Dr. Mary Ann Cappiello, a Professor of Language and Literacy in the Graduate School of Education at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the author of “Searching for Dinah Tuck,” an essay from Ten Piscataqua Writers 2022, will be our guest speaker.

In her presentation, Dr. Cappiello will share the story of a decade-long journey that began when she found Dinah, a young African American woman, included in a list of possessions owned by Reverend John Tuck, minister of Star Island. Gerald Duffy, her editor, had this to say about Dr. Cappiello’s research and unique writing style, "With only so much factual material available, the author wonders aloud how life must have been for this young woman. Mary Ann does so with curiosity, a fine writer's sensibility and enormous compassion...A fine accomplishment of research, faithful writing and fellow feeling."