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WCHS Local History Book Club
May 13, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Washington County Historical Society’s local history book club will meet at noon on Friday, May 13, at the society’s Wing-Northup House, 167 Broadway, Fort Edward. The club meets on the second Friday of the month. Historical Society membership is not required.
The May meeting of the book club will focus on two works by Dr. Hollis Palmer of Saratoga, “Maggie’s Revenge” and “To Spend Eternity Alone.” Both feature unsolved murders in our local area. The first is about the circumstances of the death of a 19-year-old Irish maid servant in 1889. The second reports on the shooting death of the wife of Jesse Billings, prosperous builder of canal boats and owner of potato farms. Note that Dr. Palmer will be the speaker at the Greenwich Free Library on June 7 at 7 PM, sponsored by the Washington Co. Historical Society.