JULIA PARK TRACEY LIVE FROM HISTORIC SITES IN BOSTON, MA
Take a walk through history alongside Julia Park Tracey, author of Silence: A Novel as she livestreams from several historic sites in Boston, MA on TikTok from 11am EST and 1pm EST!
11am EST: Julia will be livestreaming from Court Street, where Elizabeth Gookin Greenleaf had opened an apothecary and grocery shop, supporting her 12 children and educating her eldest son, Daniel, at Harvard. The shop was where Ames Building now stands. She’ll also be visiting Cornhill Street, where Dr. Daniel Greenleaf had his apothecary/druggist shop.
1pm EST: Julia will be livestreaming outside the Paul Revere House Museum, where Paul Revere is buried near the back of Granary Burying Ground.
Witness history from the comfort of your home and watch these livestreams on Julia’s TikTok page here!
This is event is part of the Retracing the Witch Trials Tour with Julia Park Tracey, Author of Silence: A Novel. The tour spans October 19 through 30, 2024 and takes place in New England. Readers are invited to enjoy the tour from afar through the TikTok Live events coordinated as part of this tour or if you live in New England, we invite you to attend the events. Learn more about the whole tour here.
About Silence:
After three grievous losses, Puritan woman Silence Marsh dares to question God aloud in the church, and that blasphemy lands her in trouble—she is silenced for a year by the powers that govern.
Broken in heart and spirit, Silence learns to mime and sign, but it isn’t until a new Boston doctor comes to her backward Cape Cod village that she begins to hope again. Rather than treating Silence with bleeding or leeches, Dr. Greenleaf prescribes fresh air, St. John’s Wort, long walks—and reading.
Silence has half a hope of getting through her year of punishment when the cry of witchcraft poisons the village. Colonial Massachusetts is still reeling from the Salem Witch Trials just 20 years before. Now, after they demanded her silence, she is called to witness at a witchcraft trial—or be accused herself.
A whiff of sulfur and witchcraft shadows this literary Puritan tale of loss and redemption, based on this bestselling historical fiction author’s own ancestor, her seventh great-grandmother.
About Julia Park Tracey:
Bestselling author Julia Park Tracey’s ancestors and their stories have given her a trail to follow from New York and New England to the Deep South and the Pacific Coast (Thanks Ancestry.com). The Bereaved; A Novel, the story of her great, great grandmother’s loss of her children to the Orphan Train was named in the top 100 indie books published in 2023 by Kirkus Reviews. Silence is the story of another “an-sister,” Silence Greenleaf.
