Awards
First Prize in the Family History/Genealogy Category – Connecticut Society of Genealogists
Current & Upcoming Events:
RICHARD SALTER STORRS LIRBARY
Patriot or Traitor? An Investigation Into the Life of my 7g Grandfather, John Dixwell, Regicide
Tuesday, February 9, 2027, 6:00 p.m.
693 Longmeadow St, Longmeadow, MA 01106
Past Events:
THE SENIOR CENTER – SHELBURNE FALLS, MASSACHUSETTS
Lunchtime Speaker: Black Sheep or Hero? My Search for 7g Grandfather John Dixwell, Regicide
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
ATHOL PUBLIC LIBRARY
An Investigation into the Life of my 7g Grandfather, John Dixwell, Regicide
Tuesday, May 5, 2026
New England Regional Genealogical Consortium 2025 Conference
Lunchtime Speaker: My Search for 7g Grandfather John Dixwell, Regicide
Thursday, October 30, 2025
YOUR HISTORY YOUR STORY PODCAST
Youtube: https://youtu.be/iqE5dry9-rQ?si=oOnIe9ty3F49ObXR
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3YVEJvRqMHXCwcc9Ltht3D?si=PnwZNslUTZWKLjz2sDXNvA
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-history-your-story/id1535889414?i=1000697298762
WEST FALMOUTH LIBRARY
May 1, 2025, 6:00 p.m.
575 W Falmouth Hwy, West Falmouth, MA 0257
SOCIETY OF GENEALOGISTS, LONDON, UK
October 24, 2024
HISTORIC DEERFIELD – Nims Family Reunion Presentation
October 5, 2024
BARHAM CHURCH, UK
Tuesday, May 14, 2024, 7:30 BST
Church Ln, Barham, Canterbury CT4 6PB
OXFORD UNIVERSITY, UK
New College, Holywell St, Oxford, OX1 3BN
(Lecture Room 6)
Saturday May 11, 2024, 7:00 BST
RUGBY LIBRARY, UK
Thursday, May 9, 2024, 2:30 BST
Little Elborow Street Rugby CV21 3BZ United Kingdom
THE CROMWELL MUSEUM, UK
Tuesday, May 7, 2024, 7:30 BST
Huntingdon Town Hall, 53 High Street Huntingdon PE29 3AQ United Kingdom
NORTHUMBERLAND LIBRARIES, UK
Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 2:00 ET
THE GENEALOGY CLUB AT THE FOUNTAINDALE PUBLIC LIBRARY (ILLINOIS)
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at 11:00am (12:00 p.m. ET)
MONTGOMERY COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY (MARYLAND)
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.
CAPE COD GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
Tuesday, October 17, 2023 at 7:00 p.m.
AMHERST NEIGHBORS BOOK TALK
Thursday, September 21, 2023 from 4:00 – 5:15 p.m.
JONES LIBRARY
Sarah Dixwell Brown was selected for the Jones Library Summer Local Author Spotlight for July and August 2023.
You can read her interview here: https://www.joneslibrary.org/localauthorspotlight
AMHERST HISTORICAL SOCIETY “HISTORY BITES” LUNCHTIME LECTURE SERIES
‘History Bites’ is a series of 30- to 50-minute lectures to inform and entertain, covering various aspects of the history of Amherst, its surrounding environs, and the lives of those who once lived here.
Friday, March 3, 2023
Link to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUiCK9ZqszM
HISTORIC DEERFIELD FREE WINTER LECTURE SERIES
Sunday, February 26, 2023
NEPM “MORNING EDITION”
Sarah Dixwell Brown was interviewed by Carrie Healy on NEPM.
Thursday, February 2, 2023
Link to listen: https://www.nepm.org/regional-news/2023-02-02/with-a-key-to-an-english-castle-western-mass-author-discovers-her-familys-regicidal-roots
WSHU “THE FULL STORY”
Friday, December 23, 2022
Link to listen: https://www.wshu.org/podcast/the-full-story/2022-12-23/dickens-and-dixwell-the-legacy-of-british-literature-and-english-history
NEW HAVEN MUSEUM
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Link to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuMBihCjSvA
SOUTH HADLEY LOOMIS COMMUNITY
Sunday, September 25, 2022
JONES LIBRARY
Saturday, November 12 2022
Local author Sarah Dixwell Brown discussed and read from her book, Regicide in the Family: Finding John Dixwell, about her ancestor, one of the 59 regicides of the tyrannical King Charles I.
43 Amity Street, Amherst, MA 01002
AMHERST CLUB
Tuesday, October 11th
AMHERST WOMAN’S CLUB
Monday, October 24, 2022
Local author Sarah Dixwell Brown discussed and read from her book, Regicide in the Family: Finding John Dixwell, about her ancestor, one of the 59 regicides of the tyrannical King Charles I.
35 Triangle Street, Amherst, MA, 01002
THE BILL NEWMAN SHOW ON WHMP
Tuesday, June 28, 2022
Bill Newman interviewed local author Sarah Dixwell Brown about her new book, Regicide in the Family: Finding John Dixwell.
The interview is available as a podcast here: https://whmp.com/podcasts/considering-regicide/
HADLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY & HADLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENT
REGICIDE IN THE FAMILY – FINDING JOHN DIXWELL
Saturday, June 18, 2022
Hadley Public Library Community Room
Local author Sarah Dixwell Brown discussed and read from her new book about her ancestor John Dixwell, one of the 59 regicides of the tyrannical King Charles I. After the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, Dixwell fled England and lived in Germany. Eventually he joined his fellow regicides William Goffe and Edward Whalley in New England. Although Dixwell wound up in the New Haven Colony, he first spent time with Goffe and Whalley in Hadley, in 1665, at the Reverend John Russell’s home.