Meet the Author: "Witches, Wenches and Wild Women of RI"

Rhode Island author M. E. Reilly-McGreen speaks about her book “Witches, Wenches, and Wild Women of Rhode Island.” Experience the history of Rhode Island and learn about the Ocean State's most fascinating and wild women.

Hear about Mercy Brown, a nineteen-year-old consumption victim who was thought to be a vampire; Goody Seager, accused of infesting her neighbor's cheese with maggots by using witchcraft, and Tall "Dutch" Kattern of Block Island, an opium-eating fortuneteller whose curse, legend says, set a ship aflame after its crew cast her ashore.

M.E. Reilly-McGreen is an award-winning journalist and high school English teacher.This program is free and open to all, no registration required. Copies of her book for purchase and signing will be available.