Benedict Arnold’s Navy: How America’s Greatest Traitor Won the War for Independence

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In honor of the United States of America’s 250th Anniversary, the Auburn Public Library and the Androscoggin Historical Society will be hosting a program with local author, James L. Nelson, entitled “Benedict Arnold’s Navy: How America’s Greatest Traitor Won the War for Independence.” The program will be taking place in the Androscoggin Community Room at the Auburn Public Library on Tuesday, June 23rd from 4:00 to 5:30 PM. 

This program will be available both in-person and online to those wishing to attend over Zoom. James Nelson was born and raised in Lewiston, Maine, and for six years worked on board traditional sailing ships before launching a writing career in 1994. He has since written more than thirty works of maritime fiction and history. 

He is the winner of the American Library Association/William Young Boyd Award and the Naval Order’s Samuel Eliot Morison Award. He currently lives in, and sails out of, Harpswell, Maine, with his former shipmate, now wife, Lisa.