Joseph Warren, once nationally famous, is now remembered in regional history as the person who dispatched Paul Revere on that famous ride and as the hero of the Battle of Bunker Hill. In his new biography of Warren, author Sam Forman sheds light on these compelling stories of the American Founder "whom the ladies judged handsome." He will also discuss Warren's, and Massachusetts contemporaries like Falmouth's own Dr. Francis Wicks' practice of 18th century medicine and their efforts to defeat the dreaded small-pox.
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