At 1:30 pm Amy Godine will describe and sign her book, The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier
a central member of John Brown Lives, will return to Peterboro to introduce her new book and share updated information on her three decades of research and writing about Black Adirondack history. Research on Gerrit Smith’s gift of 120,000 acres of land to 3,000 black men will be presented on Gerrit Smith’s estate for the 13th Annual Peterboro Emancipation Day Saturday, August 5