{"id":62291,"date":"2015-06-10T13:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T17:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=62291"},"modified":"2015-06-07T16:28:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T20:28:54","slug":"upcoming-presentations-by-author-norman-dann-at-caz-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=62291","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Presentations by Author Norman Dann at Caz Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Caz<\/a>(Cazenovia, NY \u2013 June 2015) Join Dr.\u00a0Norman Dann, Gerrit Smith scholar and author, in the Cazenovia Public\u00a0Library Community Room at7:00 pm\u00a0for presentations on two of his most recent books:\u00a0Greene Smith and the Wild Life\u00a0and\u00a0Cousins of Reform: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Gerrit Smith.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, June 17:\u00a0Greene Smith and the Wild Life, a biography of Gerrit and Ann Smith\u2019s son.<\/p>\n

Greene Smith (1842-1886) was\u00a0an\u00a0avid amateur scientist and ornithologist.\u00a0 He was\u00a0bird watching at age nine and collecting specimens of birds from around the world as a young adult.\u00a0 \u00a0In 1863, he built a three-story museum, the Ornithon, in Peterboro to house\u00a0the thousands of specimens of birds, eggs, and nests that are now in university collections at Colgate, Cornell, and Harvard.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0public fascination with the \u201cBird House,\u201d as it\u2019s affectionately called, prompted Dann to turn the focus of his Smith research to Greene Smith. Dann\u2019s study of family letters, military records, and Smith\u2019s personal Catalogue of Birds as well as the pursuit of his hunting apparatus and the ownership and investigation of the Bird House site have all contributed to another fascinating book\u2014\u00a0Greene Smith and the Wild Life: The Story of Peterboro\u2019s Avid\u00a0Outdoorsman.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, June 24:\u00a0Cousins of Reform: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Gerrit Smith.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Gerrit Smith were first cousins born 18 years apart, but they shared a devotion to social reform that placed them together in a very small group of strong-willed people who helped shape the second half of the 19th\u00a0century.<\/p>\n

Cady Stanton was a frequent visitor to Smith\u2019s Peterboro home, and she had long talks with her elder cousin about the nature of reform, including the social and political implications of gender, race, and religion.\u00a0 Each was a student of the other, and their frequent disagreements led them both to refine their causes and define themselves.<\/p>\n

With his usual meticulous research, Dann\u2019s\u00a0Cousins of Reform\u00a0sheds light on the\u00a0complex, inspired relationship that drove these two cousins to great achievement\u2014Stanton in women\u2019s rights and Smith in the cause of aboliltion.\u00a0(www.logcabinbooks.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Dann, professor emeritus Morrisville State College, is a founder and current Cabinet member of the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum, a Steward of the Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark, a member of the Annual Peterboro Civil War Weekend, and the Treasurer of the Peterboro Area Museum.<\/p>\n

Books will be available at both events for purchases and signing.\u00a0 For more information on these or other events at the Cazenovia Public Library, call 655-9322 or visit\u00a0www.cazenoviapubliclibrary.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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(Cazenovia, NY \u2013 June 2015) Join Dr.\u00a0Norman Dann, Gerrit Smith scholar and author, in the Cazenovia Public\u00a0Library Community Room at7:00 pm\u00a0for presentations on two of his most recent books:\u00a0Greene Smith and the Wild Life\u00a0and\u00a0Cousins of Reform: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Gerrit Smith. Wednesday, June 17:\u00a0Greene Smith and the Wild Life, a biography of Gerrit and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-libraries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}