.


• James E. Johnson, “Charles G. Finney and a Theology of Revivalism,” Church History V. 38, No. 3 (Sep., 1969), pp. 338-358.


• Nancy F. Cott, “Young Women in the Second Great Awakening in New England,” Feminist Studies V. 3 No. ½ (Autumn, 1975), pp. 15-29.


• “Accounts of the Revivals at Cane Ridge, Kentucky.” Annotated by Dr. Cynthia Lyerly.


• Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Accounts of the happy death of Little Eva, Chapter 24 (“Foreshadowings”) through Chapter 28 (“Reunion”).

 

Address and Directions

• Amesbury Cultural Center
• 37 Millyard
• Amesbury, MA 01913
Map

• Follow Rt 95 North until exit 58B
• Take Exit 58B (Rt 110W)
• Bear right at Macy Street/John Greenleaf Whittier Hwy. Follow for 1.5 miles
• Turn Right at Main Street and follow for a half mile
• At rotary, take first exit onto Friend Street
• Take immediate left onto Pond Street
• Take first right onto High Street, and follow into Market Square/Downtown
• Once in Market Square, bear right up the hill
• Take right into Municipal Parking Lot at top of hill
• Walk across footbridge into Millyard