WCHS Local History Book Club

May 12 Meeting of WCHS Local History Book Club

Washington County Historical Society’s Local History Book Club will meet from 12 PM until 1 PM on Friday, May 12, at the Slate Valley Museum, 17 Water Street, Granville.  Washington County Historical Society membership is not required for participation.

The discussion will focus on Dorothy Offensend’s book The Western Vermont Slate Belt, published in 2003.  That slate belt runs through portions of Granville, producing red slate in that town.  The book is available at the Washington County Historical Society book shop https://wchs-ny.org/product/the-western-vermont-slate-belt-fair-haven/.  The author was a former president of the Historical Society.  Alternative reading is “A Study in Slate” by Scott Carpenter, written at UVM for a degree in Environmental Studies in 2002.  It can be read online at https://www.uvm.edu/~shali/Slate.pdf.  Scott, a former Fort Ann resident, now lives in Maine.

Following the book discussion, attendees may tour the exhibits and view the museum’s movie.

The group meets on the second Friday of the month at noon, usually at the Historical Society, 167 Broadway in Fort Edward.  Future sessions of the club will include books about the larger Adirondack area as well as works by local authors.  The proposed topics include Ulysses Grant’s final days at Mount McGregor; Apple growing in Washington County; and Townsend Harris’s role in American trade with Japan.  For additional information, email Connie Harris Farrington at connieandlee@roadrunner.com.