The Sewing Girl’s Tale

Wednesday, October 21, 2026 · 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Join us for a lecture and conversation with John Wood Sweet, a professor in the Department of History and the Bancroft-Prize winning author of The Sewing Girl’s Tale, moderated by Michael A. Betts II of High Point University, followed by a concert by C. Leonard Raybon, director of choirs and a composer at Tulane University, and UNC-Chapel Hill undergraduate and alumna performers in the UNC Department of Music, featuring E. Katherine Hargrove of Colonial Williamsburg, Mending Sampler: Lanah Sawyer and the Cost of Courage in Revolutionary America.

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