Join your friends and neighbors with the return of Essex Historical Society’s (EHS) popular Winter Lecture Series, hosted by our partners at Essex Meadows. This year’s theme highlights the American Revolution. The series concludes on Sunday, January 19, at 3pm with "A Family at War: Colonel Jedediah Huntington and Faith (Trumbull) Huntington at the Outset of the Revolution, 1774-1775" presented by Damien Cregeau.

Mr. Cregeau provides a fascinating slideshow presentation with many beautiful slides on the lives of Jed and his talented but troubled wife, Faith, who was a talented artist and the daughter of patriot Governor Jonathan Trumbull, Senior. But she also suffered from depression which led to her untimely death in late 1775. Jed was a patriot leader who would become a noteworthy brigadier general in the Continental Army.

Mr. Cregeau earned his bachelor's degree in history from Hillsdale College and his master's degree in history from Colorado State. He is an award-winning scholar of the American Revolution who has spoken throughout the northeast from Boston to Washington, D.C. He has been published in numerous journals over the past decade and his forthcoming book, Profiles of Patriots: Colonel John Trumbull and Five Fellow Patriots from Connecticut in the American Revolution, will be published in 2025.