A series of talks are given on Friday nights at 8pm in July and August of each year by 7 prominent speakers. Amos Fortune, an exemplary citizen of colonial New England, was born in the early 1700s in Africa and came to this country as a slave. A tanner by profession, Fortune bought his freedom and that of his two wives. At the age of 71, he left Massachusetts and moved to Jaffrey with his second wife to start a tanning business.