Sally McGaffigan asked me to share this announcement from the Historical Society. – Lil

Gail Golec “Fables vs. Forensics” February 22, 2014

            The Walpole Historical Society will present the third of their Speaker Series on Saturday, Feb. 22,2014 at 7:00 PM at the Walpole Town Hall.  The event is free and open to the public.

Gail Golec, a Project Archaeologist with the Monadnock Archaeological Consulting, LLC, will be the speaker.    In “Fables vs Forensics”, Golec will walk the audience through the research that led to a surprising conclusion to a puzzling Walpole Historical Society mystery. Historical research coupled with a forensic anthropological assessment, shed a new light on a set skeletal remains at the WHS with a fabled past.

Golec will explain how the unique landscape and natural resources of the area has attracted people continually for over 10,000 years and what led to this area becoming a hotbed of conflict during the French and Indian War (1755-1763). Walpole and the surrounding region served as the frontlines of a terrifying guerrilla-style war, leading to atrocities and casualties on both sides. It is against this backdrop that Golec’s research has focused, taking an objective view of all known information of the attacks in and around Walpole during 1755 and presenting a coherent narrative of events and how they relate to the skeletal remains.