From
Nutmeg Chatter:
It is fair to say there’s a true love affair between
Professor Eric D. Lehman and the nutmeg state. When he arrived from Pennsylvania two decades ago, Lehman began to hike and discovered Connecticut’s little hills, rivers and forests. He soon fell in love with the museums and the wine trail and most importantly, fell in love with and married his wife, poet and professor Amy Nawrocki. His literary work celebrates our state like no other author, taking on the topics from Tom Thumb to The History of Bridgeport to A History of Connecticut Wine and so much more. In his recent work, Lehman takes on the legacy of our nation’s most notorious traitor, Benedict Arnold, in
Homegrown Terror: Benedict Arnold and the Burning of New London.
Professor Lehman chose Benedict Arnold as his subject because his first experience learning about the figure failed to answer the questions he felt…
