Allison Dupuis - Story of Stories: The Brunswick Advocate and Life of a City

The series concludes on October 28 with a presentation by Allison Dupuis, CGHS’s Historian. In “Story of Stories: The Brunswick Advocate and the Life of a City, 1837 -1839,” she will explore 1830s Brunswick through the lens of this vital but short-lived newspaper. When business partners Davis and Short published the first issue of the Brunswick Advocate on June 8, 1837, they had lofty goals for both their paper and their newly prosperous city. Over the next two years, until the onset of a recession in 1839, the Advocate’s weekly editions illuminated local happenings and points of view on national issues. Today, the 103 editions of the Brunswick Advocate reveal what life was like for people here: men and women, young and old, enslaved and free.

The cost for the series is $40, and registration is required. Individual program tickets are available for purchase at $20 per lecture. To register, please visit coastalgeorgiahistory.org. A map of the College of Coastal Georgia Campus and directions to the Stembler Theatre are available on the registration page.