The Friends of Madison Library hosts a New Hampshire Humanities program, In the Evil Day: Individual Rights, Town Government, and the Crime that Stunned the Nation, presented by author Richard Adams Carey on Thursday, October 29 at 7 pm via Zoom.
On August 19, 1997, in little Colebrook, New Hampshire, a 62-year-old carpenter named Carl Drega, a man with long-simmering property rights grievances, murdered state troopers Scott Phillips and Les Lord at a traffic stop in a supermarket parking lot. Then Drega stole Phillips’s cruiser and drove downtown to settle some old scores. By the end of the day three more were dead, Drega among them, and four wounded. Occurring on the eve of America’s current plague of gun violence, this tragic event made headlines all over the world and shocked New Hampshire out of a previous innocence. Touching on facets of North Country history, local governance, law enforcement, gun violence, and the human spirit, Richard Adams Carey describes a community that was never a passive victim but rather a brave and resilient survivor.
This program is free and open to the public. It will be held via Zoom. Please register at the link below and to receive access information for the meeting.
October 29 Friends of Madison Library program registration
If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at librarian@madison.lib.nh.us.