Olivia Marshall Hagan
As a lifelong Revolutionary War spy fanatic, giving tours of Robert Townsend’s house is a dream come true for me. I grew up in an 1824 bayman’s cottage on Long Island’s South Shore, making history as easy to scent as the salt marshes that line our home. You don’t have to listen hard to hear the lap of water against a whaleboat waiting in a cove, or imagine figures in the dust that hangs around an old writing desk. I now know so many of my childhood haunts are crossed with courier routes, or Benjamin Tallmadge’s gentle footfalls as he led special forces missions against the British troops occupying his home – the same island I call home in this century. Stories here wait only a few steps ahead between the trees.
I am working towards a degree in English Literature and U.S. History from Macaulay Honors College, and as we speak I am already mapping out my first few books.
Between the Lines: A Culper Spy Ring Story 