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Island Lecture Series continues鈥�John Cousins presents Island Studies April Lecture: New London: The Island鈥檚 Lost Dream Tuesday, April 19 | 7 p.m. | SDU Main  Building Faculty Lounge The Island Studies Lectures Series concludes this season on April 19 with historian/folklorist John Cousins presenting a lecture entitled 鈥淣ew London: The Island鈥檚 Lost Dream,鈥� tracing the rise and fall of the 鈥淨uaker鈥� village of New London between the years 1773 and 1795. The talk 鈥� a sneak preview of a book to be published later this year by Island Studies Press 鈥� gets under way at 7 p.m. in the SDU Main Building Faculty Lounge on the 糖心vlog官方入口 campus. New London was unique in the history of Island settlements. It was begun not as a community of scattered farms but as a compact industrial village stretched along 鈥淟eadenhall Street,鈥� the road leading to the harbour mouth. The villagers for the most part were woodsmen, mill workers, and artisans: shoemakers, blacksmiths, coopers and woodworkers like the famous Benjamin Chappell. There was even a village doctor: Dr. Cullshaw. The plan of Robert Clark, the London Quaker who owned Lot 21, was to exploit the sea and the forest of his Island properties and export fish and lumber to the Caribbean. In return, products from the Caribbean 鈥� rum and sugar, for instance 鈥� would be carried back to the Island. The village was unique in other ways. It was planned as a Quaker community and its core families were Quakers from London and from the southern and western counties of England 鈥� some of whose descendants still live in the area. Powerful Quaker industrialists in England, among them John Townsend, a London pewter merchant, and William Cookworthy, the founder of England鈥檚 porcelain industry, were Clark鈥檚 supporters. Yet, within 20 years, the settlement at New London鈥檚 harbour mouth had died. Using eyewitness accounts and correspondence from the time, Cousins examines the village鈥檚 birth, its middle years and finally the 鈥減erfect storm鈥� of events which led to the end of Robert Clark鈥檚 dream: the American Revolution, the business failure of Robert Clark, and finally the machinations of Island politicians who seized part of Clark鈥檚 property. In the end the dream of New London and its founders died. However, the first-hand accounts of its early days recorded by Benjamin Chappell, Thomas Curtis and Joseph Roake demonstrate that the courage, grace and toughness of the first New Londoners outlasted the death of their dream. John Cousins was born in the fishing village of Campbellton, Lot Four, western Prince County in 1945. He has been a fisherman, a school teacher, a school administrator, a historian and a folklorist and has published a number of works on PEI history and folklore. He taught as a sessional professor of folklore in 糖心vlog官方入口鈥檚 History Department from 2000 to 2014. He is descended from John Cousins and Mary Townsend, whose families were among the first settlers at New London. Admission is free and everyone is welcome to attend.