Ann Hutchinson: Puritan, Rebel, Founding Mother

A middle-aged woman, pregnant with what would have been her sixteenth child, is banished from Boston and forced to trudge through thigh-deep snow across the New England countryside. What did she do that resulted in such extreme punishment? What did she say that so offended the ministers of Boston? Find out what really happened to Puritan rebel Anne Hutchinson in this new podcast from the Commonwealth Museum.

Eve LaPlante is our guide. She is the author of five nonfiction books, including American Jezebel, Salem Witch Judge, My Heart is Boundless, and Marmee and Louisa. She resides in New England with her husband and four children. She is a graduate of Harvard and Princeton.

Anna Pinkert creates and narrates Commonwealth Museum podcasts. She is an award-winning multimedia producer based in Boston. Anna's work has appeared on public radio stations and in museum exhibit halls around the country, including WBUR, MPBN, WUMB, the Liberty Science Center, the Commonwealth Museum, the Houston Health Museum, and many more. Anna is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.

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Special thanks to our cast:

• Ann Hutchinson: Abby Machson-Carter
• Thomas Dudley: Teague Hopkins
• John Winthrop: DeWayne Lehman

Run time: 14 minutes