The Medford Historical Society & Museum presents Colby College philosophy professor Lydia Moland for a talk on “A Radical American Life,” hew new biography of abolitionist Lydia Maria Child, one of Medford’s most famous 19th-century personalities. Born in 1802, Child grew up near her father’s famous Medford bakery and would have witnessed evidence of slavery’s legacy in Medford as a young girl. In 1833, she published a book-length denunciation of slavery and was ostracized by Boston polite society for her radical views. She persisted in fighting for racial equality, women’s suffrage, and Native American rights until she died in 1880. Despite this lifetime of activism, she is best known for immortalizing her Medford childhood in the poem “Over the River and Through the Wood” – a fact whose irony would not have been lost on her. Space is limited to 35 seats; reserve your ticket through Eventbrite.