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Please join Sarah and I as we discuss how we both went on a search to discover our roots, roots intimately linked with migration and mills, and the promise and perils of industry. Our family’s histories are steeped in immigration, labor, the industrial revolution, and the rise and fall of New England manufacturing.

Sarah S. Kilborne is an author, performer and equal rights activist. Her multidisciplinary work has been featured in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Slate, Buzzfeed, and other national media. She is vice president of the Biographers International Organization and has written several books, including American Phoenix (Simon & Schuster, 2012), a true story of industrial disaster in which her great-great grandfather was a central figure. She is also the writer, creator and principle performer of the acclaimed show The Lavender Blues: The Story of Queer Music Before World War II.

Kilborne pic: Jane O’Connor
Arsenault pic: Erik Madigan Heck

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