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GEHTHS opens new speakers series with talk on 19th-century congressman

Dave Griffin

GEHTHS opens new speakers series with talk on 19th-century congressman

Joseph T. Wilkins was the first to talk in the new speaker series presented by the Greate Egg Harbour Township Historical Society on Sept. 14 at the Egg Harbor Township Community Center. Wilkins is the author of two books: ‘The Speaker Who Locked up the House’ and ‘The Skin Game and other Atlantic City Capers.’

Dave Griffin

GEHTHS opens new speakers series with talk on 19th-century congressman

Joseph T. Wilkins, the first speaker in the Greate Egg Harbour Township Historical Society new speakers series, first read about 19th-century House Speaker Thomas B. Reed in Barbara Tuchman’s ‘The Proud Tower’ in 1968 and spent the next four decades researching the Republican congressman from Maine before writing his historical novel ‘The Speaker Who Locked up the House.’

Dave Griffin

GEHTHS opens new speakers series with talk on 19th-century congressman

Joseph T. Wilkins is the author of two books: “The Speaker Who Locked up the House”, and “The Skin Game and other Atlantic City Capers” was the first to talk in the new speaker series presented by the Greate Egg Harbor Township Historical Society held at the Egg Harbor Township Community Center. Photo/Dave Griffin