Christopher Kone, an educator-historian-developmental linguist, holds from Salem State College a bachelor’s degree in history, garnering Phi Alpha Theta honors, and a master’s degree in speech and language pathology from Northeastern University. As a thirty-seven-year ASHA-certified speech pathologist, his areas of concentration were developmental linguistics, language-originated behavior, and epistemic cognition. As a historian, he enjoys giving tours on the famed Freedom Trail in Boston, Massachusetts. With his forty-eightyear avocation as a historical reenactor, he continues to interpret American Colonial and American Civil War eras throughout New England and the East Coast. He and his wife are followers of the Bay Colony’s church theology found within the Cambridge Platform of 1648. The Matter of Anne Hutchinson is a child of Mr. Kone’s love of touring Boston
