The last of five talks in the 2025 NNK250 Signature Speaker Series will be held at 2 p.m. May 25 at George Washington Birthplace National Monument, 1732 Popes Creek Road, Colonial Beach.
The topic will be “A History of Stepfamilies in Early America” and the speaker is Dr. Lisa Wilson, Charles J. McCurdy Professor Emeritus of American History at Connecticut College.
Based on her book of the same name, A History of Stepfamilies in Early America, Wilson counters the modern notion that stepfamilies are the burden of the present. They were, in fact, quite common in the historical past and were….


