Noted historian and author Anthony Sammarco will trace the influence of molasses in the \u201cTriangle Trade,\u201d the 18th-century world economy involving rum, slaves, and sugar cane, and its important connection to Massachusetts. \u00a0Sammarco, who has written 70 books, will be remembered for his crowd-pleasing presentation a couple of years ago: \u201cThe Baker Chocolate Company.\u201d<\/p>\n
This event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n
Doors open at 2 PM for a social period and refreshments This program is supported in part by a grant from the Bedford Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Noted historian and author Anthony Sammarco will trace the influence of molasses in the \u201cTriangle Trade,\u201d the 18th-century world economy involving rum, slaves, and sugar cane, and its important connection […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17343,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tag":[128],"tribe_events_cat":[101],"class_list":["post-17339","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-free","tribe_events_cat-talks","cat_talks"],"acf":{"explore_list_featured_select":"2","select_experience":[1866],"select_topic":[1878],"select_theme":false,"select_location":[1920,1905],"select_audience":[1964],"descriptor":"Things to Do"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/17339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/17339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17450,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/17339\/revisions\/17450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tag?post=17339"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=17339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2:15 PM\u00a0\u2013<\/em>\u00a0Announcements followed by the Guest Speaker<\/p>\n