{"id":80044,"date":"2017-04-22T09:12:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T13:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=80044"},"modified":"2017-04-22T09:36:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T13:36:17","slug":"authors-of-regional-history-books-present-at-civil-war-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=80044","title":{"rendered":"Authors of regional history books present at Civil War Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Keene<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Neil and Peggy MacMillan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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MacMillan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Authors of Civil War and regional history publications will assemble at the 25th annual Civil War Weekend June 10 and 11, 2017 to exhibit, sell, and sign their publications, and to present on their research and writing.<\/p>\n

June 10, opening day of the 25th annual Peterboro Civil War Weekend, will also be the first day of publication\u00a0and release for A Final River to Cross: The Underground Railroad at Youngstown. Gretchen<\/p>\n

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Duling Image Empys’ Ferry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Magnusson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Meredith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A. Duling,\u00a0Ph.D., and Dennis C. Duling,\u00a0Ph.D., are bringing their brand new book across the state to debut in Peterboro an official site on the county, state, and national Underground Railroad trails. After years of research, the Dulings\u00a0have provided a source book with extensive footnotes and bibliographies that add to the studies of trails of\u00a0freedom in NYS \u2013 as well as accounts of fugitives and sites in that region.<\/p>\n

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Michael Keene returns to Peterboro with a new publication and MP3 audio book Vietnam Reflections: The\u00a0Untold Story of the Holley Boys. These eight young soldiers from the small rural community of Holley were\u00a0awarded 40 medals for combat and valor. Finally, the story of these men is being told extensively and with sensitivity. Keene served two tours in Vietnam with the U.S. Marine corps. He is the author of six books about New York history, including The Psychic Highway: How the Erie Canal Changed America \u2013 a great read during this year of the Bicentennial of the beginning of the Erie. Keene is the producer of the award-winning historical documentary Visions, True Stories of Spiritualism, Secret Societies & Murder.<\/p>\n

Jean Libby has researched John Brown – especially his family in California \u2013 for decades. She has searched for direct descendants of the Browns and brought them to the legacy cause. Such a great-granddaughter was Alice Keesey Mecoy, who presented at Peterboro\u2019s Living History several years ago. Libby searched for\u00a0portraits of Brown and compiled a timeline of his images which was on exhibit at Harpers Ferry WV. Libby\u2019s John Brown Photo Chronology provides a meaningful resource \u2013 especially at the event recognizing the Gerrit Smith-John Brown relationship and the Dreaming of Timbuctoo, and exhibit from John Brown Lives! The\u00a0publication is available at the Peterboro Mercantile tent on the green and is available at\u00a0mercantile.gerritsmith.org.<\/p>\n

Neil MacMillan will be presenting at 4 pm on Saturday, June 10 on his newest book Haunted Onondaga County, but will also include his other two books Crossing the Line and There I\u2019ll Be a Soldier. MacMillan has been studying and reenacting Civil War History for nearly three decades and turned to writing a few years ago. MacMillan is also the Captain of the 12th US (Reenacting Unit) and has attended the Peterboro event for years for the weekend event and for Living History Day. He provides specialized programs during the event and has a good time engaging youth on history. Popular with his army colleagues and the public, MacMillan is\u00a0a great story teller on the field and in his books.<\/p>\n

A volunteer at the 2016 event, Mishell K. Magnusson returns this year to describe the locale of her 2012 publication Images of America: Madison and Hamilton and to explain the Town of Madison\u2019s special location in the center of the state and its impact on the Civil War because of the Chenango Canal. The book is packed with photographs of the area in which Mishell has been a lifelong resident which she supports with her membership in organizations and as past president of the Madison County Historical Society. Mishell is the owner of KJM Consulting &amp; Training, Inc. in Munnsville, New York. In addition, Mishell has worked as an Adjunct Professor for Mohawk Valley Community College; Bryant &amp; Stratton College; Madison\/Oneida BOCES and State University of New York (SUNY) Oswego.<\/p>\n

Frank Meredith will present on Being True to the History in Historical Fiction. Meredith\u2019s The Unfinished Work\u00a0is a historical fiction publication that\u00a0includes forty rare illustrations and pictures, with maps by prominent Civil War cartographer Steven Stanley. Frank\u2019s second publication The Battle of Gettysburg as Seen by Two\u00a0Teens: The Stories of Tillie Pierce and Daniel Skelly is a non-fiction book which includes maps, photographs and\u00a0full reprints of the dramatic eyewitness accounts of a 15-year old school girl and an 18-year- old store clerk.<\/p>\n

Meredith has been a Civil War buff since 1963, when as a nine-year-old boy he witnessed the 100th-anniversary reenactment of the Battle of Hanover. Awarded a doctoral fellowship in conducting, Meredith has\u00a0taught music at the pre-school through graduate school levels, and served on the New York State School\u00a0Music Association executive board.<\/p>\n

Ellen Mae Knapp Patch of Endwell inherited letters saved by her grieving grandmother during the Civil\u00a0War. Patch transcribed, researched, and annotated the 59 letters, and the Broome County Historical Society\u00a0published This from George: The Civil War Letters of Sergeant George Magusta Englis 1861-1865 Company K,\u00a089th New York Regiment of Volunteer Infantry known as the Dickinson Guard. The 288-page book is filled with\u00a0pictures, charts, and maps that illuminate the Civil War soldier\u2019s letters home. Patch is a graduate of SUNY\u00a0Potsdam and a retired educator.<\/p>\n

