Nancy Steenburg

Assistant Professor of Residence of History

Nancy Steenburg, assistant professor in residence of history at the Avery Point campus, is documenting the life in Stonington of Venture Smith in the late 1700s. Smith, a slave who purchased his own freedom, bought his first property in Stonington, in what is now a state-protected wildlife management area. Steenburg has documented this and located the massive boulder that marks one of its boundary points.

Podcast

http://www.averypoint.uconn.edu/avery_point/steenburg.htm