Joan Silva Patrakis

Joan Silva Patrakis has a BA in American studies and lives in Andover, Massachusetts. She is an active member of the Andover Historical Society and recently received an award for Individual Achievement as local historian from the Andover Historic Preservation Commission. Over the past thirty years, Ms. Patrakis has written historical articles for local newspapers, including the Townsman and the Lawrence Tribune, as well as more than seventy articles for the Andover Historical Society's...See more

Joan Silva Patrakis has a BA in American studies and lives in Andover, Massachusetts. She is an active member of the Andover Historical Society and recently received an award for Individual Achievement as local historian from the Andover Historic Preservation Commission. Over the past thirty years, Ms. Patrakis has written historical articles for local newspapers, including the Townsman and the Lawrence Tribune, as well as more than seventy articles for the Andover Historical Society's quarterly Newsletter. She researched, wrote and produced a video on nineteenth-century Andover women and lectures on Andover in the Civil War. See less