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WCHS Local History Bookclub
January 12 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Washington Co. Historical Society’s Local History Book Club will meet from 12 noon until 1 PM on Friday, January 12, 2024, at the society headquarters, 167 Broadway, Fort Edward, NY. Historical society membership is not required for attendees.
The January session will focus on the history of the Amish and on a Post Star series about the Amish in Whitehall, written by David Blow, and published in 2016, available on line to Post Star subscribers.
The book club meets regularly on the second Friday of the month at twelve o’clock, usually at theHistorical Society in Fort Edward. The February 9, 2024 topic will be the life and work of Dr. Asa Fitch of Salem, Washington Co. Attendees are asked to read Their Own Voices, Oral Accounts of Early Settlers in Washington County edited by Winston Adler, Asa Fitch and the Emergence of American Entomology by Barnes, or any other work by or about Dr. Fitch.
Future sessions of the club will include books about the larger Adirondack area as well as works by local authors. Proposed topics include the temperance movement in our area, agricultural fairs in Washington Co., and the county poorhouse. For additional information, email Connie Harris Farrington at connieandlee@roadrunner.com.