Her ninth-great-grandmother was accused of being a witch in the seventeenth century. Because of family history, her grandmother warned her to be on the alert for signs of mental illness. She also explored her unconventional Southern roots: grandfathers she never met, known for marrying 13 times and killing a man with a hay hook her mother, who started a holy-roller church in their living room and her father, who was proud that their forebears had enslaved people. On her eponymous blog, Maud Newton wrote brilliantly on a variety of literary topics.
In my thirties, I started researching my genealogy through census archives and DNA matches, but a yearning for deeper truths led me over the years into the realms of genetics, epigenetics, and the debates over intergenerational trauma…” “My ancestors have troubled and fascinated me since I was a girl. Moderated by Casey Cep, best-selling author and New Yorker staff writer Presented in partnership with Porter Square Books
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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