The Lost Village of the Higginbothams

Inspired by the existence of a supposedly haunted environ in eastern Connecticut, author Doris B. Townshend in The Lost Village of the Higginbothams recounts the story of two families in postRevolutionary times, especially that of Rhobadiah Higginbotham, a young woman who achieved no fame or place in history save for a few words on her gravestone. The story deals with her father Obadiah’s desertion from the British Army, his settlement in Pomfret, his connection with the Randall family, his spinning wheel shop, and his conversion as a Baptist opposed to the state religion of Congregationalism. | Readers will be moved by this lovely and affecting tale, reconstructed partly from painstaking research of existing facts and partly from the author’s imagination. They will find particularly fascinating the narrative method in which Cathy Williams of the twentieth century is immersed in Rhoba’s life and times. Doris B. TOWNSHEND, a homemaker and community volunteer as well as a writer, lives in New Haven, Connecticut. She has five children and ten grandchildren and lives in a 186-year-old house that has been in the Townshend family for seven generations. She has been the president of many community organizations, has had numerous articles appear in area newspapers, and has had four books on local history published.