Adirondack Interpretive Center
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5922 State Route 28N, Newcomb, NY, United States, New York
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Book Release Event with Author Amy Godine
Saturday | November 11, 2023 | 1 PM
Location: Adirondack Interpretive Center
Book reading with Amy and informal panel discussion with two co-founders of the Adirondack Diversity Initiative, Paul Hai, Associate Director of the SUNY ESF Newcomb Campus, and Martha Swan, Executive Director of John Brown Lives! followed by an open conversation with the audience.
Independent scholar Amy Godine has been writing and speaking about ethnic, migratory, and Black Adirondack history for more than three decades.
Her newest book, The Black Woods, chronicles the history of Black pioneers in New York's northern wilderness and recovers a robust history of those who carved from the wilderness a future for their families and their civic rights.
Books will be available for purchase.