Local History Book Club

April 9, 2025 Meeting of WCHS Local History Book Club 

     Washington County Historical Society’s Local History Book Club will meet from 12:30 to 1:30 PM on Wednesday, April 9, at the Greenwich Free Library, 148 Main Street, Greenwich.  Historical society membership is not required for the book club.  Attendees will discuss Chester Arthur’s years in Greenwich and his subsequent career as Governor and President. His Irish-born Baptist minister father moved the family from Vermont to Union Village, now Greenwich, in 1839. The parsonage where the Arthur family lived has been moved and is now located on Gray Avenue. Reading choices include The Unexpected President by Scott S. Greenberger, The Accidental President by John Pafford, and Chester Alan Arthur by Zachary Karabell.  

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Future sessions of the club will include books about the larger Adirondack area as well as works by local authors.  Upcoming topics include William Miller and the origin of the Seventh Day Adventists in Hampton; local area Freemasonry during and after the Revolution; and the Battle of Bennington (fought in New York).  For additional information, email Connie Harris Farrington at connieandlee@roadrunner.com.