Author Pula to Sign Books at New Woodstock Library

Pictured, Author Cheryl Pula will sign her book “8th Air Force” at the New Woodstock Free Library Oct. 12.

(New Woodstock, NY – Oct. 2013) Historian, librarian, polyglot, author Cheryl Pula will be at the New Woodstock Free Library from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12 to discuss and sign copies of her latest novel in her five part “8th Air Force” series. 

Pula’s book signing coincides with the Madison County Historical Society, Madison County Veterans Office and PAC-99 exhibit “Madison County during WWII.”  The exhibit will be at the library the week of Oct. 7 through 12.

Pula’s resume reads like a bucket list of everything a multi-talented and creative person could hope to accomplish.  She has traveled extensively all over the United States, having visited 45 of the 50 states, as well as trips abroad to Canada, the Bahamas, England, Finland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Russia.  She is conversant in Polish and Russian; co-editor of The Polish-American Encyclopedia (for which she was awarded the Polish-American Historical Society’s Distinguished Achievement Award) and recipient of the New York Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Award.

Pula was a founding member of the New York Mills Historical Society, and served as its first president in the late 1970’s. She is currently the village historian of New York Mills and President of The History Club, which she founded in Whitesboro in 1995. She is the club’s newsletter editor. She is also the founder, current secretary and newsletter editor of the General Daniel Butterfield Civil War Round Table in New York Mills. She is a member of the American Legion Auxiliary of the Arthur Moran Post #66 in Camden, New York, as well as an honorary member of the Memphis Belle Memorial Association of Memphis, Tennessee.

Pula is known around the central New York area for presenting a number of historical lectures (89 to be exact!) on topics from the Titanic to the first moon landing in July 1969. Cheryl was elected “Historian of the Year” by the Oneida County Historian’s Association in 2006.

In 2010, she was listed in Who’s Who In America

All exhibits and presentations at the library are free and open to the public.  Exhibits are open during all regular library hours.

The New Woodstock Free Library is located at 2106 Main Street (Route 13) in the hamlet of New Woodstock.

For more information about these and other programs at the library call 662-3134 or visit the library’s web page at www.midyork.org/newwoodstock.

The New Woodstock Free Library is open Monday through Friday 1 to 5 p.m., Monday and Wednesday evenings 7 to 9 p.m., and Saturdays from 10 until 1.  The library is also open whenever the blue library symbol flag is flying out front.  Children’s hour is every Tuesday at 11 a.m.