The Veteran in a New Field: A Civil War Mystery of the Irish Brigade is set in 1866, a\u00a0pivotal year. Author W. H. Allen states, \u201cIt is a time remote to us now and yet it is still tangible to 21st\u00a0Century Americans.\u201d Allen knows\u00a0his subject well: He served in the Marine Corps in Vietnam and in the 10th Brigade of the NY Guard. With\u00a0degrees in history and sociology he had a 42 year career in law enforcement and criminal justice, interviewed\u00a0veterans for the Library of Congress, collected for exhibits in the NYS Military History Museum, was inducted\u00a0into the NYS Senate Veterans Hall of Fame, and volunteers for Civil War programs \u2013 as he will do at Peterboro\u00a0Civil War Living History Day. Bill returns to Peterboro after mounting an exhibit in years past at the event.<\/p>\n

Madis Senner\u2019s recent publication\u00a0Sacred Sites in North Star Country\u00a0tells\u00a0how the land influenced the dramatic social changes that took place in greater\u00a0NYS that shaped the world. Senner, a money manager turned keeper, says \u201cUpstate New York was the\u00a0birthplace of the Women\u2019s Movement and American Democracy, as well as the home\u00a0to America\u2019s Second Great Awakening. It has\u00a0been called the Burned-over\u00a0District for its spiritual wildfires and America\u2019s Psychic Highway. It is a\u00a0place where prophets walked,\u00a0religions were born and\u00a0great souls lived,\u201d \u2013 including Gerrit Smith and Peterboro.<\/p>\n

Jane Spellman retired as the Director of the Herkimer County Historical Society in 1995 having served since\u00a01971. She attributes her love of history to her parents who were both lawyers and interested in the past.\u00a0Spellman has written four books, and published 22 as editor. In preparing for Herkimer\u2019s bicentennial Jane examined previous histories of her county. She discovered there was minimal inclusion of\u00a0women and so commenced her research which led to Women Belong in History Books, 1700-1950 (Volumes 1\u00a0& 2).<\/p>\n

With degrees in mathematics and business administration, Sandra Weber\u2019s career is now writing and\u00a0presenting history from the Adirondacks. Weber has written many books for children and adults and does\u00a0dramatic portrayals when she presents her books. She generously offered three presentations for the 2017\u00a0Peterboro Civil War Living History Day for area fifth graders. Breaking Trail: Remarkable Women of the\u00a0Adirondacks was written with fellow author and performer Peggy Lynn after digging through archives and\u00a0recovering pieces of women\u2019s history. The book proclaims that \u201cmountain women can be heroes\u201d and\u00a0describes the courage, intelligence, fortitude, and backcountry buffoonery to prove these heroes. Weber will\u00a0also speak on the recently published A History of Adelaide Johnson\u2019s Portrait Monument to Lucretia Mott,\u00a0Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony at the United States Capitol.<\/p>\n

Authors\u2019 exhibits are in the Peterboro Mercantile tent just inside the Main Gate of Civil WarWeekend.\u00a0Authors will provide 30-minute programs on their research, writing, and publications, and will sell and\u00a0sign their books. Norman K. Dann\u2019s books on Peterboro will be available at the Mercantile, and he can be\u00a0found throughout the weekend managing the grounds of the event. Dann\u2019s biography of Gerrit Smith\u00a0addresses the Secret Six supporters of John Brown, and Dann will present on Gerrit Smith and John Brown at\u00a0the Dreaming of Timbuctoo exhibit in The Barn at the Gerrit Smith Estate on Saturday morning June 10 at\u00a011 a.m.<\/p>\n

Also on display at the Mercantile will be a gift from Kris Richardson to the Civil War Weekend effort in memory of her son Todd Richardson whose hobby was Civil War History. The book Discovery in the Attic: A\u00a0Family\u2019s Shared Past Revealed is signed by the author Rosalie Rymarski.<\/p>\n

Special features of the 25th\u00a0annual Peterboro Civil War Weekend are programs on women in the Civil War, the\u00a0relationship of John Brown and Gerrit Smith, and Dreaming of Timbuctoo, an exhibit on Smith\u2019s gifts of 40\u00a0acres of land to each of 3000 African-American men. Admission of $10 for adults, $5 for ages 6-12, and free\u00a0for children under 6, includes eleven acres of the encampment, three museums, historical, military, and\u00a0authors\u2019 programs, an afternoon musical presentation, children\u2019s activities, skirmishes, exhibits, displays,\u00a0walking tours, and demonstration. For the 25th year of the Peterboro event, a limited number of half-price\u00a0adult tickets are available from mercantile.gerritsmith.org, at the Deli on the Green, and from members of the\u00a0event committee.<\/p>\n

A showing of the Union Bound, the 2015 movie based on the diaries of Joe Hoover of Herkimer, will be shown\u00a0on Friday, June 9, at\u00a07 p.m. Admission is $5 per person. The 77th Regimental Balladeers will perform a concert\u00a0Saturday night June 10. Admission for the concert is $5 and free for reenactors, participants, and registered\u00a0weekend volunteers.<\/p>\n

The 25th\u00a0annual Peterboro Civil War Weekend is an educational and fund-raising event for the (501c3) Smithfield Community Association in Peterboro. Saturday, June 10, hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday,\u00a0June 11, hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information www.PeterboroNY.org, PO Box 6, 13134, mail@sca-peterboro.org and 315-280- 8828.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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