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About the Speaker

Robert Goodby is a professor of Anthropology at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge. He holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Brown University and has spent more than thirty years studying Native American archaeological sites in New England. He is a past president of the New Hampshire Archeological Society, a former Trustee of the Mount Kearsarge Indian Museum in Warner. and served on the New Hampshire Commission on Native American Affairs. In 2010. he directed the excavations of four 12.000-year-old Paleoindian dwellings at the Tenant Swamp site in Keene, and his book A Deep Presence: 13,000 Years of Native American History, was published in 2021 by Peter E. Randall Publisher.
Abenaki history has been reduced to near-invisibility as a result of conquest, a conquering culture that placed little value on the Indian experience, and a strategy of self-preservation that required many Abenaki to go "underground," concealing their true identities for generations to avoid discrimination and persecution. Robert Good by reveals archaeological evidence that shows their deep presence here, inches below the earth's surface.

Thornton Community Book Club

The Thornton Community Book Club
offers friendship and great discussions
every second Monday of the month at 5:30 p.m.
in the library.

Come join us!