Sibylline Press is happy to announce that 1666: A Novel by Lora Chilton is out today, April 2nd 2024! 1666 can be found where all great books are sold: Bookshop Barnes & Noble Amazon Walmart Books A Million (Grass Valley, CA)— The survival story of the Patawomeck Tribe of Virginia has been remembered by members of the tribe for generations, but the … Read More
Author Undertakes Tour Retracing the Imagined Route of the Patawomeck Women Following the Massacre of their Tribe in 1666
In 1666, in their efforts to steal the land of the Patawomeck people in what is now Virginia, colonists massacred the men of the Patawomeck tribe and took the women and children as slaves, marching them to the coast to slave ships that would take most of them to their deaths in the brutal sugar fields of the Barbados. Author … Read More
Join us for Commemorative 1666 Day at the Patawomeck Museum and Cultural Center April 20th
Join us on Saturday, April 20 at the Patawomeck Museum and Cultural Center at 638 Kings Highway, Fredericksburg, Virginia for a half day event commemorating the Patawomeck people and the new book 1666: A Novel by Lora Chilton, a member of the tribe. Lora imagines the legendary story behind the tribe’s survival based on written colonial records and tribal oral tradition, told from the fictionalized point of view of the two women who lived it. … Read More