{"id":4187,"date":"2012-05-15T21:26:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T21:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/?p=4187"},"modified":"2012-05-18T16:02:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T16:02:25","slug":"chris-pagliuco-99-publishes-tale-from-17th-century-new-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2012\/05\/15\/chris-pagliuco-99-publishes-tale-from-17th-century-new-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Pagliuco \u201999 Publishes Tale from 17th Century New England"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4188\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4188\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4188\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/files\/2012\/05\/PagliucoBook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/files\/2012\/05\/PagliucoBook.jpg 425w, https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/files\/2012\/05\/PagliucoBook-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Pagliuco \u201999 and his new book, The Great Escape of Edward Whalley and William Goffe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For a history writer, uncovering an engaging but forgotten story among dusty and long-untouched archives must be like the prospector who catches the glint of gold among the dirt in the bottom of his pan. And <strong>Christopher Pagliuco \u201999<\/strong> is one such history writer, with a new book, <em>The Great Escape of Edward Whalley and William Goffe: Smuggled through Connecticut<\/em> (The History Press), to show for his efforts.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe book tells the story of Puritans Edward Whalley and William Goffe, who joined the parliamentary army against the tyrant, King Charles I, in the English civil wars. Under their battlefield leadership, the army trounced the Royalist forces and then cut off the king\u2019s head. Yet when Charles II regained the throne, Whalley and Goffe fled to the colonies aboard the ship <em>Prudent Mary<\/em>\u2014never to see their families or England again. Even with the help of New England\u2019s Puritan elite, including Reverend John Davenport, they struggled to stay a step ahead of searches for their arrest in Boston, New Haven (where they hid out in Judges Cave), and the outpost of Hadley, Massachusetts. Forced to live as fugitives, these former major generals survived many frontier adventures in 17th century New England.<\/p>\n<p>Besides working as a freelance writer, Chris teaches high school history in Madison, Connecticut, and serves as town historian in Essex and on the editorial team of <a href=\"http:\/\/connecticutexplored.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Connecticut Explored<\/em><\/a>, a quarterly history magazine. He lives with his wife, two daughters and two dogs in Ivoryton, Conn. If you remember Chris, or have read his book, drop him a line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a history writer, uncovering an engaging but forgotten story among dusty and long-untouched archives must be like the prospector who catches the glint of gold among the dirt in the bottom of his pan. And Christopher Pagliuco \u201999 is one such history writer, with a new book, The Great Escape of Edward Whalley and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2012\/05\/15\/chris-pagliuco-99-publishes-tale-from-17th-century-new-england\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chris Pagliuco \u201999 Publishes Tale from 17th Century New England<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":4188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[438],"class_list":["post-4187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alumni-achievers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4187"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4191,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions\/4191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}