Maggie is a historian and writer who has been researching one family branch of the Huntington family of Norwich, CT for many years. Her big question is: Why did this particular Huntington family line stay in Norwich for over 230 years?  Her book, The Huntingtons of Norwich, CT: A New England Family explores the main reasons for it: privilege, generational wealth, and advantageous marriages. She frequently travels to Connecticut to visit archives that pertain to her work.

 

Her first piece on the Huntingtons was published in the Spring 2019 Connecticut History Review. Entitled, “Faith Trumbull Huntington: An Eighteenth- Century Woman Encounters War,” the article explores the life and death of a privileged woman from the Connecticut merchant class.

 

Maggie holds an MAT in History from Salem State University. She is a member of the Association for the Study of Connecticut History (ASCH) and is on the board of the Samuel Huntington Homestead Museum in Scotland, CT. She has been published in several home and garden magazines.

 

She lives with her husband and three children in Massachusetts. 

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Maggie may be reached at
maggiemeahl@gmail.com.