Past Programs/Events

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Date Time Description
June 13,
2024		 6:00pm "An Untold Story: The Black Woods of Gerrit Smith" with author Amy Godine. Antiquarian historians were quick to judge reformer Gerrit Smith's Black antebellum Adirondack farm colony a failure, but archival sources, argues Amy Godine, reveal a much more hopeful, nuanced, and enduring story, and a role for Clinton County's antislavery activists, too.
A Q&A will follow and her new book, The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier (Cornell) will be available for sale.
Amy was the recent recipient of the 2024 Spirit of John Brown Freedom Award. This event is co-hosted by the Clinton County Historical Association and the North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association.
Peru Community Church Fellowship Center, 12 Elm Street, Peru, NY
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